An x-ray illustrates in shocking detail how a Chinese boy was stabbed through the head after a row over a video game.

Shigeru Miyamoto is the most successful artist of the last 50 years. He has single-handedly laid the foundations for the world's largest entertainment industry.

The big news was that gaming company Valve committed to offering full support for the Mac for both its in-house games and for its digital game delivery system 'Steam'.

The latest in the long-running Final Fantasy series

There's a battle raging between fans of this warzone first person shooter and the mega-selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 over which is best.

PlayStation3 title Heavy Rain invents a whole new gaming genre.

Not every child in the world is obsessed with hi-tech games consoles to the exclusion of more traditional toys.

Electronic Arts' big-budget first person shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2

A edutaining follow-up to the free-roaming - but relatively aimless - underwater Endless Ocean, Adventures of the Deep has added some cool features to make this Wii title more engaging.

It's not often that a game is released that is truly ground-breaking.

As exciting as Olympics can be, Sega's licensed Winter Olympics title has managed to suck the fun right out of it.

South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is single-handedly stopping Australia from introducing an R18 classification for video games - effectively banning adult games.

Wild West epic game Red Dead Redemption.

Army of Two: The 40th Day

Charming mercenaries Salem and Rios are back, this time smokin' baddies in a collapsing Shanghai.

Gaming is the one area where Mac can users can justifiably feel well and truly miffed at being users of a platform with small market share.

There is a clique of people who play board games all year round.

Matt Greenop reviews the latest instalment in the long-running Ratchet and Clank series.