Shadow of the Colossus (Sony): A beautiful and enigmatic adventure that proved that there was much more to gaming than guns and cars.
But Carry Guard isn't training, it's video gaming with live guns.
Or course, most folk with a pulse will know that gaming offers more than guns, gore and on-pitch battles, but there is no harm in hammering the message home, which is why, for the second year running, gaming's version of the Booker prize has taken place.
The Sydney Morning Heralds Dan Toose described the game's experience as "brutal, yet beautiful gun-blazing gaming".
While the first-person shooter was still finding its feet in the 90s, another down-the-gun-sights gaming form briefly held favour.
VRCade showcased a wireless, multiplayer VR gaming experience with custom gun controllers and headsets.
Ouya raised $8.6m on crowdfunding site Kickstarter to fund its Android-powered games console: a device that it hoped would provide an affordable alternative to Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo's big guns of the gaming world.
Today on The VICE Guide to Right Now Podcast, we run through the day's biggest headlines before talking to Waypoint's Austin Walker about gaming's long relationship with guns.
In "eXistenZ," which essentially updates Mr. Cronenberg's vision of technology-driven mutation from the video age to a brave new world of virtual-reality gaming, there's an organic gun too: this one's made of bone and gristle, and looks nasty.
