It's a good decade now since Playstation owners first hooked a G-Con gun controller up to their console for the finest light gun gaming experience that you could enjoy in your home. The fast, frenetic, action-packed ...

Okay, we're not going to do the usual horny helmet gags. Or mention looting and pillaging, or braided moustaches. The Vikings have been stereotyped for too long. Their needs, hopes and dreams were much the same ...

It must be said that an army of two is rather on the small side, although history has recorded some more compact forces than this. Such as Bjork, who claimed she was an army all on ...

Social and psychological analysis points towards bullies often being fat kids, because the low self-esteem caused by their weight issues results in them lashing out at their peers to make them feel just as bad. We ...

Where would strategy and FPS games be without World War II to use as source material? When the developers at Spark Unlimited decided to return once more to this fertile well for their latest shoot-‘em-up, the ...

Capcom's premier franchise may still have the words ‘Resident Evil' stamped slap-bang through the centre of it, but Devil May Cry continues to find quite an audience too. Instalment four in the slashing action franchise finds ...

You might well have missed the original Savage. Released several years ago, it was something of a cult favourite and certainly a highly original game. This sequel is built along exactly the same hybrid lines, merging ...

The Golden Compass might sound like something a rich school kid would have in his pencil case - along with a matching solid silver set square - but as most of us are doubtless aware, it's ...

Some of the finest entertainment this reviewer's ever had with a games console and a good night in was the original Time Crisis on the Playstation. The game was horribly short, but so insanely exciting that ...

While the back of last year saw the welcome return of Halo on the Xbox 360, the poor old PlayStation 3 has been lacking a decent poster child. Heavenly Sword's Nariko had the hair and the ...

We best begin with a disclaimer: This reviewer loves 'The Simpsons' cartoon more than Homer loves doughnuts. More than Bart loves Krusty. More than Mr Burns loves crushing the hopes and dreams of his downtrodden workforce. ...

Virtua Fighter, one of the biggest fighting franchises going, has finally arrived on the Xbox 360; and to that we say hurrah! Albeit it's a triumphant exclamation punctuated by a shower of shattered and bloodied teeth, ...

The people who made Kane & Lynch clearly love the movie ‘Heat'. From the opening, where you find yourself in the midst of an escape from a prison truck, to an ensuing selection of action sequences ...

UbiSoft had very high hopes for Assassin's Creed, and it's not hard to see why. A game that was originally thought of as a PS3-exclusive, if memory serves, it's planned as the first of a brand ...

"Let me rend you by the hand, and flay you through the streets of London, I'll show you some pain, that'll make you plead for death." (Reprised folk song, England 2038) All is not well in ...

Unreal Tournament III, for all the glitz, the shiny graphics and the powerful new engine, is very much a game for Unreal Tournament devotees. An obvious statement, perhaps, but when set against franchises that are pushing ...

The reason we're looking at Gears of War on a PC is, bluntly, that Microsoft has decided PC gaming is important again. Sensing the crossover potential between the Xbox 360 and PC as gaming platforms, replete ...

The Nintendo Wii continues to be a fascinating device. Celebrated for its control system, it's relatively straightforward games such as Wii Sports and Wii Play that continue to be played and put up for awards, while ...

There's no Arnie here, but in many ways the Conan game nonetheless manages to capture the blood and guts spirit of his pair of 1980s movies. And while game-Conan is hardly a world conqueror as far ...

Fledgling game designers Crytek had a massive hit on their hands a few years ago with Far Cry, a first-person shooter set on a supposedly idyllic island overrun by soldiers guarding a murky scientific secret. Three ...