Here's the thing about a video game soundtrack. It has to be more than just a collection of good music.

Veteran designer Sid Meier has over the years been behind -- or at least lent his name to -- some of the greatest games of our age.

It's a well-worn cliche that movies based on (or around) video games are just the worst, but that's not always the case. Usually, yes, but not always.

Trailers for video games are a weird beast, as misleading as they can be esoteric. Free from the burden of trying to directly sell you a piece of art, commercials for video game hardware are often a lot more fun.

Over the past decade, video game trailers have gone from blurry little montages bundled on magazine cover discs to a multi-million dollar industry that exists almost entirely separate from the actual games they're representing.

There's just something about video games with an isometric viewpoint, isn't there?

JRPGs are basically games designed to use a bunch of talking and combat as an excuse to blast killer soundtracks at you for hours and hours on end.

In honour of today's announcement of Climax Studios' Surf World Series, coming to the Xbox One, PC and PS4 next year, I decided to explore the history of surfing video games, starting with the nine listed on Wikipedia. This won't take long.

You silly fanboys. All these years arguing over things you thought were important, like specs, and libraries, and exclusives, and controllers, wasted. Not once have you considered the most crucial thing about a video game console: How good it looks.

If you'd like to be scared shitless tonight, you've come to the right place.

There's never been a better time to play games on PC. Not only does the PC get the lion's share of the best new games, PC gamers can choose from a back catalogue that makes even the most stocked console library look paltry.

There are a lot of good scenes in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This one is my favourite.

April 1. For some, a day of shenanigans. For most, a day of clenched teeth and tested nerves. To sort the former from the latter, here's a roundup of the best (and worst) April Fool's gags for 2016.

Since Final Fantasy III fans of Square's storied role-playing series have been calling forth primal forces to do their often devastating bidding. Some are more impressive than others.

I was re-watching Patlabor 2 the other day, and there's a scene in that movie that I just can't get out of my head.

When Tim Burton's Batman hit movie theatres in 1989, superhero movies were a risky gamble that few movie studios would approach. Twenty-seven years later, movies based on The Dark Knight are pretty much a given. But which ones are the best?

It was the most destructive conflict in human history, and one that directly shaped entire generations of both creators and consumers, so it's little surprise that for the longest time the Second World War was maybe the most popular setting in video games.

Is there any video game gun more awe-inspiring than a flamethrower? Most shoot bullets, but the flamethrower? It blasts enemies with giant gouts of flame, searing them like a juicy steak. A good flamethrower will give you some of the best moments in video games, whether it's a close save from an otherwise unassailable foe or the amusing side effects of burning a pot farm.

Let us praise a thing that matters a lot in video games: the quality of an in-game map. Zooming in, let us heap praise upon 2015's most magnificent in-game map, the one that appeared in Assassin's Creed Syndicate.