• Sarah Muller

Google Maps has marked this year's April Fools' Day by allowing users to play Ms. Pac-Man on maps of real streets worldwide. 

• Tim Biggs

Showing off the effortless multiplayer capabilities of Nintendo's newest console, Snipperclips is a unique and hilarious puzzler that can technically be played solo but is made astronomically better when a pair – or even a group of four – play together.

• Adam Gartrell

The latest instalment of a popular video game franchise has been banned in Australia.

• Tim Biggs

The console has only been out for a week, but if you're already itching to play something beyond that one incredible launch game here are some suggestions.

• Tim Biggs

This reinvention of Zelda is possibly the greatest the series has produced to date, and it's also one of the most fun and interesting open-world games around.

• Tim Biggs

Unlike any other game console on the market, the Switch lets you transition seamlessly between playing at home on your big TV and playing the exact same games on the go, Game Boy style.

• Tim Biggs

Beyond its good looks, Horizon is an outstandingly good open world role-playing game with a setting and story like no other.

• Tim Biggs

Offering a realistic and incredibly deep system of melee combat, For Honor has the guts of the most complex of fighting games, but crammed inside the frame of a third-person action experience and skinned with a variety of ancient cultures.

• Tim Biggs

An Australian game producer who worked on Horizon Zero Dawn fills us in on the intent behind the beautiful, robot-dinosaur-filled adventure.

• Tim Biggs

Like its predecessor, Halo Wars 2 combines the lore, character and artistry of the main Halo series with the methodical gameplay of a real-time strategy game like Starcraft or Warcraft III. Unlike its predecessor, Halo Wars 2 feels like the best of both worlds.

• Tim Biggs

Nioh is a tough game. It's tough to get into, tough to get good at and tough to explain. But if you like a challenge, and are willing to put in the time for its various systems to get their hooks into you, your reward will be great.

• Karl Quinn

She's young, popular and experienced. But at 31, former 'Good Game' host Stephanie Bendixsen feared time was running out for a lucrative move to commercial television.

• Tim Biggs

Adopting a first-person perspective and refocusing the narrative after a succession of bloated, tiresome sequels, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard marks a return to horror, suspense and claustrophobia.

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• Lucy Battersby

Once dubbed "crimezone", Timezone used to be the kind of place parents warned their children against visiting.

• Tim Biggs

Japan's pre-eminent auteur game designer wasn't widely known in the West until the explosive success of his 1998 PlayStation game Metal Gear Solid, but he's only become more prominent and controversial since.

• Tim Biggs

Masaya Nakamura can be credited as one of the people responsible for building the Japanese video game industry.

• Karl Quinn

"I love the smell of donations in the morning."

• Tim Biggs

This sequel repeats just about every mistake the original made, but in spite of that I fell in love with its sprawling world, goofy characters and thrilling aerial acrobatics all over again.

• Tim Biggs

Clearly modelled after a grim nanny-state vision of Russia, 'Beholder' tasks players with balancing two opposing goals: run an apartment building as a respectable landlord who is liked by his tenants, and keep your government employers happy by constantly monitoring, reporting and spying on said tenants.