Slow down. Take a minute. Hit pause. Just chill. That's exactly what Quantum Break asks you to do. Frequently.

The sport's biggest stars, Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor, grace the cover of UFC 2 after both suffering defeats in their most recent fights.

As far as online shooters go, GW2 is possibly the quirkiest.

All that hype. All that expectation. All those delays. All that face paint. For a food salvage operation?

Many may think "don't mess with a classic" but games very quickly moved on from two people fighting on a 2D platform.

This is savage. One minute you're watching someone being ripped to death by a sabre-toothed tiger.

A little ball of wool just made my son burst into tears. And it was completely my fault.

You could cheat. That's the one downside of a game that includes so many visual puzzles: if you get stuck, they're all readily available and easily accessible online.

That Dragon, Cancer is an autobiographical game about the life and death of a boy with cancer. Joel, who was diagnosed at age one, died four years later in 2014. He was survived by his parents, Ryan and Amy Green, who made the game.

I just nailed the riff from Jack White's Lazaretto, the crowd is chanting my name, and I'm pretty sure my band's female bassist is into me.

At some point in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, you'll ask yourself the question: "What's it all for?" Maybe it's while you're machine-gunning your way through a horde of nameless minions.

The eight-year-old me would hate the 33-year-old me right now. I just killed Luke Skywalker and about an hour ago I shot down the Millennium Falcon. And it felt so good.

Chris Schulz ventures into the wasteland, and likes what he sees.

Put down your Pip-Boy and pick up Rise - you'll like what you see, writes Chris Schulz.

Assassin's Creed has had a terrible year. Unity, the series' much-heralded entry into the next generation console market was an unmitigated disaster.

It's one of the biggest game releases of the year, but is Halo 5 living up to its predecessors? Chris Schulz finds it does, for reasons you may not expect.

Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk is lying at the bottom of a halfpipe in a crumpled heap.

There's only one major thing wrong with Fifa 16: Chelsea are a pretty good team.

It's not long before you realise the creators of Forza 6 - the sixth instalment of the decade-old series - really want to make a splash.

Why hello there, my little Vita friend. It's been a long time between drinks.

Burning tyres, smouldering wreckage and dust storms blowing across desolate wastelands. Right from the start, Mad Max gets one key thing right: the vibe

Have you seen all the Star Wars movies? What about all six seasons of The Clone Wars?

If you're looking for blood, you've come to the right place. Until Dawn splashes the thick red stuff across walls and has it clotting on floorboards.

It seems odd that Microsoft would bother upgrading State of Decay. Released in 2013,it was a middling zombie romp at best, with emphasis on stealth, survival and saving your mates over bloodthirsty brain bashing.

There is a hierarchy of acceptable deaths in the gaming world. The safest bets are robots, and families have enjoyed slaughtering billions of them with not the slightest moral code bent.

It was a scream that startled the neighbours. I'd been fumbling around a blackened basement looking for the power switch when something grabbed my ankle. It didn't have any legs. And it was trying to eat me.

Motorbike title Ride hasn't exactly reinvented the wheel. All it's really done is removed two.

Almost a quarter-century of Mortal Kombat has brought us to this, the Xth edition of a series heavy on the blood and liberal with the letter K.

Hidetaka Miyazaki is a genius. The auteur behind Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and now Bloodborne approaches video games like an artist does a canvas, crafting broad strokes of rich gameplay, in-depth lore and innovative level design.

Shaky cameras, gnarly character actors, gritty storylines and grisly crime scenes. You could mistake Battlefield Hardline's opening scenes for a reboot of the late, great cop show NYPD Blue.