Adr1ft, the cool exploration game that takes cues from Gravity and is being developed by Adam Orth’s studio Three One Zero, is set to release in Summer 2015. We got a new peek of it tonight at The Video Game Awards, and it looks great.

You Like The Banner Saga? You’re Getting A Sequel.

The Banner Saga, one of the year’s prettiestvideo games, now has a sequel. The Banner Saga 2. It’ll be out next year.

Trey Parker’s Game Award Speech Was Pretty Great

This evening at The Game Awards, Trey Parker ran away with the Best Performance award thanks to his portrayal of a whole ton of characters in South Park: The Stick of Truth. Parker beat out Troy Baker (Shadow of Mordor), Adam Harrington (The Wolf Among Us), Melissa Hutchison (The Walking Dead), and, well, the one…

The Gone Home Studio’s New Game Is A Sci-Fi Adventure

The Fullbright Company, developers of Gone Home, showed off their next project at the Game Awards. In a short teaser, we saw a glimpse of the sci-fi-looking Tacoma, which is…well, we don’t really know. That’s what teasers do. They leave us with questions

Watch The Game Awards Live, Right Here

Awards! World exclusives! Our pal Geoff Keighley’s big Las Vegas video game awards show is happening tonight in Vegas (9pm ET start time). Watch it here. And enjoy.

TF2 Mod Turns Gun Sounds Into ‘Danger Zone’ By Kenny Loggins

Normally miniguns just sound like regular guns. With this mod, they can sound like Top Gun(s). Yes, I went there, and I’m not sorry. Not even a little bit. The mod, created by Pynkie, gives the Heavy’s minigun the ability to spew chunky ’80s riffs alongside hot lead. If you merely rev it up but…

Track: Bang Bang | Artist: Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj | Album: Sweet Talker Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

​One Little Thing I Really Like About Far Cry 4 On PC

Far Cry 4‘s PC version looks nice and runs decently enough (well, depending), but one thing I really like about it is less easy to notice: The game supports on-screen prompts for both Xbox and PS4 controllers. Any controller-based game is going to have to put button-prompts on screen, whether for menu navigation, or QTEs,…

Smash Bros Characters Would Be Passive-Aggressive Jerks In Real Life

Smash Bros characters wouldn’t fight in real life. Instead they’d do something much worse: argue. Loudly, quietly, passive-aggressively, on Facebook, or entirely silently, in Link’s case. Prepare to watch your childhood heroes be total dicks to each other. Buzzfeed brings us this video of characters like Mario, Luigi, Link, Zelda, and Pikachu “fighting for real,”…

Oh Dear, I Seem To Be A Deer

The Deer God doesn’t hold your hand, or tell you what to do. It can be a struggle, but it’s all worth it when you’re shooting fire out your antlers. Part of this is due to being an early access game on Steam. It’s unfinished, incomplete. But that’s where the intrigue lies. With no tutorials,…

Game Makers Sell Charity Bundle to Benefit Ferguson Public Library

A group of game creators have joined together to sell their games for the purpose of donating to the Ferguson Public Library. For a minimum of $9, you can get nine acclaimed games in the Devs With Ferguson bundle, including rotational runner Boson X, pastoral horror game Marginalia and colorful platformer The Floor Is Jelly.…

Black Friday Xbox One Prices, Firefly, Breaking Bad, and More Deals

The Xbox One has been upgraded to a “Yes” by Kotaku, and the half-life of Black Friday deals will let you snag the Unity Bundle for $350 with a $25 LIVE credit thrown in. [Xbox One] There are no superlatives left to throw Firefly’s way, this deal on the other hand… Firefly: The Complete Series…

PSA: Here’s What Your PC Will Actually Need to Run Dying Light

Yesterday, posts started popping up on places like the ever-popular gaming forum NeoGAF that claimed to have the official PC specs for the upcoming zombie game Dying Light. These were noteworthy because they made the game’s system requirements sound insane. We can all calm down, though, because they weren’t accurate. Posts like the one on…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Worst Design Choices in the Past Few Years • Pokémon Omega Ruby + Alpha Sapphire Mascots in Speed Painting Form! • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story: Chapter One-Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them…

PS4 Hit Resogun Coming to PS3 and Vita

Resogun is one of the best games on the PS4, a voxel-based sidescrolling shooter that shows off the system’s power in stylish fashion. Later this month, it’s jumping back a hardware generation to the PS3 and Vita. Announced today on the official PlayStation blog, the Vita and PS3 versions of Resogun are due to hit…