There are a lot of collectible card games coming out lately. Magic is still going strong, Hearthstone is huge, Bethesda brought out Legends, Gwent is lots of fun, and more (DOTA 2!) are on the way. But many of these games seem intent on mimicking Hearthstone's spectacle-targetting randomness. Let's poke fun at a few of the more ridiculous cards.

Ever miss those cool drift racers from yesteryear? Data Wing channels F-Zero to give you a drift racer with a neon aesthetic on your Android or iDevice, and it's completely free.

The grand final of Split 2 in the Oceanic Premier League will be running for the entire evening. Watch a confident Chiefs side go up against Dire Wolves for the right to call themselves Australian champs.

MEAT. We haven't heard too much about the sequel to Super Meat Boy for a while, but it's popped back onto the radar as Team Meat head to PAX West and allow anyone at the show to try a demo.

Games Done Quick has put together an emergency speedrun event to benefit the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

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Gigabyte announced its new gaming laptop last week, the Aero 15, and it’ll start gracing the shelves in tech stores around Australia soon. It’s a 1060-packing warrior that boasts VR capability and a super light frame, and we got our grubby mitts on it.

Ever wanted to play a MOBA without all the crap MOBA bits? Battlerite is a great game that not nearly enough people are talking about. So talk about it we shall.

Our friend and leader claymore35 nearly got yesterday's answer wrong, but edited it before anyone else could jump in and steal the glory. It was, as the first comment states, Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing. I was hoping a few people would get it confused with the more widely known podracing game on N64. Alright, here's another one!

VaatiVidya is starting to release proper story videos for The Ringed City, and I'm not going to watch them yet. I'm still holding out hope on actually being able to play this game before watching well crafted story explanations.

My, my... The first straight week after two weeks with public holidays. How are you all handling it? And how are you planning on winding down for the weekend?

Valve has released an optional, yet permanent patch for Germans who have had a censored version of Half-Life since its release.

I don't know about you, but the first time I laid fingertip to touchscreen and sliced my first grapefruit, I thought, this would work much better if I was just passively watching other people go on fruit-related adventures. Finally, that vision is realised.

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With Australia's biggest esports event coming up this weekend, all eyes are on some of the international competitors flying down under. One of those is Renegades, the Aussie team that moved overseas to play in the big leagues -- but it just suffered a defeat against local upstarts Chiefs. The matches this weekend might be closer than we expected.

Black Iron Tarkus is one of the most badass characters in Dark Souls, but how would he fare in the modern dating world? We signed him up to Tinder to find out -- it would be his toughest challenge to date.

So yesterday's was a little tricky, because I'm sure everyone could tell that they were looking at an AT-AT (Michelangelo, eat your heart out), but it was a little harder to tell exactly which Star Wars game it was from...

Launching today, the Checkpoint Series is a Kickstarter project aiming to create a series of videos highlighting all the ways video games can help us out mentally.

Smite has announced the available spots for the competition to conclude its next split, the Summer Finals -- and there's no path for Australia to participate.