Ori and the Blind Forest is a beautiful metroidvania game where players progress through different areas and unlock new skills along the way. Each new skill gives the player new movement options that open up new areas and let them explore all the nooks and crannies of previous areas.

The Ori Randomiser mod takes that, mixes it all up in a giant bucket and spits it back out in a new way to explore.

I really don't want to work out how many hours I spent playing the Sea of Thieves final beta this weekend. It was many hours. Probably too many. There was a nagging thought in the back of my head the entire time: This feels like a console game. That in itself isn't a problem but I was playing on PC and the effect was somewhat jarring.

As part of its E3 2017 press conference, Microsoft announced a sequel to painterly platformer Ori And The Blind Forest. It's called Ori And The Will Of The Wisps.

It's not rare to find clones and ripoff games on Steam or the app store. The video game market is full of asset theft, much to the dismay of hard-working developers everywhere. But how often do you find a ripoff game that's actively marketed by Sony?

Unquestionably one of the most gorgeous games of last year, Ori and the Blind Forest has just gotten its Definitive Edition on. What does "Definitive" actually mean in this case? More content, in the form of difficulty modes, abilities and environments, among other treats.

DICE's all-peer-based voting panel must have had a great time hacking supermutants apart to Skeeter Davis's End of the World, 'cause Fallout 4 took three awards home, including Game of the Year. But of course, Fallout 4 wasn't the only big winner at the 19th DICE Awards.

February saw the first of the year's major AAA titles land -- or at least the ones that were delayed from 2014 -- but March was when gamers truly got to get excited. Sony got some more exclusives. Indie darlings dropped their long-awaited sequels. Some long-awaited Kickstarter projects were finally released to the public, and there was even a new Mario Party to crow about.

We knew they were coming and now they're finally here -- the first round of Steam sales for the Christmas holidays.

This round is called the Exploration Sales, and as you'd expect there's some good deals. Let's dive right in.

Gaming isn't just about the story, the gameplay or the visuals -- it's about the soundtracks too.

Briefly: In unexpectedly wonderful news, Xbox's Major Nelson revealed Ori and the Blind Forest is getting an expansion on PC and Xbox One this year. There aren't any details on what to expect yet, but if you haven't yet played one of this year's best games, get on it!

Ori and the Blind Forest is a pretty good video game! But we're not here today to talk about the game. We're here today to look at the gorgeous art that went into making it.

Whether you want lush orchestral tracks of murderous dance-floor jams, it has been a heck of a couple of weeks for video game music.

Pleasant. If I had to sum up Ori and the Blind Forest in one word, that would be it. The new Xbox One and PC platformer looks like a magnificently drawn kids' fantasy book sprung to life. It has the lush, magical aesthetic and inoffensive charm that gamers have come to accept -- and expect -- from indie games.

Microsoft just confirmed the release dates for three rad-looking games that are all coming out in the second quarter of 2015. The games are Ori and the Blind Forest (March 11, $US19.99), Screamride (March 3, $US39.99), and the Xbox One version of State of Decay (April 28, $US29.99). Woo!

I went into Ori and the Blind Forest... well, blind. I had seen a trailer for it back at E3, but other than that I hadn't bothered with any information. Nothing against it, I just hadn't bothered.

There are a lot of cool trailers here, but I'm probably most excited for Cuphead, the game styled after 1930s animation.