The Resident Evil 6 trailer is out now. Scared yet? It's ten years since the terrifying events of Raccoon City, and we seem to be in an Asian coun...

My first deployment was on a three seat sofa in Melbourne from which, green as grass and with an itchy trigger finger, I picked up the trail of a group of ne'er-do-wells and swore to bring them to justice. I followed the threat wherever it took me and in 2008 I was transferred to a uncomfortable futon lounge at a secure location in London.

For today's blog, as this is a new section and some of you might not be gamers, or understand the terminology used by tech and games journalists when they're talking about games, I thought I'd write an irreverent guide to some of the words and phrases you're likely to see to describe certain genres of games.