I thought I was done playing Diablo III, a game I happily zipped through as a demon hunter when it came out on PS4. I played with friends, cleared the story, hit level 70, barely understood what Adventure Mode and Paragon Points were and put it down. That was more than a year ago.

The console beta for Popcap's Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is live this weekend, giving players a tiny taste of the new maps and modes in next month's shooter sequel. My favourite part so far? The free-roaming playground that's replaced the first game's menus.

It seems that Los Santos is still hiding some never-before-seen Easter eggs.

Pony Island is not about ponies. It's about escaping a demonic arcade game developed by the devil to capture the souls of the living. It just features strong pony themes.

Today Clash of Clans developer Supercell soft-launched Clash Royale, a competitive multiplayer defence game in which the goal is to spend as much money as possible on virtual cards. At least that's the vibe I'm getting.

It's not technically Nintendo's iconic hero that I'm endlessly ending in the newly-released anti-platformer Kill the Plumber, but it totally is.

Years of Puzzle Quest, Candy Crush Saga and Bejeweled have all been preparing me for this moment. Now is my time to dominate. To stand over the battered and broken gems of my enemies in Force of Elements.

The new Amplitude isn't an evolution of the track-mixing music gameplay that made the original and its predecessor, Frequency, so popular with rhythm game fans. It's almost exactly the same, and that's perfect.

When you're an innocent anthropomorphic animal accused of murder in 1840s France it doesn't matter if your defence attorney has an insatiable hunger for worms, as long as he also has a thirst . . . for justice.

The first Marvel: Avengers Alliance is one of my favourite comic book based mobile games of all-time, so when I heard the 3D sequel to the 2D turn-based RPG was soft-launched down under, I got real Australian, real fast.

The ultimate unlock in Smite's 2016 World Championship-funding Odyssey is finally live, and I get a chance to put Ragnarok Force X Thor through his paces.

While Star Wars mobile games are going crazy with The Force Awakens content, the only way to play through bits of the new movie on your game console is via Disney Infinity 3.0 -- and it feels very familiar.

It's not every day I get to refer to my wife as perfectly reasonable but yeah -- this is all her fault.

The first closed beta test for the Western version of fantasy MMO Black Desert Online is live, giving select players their first taste of what we once called "the world's coolest character creation system." I might wind up having more fun making heroes than playing them.

"Please defeat these children," she said. "It looks like they won't learn without some pain." Don't worry, it feels pretty good. Wait...

Step one: Watch what I do here. Step two: Avoid doing any of that.

The Summoner class in Blade & Soul, NCsoft's latest massively multiplayer Korean import, get to choose a feline companion to fight by their side for the rest of their days. There are other classes to play in the current closed beta, but they are not important.

Halo 5's new Warzone multiplayer mode wouldn't be nearly as exciting if it suffered from the sort of connection issues that plagued The Master Chief Collection months after launch. So far, so good.

Holy crap that's a lot of rats.