Game Awards live streams increase 31% year over year

The game Awards 2024 achieved approximately 154 million live streams worldwide, organizers announced.

That’s a nearly 31% jump compared to 2023’s 118 million live streams, which was the event’s previous record.

The data combines results from YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X, Instagram Live and Facebook. According to StreamCharts, the event attracted more than four million concurrent viewers on Western platforms including Twitch and YouTube, a 10% increase from the previous year. The game Awards 4K feed also saw a 35% increase in peak concurrent users on YouTube, with 1.3 million viewers. If we include co-streams, YouTube viewership increased 28% to 2.17 million.

The stats follow a strong The game Awards 10th anniversary event, which saw some high-profile titles revealed, including CD Projekt’s The Witcher 4, Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, FromSoftware’s Elden Ring: Nightreign, Split Fiction by Hazelight and Sonic by Sega. Crossworlds racing. The event also saw the return of classic franchises, including Onimusha, Virtua Fighter, Okami and Turok.

The big winner of the awards was Team Asobi’s Astro Bot, which won four awards, including game of the Year. Other big winners included indie hit Balatro, Metaphor: ReFantanzi, Black Myth: Wukong and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.