Tonight in Los Angeles, a bunch of game developers won well-deserved honours for the games they released in 2017. A bunch of other people showed off games that won't be out until 2018 or later.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild managed to snatch the 2017 Game Awards GOTY from a crowded field of contenders that included Mario Odyssey, Persona 5, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and somewhat controversially, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Josef Fares, director of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and the upcoming A Way Out, delivered a spirited, invigorated, profanity-powered speech at The Game Awards this evening, covering his real and true feelings on the Oscars and loot boxes. I can't do it justice. Just watch and enjoy.

A panel of judges have given the Best Student Game award from this year's The Game Awards to Level Squared. A game developed by a team of students from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

The Game Awards are back. We're awaiting their inevitable pog form. In the meantime, here's how you can watch today's trailer-fest and the occasional interruption to acknowledge the good work video game makers have done over the last year.

Something is happening on the internet so Steam has reduced the prices on some games. That something is The Game Awards and the games on sale are some of the best games released this year.

This morning, I woke up to a string of headlines declaring that journalist Geoff Keighley had teased a major announcement at this week's Game Awards. OK, I thought, clicking one of the articles, only to find out that he had done it during an interview with... me. Wait, what?

This week's The Game Awards - which last year featured an anthropomorphic razor blade - has announced that industry legend Hideo Kojima will be returning to the award show to present an award.

Veteran game journalist Geoff Keighley joins Kotaku Splitscreen this week to talk about what it's like to produce The Game Awards, how he decides which trailer to debut, and the hilarious request he got from the people who make Doritos.

If there wasn't enough snark in your video game awards, then perhaps this supercut will help.

During the Game Awards, Bethesda showed off gameplay of the new Prey.

Overwatch just took top honours as Game of the Year at this year's The Game Awards. It beat Doom, Inside, Titanfall 2, and Uncharted 4. Eligible games had to have been out after November 24 of last year and before November 24 of this year.

During the Game Awards, That Dragon, Cancer won the Games For Impact award. The game is about developer Ryan Green's young son's struggle with cancer. Unfortunately, he didn't make it. Green accepted the award in tears.

Tonight at The Game Awards, a short teaser revealed that Telltale's next big licensed adventure game will be based on Guardians of the Galaxy. Before I play it, I'm gonna need a security band, a quarnex battery, and that guy's prosthetic leg.

Apparently it's the first of two looks at The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, but it's still worth watching.

Because it's pretty gorgeous.

And by "watch The Game Awards", I really mean "let's hang out for all the cool new footage".

Tonight in Anaheim is the annual Geoff Keighley Extravaganza, a lavish celebration of all things Video Game that should have plenty of announcements and new gameplay footage. Also, there might be awards.

The Game Awards will be held next week, celebrating AAA gaming as well as smaller projects. Two fan games based on Nintendo IPs, AM2R and Pokemon Uranium, have disappeared from the "Best Fan Creation" nominees.

Last year, as you might recall, Konami and their son Hideo Kojima got into a spat. Konami barred Kojima from attending The Game Awards to collect an honour he received for Metal Gear Solid V; host Geoff Keighley went HAM. It was a whole thing.