'God' games are all the rage these days, encouraging you to design your own town, hospital, house or theme park. But not many of these are designed for the younger end of the market. Zoo Tycoon ...

More literal-minded readers out there will be pleased to know that this puzzle software from GSP doesn't actually involve sitting and playing Kakuro infinitely, into the gaping black stretches of perpetuity. That would be unthinkable. A ...

If you sing a song loudly enough, the whole world will stop to listen. Equally, if you sing a song badly enough, you'll become infamous on the X Factor DVD extras. Let's face it, the X ...

The current trend for shovelling old games en masse onto a disc shows little sign of slowing, with a Yuletide release roster that throws up classic packs from the likes of Capcom, Midway, Sega and Namco, ...

Game franchises based on movies have had at best a chequered past, and games built around TV series have hardly faired better. So when news came of a spin-off from the famous American medical drama that ...

Tying in with the currently-in-administration Retro Gamer magazine, GSP has launched a selection of classic game compilations at a tenner apiece. Each of the packs has at least four games on it for your money, and ...

The past few years have been rife with innovation as far as games controllers are concerned. We've had microphones you sing into, mats you dance on, maracas you shake, and a web-cam you perform in front ...

The thing with a good fad is that there's no shortage of people trying to ride it. At Easter there wasn't a single Sudoku product on the shelves, to our knowledge. Now there are three of ...

It was inevitable, once computer games became big business, that some developers would see if they could find a way to introduce sex into the gameplay, to make a few quick bucks. But the history of ...

Be honest. How many games have you played recently that have left you with a big cheesy grin on your face? And let's be honest again. How often has a Star Wars game managed to eclipse ...

According (obviously) to a friend of ours, the average cost of a top-shelf magazine is around the £4 mark. A second-hand copy of the original Sims game will cost you around a tenner. And, arguably, that ...

In theory, Puzzle Buff, Crossword Buff and Wordsearch Buff should be what budget software is all about. Each costs a tenner, each has 1,501 puzzles to work through, and each has a special selection for younger ...

If you thought you knew all about Scrabble, think again. Scrabble 2005 takes the classic word game and adds features which, for this fan anyway, make it rather special. Before you can start to play ...

In the olden days, we spoke Latin. In the really olden days, grunts sufficed. Nowadays, we've regressed back towards the latter in our obsession with the text message, or rather, txt msg. Hence Trivial Pursuit becomes ...

One of the biggest surprise hits ever on the PlayStation 2 has been the EyeToy. An ingenious marriage of a web-cam and a series of little party games, it's made Sony some serious cash and sent ...

Anyone remember Activision's 'Little Computer People' on the Commodore 64? Frankly, games such as Singles: Flirt Up Your Life provide a good argument for building a time machine, zooming back and ensuring LCP never got published. ...

Virtual pets have been something of a craze since the heady days of Tamagotchi - remember those, the little egg shaped electronic key rings in which fluffy digital creatures lived whom you had to feed and ...

When it comes to board games, often our fathers have taught us everything we know - namely, how to cheat! Playing Monopoly with your son is apparently an open invitation to nominate yourself as banker, as ...

While the wait for Duke Nukem Forever appears to be just that - forever - the king of PC-based blasting and babe-rescuing action has taken a pit stop to star in his very own platform game. ...

It's a scary sight... Omar Sharif's moustachioed countenance staring at you from the middle of the virtual bridge table, whilst he slowly and menacingly forms the words "two clubs". It's enough to put you right off ...