A merciless and thoughtfully-designed online strategy game whose clever systems enable a unique and troubling experience.

Strike Vector’s aerial combat is brilliant and beautiful, but it needs to be put into a package that does it justice.

Starts out funny, but quickly becomes frustrating. A wonderfully weird and original concept that falls flat like its jelly-limbed hero.

The huge selection of great characters is scrumptiously entertaining from start to finish. Too bad it's a Lego game. [March 2014, p.74]

In the interest of accommodating it all, the awful maximum resolution and the tiny sprites are just about excused. [March 2014, p.73]

Doesn't do enough to be the uncontested definitive version, but provides a fresh perspective on an exceptional RPG. [March 2014, p.72]

One good idea--the racer's scoring system--spoiled by a thuddingly dull cop campaign and dumb design decisions. [March 2014, p.68]

X misses the spot. The occasional bit of spectacle can't save this boring, broken and charmless space simulation. [March 2014, p.60]

This clumsy, dated misadventure steals from all over and contributes no ideas of its own. Brilliantly bad dialog though. [March 2014, p.58]

Less technically adept than modern competitors, but The Serpent's Curse Part 1 is a pleasing start to a new Broken Sword story. [March 2014, p.54]

There may be prettier and more heavily populated first person shooters, but few reward teamwork as well as Insurgency.

There are deeper strategy games, but few where you'll feel quite so invested in the outcome. Recommended.

What gives Legacy its old school charm though is that as much as it's weighed down by an obviously low budget and the mechanical sacrifices of jumping back a decade, there's a love for its style underpinning the action. The result isn't likely to do much for anyone raised on a diet of The Elder Scrolls, and even at its best is a nostalgia trip rather than call for revolution.

Sometimes stripped-down and stealthy, but mostly basic and boring, Liberation can't play in the big leagues.

A brilliant marriage of mechanics, level design and music that will be played and talked about for years to come.

An ambitious and mostly successful—if a bit buggy—expansion about expansion.

A stylish, elegant brawler with an absurd sense of humour. More of this sort of thing on PC, please.

Like a reunion concert of a band you once loved, or a candy shop selling a particular brand of candy that brings to mind childhood summers of sun and sea and all that other cliched crap, Broken Age is a well deserved chance to remember the old days and realize that they're still closer than they might sometimes feel—even if the second part is a little further away than intended.

An exceptionally generous free-to-play action-rPG. What it lacks in punch it makes up for in depth and value for money.

Stodgy combat, two-dimensional characters, and technical hitches prevent this from living up to its lofty premise. [Feb 2014, p.58]

Still, even with the most charming narrative, the clumsy and ultimately banal action leaves Contrast whistling in the dark. [Feb 2014, p.74]

For $5, it might be worth it on a tablet, but as a PC game Ace Patrol would be hard to recommend even if it were free. [Feb 2014, p.74]

Smart, savvy, and satirical, but it evokes the drudgery of social media so well it can drag like a long-winded comment thread. [Feb 2014, p.70]

The new routes are familiar, and the new features are flimsy. Train Simulator 2104 feels like it’s freewheeling.

Enjoyable writing cloaked in layers of problematic navigation, tonal inconsistency and pressing A and D not to die.

Slapstick dismemberment is fun for a while, but Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior has neither the depth nor the polish to stay in the fight for long.

All That Remains sets the stage for some great character development for Clementine, but there's not much payoff in this 90 minute episode.

A brawler that's bursting with content and fan service, but held back by flakey online play.