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Video game industry representatives from Australia and New Zealand and across Europe, the United States and Canada have jointly released a unifying set of principles for esports engagement, including safety and well-being, integrity and fair play, respect and diversity, and “positive and enriching” game play.

Australians have a growing taste for sports and video entertainment content sending the Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) services market to new heights, reaching 12.3 million total subscriptions at the end of June, according new research from technology analyst firm, Telsyte.

The second Melbourne Esports Open will be held on 31 August and 1 September.

Apple has launched a news subscription service, a TV service and a credit card with no fees at an event held in California overnight, with the news subscription, to more than 300 publications, to cost US$9.99 per month.

Promising "beyond 60 FPS in the latest AAA and eSports titles", powered by AMD's Polaris architecture, Radeon software and paired with a Radeon FreeSync capable monitor, AMD promises a "leading-edge, smooth HD gaming experience for the latest games".

Telstra has refunded $9.3 million to 72,000 customers it misled in relation to its Premium Direct Billing third-party billing service, according to a report the telco has provided to the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

It's not a case of deja-vu, but a new product you can go bananas over in a most retro way, but with modern 4G speeds Keanu could only have dreamed of.

A new technology incubator, The Studio, has been launched in Sydney in a move designed to cultivate start-up and scale-up businesses in the media, entertainment, communications, games, sound, design and creative industries.

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.

Surviving the zombie apocalypse is a significant amount of work at times, and you will surprisingly need the management skills you have built up. Oh, and the ability to dismember limbs with a machete.

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 we have a very official videogame about the chaos of Supercross dirt-bike racing.

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

Fortnite Battle Royale is a free 100-player fighting game taking the world by storm, with sports stars imitating moves made in the game when they score, and while it is on PC, Mac, Xbox One and PS4, it is now coming to iOS.

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.

With Amazon having finally gone live in Australia last week, its Fire TV Stick has been on sale down under, too.

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.