Designer Abhishek Singh created a first-person augmented reality version of Super Mario Bros.' first level, which is very cool. Then he dressed up as Mario to test out his creation in New York City's Central Park. That's the dangerous bit.

You've come off the back of a game that's sold over two million copies, so you must be doing something correct. Sweet, you can do it again, right? Yes, that could happen... or, your next project could sell a pittance in comparison. Such is the case with Introversion, the studio behind Early Access poster-child Prison Architect and its less, less, less, less successful followup, Scanner Sombre.

Christian "Suicune Master" Patierno earned his second straight championship belt for Pokken Tournament at this past weekend's Community Effort Orlando. You might not have known that, even if you watched the stream, because the commentators and the on-screen overlay referred to him by a slightly different name.

If you thought Paradox's grand strategy game Stellaris sounded very Star Trekky with its big alien alliances and deep space exploration, you are not alone.

Cassius Marsh is known for tackling ball carriers as an NFL linebacker, but the Seattle Seahawk's 6'4", 111kg frame recently proved entirely useless in the mental athletics of Magic: the Gathering.

Evader is a twin stick arcade game full of bursty voxel explosions and a trippy techno beat. There aren't any bullets to fire — instead, players blow up baddies with two dots connected by a laser beam. It's challenging and a lot of fun, which makes it a perfect Indie Pick.

CEO's Royal Rumble is always a good time and this year's was no exception. The Royal Rumble features 30 contestants selected from the fighting game community battling for the title in an event full of pomp and circumstance that's as much about showy entrances as deadly combos.

In times of trouble, some players turn to a coach or fellow pro, possibly even to a higher power. This Street Fighter player chose to lean on the Good Book: namely, Daigo's book, The Will to Keep Winning.

Over three decades ago she was stuck sitting atop steel beams waiting for "the plumber" to rescue her, but in 2017, Pauline has risen to the highest public office of New Donk City, the fictional urban backdrop for Super Mario Odyssey.

Of all the things I expected out of E3 2017, Atari announcing a new console was last on the list. Heck, it wasn't even on the list, more scratched in chalk on the tip of my shoe. But it is happening — CEO Fred Chesnais confirmed with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi the company's plans to get "back [into] the hardware business".

Diablo 3's end-game content is all about rifts. Normal rifts, greater rifts, empowered rifts. There's a lot of rifts. One more will be added to the gear-farming pile once the game's next patch arrives, with the introduction of "Challenge Rifts".

With so much coming out over the next few days from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, perhaps the biggest annual event in gaming, it can be hard to keep up with the flow of information. But you don't have to lose yourself in the visual and aural smorgasbord — if you just want the highlights, look no further.

EA Play's press conference was packed with thirty minutes of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 multiplayer but lots of people wanted to see the campaign. We did. After that showcase ended, I sat down to watch a developer-guided runthrough of an early story mission. The 15 minute sequence was full of dogfights, stealth takedowns and laser blasts. It seems good.

Video: Here’s a brief teaser of BioWare's next big new game, a brand new intellectual property called Anthem. Not much to say just yet, but EA says we’ll see more of it at Microsoft’s press conference tomorrow.

Hearthstone streamer Disguised Toast was recently in the news after hitting Legend — the game's highest rank — with a free-to-play Hunter deck. Now he's back in the spotlight... for the wrong reasons; Toast's been banned from the game temporarily for using an exploit that lets you farm free wins.

An update to one of the game's most popular mods has increased the max character level to 125 and removed the cap on monster health, making the grind more deadly than ever.

That awesome-looking mod for GZDoom that combines the best parts of Aliens: The Ultimate Doom with Alien Trilogy? Creator Kontra Kommando has released a beta you can play right now.

The recently revealed "Android O" may not have knocked it out of the park for Google, but there is a nifty feature coming to the upgraded platform that will appeal in particular to mobile gamers — graphic driver updates independent of full OS ones.

City-builder Cities: Skylines has accumulated a healthy number of expansions since its release in 2015 and developer Colossal Order has just added another... duck to the row? Egg to the basket? Basically it's got another one out called Mass Transit that, unsurprisingly, provides players with a bevvy of new transportation options.