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 ...

If 2007 has proven one thing about gaming, it's that it very much still has the power to surprise. Earlier in the year we had the genuinely unnerving and quite brilliant Bioshock, a narrative feast with ...

It sounds like a marriage made in gaming heaven. Splash Damage invented the multiplayer add-on to Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) which was released as a free download and became a massive hit amongst ...

A surprising but not unwelcome choice for a modern-day reworking, Alien Syndrome was originally an entertaining arcade blast that owed some of its styling to the likes of Gauntlet. Viewed from overhead (and now moved to ...

There's logic in wrapping a game around the work of horror writer Clive Barker. A few years' ago, Clive Barker's Undying proved to be a genuinely unsettling romp, and it still earns a few pretty pennies ...

These days, the ever-present battle where first-person shooters are concerned is what can be done differently with the genre. EA's latest addition to its hit Medal of Honor series introduces a slight spin on the norm ...

Considering the dog's dinner that was made of the PC conversion of Resident Evil 4 earlier in 2007, that the Nintendo Wii version has been adorned with so much care and attention is a welcome, unexpected ...

Sadly, there's little option here but to start with a rant. Whoever decided that PC gamers should be penalised by the horrific installation process of Bioshock really needs to stand up and take the punishment. The ...

2004 saw a fine little Transformers game released. Published by Atari, the game Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon enjoyed favourable reviews and a warm reception amongst fans of the 'formers. As for the new game, based ...

If games were made on paper, then Monster Madness would work. A kind of old-school shoot-'em-up with new generation production values, it should have been the very drink that Xbox 360 and PC gamers would be ...

By most critical consensus, the Fantastic Four films aren't really very good. Sure, they're glossy enough, packed with effects, and there's an argument that the sequel's actually the better of the two. But there's no getting ...