About a hundred or so journalists, YouTubers and other tech media had just sat through about three hours of dense presentations. It was the middle of the Nvidia Editor's Day, which was essentially a day where various Nvidia executives break down the architecture of their upcoming graphics cards in exhausting detail.

It was gruelling, particularly if you're not a polymath. But when the crowd broke up a little, and we wandered into an adjacent room to mess with some tech demos in person, a couple of Australians started chatting about some of the techniques that the general gaming populace would start to see in the coming months.

And there's one technique in particular that could have a particular impact.

There's no shortage of things to play at Gamescom, but sometimes you get hands on with more games than others. So for all the demos that were quite short, or I didn't get an extended booking with for whatever reason, here's a quick recap of everything else from the show.

Recently revealed was Dontnod's Twin Mirror, a 'moral choice' game that's all about an unlikable arsehole. He's got a mind that balances on a fine line between showing mental health conditions, and plain supernatural superpowers.

There was plenty of scepticism when EA announced that the C&C RTS franchise was getting a mobile revival this year, and understandably so. Free-to-play mobile games have to walk a fine line, one that balances fairness with the financial realities of development. Too often games veer on the wrong side of that divide, funnelling players through systems that either tacitly or openly encourage them to spend money to stay on the right side of the power curve.

Have a guess how C&C Rivals turned out.

As became quickly apparent in a hands-on demo with the new Metro, running is often the worst possible idea.

Conventions can be great fun, particularly the larger ones like E3 and Gamescom. But what's a major convention like to cover?

I got to play a good chunk of Battlefield 5 over the course of Gamescom, and the grand scale shooter is coming together largely as you'd expect. But I also got to play another indie FPS on the show floor, one that nearly replaced any excitement I might have had for DICE's efforts.

So, another major gaming convention has come and gone. But what caught your eye the most?

Yesterday, the German website Playnation.de reported on a rumour that a Gamescom attendee defecated in a bag while waiting to play Fortnite. Today, the rumour circulated further on social media. Despite how badly we may want this to be true, according to Epic it never happened. Sorry!

Back in January, Kotaku UK published a huge list of British developed games which were due to release in 2018 that we thought were worth keeping an eye on. While Supermarket Shriek (geddit?) got pushed out of its 2018 release window to Q1 2019, it's still one of the games that we were most excited to check out when the year began.

Super Mario Party is filled with mini-games, to the surprise of absolutely no-one. The fun part is how some of those games take advantage of the extra rumble and gyro controls in the Switch's JoyCon controllers - and one game, shown at Gamescom this year, does so with steak.

Out of all of Ubisoft's games, the one that's the closest to launching is the intriguing space shooter, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. It's due out on October 16, and after spending about 20 minutes with the game, I'm a little worried.

You know the best part of trade shows? It's the unusual stuff.

It's always the elephant in the room whenever a AAA title - even older ones - make their way over to the Switch. How well will they run?

To the powers behind PAX Australia, and Australian conventions in general, here's a free tip.

I've just finished watching an hour of Cyberpunk 2077's first-person open-world futureshock, and I'm exhausted.

For those of us who couldn't travel around the globe to get to Gamescom, Europe's biggest gaming convention, a way to still feel involved is to watch the action-packed trailers that have dropped as part of the event.

Here's every trailer from Gamescom 2018 (so far).

It's not that long ago when Forza Horizon 3 helped exemplify the problems with Microsoft's strategy for PC games. The open-world arcade racer had a torrid launch, with performance issues, broken cross-play and stuttering.

The developers kept toiling away, however, and the knowledge and experience of FH3 has been fed back into the upcoming release of Forza Horizon 4. And one of the surprise benefits of all that hard work is some staggeringly good optimisation.

We played Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and it’s about as punishing as you would expect from the developers of Dark Souls. But it may be take some unlearning for long-term Souls players.