Focusing less on precise control and more on flowing jumps, hidden coin hunts and besting your friends' high scores, Super Mario Run successfully embraces the strengths of mobile platforms without losing too much of the Nintendo charm.
The Last Guardian is both a peerless game and one that leaves a lot to be desired.
Never before has Nintendo made a Mario game for a piece of hardware it did not build, and never before has Apple put its marketing clout behind a game so thoroughly. But can it be the next big thing?
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.
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.
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.
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.Â
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.
One of the easiest ways to play some of the greatest games ever made, and a cute collectible too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By including a stellar solo mode, Titanfall 2 fully lives up to the mech fantasy promise of the multiplayer-only original game.
This sport has millions of viewers, but remains virtually unknown in mainstream Australia.
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.
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.
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.
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