Let's have a moment of nostalgia (which is, after all, the reason we're looking at the 15th anniversary edition of an old game). Back when Another World first appeared on the trusty, beloved Commodore Amiga (PC ...

Enquiring minds want to know - or this reviewer's does anyway - how did the phrase "high seas" come into existence? It would ring true from the perspective of a sea-bed dweller, but from our vantage ...

Well, there can't be any worries about value for money. For £14.99 you're getting six Mr Men titles, previously sold individually, and there's certainly a lot in there for your money. That said, bringing all six ...

We've said it before and we'll say it again. Those who are bemoaning the supposed death of PC gaming are simply looking in the wrong places. Figures, for instance, have recently been trotted out about a ...

Unless you recently landed from Mars, you'll know that the virtual family creation phenomenon that is The Sims has been in the gaming Top Ten since launch; both versions 1 and 2 and their countless add-ons. ...

A console is only as good as its games, so let's see what the launch line-up for Sony's PlayStation 3 looks like. We'll start with Ridge Racer 7. For so long, the Ridge Racer franchise was ...

A game that doesn't so much smell as positively reek of 'cash-in', Little Britain: The Game is really not very good at all. In fact, for the £14.99 street price, fans of the TV programme could ...

Every time we see that famous, blue, spiky-haired hedgehog, our minds drift back to the bygone era of the Sega Megadrive. Those simpler times of 2D graphics... and pizzas, empty beer cans and over-full ashtrays; our ...

This compilation from Atari contains eight games from the company's back catalogue. The title sort of gives you the impression that they're the best of 2006's line-up, but that isn't the case. To be fair, the ...

And so the sales numbers are in, and we're not the only ones to have eulogised over the thinking behind Nintendo's sparkling Wii console. By taking a lateral approach to its machine and pricing it sensibly, ...

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the game with which Microsoft tries to take the Xbox 360 more mainstream. Freed from the shackles of launch year, where the gaming line-up traditionally targets the hardened gamer, for its ...

Last time we did a round-up of handheld games, it was the seemingly all-conquering Nintendo DS that got our attention. However, no matter how much Sony has starved the PSP handheld of interesting software, as a ...

There's a little bit of history here, so let's start with that. Back when Half Life 2 launched, bringing the Steam download delivery service with it, Rag Doll Kung Fu was one of the very first ...

Brain training is all the rage these days, and that's mainly the fault of the handheld Nintendo DS, with its popular 'Brain Age' game. This encourages you to partake of various tests as a daily mental ...

Any parent with younger children will have come across SpongeBob SquarePants, a very silly and quite funny cartoon with massive merchandising potential. Since decent PC software for children is scarce, we though we'd give this a ...

In our review of the Nintendo DS Lite - which you'll find here - we spent some time eulogising about the quality of the machine's software library. By way of putting our money where our sizeable ...

You join this reviewer as he's undergoing a bit of an identity crisis. You see, for the past three hours he's been a struggling waitress by the name of Deirdre who takes her meagre income (supplemented ...

Animals. Stick a bunch of them in a cage for a few weeks, film the results and you can be assured they won't be pretty. Little monkeys chattering behind each other's backs, fighting, bawling, or pelting ...

Some people celebrate their 50th birthday with a cake, and perhaps a party attended by relatives they're really not that keen on. If you're a producer of games, though, your celebration takes the form of what ...

The person who votes for 24 as their game of the year needs to straddle two camps. Firstly, they need to be fans of the series, its fast plot trickery and the occasional, sizeable plot holes ...