Video: Aw, look, little baby Kal-El, isn't he cute? Too bad he's going to grow up to be a murderous despot who beats up all his friends and takes over his adopted homeworld.

Launching in partnership with Sydney's flagship Microsoft Store and the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE), the newly formed "Xbox Academy" is offering a three hour hands-on gaming workshop where you can learn coding, art, marketing and other aspects of development - for free.

A new tabletop miniatures game is coming, starring your favourite Game of Thrones badarses. CMON Limited has announced its plans for A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game, a new miniatures war game that lets fans of the books and show fight to the death in their quest to control the Seven Kingdoms.

Set far in the future of humankind, Mass Effect: Andromeda chronicles the journey of a group of intrepid pioneers who become the first humans to travel outside our galaxy. Yet even as it builds this unknown world, Mass Effect never forgets those who are pioneering today, throwing in a handful of loving references to SpaceX and the ESA, among others.

At Ghost Corps, the Ghostbusters office on the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles, franchise co-creator Ivan Reitman admits the most recent film was a disappointment. And yet the Ghostbusters are not dead, and do not need to be busted themselves. Not by a long shot.

Like many people who dropped hundreds of dollars on an Apple Watch, Gabriel O'Flaherty-Chan was disappointed at how little his pricey wearable could actually do. Instead of complaining about it online like most of us, he decided to solve the problem himself by writing a Game Boy emulator capable of playing Pokemon Yellow. Unfortunately, it kind of sucks.

Mass Effect: Andromeda comes out this week, marking the end of a long wait for fans of BioWare's sci-fi action RPG franchise. We're big fans of Mass Effect here, and have decided to celebrate the occasion by looking back at our most-loved instances from the long-running series.

Video: Hmm, maybe Peter Parker and Barbara Ann Minerva had the same martial arts sensei?

For the past 31 years, the setting of the Legend of Zelda games has mostly stayed the same — until now. The latest game in the series, Breath of the Wild, has transformed the traditional kingdom of Hyrule into something fundamentally different to its predecessors: a world which, now more than ever, is there to be lost in.