King's Bounty doesn't concern an epic quest to retrieve the monarch's long lost coconut-flavoured chocolate bar. There are, however, a great many quests to undertake in the game and some of them are definitely slightly silly. ...

Any hardcore real-time strategy gamer who's been hammering the computer keys for a good 12 years knows the huge debt of gratitude that's owed to Command & Conquer for shaping most of the conventions that are ...

When Lowry painted his matchstick men, he probably didn't envisage them romping around a virtual 21st Century battlefield massacring each other with guns and bombs. But that's exactly what happened in Darwinia, the critically acclaimed strategy ...

With the media in an Election frenzy as the American people decide whether they favour Obama or McCain for the nation's top job (though by the time you read this they will have made that decision), ...

Will Wright was the mastermind behind The Sims, the best selling computer game of all time. So naturally, his next big project was going to cause quite a stir in the gaming fraternity. Spore is another ...

The Sims games must surely be in the record books for the most number of expansions ever. As The Sims 2 has aged, it has witnessed bigger content boosts that have added pets, businesses and holidays ...

Revolutions generally involve much unpleasantness and brutal devices that tend to start with the letter G, like gibbets and guillotines. Sid Meier's latest revolution is, however, a far more palatable prospect that doesn't utilise anything so ...

If at first glance you get a strange sense of déjà vu when you look at the box cover for this game, then don't be spooked. Developers World Forge recently released Ancient Wars: Sparta, an RTS ...

It's becoming harder to find a period in history that hasn't been plundered for the latest real-time strategy game, and thankfully developers World Forge shied away from obvious targets like WWII and the Roman Empire. Instead ...

Cities are instruments of torture in many ways; the pavements packed with pushy pedestrians, the air choked with smog and the shopping malls assaulting your ears with the direst strains of elevator music. Matters are possibly ...

Building a deserved and growing reputation for intelligent, home-grown software, Positech Games' latest once again challenges you to take control of a country (all fictional this time), sort out its problems and earn yourself re-election. And, ...

Certain noises are terrifying. The shattering crash of a downstairs window being put through, late at night when you're tucked up in bed. The squeal of car brakes locking up on black ice. But none are ...

There can be few games that have spawned so many offspring in such different formats as the Warhammer series. Whether you're playing on massive table tops in your local Games Workshop, collecting the cards or fighting ...

Given that the majority of output coming from EA with 'Sim' in the title refers to the tedium of the virtual soap opera that The Sims (and its 385,329,532 add-on packs) has become, it's often overlooked ...

In the eighties, the Cold War blizzard was still blowing its particularly frosty brand of paranoia across the United States. Every right-minded American feared that the Reds under the bed might rise up in the middle ...

As the name suggests, this package of extra-terrestrial goodness contains three games from the classic UFO series. These are UFO: Aftermath, UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Afterlight (we're still waiting for UFO: Aftershave, where the aliens hover ...

The sheer wealth of games with the word 'Tycoon' in the title often can blind you to the point where a half-decent one sneaks in and is easily missed. Because if you can forgive the rampant ...

If you were an eighties gamer then the mention of the very name “Defender of the Crown” will probably send nostalgic shivers down your spine. This Commodore 64 classic (later ported to the Amiga) was one ...

Who would have thought that a vet sim would work? In fact, scratch that: who would have thought that a pair of vet sims would work? For, in spite of a few grievances, Focus's double bill ...

A quick bit of history. Kudos was a game from Positech Games, or more to the point, from the brain of Cliff Harris. It was a fascinating, if slightly flawed, pseudo-strategy version of The Sims, where ...