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For the second year running, PAX Aus has had to be cancelled, but like a great game player with several lives up their sleeve, PAX is dusting itself off and restoring to an online spawn point.

The head of a company that makes the popular Windows game Terraria has cancelled plans for a port to Google's Stadia platform after his company's Google account was disabled with no warning.

Australia will be one of the first countries to get the PlayStation 5, Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced.

Nvidia's Shield TV goes on sale in Australia and New Zealand next month, after being launched in the US three years ago.

Quantic Dream and David Cage return with Detroit: Become Human, and the interactive movie concept is further perfected.

Let’s face it, where we last left Kratos he had become a parody of the original vision, a meme for anger and a sense of ridiculousness by the end of a trilogy of main-line games. Kratos had pretty much destroyed the entire pantheon of Greek mythology in an unabashed revenge orgy.  This reboot of God of War is entirely different.

Here be the journals of a fledgling pirate finding a way through dangerous foe-ridden waters to seek glory and wealth for the crew.

Forget about the infamous dictators of humankind’s past, the man that will destroy civilisation is Sid Meier as the time-sink of #OneMoreTurn in Civilization VI gets an expansion in the form of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall.

Wow! Just, Wow! Here is a piece of digital art wrapped up in an action game that tackles big issues in a way that is considerate, but perhaps irreverent. And it has Wolfenstein in its title.  

You could be forgiven for looking at Spintires: MudRunner from the outside and exclaiming “What the…..!?”  It is a quizzical look-inducing title rather than immediately drawing a player into wanting to take on its challenges.

The Evil Within 2 is a game of phases. During most of those phases you will be trying to find a place to hide.

Finally, a version 1.0 of PUBG is on its way, and in addition making its way to the Xbox One console. An already very popular game may have a significant boost to player base with PC cross play. Will it be fair?

The annual racing simulation for Microsoft platforms has a whole new way to spend your time whilst not on the track, but does it still hit those corner apexes when you take to the road?

Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia has unveiled two limited edition Playstation 4 bundles with a Star Wars Battlefront II theme to celebrate destroying the Death Star, or, perhaps the release of Star Wars Battlefront II.

Time to get sideways in the dirt again, time to clench the steering wheel and be as bold as possible tackling some very tight courses with only your skill and co-driver trust to reel in a great time. It’s time for the World Rally Championship.

Looking for something really old-school?  Well, in a couple of ways Cuphead can fulfil these desires in a very entertaining, and yet sometimes, frustrating way.

You have a few days to secure a snug onesie inspired by the racing game Forza Motorsport 7.

Now that in Australia we have bid farewell to the best code to carry the term “football” for 2017, we can turn our attention to other codes – in this case American football or Gridiron with the release of the perennial Madden NFL 18.

What this world needs is more fantastical racing through dirt, mud, grime and yes, Gravel.

J.R.R. Tolkien dreamed up, or appropriated from other mythology, quite a bestiary during the creation of his Middle Earth canon.