Why invest in a 4K gaming machine when your telly barely scrapes past 1080 peas? That’s a thought that Microsoft agrees with, as the Xbox One X won’t be the only console in their arsenal, but a decision for prospective consumers to hem and haw over. Kind of similar to the Xbox Box One Elite controller when you think about it.

Hippos are bastards. And in Assassin’s Creed Origins, they may be nigh-unstoppable engines of chaos that want to take a chomp out of you, should you venture too close to them.

Cross platform multiplayer is the dream. In video game utopia, we’d all just be able to play the games we wanted, with the people we wanted, no matter their choice in platform. For same games and systems, that’s already happening. Just not with PlayStation.

Ed Boon, series creator on Mortal Kombat and Injustice, likes the idea of his NetherRealm fighting games coming to Nintendo Switch in the future.

There’s a growing consensus that in-game Loot Boxes should be regulated just like regular gambling. Only they’re not gambling, according to the ESRB. The company that handles the regulation and classification of content in the US says that loot boxes aren’t gambling.

EA is adding the struggling Mass Effect Andromeda to their Access Vaults already, just seven months after its initial launch.

It's been a memorable year for South Africa esports, but there are some clear titles who are rising above the rest.

What Arc System Works are busy developing, is a game that I’m already earmarking as the best fighting experience of 2018 when it releases. Beyond the Guilty Gear and BlazBlue credentials, Dragon Ball FighterZ has something else going for it in the quality department: Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada.