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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?

It’s PAXAUS time again.  The Penny Arcade Expo travels to the Southern Hemisphere once a year –  Melbourne loves this celebration of geekdom.

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?

Rogue Trooper Redux delivers a High-Def remake of the 2006 game to modern devices. iTWire tried it out on the Nintendo Switch.

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.

The current season of Formula 1 has seen yet another raft of dramatic rule changes: everything is wider this season, both cars and tyres, as well as a bit heavier.  There are also rules on stockpiling power units and even the livery of driver helmets.

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.

Looking almost better than any of the movies, the latest official Star Wars Battlefront II trailer has hit the inter-webs.   

The PlayStation Network , or PSN, is how we connect with our friends and others globally to play multiplayer games. It is a payment subscription service, and Sony has some good news for those of us who love to use it.

Horizon: Zero Dawn was a Legend of Zelda and more for the Playstation platform. Now some more content is on its way to expand Aloy’s fantastical world of robot dinosaurs and techno-magic.

Gone is Ken Block and the mayhem of Gymkhana, instead, as the series did in DiRT Rally, DiRT 4 returns the motorsport largely back to the core rallying events that started it all.  

Nintendo is re-releasing its Super Nintendo Entertainment System in mini-size, with 21 games pre-loaded including the never before released “Star Fox 2.”

Microsoft has launched what it claims is the ‘world’s most powerful console’, and seeing as it runs on AMD processors, will it finally also be a Windows 10 PC?

Time to get caught up in Star Trek technobabble and blast some Klingons into oblivion, avoid being assimilated and observe the prime directive with Star Trek: Bridge Crew.

Things move fast in both the tech world and politics. Once the darling of the political landscape, it seems the Australian games development industry again needs to raise its profile. As such, the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA) chief executive Ron Curry has got on to the front foot with an open letter to Senator Mitch Fifield, the Minister for Communications and the Arts.