The Recreation Awards will livestream on Prime Video for the primary time on December eleventh, alongside its annual broadcast on Twitch.
The 2025 present will air from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater between 5 – 8pm PT (8 – 11pm ET), that includes world premieres, bulletins and stay performances. This contains awards celebrating esports’ finest participant and group.
“We’re thrilled to deliver our world celebration of video video games to much more audiences with the addition of Prime Video,” Geoff Keighley, Creator and CEO of The Recreation Awards, mentioned within the announcement.
Keighley added that with Fallout Season 2 and extra sport variations forward, “Prime Video is a pure dwelling for our present.”
The present will likely be livestreamed on Twitch in 2K (1440p) for the primary time, with hundreds of creators in a position to co-stream. Final yr, greater than 11,000 creators restreamed the printed. Viewers who watch half-hour or extra will likely be eligible for Twitch Drops, together with unique in-game gadgets and a limited-edition TGA chat badge.
Particulars on particular rewards will likely be confirmed nearer to the present.
Amazon will relaunch its devoted store, that includes offers on video games, {hardware} and equipment by way of December thirty first. In the course of the stay programme, Prime-exclusive, limited-time gives tied to nominated titles, new releases and peripherals will likely be revealed in actual time, operating for as much as 24 hours whereas provides final.
Esports at The Recreation Awards
In 2024, League of Legends received Finest Esports Recreation, Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok received Finest Esports Athlete and T1 received Finest Esports Staff. Different nominees final yr included Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, Cellular Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) and VALORANT, alongside athletes comparable to Jeong ‘Chovy’ Ji-hoon, Mathieu ‘ZyWoO’ Herbaut and Zheng ‘ZmjjKk’ Yongkang.
An expanded distribution footprint — Prime Video plus Twitch co-streams — is more likely to improve visibility for these classes amongst mainstream viewers and informal followers. Esports-specific activations on the present weren’t detailed within the launch, however the higher-fidelity Twitch broadcast and Drops marketing campaign ought to assist engagement across the aggressive awards.
The Recreation Awards mentioned its 2024 version reached greater than 154 million livestreams throughout platforms together with YouTube, Twitch, X (previously Twitter), TikTok and Chinese language companies.
