It can't just be this reviewer who sees the words ‘Pool Hall Pro' and harks immediately back to the likes of the superb Virtual Pool series of games of old. The latter titles were among the ...

There's no point building up your hopes. Konami, sadly, still hasn't managed to turn the Pro Evolution Soccer juggernaut round. Some would argue that what was once the planet's finest football game went off the rails ...

When you're on a winner, there's little point rocking the boat. That's the mantra that seems to have underpinned EA's FIFA 10, as safe an update to a football game as we can remember playing. Given ...

The major challenge that's faced the football management genre since Kevin Toms' beard first adorned the packaging of Football Manager back in 1982 has been this: how do you come up with a visual representation of ...

Taking the guts of the gone-but-not-forgotten Brian Lara Cricket series of games, Codemasters seems to have had better luck in producing a game based around this time of The Ashes than last. Its first attempt - ...

Following a period of unmitigated hype, it feels as though the release of the Wii MotionPlus has ended in something of an anti-climax. This is a lot to do with the fact that Nintendo's showcase title ...

If you played golf on Mars, it would be a strange game with some monster huge drives possible. There'd be no grass, so you'd aim to get the ball not on the green but on the ...

Riding a bike is supposed to be easy. Although it really does depend on what sort of bike you're talking about. A pushbike with stabilisers on it isn't too testing. A Ducati superbike is a bit ...

Boxing is one sport where you can pretty much guarantee injuries in any given bout. Computerised boxing, however, really shouldn't cause any bodily harm. Yet after one session on Fight Night Round 4, we were left ...

Nintendo's Wiimote controller has been at the heart of the revolution that the firm has driven through the video-gaming world, and it's thus unsurprising that there's plenty of interest in its Wii MotionPlus enhancement. It's effectively ...

If you're one of those people who finds it hard to stick to a fitness regime, gets bored quickly or would benefit from a bit of variety, it might be a good time to think outside ...

Given the fact that Virtua Tennis 2009 marks just the fourth entry in the franchise in around a decade, there was a real hope that - just because Sega had snuck a year name into the ...

It comes to something when even the stars of snooker acknowledge that it's a sport on the ropes, and that it needs to come up with something of real impact to drag itself out to the ...

You may not have heard of Shaun White. Although you might have heard of his father, Robert, who produced a famous lemonade back in the eighties. You remember, the stuff you had to drink secretly at ...

If you're looking for a football game with the gloss of a FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer, then it's fair to say that New Star Soccer 4 isn't it. The work primarily of one man, it ...

In the past, FIFA Manager has tended to be the second choice behind the Football Manager series, but the host of new features in this year's offspring has undoubtedly breathed life into a genre that has ...

With a slick interface and a game mechanic that's now built on a decade and a half's worth of solid experience, it's little surprise that Football Manager 2009 is as exhaustive and engrossing as it is. ...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 is a game that finds its publisher, Konami, licking its wounds somewhat. Last year's outing was a bit of a mess, and a game that took three steps forward, four steps back. ...

There's been some recent controversy in the football world about whether video replay footage should be used to clarify important penalty decisions and the like. To our mind, the answer's simple: use it. The argument that ...

In the land of computer processors, it took a significant charge from AMD for Intel to spring fully into life and shake off the complacency that had left it suddenly having to claw back ground from ...