If you haven't already experienced the first instalment of BioWare's awesome sci-fi trilogy that seems likely to rival Star Wars for its intriguing plot, exciting combat and complex characters, then now is the time to launch ...

There are certain things that should be avoided in space. Asteroid fields, for one. Black holes are also pretty bad news. As are any space stations that appear to be small moons from a distance. Breaking ...

Dante Alighieri must be chuckling in his grave now that two new computer games have been developed based on his celebrated Divine Comedy poem. Next month sees the arrival of EA's Dante's Inferno where you'll be ...

It's 1940 in Paris. The Germans have rolled the tanks in, occupied the capital, hung swastikas all over the place and installed blaring loudspeakers informing the French that the Fuhrer welcomes second class citizens into the ...

Given just how successful the first Assassin's Creed game was - selling millions upon millions of copies for UbiSoft - it's surprising how few people seem to rave about it. Oh, they rave about the first ...

Most gamers would feel that they almost have a human obligation to be cynical here. Avatar is the game of one of the biggest and most ambitious blockbuster movies of all time, and certainly a movie ...

Traditionally, Little Red Riding Hood is an endearing young girl who loves her grandmother. Not a disturbed and cackling sprog wielding a twelve-inch serrated kitchen knife. And her name definitely shouldn't derive from the fact that ...

The last time the Resident Evil franchise lent itself to an on-rails shooter for the Nintendo Wii was Umbrella Chronicles, a game that had a surprising amount to it, but one that lacked the frenetic, exciting ...

As polished and regular a platforming franchise as it's possible to find in modern day videogaming - sorry Mario - Ratchet & Clank have been making frequent appearances across Sony's consoles for much of the past ...

Valve has had to eat up a degree of unhappiness from its user-base for the mere existence of Left 4 Dead 2, which arrives just a year after the original game. Beset by controversy when it ...

Despite the record-breaking sales, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on PC isn't an easy game to instantly warm to. The installation routine, particularly if you buy the game through the Steam download service, is laborious, ...

When Konami announced earlier this year that it had a game based on the horror movie franchise Saw in the offing, it seemed like quite a good plan. A brand new theme park ride based on ...

No one envisions the future of sports as a peaceful one. Tomorrow's version of football won't be played on clouds by angels (all of them wingers, we guess), with no fouls allowed and a ball made ...

There was a time near the dawn of console gaming when it seemed that the world was hooked on one-on-one combat games and at the centre of this craze was a game that saw its birth ...

Bethesda's latest offering (developed by A2M) is a rather oddly named third-person shooter. The heroine, Rubi, stares out from the box cover with a pouting and wanton expression, the game title "Wet" boldly printed beside her ...

The abandonment of the planned The Dark Knight videogame (that was due to tie into the movie of the same name) several months into production seemed to be the end as far as a new Batman ...

With characters talking as if they've just walked out of an episode of ‘Allo ‘Allo, and cut scenes that you want to skip pretty much as soon as they've started, the latest revival of the grand-daddy ...

With 45 years of service in the line of toys, comics, cartoons and various other spin-offs, GI Joe is a grizzled veteran these days. But the franchise isn't about to retire to a log cabin in ...

Bionic technology can facilitate some amazing feats. It can produce a super-strong hand that lets you crush metal. Or mechanical legs that allow you to run a hundred metres in several seconds flat (and make strange ...

Hmmm. The training segment at the start of G-Force has “rushing to meet a deadline” written all over it. Some games will build a level around it all. Not this one: here, you're told how to ...