Okay, so Euro 2008 is a sore point for English fans. Less said the better and all that. Luckily, with EA's UEFA Euro 2008 you're free to replay the qualifiers and maybe do better than a ...

And so it has come to this. The latest phenomenon from Nintendo has seen your reviewer standing on a wireless balance board in front of his television, while a games console passed judgement on his (lack ...

Sublime idea, this. Take the workings behind the brilliant Virtua Tennis games, bring in a host of Sega characters, mix them all together, and you have a family-friendly sporting game that prides itself on fun above ...

American football is chock full of tactics. There are a bazillion different plays and variations on plays, strategy changes just before the snap, barked code words ("Blue 16! Blue 16!") and all that jazz. At times ...

You can hardly accuse EA of missing a trick - the company appears to find every way possible to monetise its premium franchises. FIFA Street 3 is the version of its market-leading football game that moves ...

The last time we visited this winter games franchise it was published by Take-Two Interactive and called Torino 2006. Now Activision has swiped the skis and is rocketing downhill while some unhinged Austrian waves a cowbell ...

Football in the mid-90s was beginning to change. The Premiership was flooding money into the game, but ticket prices were still comparably modest, and you could still envisage a player at a top club who didn't ...

Bringing together two of gaming's most iconic mascots in the same game is a rarity in itself, a meeting of greats perhaps unrivalled since De Niro and Pacino shared coffee together in the middle of the ...

When even the yearly offer to play an updated version of Football Manager starts to become less appealing, you can't help but feel sorry for the competitors that follow its path. For the last year or ...

Think about this for a moment. Golf is one of the most conservative sports ever: you can't even get into the clubhouse without a salmon-coloured tank top and a suitable public school accent. So why was ...

The latest edition of Konami's all-conquering football game is a bit of a strange beast. Famed for being the more realistic, slower and more deliberate of the two major football games, it continues the trend set ...

Considering that the veterans of Sports Interactive's football management games - the recent Football Managers and the early Championship Managers - will dive straight in with little instruction required, it's perhaps understandable that Football Manager 2008's ...

After enjoying a generally positive response to the PC and console version of Lara 2007 earlier in the year, Codemasters' efforts turned to this handheld edition, with the franchise coming to the PSP for the first ...

Why is computer golf so addictive? Well, the real thing is darned addictive - just ask the many golf widows out there. However, real golf is also hard; even an average standard and consistency is tricky ...

There probably isn't a footie fan in the country who hasn't fantasized about managing his or her favourite national or local team and doing a darn sight better than the current man in charge. It was ...

There's a great bit while your game of FIFA is loading, where you take control of Ronaldinho and practice your shooting. It sure beats looking at a 'Please Wait' sign and, by the inclusion of another ...

If you've ever watched a game of rugby closely, you'll probably have noticed several things. 1) The ball isn't round, but that's okay, because it matches the shape of the average player's head. 2) Fly halves ...

Ah, the lure of the sea! Most of us have been tempted at some stage by the thought of having control of our own vessel and sailing off into a glorious sunset, with the spray on ...

The Tour de France is without doubt one of the premier events in the sporting calendar - it has the largest annual pro sport viewing audience worldwide - and its appeal has mushroomed beyond France and ...

Lucinda Green is a legend in equestrian circles, having won the Badminton horse trials for the first time at the tender age of 19 and then claimed the title a record six times in total. She ...