The Future Games Show: Spring Showcase brought to you by GamesRadar+ returns on March 24 with a tantalizing look at some of the most exciting games coming this year.
The show will feature over 40 games, including eight never-before-seen world exclusives from publishers such as Frontier Foundry, Nacon and an upcoming games showcase from Team17.
Featuring a mix of world premieres, developer interviews, trailers and new announcements, highlighting the best upcoming games on PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Daniel Dawkins, Content Director of Games and Film at Future said:
“The Future Game Show is back for 2022 and our new Spring Showcase event will be a truly multi-format experience showcasing the most exciting up-and-coming titles of 2022. Join us as we reveal some incredible new games, chat to the developers behind the scenes, and take a first look at new exclusive gameplay from some of 2022’s most hotly anticipated new releases.”
Look out for more exciting announcements about the Future Games Show: Spring Showcase in the coming weeks via the GamesRadar Twitter and just-launched Future Games Show Twitter channels, including the much-anticipated hosting details, and daily game reveals.
The Future Game Show is GamesRadar’s premiere digital games showcase, last year its three shows reached over 70 million views. The Spring Showcase will be the first of three shows planned for 2022, with additional shows planned for the Summer and Autumn.
Voting opens today in the 39th Golden Joystick Awards presented by GamesRadar+, the world’s largest public-voted games awards show, attracting millions of votes every year.
Players from all over the world will decide which games, developers, publishers and personalities will take home this year’s Golden Joystick Awards.
Fans are invited to vote in 20 categories including ‘Best Storytelling’, ‘Best Studio’, ‘Most Wanted’ and the coveted ‘Ultimate Game of the Year’.
Voting closes at 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT / 11pm GMT on Friday, November 5.
This year the awards are also celebrating ‘50 Years of Games’* with two special awards – ‘Ultimate Game of All Time’ and ‘Best Gaming Hardware of All Time’. These two special awards will open for voting once the main voting categories close in early November.
All the winners will be revealed in a virtual celebration of games on Tuesday, November 23 with an all-digital awards show across all major streaming platforms.
Daniel Dawkins, Content Director, Games explains more: “Last year’s Golden Joystick Awards was our first all-digital show – and our most-viewed awards ever, reaching over 12 million total views. For 2021, we’re streamlining the viewing experience by trimming the number of categories and nominees in each shortlist, allowing us to focus on key awards and the brilliant people who drive the games industry forward.
“Trimming the shortlists has made judging even more hotly-debated than ever, but we’re thrilled at the diversity of this year’s nominees, which reflect the importance of indie games and long-running service games during 2021 where a number of high-profile titles have faced unavoidable delays. We’re thrilled to see Wildermyth and Psychonauts 2 leading the shortlist with four nominations each, alongside huge titles such as Call of Duty: Warzone, Resident Evil Village and Ratchet and Clank.
“This year’s Golden Joystick Awards is really special, since we’ll be celebrating 50 Years of Games, and the launch of the world’s first commercially available coin-op, Computer Space in November 1971. You can look forward to a sweeping retrospective of the industry we love so much – including some of its most-loved games and faces – plus an evolution of our virtual-stage from last year’s show. To cap it all, we’ll be inviting people to vote for their Ultimate Game of All Time and Best Gaming Hardware of All Time – which I’m sure won’t be contentious at all.”
The 2021 Golden Joystick Awards public voted categories are:
Best Storytelling
Best Multiplayer Game
Best Visual Design
Best Game Expansion
Best Audio
Best Performer
Best Indie Game
Still Playing
Studio of the Year
Best Gaming Community
PC Game of the Year
Best Gaming Hardware
Mobile Game of the Year
PlayStation Game of the Year
Xbox Game of the Year
Nintendo Game of the Year
Ultimate Game of the Year
Most Wanted Game
Ultimate Game of All Time voting opens in November
Best Gaming Hardware of All Time voting opens in November
Two additional category winners will be selected by a panel of journalists from brands including gamesradar.com, pcgamer.com, Edge magazine, Retro Gamer, and Play, plus Future’s trusted network of freelance writers. These winners will be revealed on the night.
Breakthrough Award
Critics Choice Award
Voting opens today and closes at 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT / 11pm GMT on Friday, November 5.
GamesRadar+ is delighted to announce the return of the Future Games Show at Gamescom Powered by AMD.
This summer’s showcase, broadcast on Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and GamesRadar will take place on Thursday, August 26 at 13:00 PDT / 16:00 EDT / 21:00 BST / 22:00 CET.
The Future Games Show is a truly multi-format event spanning all game genres from indie gems to AAA blockbusters. The series of Future Games Shows have enjoyed over 100 million viewers so far, with a record-breaking E3 2021 event which reached three million+ live viewers and 35 million+ post-show views.
The show will be packed with more than 40 games from publishers including Frontier Developments, Team17, Koch Media and Tripwire Interactive and hosted by actor Maggie Robertson (Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village) and voice actor Aaron LaPlante (The Duke, Resident Evil Village).
Maggie Robertson, show co-host, commented:
“I’m delighted to be presenting the Future Games Show on August 26th with my Resident Evil Village co-star Aaron LaPlante! There are some incredible games featured in the show and I can’t wait to show you all what’s in store for this year and beyond.”
Aaron LaPlante, show co-host, commented:
“As we start to move into the ‘new normal’ it’s incredible to think all the games you’re playing now were developed, at least in part, in people’s bedrooms, kitchens, and home offices. On August 26th myself and Maggie will be showing you what’s still to come in 2021 and what to expect in 2022 and beyond. They haven’t told me much, but from what I’ve seen so far there’s something that will interest all of you. See you live for the Future Games Show.”
The Future Games Show will feature expanded ‘Virtual Show Floor Booths’, first introduced at the E3 2021 event, to give gamers access to demos from the comfort of their own homes. Also returning will be the ‘Future Hits’ montage of exciting upcoming games and quirky indies.
Daniel Dawkins, Content Director of Games and Film at Future said: “We’re delighted to be bringing our fifth digital showcase to Gamescom 2021 as an official media partner. We’re building on the amazing reception to our Virtual Show Floor from E3 2021, allowing partners to create spectacular custom virtual booths to showcase their games with playable demos. One of the Virtual Show Floor titles from our E3 event, Timberborn – about a post-apocalyptic beaver colony – became a breakout E3 title.
“The Future Games Show has a growing reputation for spotlighting breakout titles from a variety of genres, with some previous show partners seeing 10,000% increases in Steam wishlists. Our E3 event covered 57 multi-format titles and over 36% of those were non-violent games, in line with our mission to showcase gaming’s true inclusivity and creativity.
“GamesRadar+ and the Future Games Show can’t wait to showcase more exciting games on August 26 and look forward to sharing our plans for 2021 and beyond – starting with the Golden Joystick Awards in late November.”
The show welcomes streamers to apply to be an official partner. Anyone can stream the show for free but to become an official partner, receive a special asset pack, plus a chance to be listed on Gamesradar+ as an official co-streaming partner, applications can be made through the Official Streaming Partner form.
When To Watch:
● Date: Thursday, August 26 at 13:00 PDT / 16:00 EDT / 21:00 BST / 22:00 CET
GamesRadar+, Future’s global entertainment website, surpassed its monthly audience record in December, being visited by 11.3 million unique users.
This is GamesRadar+’s second successive record-breaking month, with a then record 9.8 million users visiting in November 2015, and represents year-on-year growth of 29% over December 2014 when 8.8 million users were recorded. (Source: Google Analytics, Dec 2015)
Re-launched as GamesRadar+ in November 2014, the site focuses on Gaming, Movies and TV. Its global editorial team allows the site to operate on a 24/7 basis, which has resulted in a 44% year-on-year unique user growth in the US and 34% in the UK.
Users sharing content through social media channels is core to the sites success, alongside a strong SEO strategy. A new content policy has expanded its focus to news and entertainment and driven the user engagement, resulting in a social media referrals increase of 88% and from search engines by 34%.
Sophia Tong, Global Editor in Chief of GamesRadar+, says, “We’ve been incredibly fortunate this past year to hire some immensely talented writers to add to this already fantastic team. The entire editorial team has worked diligently to produce the most relevant and thoughtful stories that resonates with our readers. Strengthening our news team to provide around the clock coverage has been invaluable, and we’re delighted to see that our entertainment coverage has been well-received by our gaming audience.
“We’re also very thankful for our community and readership across all channels, who supported us through the many phases of our site. We can’t wait to share the next evolution of our site in 2016.”
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