Geoff Keighley: More than 12 Games to Debut at VGAs

Let’s face it, if you are gonna watch the Video Game Awards tomorrow, chances are you’re not viewing it for the awards. Sure, when it started back in 2003, Spike TV was hoping that they could do what MTV did with the Video Music Awards, where the channel recognized the best music videos of the year — but instead of doing the professional award ceremony like the Oscars, they produced it as an edgy accolade show.
I haven’t met a gamer that stays home on a Saturday night, anticipating which game will win ‘Game of the Year.’ Instead, they are watching it for the world premieres of exciting upcoming games. Videogame journalist, Geoff Keighley, who has been promoting the heck out of the VGAs, told Destructoid that “more than 12″ games will debut during the show.
So far, Crackdown 2, the Medal of Honor reboot, UFC 2010, Halo: Reach, TRON and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, have all been confirmed to be revealed during the ceremony. Now, if you count all the games mentioned above, that would mark only six titles — meaning we will see at the very least, six more. However, we do know that Activision plans to show off a cop game that takes place in Hong Kong, LucasArts is announcing something at the show and an unannounced shooter by 2K will be unveiled. That brings the total number to nine. So, we are left with three more world premieres, possibly more.
“We definitely have some pretty major surprises still to come,” Keighley told the website. “Essentially, the biggest thing in the show hasn’t even been announced yet.” That sounds rather exciting, doesn’t it? What could it be? Well…I have no clue. Although, if you are thinking it could be Dead Space 2 or Sony’s motion controller, it isn’t — Keighley confirmed that won’t be shown in any capacity.


