Last year, PC owners were treated to Links 2003, arguably one of the finest titles in its genre (and without the presence of EA Sports' Tiger Woods franchise, it would be competing alone). This year? Microsoft, ...

At long last, EA Sports' all-conquering football game is going to get some serious competition on the PC. With Konami confirming that the game generally regarded as the best footie title in the world - Pro ...

With Microsoft's rival golf franchise, Links, taking a side-step onto the X-Box (we'll have a review here soon), us PC golfers had better hope that Tiger 2004 does indeed burn bright - as there may not ...

Isn't it wonderful to see the Atari brand name up there in lights again, what with Infogrames having taken on the mantle of the famous label? It almost makes you feel like popping down the arcades ...

Lately, the FIFA football engine has been accused of stagnation. Rather like the defence of (insert your most hated football team here), it has been a largely inert affair. Last summer's World Cup edition really wasn't ...

Since when did grown men play in sand pits? Well, since man (or indeed woman) first picked up a three wood and sliced a small, spherical white painted collection of rubber bands into a bunker. A ...

You have to wonder where the term "wrestling" originates. Presumably it's the verb "to wrest" something off someone else - in the case of this sport, their arm, or possibly a leg. Of course this isn't ...

Over the years, we gamers have longed to play the perfect football simulation. We want a game which will let us play a classy, weighted through ball from midfield directly into the path of our star ...

Every four years, EA's Fifa franchise is honour-bound to spew out an extra footy offering to tie in with the World Cup. But is this year's celebration of world football really worth bothering with, particularly if ...

It's been a while coming, but Pro Evolution Soccer has recently made it onto UK PlayStation 2 machines. Was it worth the wait? The game's sold by the bucketload in Japan (under the somewhat cumbersome title ...

Now that England has qualified for the World Cup, we can boldly move on to the next version of FIFA and try to replay the glory (well, it was a pretty glorious recovery under King Sven ...

Asking whether the latest Championship Manager game is any good is much like enquiring whether Manchester United might have a chance at the Premiership title this year. Conclusions just don't get any more foregone than this... ...

There's only one footy management game... one footy management game... one footy management game... there's only one footy management game. At least, there is to most PC sheepskin coat and cigar aficionados, and that's Eidos' classic ...

Microsoft has rightly realised that there's a limit to how many near-identical golf games the market will support, particularly as existing ones are more than good enough. So the company has given its long-running Links franchise ...

Cricket? The thwack of leather on willow, Matron? That most noble of English games that wanders on for days on end? The one at which we're not really very good? Seems like an odd sport to ...

One of the first games ever to appear on a computer screen was Pong, a version of table tennis with two bats, a square ball and severely limited graphics. It was pretty dire, but since nobody ...

Wrestling. Not really the most British of pastimes, is it? Mention wrestling in this country and an image of Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks bouncing off each other's guts springs to mind. In those old enough ...

It seems that there's an 'Official World Cup' sponsor for everything imaginable at the moment. Beer, petrol... what next? An Official World Cup toothpaste? At least this game is a little more in keeping with the ...