Ever wished you were someone that you're not? Yeah, we get that feeling all the time -- and today we're powering up our PCs and doing something about it with a couple of cheap 'n' cheerful simulation games. Read More >>

As with the rest of the known world, Valve boss Gabe Newell is waiting for Apple to make its move into the home gaming realm, and he sees this as more of a threat to his forthcoming Steam Box dream than Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's home hardware. Read More >>

Poor old Nintendo have posted some fresh losses after take-up for the new Wii U console wasn't as rabid as they'd hoped it would be. Read More >>

Crysis 3 won't be released for a couple of weeks, but if you're itching to play Crytek's latest hardware-melting FPS, you can, legally, right now. Here's how. Read More >>

Whether you chalk it up to the hyper-realism of today's video games or an overzealous neighborhood watch program, it's hard to blame the Swedish police who responded to a frantic call reporting what sounded like a brutal massacre. The ten-man team raided the apartment to find a group of teenagers in the midst of a gratuitous and abhorrent bloodbath. Just another friendly night in playing Call of Duty. Read More >>

This one's either someone you've gotta flat-out viciously run down in your car of thieved-choice in GTA V, or you riding a pocket-rocket equipped with a Uzi. My money's on the first, but hell, ride-bys were always a good laugh in GTA IV. Read More >>

We've mentioned his before but one of the neatest things about the PlayStation Plus subscription service is the free games that they've started bunging out to subscribers over the past few months. Read More >>

In the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide, your friendly neighborhood cyber-vigilantes Anonymous have been lashing out. It's mostly been DDOSes and cyber-vandalism, but their most recent project is a bit more fun, and lets you play Asteroids with a Nyan Cat spaceship that blasts up sites. Read More >>

China, which banned dedicated video games machines in the year 2000 to protect the brains and minds of its little children, might be about to relent and lets its population play consoles again. The news led shares in Sony and Nintendo to explode upwards like a familiar old video game barrel. Read More >>

These newfangled games consoles that are coming out this year are all well and good but do we REALLY need them in this era of grotesque economic meltdown? Read More >>

Our use of unmanned drones is well documented, and we know about missiles that trigger before they hit the ground. But some of Black Ops 2′s more, shall we say, "imaginative" technologies are based in reality too -- they'll just need a little pushing along before they get to the hyper-weaponised state they are in Treyarch's imagining of 2025. Read More >>

Do you suffer from low scores in Temple Run, embarrassing pig-humiliation in Angry Birds or not enough violence in Grand Theft Auto? If you answered YES to any of the above questions, then this physical gamepad for your iPad could be the answer to YOUR prayers. Read More >>

Want to see what iOS users have been shouting from the rooftops about? Which clocked up 20 million downloads in just four days? Well now you can, because Temple Run 2 is finally now availble on Google Play, and for absolutely free too. Download it, right this second. [Google Play] Read More >>

Look, we're not going to lie to you -- it's not the greatest day we've ever had for bargains. So instead of giving you something swish and flash with 75% off its RRP, we're opting for a safe, sensible alternative instead. Read More >>

Two rather large new rumours have popped out concerning Microsoft's next-gen home console. The first concerns the machine's name, which is apparently going to be just "Xbox" -- akin to Apple's "new iPad" naming move. The other rumour is significantly more bonkers, suggesting a standalone gaming tablet known as X-Surface will accompany the home console. Read More >>