Online's games special

It being Thursday, the new Online is online, and also in print. But there's a twist to today's edition. We've done something we don't often do, and cleared out most of the usual features to focus on one subject: games. It wasn't a hard decision to make: as Steve Boxer explains in our cover story, gaming is now huge in Britain and across the world. An increasingly mature audience is playing increasingly mature games, with game sales now worth more than cinema box office takings in this country (check out our team's picks for the top five games on each platform). New genres are appearing in the form of mobile and multiplayer gaming. And next year we expect to get first glimpses of a PlayStation 3 and XBox 2. Heady days in an area we hope to do a lot more on in the weeks and months to follow. You'll find the full contents here.