Local businesses and icons are being immortalised in Grand Theft Auto V by a Kiwi man on a break from his day job at a freezing works.

Meet Hydra, Bacabec, Killer Pi3 and Skrzm. No, they're not an Avengers-style squad of superheroes - they're NZ's best Call of Duty players. And they want to be world-beaters.

Bethesda has confirmed it is releasing a sequel to one of its most successful franchises, Fallout.

Four of New Zealand's best Call of Duty players want to beat America at their own game. But first they have to take on Australia.

Rockstar Games is taking legal action against the BBC in response to Game Changer, an upcoming drama about the creation of Grand Theft Auto.

Siobhan Keogh spent $90 just so she could play the demo for Final Fantasy XV. Then this happened ...

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.

Are videogames too expensive in New Zealand? Siobhan Keogh investigates.

They're huge in Japan, but why not the rest of the world? Siobhan Keogh looks at why some games just don't translate.

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

Star Wars: Battlefront looks impossibly gorgeous, writes James Cullinane, who got an early preview of the title at Star Wars Celebration.

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.

Oldies tours make big money on the concert circuit, and gaming oldies can go the same way when they're done well.

It's good - and it's also bad. For The Order: 1886, a game that promises so much, that's a painful thing to say. But the evidence is irrefutable.

How do you like to kill your zombies? These days, there's an answer for everyone. Arcade splatter fest?

Tastes in video games can often change. Siobhan Keogh admits she may have been wrong about some of the games she's rejected.

What could be better than battling dragons and falling in love? Siobhan Keogh takes a look at romance in video games.

As PlayStation celebrates 20 years, Siobhan Keogh looks at what made them ground-breaking and what the future might hold.

The HD remake of Resident Evil will release on January 20, Capcom has announced.

Little Big Planet developer David Dino scored his dream job by sitting on the couch working on his Playstation tan. He tells Chris Schulz it can happen to you, too.

Here's the problem with Batman right now - he's bloody everywhere. The Dark Knight has just appeared in The Lego Movie, he'll be showing up in the new Batman v Superman film, and there's even a real-life Batman doing good deeds in Japan right now.

2014 has not been great for gaming. Siobhan Keogh lists off some of the worst protagonists from this year.

Grand Theft Auto V's been rebooted for next-gen consoles - complete with a first-person mode. Is it any good? Chris Schulz goes on a rampage...

Hayden Donnell catches up with Assassin's Creed Unity director, Alexandre Amancio.

Adult content in game's new version means this far is far enough, writes Karl Puschmann.

At least Assassin's Creed: Unity looks beautiful. The fifth instalment of the history-spanning series renders revolutionary Paris in intricate detail.