One of the highlights of PAX Australia is, and always will be, the indies. There's plenty of games to play, from methodical singleplayer titles to frantic co-op couch shooters. I played a bunch over the course of the three day convention, and here's what I'll be keeping an eye on.

PAX Australia always has plenty of great stories and moments. But none of them might be as heart-warming as what happened when a group of indie developers combined in a gesture of goodwill.

I'm standing in a tiny store at PAX Australia. It's a narrow hallway with shelves maybe 3 meters high and 10 or meters deep, and they're filled with board games. I looked around, scouring the shelves for names we recognise more than anything else, until my mate spies something.

It's Machi Koro, a game where mayors race to complete their town. But the back of the box is missing something. So we walked out, headed to the freeplay area, picked up Machi Koro, checked it out and ended up buying the game and expansion over an hour later.

That moment? It's PAX in a nutshell.

"You have to imagine that your body is the controller. Your body is a giant joystick."

I'm getting strapped into a device that's half adult baby bouncer, half obscure exercise machine. I'm wearing a pair of shoes that have also been on the last three people to have tried out the Virtuix Omni, shoes that make your feet slip and slide on the Omni's baseplate as though it's made of ice. I'm living the dream -- full body VR immersion. I look pretty damn stupid.

There's a lot of queuing to be done at PAX Australia -- sometimes it's worth it, and sometimes it isn't. When you're lining up to go inside a blocked out little room on the convention floor it can be hard to tell, however. Here are the games that are worth lining up for this year -- and the ones that aren't.

A MAME cabinet. An upper-decker LAN party. Flashy PC cases.

It's the kind of gear you'd expect out the front of a PC retailer. Except it's not. It's a PAX booth. For Harvey Norman.

Lovehacker is taking a short break from reader questions this week to chat about Australia's biggest gaming convention: PAX! Gamers from around the world will be descending upon Melbourne for some fun, fandom and, if I have anything to do with it, flirting! Not sure where to start on your geeky romance journey? Here are a few tips.

Tonight, the country's game dev community came together for the 2016 Australian Game Developer Awards, a celebration of the talent that local artists, composers and coders have poured into homegrown titles in the last 12 months. Here are this year's winners.

PAX Australia is only a few days away. And whether this is your first time, or your a seasoned attendee, working out what you'll need can be tough. So here's some of our top tips to help get you prepped.

This week is Melbourne International Games Week, and as part of a huge series of events spanning PAX Aus 2016 to GCAP, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is holding a free one-day virtual reality festival showing state-of-the-art VR experiences on HTC's latest Vive headsets.

That's right. We've given five three-day PAX passes away on the site already, and there's still a chance to win five 3-day passes through our Facebook competition. But if that wasn't enough, you can win a badge through our Instagram page as well.

Last week we ran a very simple competition: we had five 3-day PAX Australia badges to give away. All you had to do to enter was tell us what you were most excited to do, see or play at PAX Australia, and you were in the running.

So, I hear you ask: who won?