How does a surprise Game Awards announcement come together? Host Geoff Keighley joins this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen to discuss.

The Russo brothers appeared on stage at the Game Awards to make a Thanos joke and give an award to Fortnite. Their appearance at the Game Awards was promoted.

Tonight at the 2018 Game Awards, Netherrealm Studios head Ed Boon took the stage to announce the winner of the best sports or racing game award, but sgave us a trailer for Mortal Kombat XI instead—complete with an April 23 global launch date.

In case you think Hello Games hasn’t been working hard enough, given their multiple, massive and free updates to No Man’s Sky, tonight they’ve announced a new game, called The Last Campfire.

BioWare’s Dragon Age series, which has been quiet since 2014, is back with a brand new game and a very short trailer to go with it. Though as we’ve already reported, we shouldn’t expect it any time soon.

One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding BioWare’s upcoming online shooter Anthem is whether it will be able to hit the narrative bar that the studio has set for itself through series like Dragon Age and Mass Effect. With a new trailer tonight—and a presentation to press this morning in Los Angeles—BioWare is trying to assure fans that even its take on Destiny is doubling down on story.

As Bethesda takes Fallout multiplayer, the original creators of Fallout are making a brand new single-player shooter-RPG along with the studio that made Fallout: New Vegas.

It’s called The Outer Worlds, it’ll be out next year, and it’s basically New Vegas in space.

Crash Team Racing, the PlayStation 1's answer to Mario Kart, is coming back in 2019, Activision announced at The Game Awards this evening.

The new Far Cry, called Far Cry New Dawn, takes place in a post-apocalyptic world after the end of Far Cry 5. Apparently, it’s coming out February 15th.

Today is the 5th annual The Game Awards, hosted by Geoff Keighley, which acts as a kind of mini E3 at the end of the year. There are a bunch of world premiers and gaming news that comes out during this show - so lets delve into what happened this year.

There’s a new Avengers (and X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy) game coming to the Switch, in the form of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Black Order. It’ll be out in 2019, and amazingly, is being developed by Team Ninja.

With supposedly more than ten unannounced games to be revealed, a host of content and announcements for existing ones, and a timeslot that actually suits Australians, The Game Awards is always worth a watch.

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?