Stage invader at The Game Awards 2022 arrested after Elden Ring award win-GameCentral-Entertainment – Metro

An unidentified fan stormed the stage at The Game Awards by pretending to be an Elden Ring developer and gave a bizarre speech about Bill Clinton on Thursday night.

The Game Awards in Los Angeles are one of the biggest nights on the video game calendar and the industry equivalent of the Oscars, with a particularly tight race this year between Elden Ring and God Of War Ragnarök.

In the end, it was Elden Ring that won the coveted Game of the Year award, but as key developers from Japanese studio FromSoftware moved to go on stage and collect their award, an unidentified interloper snuck in alongside them.

In footage of the event, he can be seen getting up from a completely different section of the auditorium, before calmly following the others on stage and standing innocuously at the back of the group.

No one, including security, seemed to have noticed him until everyone involved in the game had given their speech he stepped up to the microphone.

In a bizarre moment, he declared: ‘I want to thank everybody and say that I think I want to nominate this award to my Reformed Orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton.’

That guy in the middle is not from FromSoftware (pic: The Game Awards)

Who he is or why he’d want to say that is still a mystery but since it was an invite-only event, and he’s clearly dressed up for the night, so he may meant to have been there in at least some capacity.

Everyone on stage, including host and organiser Geoff Keighley was completely bemused by the outburst, which was the very last moment of the night.

Soon afterward though Keighley tweeted that the individual had been arrested, although with no clarification of who he was or what he wanted.

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