![]() ![]() He’s been such a good friend of the show. Let’s go.’ So he started going off and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, what’s gonna happen?’ There’s so much stuff sequenced and happening so I got a little thrown off, but it was a great moment. In my introductions, I’m like, ‘Hi, welcome to the show. We have two and a half hours of stuff to get through. “It’s tough because when you’re in a live show, you have so much to get to and when I start the show, I feel so much pressure. He got really riled up about how we don’t need to be compared to the Oscars because we’re doing our own thing. He opened up the LA Times that day, and there was an article about The Game Awards. He told me before we went on air, he had just flown in from Sweden. “What I tolerated about it was he wasn’t saying, ‘F*** The Game Awards,’ right? It would have been much worse for me if he was going off on our show. “He was coming from the right place,” Keighley replies when I ask if he died a little inside. Anyway, you can pinpoint the exact moment Keighley’s soul leaves his body. He joined Keighley on stage in 2017, asked politely if he could swear, Keighley said yes, and Fares went on to say “ F*** the Oscars” three times while sticking his middle finger up at the camera (coincidentally, you can summon Josef Fares if you do this in a mirror at midnight). Fares is responsible for one of The Game Awards’ most memorable and meme-able moments. It’d be nice to see Deathloop developer Arkane get its dues, but there’s also a part of me that wants to see what kind of nuclear explosion would happen if Hazelight’s Josef Fares went on stage to accept Game of the Year for It Takes Two. Even as someone who’s been writing and thinking about 2021’s games for a year, it’s hard to pick a winner. This is a fun year for me because the voting is very split.” Maybe Deathloop would be a frontrunner in some senses. There are certain years where I’m like, ‘Okay, it’s gonna be God of War or Red Dead.’ This year, you could argue Resident Evil is great, or It Takes Two, or Psychonauts. And honestly, this year? I think there’s no frontrunner. ![]() “I’m glad that I am Switzerland because it lets people have the debate and I can kind of step out of that, versus people asking me who I think should win Game of the Year. But you just have to divorce yourself from that. I host it, I own it, so anything about it ultimately does roll up to me. I’m inextricably linked to the show and I get that my name is on it. It’s like, ‘Keighley screwed these guys, Keighley fanboyed this game,’ or whatever. “I’m not involved in the voting and it’s always tough when a game gets nominated and people get annoyed at me. “It’s always tough for me because I have to be Switzerland now,” Keighley says. Keighley would later follow up with a more concrete statement on Twitter, saying Activision Blizzard wouldn’t be involved in the show outside of nominations for some of its games – games voted on by media outlets. Many took this as him saying he isn’t taking sides, though that’s not something he actually said. #Geoff keighley e3 interview mac walters how to#This impartiality recently led to him coming under fire for saying he was looking at how to “navigate” Activision Blizzard’s involvement in the show, following recent allegations of workplace harassment and abuse at the company. Because of his position as both producer and presenter of The Game Awards, Keighley often has to keep critiques to himself these days – he has to bottle his previous self away. It’s not just a shift in priorities, however. I really want to play Halo, but I don’t have time.” “Well, I wish I had more time to play games,” he laughs. What’s that shift been like for Keighley himself? He holds many of the industry’s secrets in his head and works with almost every major publisher to create The Game Awards, a celebration of video game development and a yearly event for teasing and revealing new games. ![]() These days, thanks to the relationships and contacts he built up in that former life, he’s more of a curator. At one point in time, Geoff Keighley was known as a video game journalist – one who specialized in telling behind-the-scenes stories. ![]()
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