The third RTS in Microsoft's acclaimed Age of Empires series picks up from the medieval 16th Century and leads on into the industrialised 19th. The single player campaigns, of which there are three, spanning twenty four ...

"Mamma Mia! Eh, Luigi, lets-a have-a some extra pepperoni over here." That isn't a direct quote from Codename: Panzers Phase Two, but it might as well be. With the snippets of speech your soldiers spout, they ...

Believe it or not the United Nations World Food Programme has become a games publisher. Head to its Web site and you can download this game, Food Force, free of charge, although please note that it's ...

Beware games that are devised as movie tie-ins, especially if there's even a hint that they are being rushed out to match the film's release date. Apart from the occasional notable exception (like The Chronicles of ...

Who would have thought that a desktop war game would have been as popular as Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000? Based on a futuristic scenario where several galactic races play out an unending war for domination, the ...

It seems to be a national pastime amongst PC gaming critics to knock The Sims at every opportunity, largely because of its astonishing popularity (it's the highest selling PC game ever). But as the success of ...

It's easy to sit back and scoff at the likes of Beckham. He gets thousands of pounds a day for turning up and having a kick about for an hour a week, not even including the ...

With such a wealth of strategy games on the market at present, it's perhaps surprising to learn that this is the first amongst the World War II collection to concentrate solely on the famously pivotal conflict ...

Purely online gaming has been heavily promoted in the past few years as the next Great Leap Forward for serious gamers wanting to expand their horizons and their skills, but only a relatively small fraction of ...

It all began in the playground where eager children would buy their latest add-on packs of cards to take on their friends in a duel of wits, magic, spells and monsters. With such a subject matter ...

Not so long ago we reviewed CDV's Sudden Strike 2 and as luck would have it for you war strategy buffs, the masters of the WWII-based RTS game are back with another salvo. Blitzkrieg has been ...

Playing God is rather fun - chucking out a plague of locusts here and there, maybe whipping up a massive hurricane, or perhaps smiting a particularly odious individual with a well-aimed lightning bolt. It's the sort ...

"Suddenly... I'm not half the man I used to be... A hand grenade went off right next to me... Oh I believe, in yesterday." War is, of course, something that's much better simulated than actually partaken ...

In days past this writer was known as the "Tank" in games of Command and Conquer, due to his propensity for producing large quantities of two-tracked behemoths faster than any other player in the game (actually ...

Aliens. Tsk. Who needs them? If the film industry, game industry, folklore and rabid rantings of naked rednecks who were plucked from their pickups in the middle of nowhere to be dumped back to earth covered ...

Like the first MechCommander game, this new title from Microsoft plays heavily on the MechWarrior franchise. If you don't know about MechWarrior (and we'd be very surprised if not, since it's been around for donkeys' years ...

Sir Thomas More dared to dream of a utopia - but a Startopia is a more fantastic concept. What is it? A space station housing many different alien races, who all get along together famously... in ...

There's only one thing stopping you from playing Gangsters 2 and that's your middle name. If it's Mark, John or - heaven forbid - Brian, you can forget it. It needs to be something like "the ...

It's tough being a deity. You might think it's all little fluffy clouds, pearly gates and angels singing your praises from dawn to dusk, but the reality is far removed from these idealistic images. Have you ...

The Civilization series of games is one of the most famous ever to grace the PC. Engineered by that strategy genius Sid Meier, it has gone through a few incarnations. When he left, it switched its ...