There's two days until the PAX Australia doors open. And to those that are going: what are you looking forward to this year?

Every now and again, gamers will come across this strange compulsion: the desire to continue playing something, while battling an almost constant internal monologue about how rubbish the game actually is.

Video games wouldn't be the same without bugs--but some bugs are much funnier than others.

I was telling someone the other day about the time my Dad brought home the family's first CD-ROM -- complete with a gaming magazine and demo disc.

Steam this week unveiled a rather depressing little tool: the ability to see precisely how much money you've spent on your Steam account.

So Bethesda are busy trolling the internet with a livestream that is displaying literally bugger all. Of course, there'll be a reveal eventually - but what would you like to see?

Joining the likes of Fallout 3, Crimecraft and Risen, We Happy Few is the latest victim of the Australian video game classification rating system's "drug clause".

As revealed by Kotaku, it was the use of "Joy" as essentially an unavoidable game mechanic that promoted the banhammer. That's not an R18+ rating, which we fought for years to have - a straight up ban.

The battle royale genre has plenty of entries, and the big franchises are yet to weigh in with their own interpretations. But when I think of the genre, only two games come to mind.

AI assistants are popping up everywhere, and bit by bit they're starting to interface with gaming. Just the other month, Amazon started a beta that would let Alexa remind you of how shitty your Call of Duty kill-death ratio was.

But how much would people want an AI assistant for gaming?

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is back, in a more compatible form. But the Star Wars universe has provided tons of good video games in the past.

There's rumours up dale and down hill about a new Elder Scrolls, even though Bethesda has said publicly that they don't just want to make Fallout and Elder Scrolls games.

But there will be a follow-up to Skyrim eventually. So let's play hypothetical developer for this week's Big Question. You're in the planning phase for Elder Scrolls VI. What do you do with it?

PUBG fans are enjoying the beauty of learning and exploring a new map, which is perfect timing for this week's Big Question: maps. Specifically, multiplayer ones.

We've spoken a little bit about great quests, ranging from Monster Hunter: World to the lack of combat in Dragon Age: Inquisition's 'Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts'. But what's your favourite quest line of all time?

Every once in a while we ask if people prefer summer or winter. It's autumn so why don't we give some love to the other two seasons.

Some games you can't stay away from. No matter how much you try to say you're done, it doesn't matter. Somehow you find it on the screen in front of you and that means it's time to play.

For me, that game is Spelunky.

By some considerable distance, one of life's greatest pleasures is browsing the glory that is the Fatties Burger Appreciation Society. So for this week's Big Question, let's talk big burgers.

Earlier this week, I had an incredibly impromptu chat with someone over a simple question: should loot boxes be regulated as gambling? So for this week's Big Question, let's tackle it head on.

The great thing about games is that they're, for the most part, always accessible. There's nothing stopping me from playing something in the '90s, or loading up an emulator to get a classic going that used to run on my dad's 286.

But sometimes life moves on, and the games and moments we enjoyed get left behind.

There's a lot of 2018 left and there's a lot of blockbusters around the corner. Question is, which ones are you most excited for?