After a star-studded hours-long show, “Elden Ring” won game of the year at the 2022 Game Awards. This comes as no surprise to most of the Launcher team, who predicted that FromSoft’s critically acclaimed open world RPG would snag the event’s most prestigious trophy.

FromSoft director Hidetaka Miyazaki took the stage with an interpreter to offer his heartfelt thanks to his team, “Elden Ring” publish Bandai Namco and author George R.R. Martin, who wrote an elaborate backstory for the game’s setting. Miyazaki said that the studio faced many difficulties during “Elden Ring’s” development, but it only strengthened his resolve.

An unnamed individual who appeared to have gotten onstage during “Elden Ring’s” game of the year win has been arrested, host Geoff Keighley tweeted shortly after the show wrapped. During his brief stint at the microphone before he was escorted offstage by security, he muttered something about rabbis and what sounded like a shout out to former president Bill Clinton.

The Washington Post observed host Geoff Keighley forcing a smile and waving for security as the crasher delivered an incoherent speech. Onlookers interviewed by The Post were not familiar with the crasher. One developer told The Post that it’s possible the person posed as a member of the FromSoftware group as they took the stage, and was set up with a mic by the sound team.

The Game Awards has 31 categories, from best narrative to best esports team. While all eyes may be on the highly anticipated game of the year award, contests for best game direction, indie, score and performance generated plenty of buzz. New to the lineup this year is the best adaptation award for video game-inspired shows and movies. “Elden Ring” took home GOTY, while “God of War Ragnarok” swept the rest of the show with six wins, including best performance for Kratos actor Christopher Judge as well as both best audio design and score/music. Here’s who won Thursday night:

At tonight’s awards, “God of War Ragnarok” leads with 10 nominations in nine categories (the game’s two protagonists, Atreus, played by Sunny Suljic, and Kratos, played by Christopher Judge, were both up for the best performance award, which Judge took home). It ended up taking home six awards on Thursday, the most of any nominee: best action/adventure, best performance, best narrative, best audio design, best score/music and innovation in accessibility.

In his November review, writer Gene Park said “Ragnarok,” the sequel to 2018’s “God of War,” “improves on its predecessor in every way.”

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“Bill Clinton” is trending on Twitter following the mystery person who seems to have snuck on stage during “Elden Ring’s” GOTY win, shouting out the former president before being escorted off stage. I’m as confused as you are, but at least the memes are going to be good. Host Geoff Keighley tweeted that the interloper has been arrested.

This year’s Game Awards was amateur hour at the final minutes, with a random person taking the stage after “Elden Ring” won Game of the Year to mutter some quick thanks and a bunch of words that were hard to decipher about rabbis and Bill Clinton.

Keanu Reeves isn’t the only Hollywood star in “Cyberpunk 2077” anymore. The new gameplay teaser for the upcoming DLC “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty” showed Idris Elba playing a key role in the story.

The trailer opens with digital ghost and rockstar revolutionary Johnny Silverhand (Reeves) ranting about the endemic corruption within the New United States, the sovereign government of North America in “Cyberpunk’s” dystopian future. Elba is portraying Solomon Reed, who is described as an FIA Agent in the game’s trailer, presumably “Cyberpunk’s” equivalent to the CIA.

When FromSoftware’s name hit the screen, the crowd roared. In a brief trailer, mechs battled each other in an apocalyptic-looking future. Then, the reveal: “Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon” will come out in 2023 for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X | S and PC.

Things aren’t looking great for “Horizon Forbbiden West.” The sequel to “Horizon Zero Dawn” from Guerrilla Games has been shut out by “God of War Ragnarok” and “Elden Ring” in six of the seven categories it’s been nominated for. All that’s left is game of the year, where it will go up against both...

“Kill Bill” and “Reservoir Dogs” star Michael Madsen went on stage to reveal “Crime Boss: Rockay City," a first-person heist game from Czech studio InGame. Madsen plays Travis Baker, a career criminal aiming for the top of the Miami underworld in the 1990s.

Madsen is joined by a bevy of fellow ’90s media stars including Kim Basinger, Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice, Danny Glover and Danny Trejo. “Crime Boss: Rockay City” is set to release March 28, 2023.

We have been live blogging for a few hours now. I am definitely doing hand yoga after all of this is over.

The audience is visibly bored and some look sleepy as the show enters its fourth hour, after what has been a long day of socializing for some. People are yawning.

This year’s Game Awards had plenty of childish gags, including a routine from a Crash Bandicoot mascot. Crash landed onstage, announcing his plans to steal Wumpa Fruit. (His plans failed; there is no fruit at this award.)

Afterward, a trailer for “Crash Team Rumble,” a multiplayer game slated for 2023, was shown.

“Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2” drops another impressive trailer. Mark Strong’s performance as Titus is missed but the best part of this series is how well it nails the feeling of being a Space Marine. They are eight-foot tall walking tanks that use grenade launchers as pistols and make the ground shake with every step.

Toad’s voice actor in the upcoming “Super Mario Bros. Movie,” Keegan-Michael Key, weighed in on a long-running debate in the Mario community: Is Toad’s mushroom a hat, or part of his anatomy? He clarified it’s a cap — a play on words. A cap is both a part of a mushroom and another word for a hat.

The big “Mario” movie reveal, to me, is that I’m going to be listening to that movie’s soundtrack a lot.