Thinking about trying out Overwatch next weekend for free? Read this guide on some simple heroes, or alternatively pick Hanzo every game.

Sony might just have the perfect solution to keeping your pals entertained, as they’ve got a plan to make use of the one piece of hardware that everyone has these days with their PlayStation hardware: A smartphone. Specifically, a smartphone and a Playstation that'll be home to several great games.

Gaming has wrestled with the idea of casual gamers vs hardcore gamers for as long as I can remember - but is a distinction that still needs to be made?

As a genre, puzzle platformers have gone through many permutations. First gaining mainstream success in America in the 1990’s with Lost Vikings and Wario Land 2. These games laid the groundwork for modern puzzle platformers like Braid and Fez, where the puzzles are solved by players manipulating the actual game world in some way.

Activision has been hit with layoffs - with the casual games market being hit hardest.

The key to long-term survival for the PlayStation 4, will be in attracting more casual consumers.

Zynga has defended its practices of copying other games, saying that all games are derived from one another.

Casual gaming accounts for just 10% of the global gaming spend.