Geoff Keighley's Mysterious The Game Awards Statue Reportedly Isn't Teasing The Elder Scrolls 6, Diablo, or God of War — So What Is It Teasing?

Geoff Keighley’s mysterious The Game Awards teaser statue has sparked rampant speculation astir which video crippled announcement it relates to, but truthful acold the net is stumped.

Keighley kicked disconnected The Game Awards hype bid past week by tweeting a representation of a demonic monolith located successful the Mojave Desert alongside the confusing caption "regal.inspiring.thickness."

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Windows Central newsman Jez Corden took to societal media to accidental the tease related to an enlargement for Blizzard’s enactment role-playing game, Diablo 4. Blizzard had said Diablo 4 was acceptable to get an enlargement successful 2026 (alongside a caller ranking strategy and leaderboards), truthful an quality astatine The Game Awards aboriginal this period would marque sense.

But Corden’s assertion was debunked by Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier, who took to ResetEra to importune the statue had thing to bash with a Diablo 4 expansion, though that is not to accidental Diablo won’t amusement up astatine The Game Awards successful immoderate form.

“No thought wherever Jez is getting that, but this statue is not teasing the Diablo 4 expansion,” Schreier said. “I don't presently program connected reporting what it is, sorry, but it's a bully one.”

That clarification sparked a caller circular of speculation, with immoderate fans pointing to the long-awaited uncover of Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 6. Alas, according to Schreier, it’s not that, either.

“I'll bash this 1 much clip due to the fact that radical are getting retired of control: nary the statue isn't teasing Elder Scrolls 6,” Schreier said, again successful a station connected ResetEra. “Now I'm gonna halt responding astir this. Unless idiosyncratic finds maine astatine the JW barroom adjacent week and asks truly nicely, past possibly I'll answer, depending connected however galore drinks I've had.”

Some suggested it mightiness person thing to bash with Sony’s God of War series, but gaming YouTuber Luke Stephens claimed God of War improvement main Cory Barlog popped up during 1 of his streams to regularisation that out.

So, what is it then? Given the demonic facet of the statue, immoderate are suggesting a Doom-related announcement of immoderate kind, possibly DLC. Some fans are going disconnected the heavy end, suggesting everything from Bloodborne 2 to Half-Life 3, the second of which has seen rumblings of late. In truth, Geoff Keighley’s statue could subordinate to beauteous overmuch immoderate video crippled with a demonic oregon hellish theme. That’s a batch of video games. But based connected Schreier’s comments (“it’s a bully one”) and each the effort that’s gone into making this tease happen, I person precocious hopes.

The Game Awards kicks disconnected Thursday, December 11, truthful we don't person agelong to find retired what the statue is about. Let america cognize your champion conjecture successful the comments.

Image credit: Geoff Keighley / Twitter.

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