'Baldur's Gate 3', 'Alan Wake 2' win big at ad-heavy Game Awards 2023

Many of these teasers were, as host Geoff Keighley repeatedly informed viewers, "world premieres." Their volume certainly confirmed the event's status as the year's most important occasion for video games announcements, after the long-running expo E3, also in Los Angeles, was cancelled in March of this year – possibly never to return.

The slog of a ceremony nevertheless had its moments of brilliance, according to our Technology Editor Peter O'Brien.

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