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

Fans are having fun with the latest game from skateboarder Tony Hawk, compiling bugs and glitches for hilarious YouTube videos.

John Fuller, senior producer at Avalanche Studios, explains how much work went into making the Mad Max game as exhilarating as the movie.

Siobhan Keogh tackles the key components that really make a video game good.

A new report into Kiwi video games has some key findings - including the fact that very few fans like being called "gamers". Siobhan Keogh takes a look.

Destiny's story underwent "substantial" changes just a month before its original release date, according to court documents.

Big gaming titles have been few and far between recently, but that's about to change, writes Siobhan Keogh.

Billionaire game designer Markus Persson says money has torn his life apart.

The year's first major Star Wars release isn't in theatres - it's on consoles. Chris Schulz meets one of the men behind Disney Infinity, the franchise that's embracing Luke and Leia for the first time.

Sick of stereotypes portraying gamers as fat, lazy and surrounded by chip packets on their couch?

Combine next-gen gaming consoles with the latest release of smart TVs and round-the-world trips are entirely possibly from the comfort of your couch.

Yes, you can play as a dinosaur. That's the big question everyone wants answered about Lego Jurassic World, the 56th game in the Lego franchise and the first to take on the might of Jurassic World's box office bite.

A Kiwi game developer has made a rare appearance at E3 to show off his latest game - and there's not a zombie in sight.

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.

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.

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.

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

Like so many great bands, the PMZ burned out long before they had a chance to fade away.

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.

After two tantalising teasers, Troy Rawhiti-Forbes unveils his hopes and dreams for Halo 5.

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.

It's the news Xbox gamers have been waiting for: the next chapter in the Halo series will be out later this year.