The Game Awards will reveal its nominees on Tuesday, November 17 at 6 pm Paris time, two days before GTA 6 launches and as its overwhelming Game of the Year favorite.
Sources variety.com · geekslands.fr
The Game Awards 2026 nominees will be revealed on Tuesday, November 17 at 6 pm Paris time (noon in New York), two days before GTA 6 launches. Variety reports a live special on YouTube and Twitch hosted by Geoff Keighley, and calls Rockstar's game the show's overwhelming Game of the Year contender.
The date is November 17. According to GeeksLands, which relays Variety, Keighley will announce the games, studios and artists in the running, Game of the Year included. The full list will then go up on the Game Awards site, where fans can vote. The ceremony itself takes place on December 10 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
New this year: the show will stream for the first time on Disney+ and Roblox, on top of YouTube, as well as on Live TV, the PS5's live television service, which is limited to consoles in the United States and Canada. Keighley said he does not plan to lock the show to one platform or pull it from YouTube, where it stays free.
Nothing is settled until the list is out. The jury gathers media and creators from around the world, and GTA 6 is not eligible everywhere: it is excluded from several categories, including the indie games one. Keighley only told Variety: "We obviously hope GTA will be represented in the show." He also recalled last year, when Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, from Montpellier studio Sandfall Interactive, swept many awards and "took over the show in its own way".
Read also GTA 6 has gone gold, OpenCritic reports: development is complete
One quirk of the calendar: nominees land before release. The Golden Joystick Awards have already moved on: we covered GTA 6's absence from their list.
For Rockstar it is free exposure at a time when the game already fills every screen, but also added pressure: being the announced favorite before the first hour of play leaves little room. For the public, November 17 becomes a first official signal of the place the industry wants to give GTA 6. The full calendar is on our release page.
Sources variety.com · geekslands.fr
Reported Reported by the press, not confirmed by Rockstar
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