We had a definite love-hate relationship with event-based sports games in our teenage years. The Track & Field arcade machine was addictive and painful in equal measure, forcing us to mash those buttons until our fingers ...

Life has a habit of being unfair. As your reviewer writes this, Birmingham City have just gone 2-0 down in a vital relegation game, adding more misery to a run that's seen them take four points ...

This year's Academy Awards threw up a major surprise. The favourite for many weeks leading up to the ceremony, the big budget, generally strong film 'The Aviator', lost out to a low budget, lean, dirtier (not ...

For producers of any long-running franchise, eventually there's a conundrum to face. Do you take the road marked 'EA Sports' and gradually move your games on a little each year, without trying anything you'd consider as ...

True cricket fans will tell you that the one-day and Twenty20 stuff isn't the real game. No; they'll tell you that the only way to gauge a good cricketer is over a five-day test match. That's ...

They say that you never really miss what you had until it's gone. Whether that applies to the ESPN series of sporting games remains to be seen, as the licence is moving house to EA for ...

Almost a decade ago, Sensible World of Soccer was dominating this reviewer's time. To the detriment of many personal relationships, hour after hour was invested in taking my virtual team to the top, while hunting down ...

A modest hit when it made its full debut on console platforms last year, Club Football is one of the few games now that bothers to even attempt to crack the monopoly held by FIFA and ...

The last ten years have been lean times for the button-basher. Whereas the 80s were chock-full of Epyx games, the virtual challenges of Daley Thompson and the bloke with the ropey moustache in Hyper Sports, we ...

Permission to start the review off with the traditional frustration about the quality of tennis games? Splendid. Apart from Sega's Virtua Tennis series and, if you were in a welcoming mood, Top Spin on the Xbox, ...

For the fourth major international football tournament in a row, EA has secured the official licence to produce the tie-in game. And for the fourth time in a row, the company has produced a title that ...

It's easy to overlook the fact that despite achieving roaring success with its football (FIFA 2004) and golf (Tiger Woods 2004) games, EA Sports has occasionally struggled to get the mix right when moving across to ...

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 ...