The Game Awards 2024 drew 154 million streams.
The Game Awards 2024 drew 154 million streams.
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The Games Awards 2024 grows 31% to record 154M livestreams

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Awards, the video game industry’s year-end celebration, announced its 10th anniversary show broke viewership records with an estimated 154 million global livestreams, up 31%.

That compared to 2023’s record-setting showcase, which reached 118 million livestreams. As I noted from attending the event at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, show organizer Geoff Keighley redeemed himself compared with criticism a year ago.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.