Not much, if we're going straight to the nub of matters, has been changing in the world of John Madden, an American Football gaming franchise that has transcended decades and formats like no other. After a ...

Although we were expecting just another cheap knock-off to cash in on Olympic fever, the low-cost Summer Olympics from DTP Entertainment actually proves to be surprisingly engaging. As with the official Beijing 2008 game that came ...

Nintendo Wii owners who are increasingly frustrated with the onslaught of casual party games that flood the format are unlikely to be any happier after spending some time with Big Beach Sports. Yet this quite straightforward, ...

The art of knackering your games controller in the pursuit of athletics gold dates back to the very early days of gaming, where the wary staff of WH Smith were inevitably increasingly wise to the graveyard ...

The phrase 'boxing clever' is something of an oxymoron. Our idea of clever pugilism is not getting into the ring in the first place. After all, who wants to end up with cauliflower ears or a ...

A 47MB update greeted us as we loaded up Top Spin 3 for the first time. Add on the installation time and it was a fair while from inserting the disc before we were able to ...

One of the first things we warmed to in this horse racing management simulation was the ability to name your own two-year-old steeds. Naturally, the first young filly we christened was called Camilla. And her brother ...

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 ...