Image via The Game Awards/Geoff Keighley

The Game Awards came back roaring to the live phase at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles more than a week ago, albeit with new COVID-19 rules to proceed presenters, awards nominees, performers, and the general audience safe. Its comeback to an in-person bear witness fabricated The Game Awards a viewing success, specially for those who were watching the show from the comfort of their home.

Host Geoff Keighley announced in a tweet on Monday that The Game Awards raked in a tape 85 million livestreams worldwide, its biggest audience in the show's seven-year history. That's an increment of 2 1000000 livestreams from concluding year, when the show generated 83 million livestreams thank you to the pandemic forcing the creation of an all-virtual bear witness from 50.A., London, and Tokyo.

In improver to the gargantuan viewership, Keighley provided more record-breaking statistics for this year'southward show, saying in that location were i.6 million tweets most The Game Awards (hashtagged or not), 23.ii 1000000 viewer votes, and a combined i.75 million hours of the livestream watched on YouTube. Those figures may be owed to alive performances by Sting and Imagine Dragons; exclusive reveals such as Sonic Frontiers, the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie, and Suicide Team: Kill The Justice League; and surprise awards such every bit It Takes 2 winning Game of the Yr.

In 2022 and 2022, The Game Awards brought in 45 million and 26 million livestream views, respectively. Thank you to the hybrid virtual model organizers have developed in the past yr, the awards show has leveled up in terms of viewership and social media engagement.