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 ...

Cricket and video games are a combination that has so far failed to convincingly gel, so it's to the credit of Codemasters' Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 that it gets closer than most. Released to coincide ...

Top Spin 2, only recently released onto PC, is a fine, deep, involving tennis game. In fact, the whole Top Spin franchise, which has sprung to life in the gap while its main rival Virtua Tennis ...

If your cash-in alarm bells are ringing, then they rightly should be. UEFA Champions League 2006-07 is the latest game from the EA Sports football game production line that, since the end of 2005, has seen ...

Can you sink the pink? Down the brown? Sack the black? Or think of any better snooker-related puns to begin a review with? Hopefully ones that don't make you sound like Anne Robinson doing a Weakest ...

Darts on the computer is a weird concept. What's really the idea here - darts for lazy people? Because you could hardly call the beer-gutted monsters that wobble up to the oche every year "athletes" in ...

EA must have been looking at the cricket as a bit of a goldmine. With the resurgence of interest in the sport in the UK, along with the Ashes series, it's thus unsurprising that they held ...

We're all friends here, so let's be honest. EA Sports regularly gets hammered for sending out, year after year, only slightly enhanced versions of its sports games: these still sell, but rarely trouble the trophy cabinet. ...

Following the usual, annual FIFA vs Pro Evo debate has been a fascinating sport in itself this year, not least for the fact that many seem to now be rooting for FIFA as the underdog. After ...

Football Manager 2007, from the early preview build we've played, is a terrific game. It's built with real care to detail, certainly has one or two problems, and it might all go wrong between the time ...

Rather than churn out the usual "it's not changed much / Pro Evo is better / cynical EA Sports"-esque review of the new, annual FIFA game, this reviewer thought he'd set himself a challenge. Could he ...

Golf. It's a - sporting cliché alert - good walk spoiled. Or, in the case of computer golf, a good sit down spoiled. However, Real World Golf 2007 comes with its own peripheral club which allows ...

Dudley United Football Club have a fresh future ahead of them. Starting off a 'small and minor club', the creation of the team involved a few simple factors. First, picking which nation to play in. Then ...

It's already started. Read the early advance word on this latest attempt to bring Sensible Soccer kicking and screaming up to date, and phrases such as "it hurts us to say it" and "we don't enjoy ...

Gamers are rightly approaching the annual update of the sporting game with an increasing amount of cynicism. Granted, it's not stopping many of them reaching for their plastic and sending the latest versions heading skywards in ...

Can we assume that you know the bulk of the back-story by now? Suffice to say that the Football Manager franchise is the work of those who built up and made great the Championship Manager series, ...

Tim Henman is pictured on the front of Perfect Ace 2, along with the tag-line "Tennis doesn't get any better than this!" We don't know whether he's talking about the game or his on-court prowess, but ...