Top 7 Industry Changers

This week: console exclusivity wars, Nintendo's biggest mistake, making gaming marketable, and those taken from us too soon.

Weekender: Future Free

"Free-to-play used to be synonymous with poor-quality, low-budget titles, that could only entice gamers with their non-existent price-tags. How things change."

Wii U's GamePad: Game Changer?

Is the Wii U's GamePad redefining gaming? We had an extensive hands-on across all the console's titles. Here's our impressions and initial verdict.

The Best of PC - Reasons to Click

We've assembled a few compelling reasons why you should consider putting down the pad and picking up the mouse in 2012.

E3 2012: The End of an Era

We take a look back at a disappointing E3 2012 and come up with some suggestions...

E3 Pictorial: The Week that Was

Your attention was likely grabbed by screens and trailers last week: but there was plenty to see across every inch of E3. Come inside for the sights and impressions.

Wii U: E3 Essentials

"It looks like a natural fit for the company, an organic evolution that will once again reposition the boundary between gamer and game."

Halo 4: E3 Essentials

"A helmet opens to reveal a burning red skull. It looks almost human save for the volcanic glow. A face for radio."

Gamereactor: A to Z of E3 2012

Every story from the convention will be here, so bookmark, sit back and enjoy the show.

Weekender: March on E3

"My heart's already hammering from the caffeine. My system's battling both it and mild stirrings of jet-lag with all the vigour of Henry Rollins wrestling a crocodile."

Hitman Absolution: Rules of Engagement

"He's more worried about reactions: to the hands-on, to the changes IO is implementing in Absolution. We talk everything."

Gaming's Defining Moments - Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap

With Sega releasing Monster World Collection on Xbox Live Arcade and bringing out Monster World IV to the Western audience for the first time officially, we felt it was time to take a look at the game that is suspiciously missing from the XBLA Collection - Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap.

What's new on iOS

Lee West has taken it upon himself to guide us past the pitfalls of AppStore.

Weekender: Sneaky Sneaky

I love sneaking around. As far as I'm concerned, it's the only way to travel.

Diablo III: The Essentials

"For twelve long years fans of Diablo have been waiting, hoping, praying for another chance to visit the world of Sanctuary."

Gaming's Defining Moments - Destruction Derby

Sometimes looking forward causes you to think back.

Weekender: Embracing the grind

"It's something we simply love to hate, or hate to love. Levelling up characters for the sake of levelling them up."

Black Ops 2: The Essentials

"With an onslaught of information, screens, video and more it's easy to get lost in the barrage for the latest Call of Duty. Here's everything you need in one place."

Gaming's Defining Moments - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

It'd have been easy to leave Princess Ruto to her fate.

Weekender: Prestigious rewards

"We live, we die, we live again, we die again. It's a never ending grind, yet still we push on, always seeking to better ourselves."

Gaming's Defining Moments - Jet Set Radio

A game that helped define the short lived Dreamcast era is about to be brought back with HD graphics...

Weekender: Worth the Wait

"Even if it's next year before we see the final product, in the gaming world, delays can only be a good thing, right?"

Gaming's Defining Moments - The Commodore 64

Jack Tramiel and the Commodore 64.

Weekender: To Better Remember

"Sonic Jam had interactive museums loaded with artwork, advertisements, unseen test footage. It'd be great to see something similar included in today's collections."

Bioware and the Star Wars Legacy

At a recent Star Wars Guild Summit Bioware revealed the newest Legacy of The Old Republic to attendees. Read on for its plans for the MMO's future.

Frontline: The Contenders

"Developers are now adopting models made popular by the genre heavyweights, and fusing them with their own ideas."

Gaming's Defining Moments - Mass Effect

What was it about Mass Effect that helped us immerse ourselves like never before?

Weekender: Second time around

"No matter how much time I sink into this game, it still kicks my ass."

Photo tour of Blizzard

We take you on a tour of some of the attractions of Blizzard's massive campus in Irvine, California.

GAME Over: Press Start to Continue

GAME's problems have been well documented in recent weeks. But where did it go wrong for the retailer, and with new owners now in place, where can they go from here?

Gaming's Defining Moments - Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams

A year before its first proper "Versus" title, Capcom pitched its first ever multi-fighter battle within the Street Fighter template as a hidden extra within 1995's Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams.

Weekender: Gaming on the go

What is the current state of portable gaming like, and what's in store for the future?

Gaming's Defining Moments - F-Zero

In this week's defining moment we take a trip down memory lane, and have another look at the racer that went on to define a decade: F-Zero.

Gaming's Defining Moments - Half-Life 2

Originally this was going to be about Journey.

Weekender: The Small Stuff

"I'd trek back to towns, houses and wanderers and hammer the talk button to hear their opinion - an archaic and long-haul version of Twitter."

War of the Handhelds: GameGadget Vs NeoGeo X

In the next few months UK outfit Blaze will introduce two new handhelds into the market.

GDC 2012: Travel Diary

An insider's look at covering one of the most eclectic events on the gaming calendar, as we chart the five days worth of work that is GDC.

Mass Effect 3: Scoring the End

With the end credits rolling across screens up and down the country, we talk to the Mass Effect 3's composers about wrapping up the trilogy.

Sega goes Digital: Hands-On

Hands-on with Sega's newest batch of digital titles proves the company's got the perfect mix of classic and new.

Gaming's Defining Moments - Super Monkey Ball

A good proportion of classics? These days, you're guaranteed to be coughing up loose change to play digitised ports of them on console or handheld.

Weekender: Back of the Net

"As we play more together, our game grows more instinctive. What was once long-ball is now the smooth execution of pass and move. It's just like watching Brazil."

Fable: The Journey Vs Kinect Star Wars

Today's Kinect Showcase matches up two of the biggest brands appearing on the tech - Fable Vs Star Wars, fantasy versus sci-fi.

Xbox Live Arcade Showcase

Microsoft presented a dozen Xbox Live Arcade titles at its Showcase in San Francisco last week: here's hands-on impressions with all of them.

Steel Battalion Vs Kinect Rush

"We see both sides of the tech: family-friendly gaming that didn't sacrifice fun for simplicity, and titles that will grind the core beneath their boot-heel."

Gaming's Defining Moments - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

How Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare won the FPS war.

Weekender: PS Vita online

"I got a present the other day. An extra mini-game to play in the Little Deviants demo on PS Vita."

Mass Effect 3: The Essentials

With the return of the Reapers only a few days away, we thought it was about time that we took a closer look at how Shepard and co are preparing for the inevitable invasion.

Digital Frontier #3

Lots of great iOS titles have hit the App Store this month: here's the latest roundup of what's worth checking out.

Weekender: Open To All

"Kevin Butler's speech at Sony's E3 Conference asked, and argued, 'what is a gamer?' and why the inclusion of new audiences wasn't to the detriment of the industry."

Unboxing PS Vita

Watch us unpack the latest Playstation hardware. Pictures inside!