Just using good old trend projection to figure this one out early, provided this happens at all.

• The show has been "optimized" to fill 4 hours instead of 3 and a half by introducing a hard 5 second limit for acceptance speeches to allow more trailers and anti-vape ads.
• All awards except Game of the Year will be given in the quick list format for further "optimization".
• The middle of the show will be two randomly selected episodes of The Muppets which will differ per viewer by using the latest in ad tracking technology.
• All present are forbidden to mention the World War III going on outside.
• Armed guards are present outside of and throughout the theater to prevent any attempts at making the show more interesting.
• There is now a "best use of AI" category.
• All "best indie game" nominees are published by Nexon or Annapurna.
• GTA VI wins "most anticipated".
• The Last of Us still wins an award even if they didn't release anything that year.

I've seen dang near everyone else do it, did we have another security failure so spectacular that it makes you wonder who staged it this time? No seriously, did we? That was kind of the big trend for an entire year a while back.

Having more fun reading pizza tower posters have meltdowns about cocoon winning than I did playing pizza tower

I stopped caring about the game awards after seeing the state of the aaa industry and all the shit around it tbh.