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The Game Awards[2]' own announcement and the Peacock Theater's[3] event listing both give Thursday 10 December 2026, and Polymarket's market on the same award ends that night.
The show's own announcement of the 10 December 2026 date.[1]
The venue's listing confirms it is hosting the ceremony on that date.[1]
IGN's Game Scoop! spent its 21 August 2026 episode on GTA 6 and the Game of the Year race the market is pricing; no transcript is published, so this cites the episode itself.[1]
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From long-awaited sequels and ambitious remakes to even a few potential-packed original projects, here are the 15 games we’re most eager to get our hands on this year.
Thanks to fantastic games like Stray, Tunic and Bayonetta 3, 2022 provided ample reason for players to keep their controllers fully charged. And that’s before you consider these exceptional entries were sandwiched between absolute bangers Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok.
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The fourth in the action role-playing series will be darker than the last iteration - a return to the grittier roots of the original Diablo.
Diablo 4 is on the way - there's plenty more hacking and slashing to be had. The next game in Blizzard's mega-popular franchise was unveiled a good while ago, and its release is drawing ever closer.