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• Google's Cardboard VR headset lets you watch 360-degree videos, surely games are next

  YouTube added support for VR-related videos earlier this month, and while for the time being it’s just film clips with 360 degree viewing support, it probably won’t be long before Oculus and Project Morpheus-supported game videos are added to the mix.

• YouTube Gaming announced as Google's answer to Twitch

  Google announced today YouTube Gaming, an app and website dedicated to the company’s gaming content.

• Google AI can play games now, so we're probably all going to die

  Google has brought us one step closer to our inevitable slaughter or enslavement by machine overlords.

• Google announces Nexus Player for games and movies

  Google has announced its own Android console. Dubbed the Nexus Player, the device is built for game and movie streaming, similar to Amazon’s Fire TV.

• Google to pay back $19 million worth of in-app purchases

  Google will refund over $19 million worth of in-app purchases to annoyed Android device users whose children ran up unauthorised in-app purchases.

• Madden GIFERATOR brings Google and EA together for glorious smack talk

  Madden 15 supplies the animations. Google supplies the technology. You supply the jokes. Welcome to the GIFERATOR.

• Who will buy Ouya?

  Remember how Ouya raised over $8.5 million in crowdfunding, and then turned up and didn’t become an overnight sensation?

• Here's why Google passed on the Twitch deal - report

  It appears Google skipped out on acquiring Twitch because it would likely have not passed muster with the Federal Trade Commission.

• Twitch acquired by Amazon for $970 million

  Following rumours last month that Google was in final talks to acquire Twitch, the live-streaming service has now confirmed that it has been acquired by Amazon for $970 million.

• The rumoured YouTube buy-out already seems to be changing Twitch

  Copyright sweeps and limited archiving: big changes are coming to Twitch, and users are alarmed.

• Google is paying how much for Twitch?!

  Whispers out of the tech and financial worlds today suggest Google has signed off on its rumoured acquisition of Twitch.

• Make your own VR headset with some cardboard and an Android phone - really

  Virtual reality won’t get anywhere if developers and consumers can’t afford to experiment with the technology. That’s why Google has produced a free contruction kit for ridiculously cheap VR headsets.

• UPDATE: Microsoft lost out to Google in race to buy Twitch for $1 billion - rumour

  Word on the virtual street is Google is set to acquire Twitch for a cool $1 billion, after Microsoft proposed an unsuccessful bid for the streaming service.

• Virtual reality shuffle: Google Glass guy joins Oculus, Valve VR guy joins Google

  Virtual reality jobs seem to be among the hottest in tech and games at the moment, if the ongoing game of musical chairs is anything to go by.

• Android TV in the works with games, movies and apps - rumour

  Rumour has it Google is preparing a new set-top device called Android TV, with support for games, movies, TV and apps.

• iOS and Android cross-platform play soon possible with Google Play

  During the Game Developers Conference this week, Google announced that developers will soon be able to offer cross-platform play between iOS and Android devices.

• Google acquires members and assets of defunct studio Green Throttle

  Hot on the heels of Amazon scooping up Killer Instinct studio Double Helix Games, Google appears to have bought the remnants of Green Throttle Games, which was set up by former Guitar Hero developer Charles Huang.

• Google Glass gets five mini-games demonstrating tech's potential

  Google has released a free collection of mini-games designed to show off the gaming potential of the Google Glass wearable computing device. Got one of these $1,500 headsets? Well done you: you can now play games on it.

• Doctor Who: 50th anniversary browser game takes over Google homepage

  Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary is coming up. You might have heard? Google’s search page has been taken over by a browser game dedicated to all things ‘Who.’