Whoever would have thought that a rather crude, non-politically-correct 3D shooter where you ran around a castle exterminating Nazis would foster such a long and distinguished line of grandchildren. As the Bible would put it, Wolfenstein ...

There's a clever bloke by the name of Jordan Mechner who created one of the most ground-breaking computer games of its time, just over a decade ago. Called Prince of Persia, it stunned players and press ...

For the purists, it's been four years since the last true MechWarrior title, MechWarrior II, was released, although there have been some spin-off games in the intervening years that also featured large metal battle bipeds. After ...

One of the first types of game to appear on the PC, and indeed other computer platforms, was a cute little tank game. It appeared under many different names, but simply involved two (or sometimes more) ...

The game that kick-started the 3D gaming revolution in the early nineties was Wolfenstein 3D, a highly popular title that saw the player attempting to escape from and destroy Castle Wolfenstein, where all sorts of weird ...

I've had this game since before Christmas, but tearing myself away from it to write these words has been something of a problem. Half-life is, you see, not your average run-of-the-mill 3D action shoot-em-up. Not by ...

This is not the first Duke Nukem game for the PlayStation. Duke actually started life on the PC in 1995. A rough, no compromise action type of bloke, he was about as un-PC as you could ...

"Tits". There, I've said it. Now I don't have to beat around the bush with phrases such as 'Her two most distinct assets' or 'Her pneumatic appeal'. Because Lara Croft is back. Again. As if two ...

There are times when playing 3D action games can be more of a chore than a pleasure. It's great to immerse yourself in a fantasy world where the rules of our universe no longer apply, but ...

If HP Lovecraft, the master of implied horror, had been alive in recent years, Nightmare Creatures would probably have had his blessing. Based on mythology and stories of witchcraft, this game is set in Victorian England, ...

Epic Megagames built up quite a reputation earlier this decade for creating some of the most polished shareware games around, usually in the shape of arcade platformers or vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups. Then they went quiet for a ...

The first instalment of this game, released for PC and PlayStation (a PC version of the sequel should be available soon), garnered admiration and disgust in fairly equal measure. There was a plot of sorts, albeit ...