The Monster Hunter spin-off looked like a cheap cash-in. It's not.

To save you hours sifting through hours of YouTube videos, we've put together a guide

How would you fare exploring the final frontier? This VR game lets you find out.

No squidding around, it's great and another must-have for Switch users.

What it lacks in dimension it makes up for with many other conveniences...

All this week the entertainment team are rating the best of 2017 so far. Today, games.

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Back in the 90s Street Fighter 2 was the fighting game. How does it hold up?

Is the second lap a win for this reissue of Nintendo's long running crazy racer?

Karl Puschmann puts Nintendo's new two-in-one console to the test.

Death is always near in Nioh, a game so hard it makes Dark Souls look like Animal Crossing. But what a game.

It must be difficult being the most successful video game franchise of all time. Super Mario Maker shows the pressure is starting to show.

This is all your childhood dreams come true.

Infinite Warfare is a decent shooter, but with other titles like Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 out there, it might not be worth your time.

Attention to detail and loads of options, such as the 300 shoes on offer, make NBA 2K17 a leader in the sports gaming genre.

I'm a huge fan of First Person Shooters setting during WWI or WWII, so getting an early-access code to Battlefield 1 was quite exciting.

Bound is beautiful, monstrous, dizzying, thrilling and strange.

No Man's Sky is a true sandbox game. Like actual real life space, it's overwhelming in scale, but endlessly intriguing.

She's best known for reading the news but this week, NZH Focus had Newstalk ZB's Niva Retimanu take on a new challenge, sitting down to play the popular video game Doom.

A real-life version of Pokemon is a great idea - but Rachel Bache finds there are a lot of downsides to Pokemon Go.

Watching a young boy being ripped to pieces by an attack dog isn't a pleasant experience. Neither is fleeing through a dimly lit forest before being shot down by armed guards.

Chris Schulz reviews the new addition the the Lego franchise: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

This didn't matter. It's a fighting game, so the fundamentals are simple. Pick a funky lookin' dude and fight. Ignorance isn't exactly a barrier to enjoyment in this genre.

It's nice to reminisce and catch up with the four turtles again - but it would be much better to have the option to play with my son.

Perhaps aware of growing open world zombie game fatigue, Sony Bend is going to great lengths to insist the rotting, seemingly-dimwitted, human flesh-craving people in Days Gone are not in fact the living dead.

The crux of the game is shooting demons and running out of ammo. Constantly.

Alienation is a gorgeous isometric twin-stick shooter with elements of Diablo which is engaging, addictive, and great fun.

Will it live up to the hype? We asked several game fanatics what Uncharted 4 has to prove when it gets released tomorrow.

REVIEW: You'll recognise characters and remember scenarios that long ago made you fall in love with your PS2.

There's a point early in Dark Souls III where an angry tree bashes you to death with a branch while firing murderous magic skulls at you in a poison swamp.