• Adam Turner

Australia's first 24/7 eSports and gaming network begins live coverage of multi-million dollar tournaments, just in time for viewers to see Australia's Anathan Pham and his team at OG win the grand final at a major Dota 2 event.

• Tim Biggs

The popular handheld series has shed a lot of the baggage that was making it feel stale after 20 years, while hanging on to everything that's made it so beloved for so long.

• Tim Biggs

While the first Watch Dogs was a great core concept hurt by the dreary Chicago setting and insufferably morose main character, the sequel realises its full potential by taking itself much less seriously.

• Lucy Battersby and Thomas Hounslow

The first eSports company to list on the Australian share market gained 27 per cent on its first day of trading, ending the day 1 cent higher at 3 cents. 

• Tim Biggs

Each moment in this cerebral, dark adventure is a dilemma between sneaking around undetected or hitting your enemies head on and adding to the pestilent body count.

• Tim Biggs

One of the easiest ways to play some of the greatest games ever made, and a cute collectible too.

• Tim Biggs

Bigger, heavier and ever so slightly louder than its predecessor, the PlayStation 4 Pro marks a turning point for video game home consoles as, for the first time, a significantly more powerful machine is being introduced without jumping to a new generation.

• Tim Biggs

With a competitive price, a nostalgia-evoking premise and a near-Christmas release date, this seemed like a shoo-in for best-selling tech gift of the holidays. But you can't buy it anywhere.

• Mark Serrels

Once a small studio that put experimentation and game design first, Halfbrick was changed forever when its game unexpectedly became one of the most successful ever.

• Tim Biggs

Infinite Warfare might be the best Call of Duty in years, but Activision's cash-cow is not the bleeding edge of cinematic thrills it once was.

• Campbell Simpson

Objects In Space is an open world stealth space trading game currently being built by Sydney-based indie studio Flat Earth Games. When I say built, I mean that literally.

• Campbell Simpson

On Wednesday night, the country's game dev community came together for the 2016 Australian Game Developer Awards, a celebration of the talent that local artists, composers and coders have poured into homegrown titles in the last 12 months. Here are this year's winners.

• Tim Biggs

By including a stellar solo mode, Titanfall 2 fully lives up to the mech fantasy promise of the multiplayer-only original game.

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• Lucy Battersby, Thomas Hounslow

This sport has millions of viewers, but remains virtually unknown in mainstream Australia.

• Tim Biggs

The original World War - with its despair, endless trenches and confusing web of political and imperial motivations - is not an easy basis for a video game.

• Tim Biggs

Releasing into an end-of-year games rush lousy with first-person shooters and other gritty fare, Paper Mario: Color Splash is a charming, genuinely funny palate cleanser.

• Tim Biggs

Nintendo unveiled its brand new games console, Switch, in a brief video overnight, and so far the reception from pundits and the internet has been overwhelmingly positive. But there are questions to be answered.

• Tim Biggs

Nintendo has announced the Nintendo Switch, a new console that takes the form of a small tablet and can be used to play games at home or on the go.

• Pavel Alpeyev

A list of the challenges faced by virtual-reality developers offers hints of what a killer VR app or game might look like.