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Game Awards 2014
Replacement event for VGAs/VGX is taking place in Vegas in about 8 hours.
There may be some overlap with the PSX event Saturday/Sunday.
Things we know:
- There should be "more than a dozen" world premieres
- Microsoft aren't showing anything
- EA have a special announcement
- Something Arkham Knight related is expected
- Naughty Dog are there
- Kiefer Sutherland will be there (persumably Metal Gear related)
Polygon's expectations of this event:
Replacement event for VGAs/VGX is taking place in Vegas in about 8 hours.
There may be some overlap with the PSX event Saturday/Sunday.
Things we know:
- There should be "more than a dozen" world premieres
- Microsoft aren't showing anything
- EA have a special announcement
- Something Arkham Knight related is expected
- Naughty Dog are there
- Kiefer Sutherland will be there (persumably Metal Gear related)
Polygon's expectations of this event:
The Game Awards
The Geoff Keighley-hosted and backed show will take place in Las Vegas on Friday evening at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The show, which is planned to run more than two hours, will be livestreamed on Twitch, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, YouTube and more.
Keighley promises somewhere between 12 and 18 world premieres, including our first look at Metal Gear Online, the multiplayer component of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. The Game Awards will also premiere the new King's Quest being developed by The Odd Gentlemen. Keighley said to expect "more than a dozen world premieres" at the show, with new looks at PlayStation 4 games Bloodborne, The Order: 1886 and No Man's Sky.
Electronic Arts will have a presence at the show. EA chief operating officer Peter Moore said on Twitter that the publisher will have "a special announcement" during The Game Awards. "Pretty sure no one will guess this one," Keighley later teased in a tweet to Moore.
Tetsuya Nomura, Final Fantasy designer and director of Kingdom Hearts 3, will be attending in some capacity. Nomura was in Los Angeles earlier this week, where he gave fans a new look at the next Kingdom Hearts, which we haven't seen much of since E3 2013.
Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann also teased something for The Game Awards, after seeing a sneak peek of something that has him "very excited."
Two companies who have already ruled out new game announcements at the show are Fallout and Doom publisher Bethesda Softworks and Microsoft. Bethesda's Pete Hines said the company is attending to support Wolfenstein: The New Order developer Machinegames, but not showing anything new. Xbox head of global product marketing Aaron Greenberg said the company is "not planning any new game announcements" at The Game Awards.
In between all those announcements and revelations, Keighley and company will also be handing out some awards. Check out the list of nominees for this year's Game Awards.
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