Twenty quid and a sort-of-free sort-of-peripheral? How about that for a billy bargain? Only thing is, it's unlikely to be the best £20 you've spent in recent times. We're talking about Link's Crossbow Training, which takes ...

Nintendo has spent much of the last two years reaping the benefits of testing people's brain power on its handheld DS platform. The Brain Training games, along with Big Brain Academy, have been some of the ...

The brain gravy train - the proliferation of mental gymnastic programs spawned by the success of the Nintendo DS Lite's effort - has more or less run out of steam. So it's time to roll out ...

Portal has to be one of the most unique PC games ever created, and rarely has what is essentially a puzzle game caused such a buzz of excitement. The gaming world first became aware of it ...

The latest game to try to ride the increasingly lucrative poker bandwagon - a vehicle that's engulfing cable television channels and the Internet on its travels - World Championship Poker 2 is nonetheless a bit of ...

Don't be fooled. While the outer packaging labels this as ‘Trainz Railway Simulator' and the initial loading screen calls it ‘Trainz Railroad Simulator 2008', it's the 2006 edition of this particular program you're getting. But, as ...

If you're one of the Xbox 360 owners who hasn't yet explored the Live Arcade Marketplace component of the console's online service, then here's a compelling reason to do so. Effectively, it's a store where you ...

What do you get if you put a penguin on a surfboard? A penguin falling off a surfboard, of course. Although if you work in the movies, you get rafts of the diminutive black and white ...

Who would have thought that a 2D turn-based shooter with relatively simple graphics and featuring some of the tiniest fighters in video gaming would have turned out to be so enduringly popular? Whether it's the humour, ...

The latest in a growing number of Nintendo DS hits to make the transition to the Wii (following the likes of Big Brain Training and Cooking Mama), Trauma Center: Second Opinion makes the most successful trip ...

The colossal success of Big Brain Academy and the Brain Training games on the Nintendo DS handheld system has done a fair share of good for Nintendo's bottom line over the past year or two. It's ...

Much of this review of Capcom Puzzle World, a collection of five retro puzzle games (a description we'll take issue with later), is going to concern itself with Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. There's a simple ...

For a machine built with one eye very much on social gaming and the gathering together of lots of people to make fools of themselves, the Nintendo Wii should surely be the most comfortable home ever ...

The safe-cracker is that most skilled of burglars. To become one you need an ear as trained as a classical musician's, fingers as nimble as a surgeon's and the patience of a saint. Well, it's either ...

Consider that the price of a children's comic is closing in on £2 and you can't really query the £4.99 GSP is asking for in exchange for this CD-ROM tie-in. True, the content is uninspired, obvious ...

A surprise, but not one without a compromise or two, Overlord is a pleasantly accessible mix of primarily action and adventure, but also one blessed with RPG and puzzle-solving elements. It's set in a kingdom that ...

It's strange that one of the more innovative uses of the Wii's infamous controller has slipped without much notice onto the market. But in the case of Eledees, that's what's happened. While the fun-but-limited Cooking Mama ...

Games developers are clearly worried about the state of the nation's education system, as there has been a recent rash of games designed to exercise the little grey cells and presumably turn us from flabby, mindless ...

A surprise hit on the Nintendo DS last year, Cooking Mama was tasty throwaway entertainment. Backed by a competitive price point, it's the kind of open, accessible game that's helped fuelled the Nintendo resurgence over the ...

The debate about how much skill is involved in poker is a thorny one. Sure, there's a definite art to bluffing and noticing your opponent's "tells" (signs that they're trying to pull a fast one). The ...