Sony is set to compensate customers who have been locked out of the PlayStation Network following the security breach which caused it to be shut down on April 20.

As the technology for Nintendo's best-selling Wii and DS consoles has aged, sales have slowed significantly.

Can Easter be celebrated online instead of going to church? Aleks Krotoski ponders the effect the internet has had on religion.

Lego Stars Wars 3 - The Clone Wars is based on the animated telly series, and puts players into a tried-and-true formula of good laughs, huge amounts of gameplay and the need to almost endlessly revisit levels to complete collectable goals.

Nintendo has taken its DS handheld into the future with 3D gaming - and without the need for stupid glasses.

Guitar games are about to embrace real instruments, reports Matt Greenop

Violence in videogames - particularly first-person shooters - has started to get a bit "samey" of late. But the much-hyped Bulletstorm takes the tried and true formula and puts an addictive arcade spin on it.

Killzone 3 picks up where the last chapter left off - about as far up the proverbial creek as a hardcore galactic grunt can get.

When I was growing up I was sure I'd end up playing bass in a hard rock band or becoming a Formula One racing driver.

Screenshots from the game Little Big Planet 2.

The British government has fragged its own games industry - tax changes could shrink it by a massive 24 per cent.

Matt Greenop has met the future of gaming - it's got a shady past.

Images from the unreleased game L.A. Noire, set to be one of the year's biggest titles.

With a host of videogames - some good, some very not good - behind it, the money-printing Harry Potter franchise should really have tried to go out with a bang.