Travelling along a plane at a constant pace has never been so much fun – Runner2 is an addictive and rewarding experience.

A competent MMO shooter marred by a lack of polish, whose TV tie-in ambitions only seem set to cause problems.

As rough as the back of an old rocker’s throat, but gleeful whether you dream heavy metal nightmares or not.

A dumb shooter that feels like a rubbish stealth section dragged out across the length of an entire game.

Paradoxiana at its most approachable and bellicose. Engaging engagements, feisty AI, low price.

An accomplished and pretty strategy game, sadly hindered by a handful of questionable design choices.

It's a solid few hours worth a look. [Apr 2013, p.111]

For all its awkwardness and self-regard, we need more games like this, that try to broaden the medium and aspire to better it. Eventually, we'll get one that succeeds. [Apr 2013, p.109]

Slightly muddled, but it’s a muddle of beautiful scenes and spectacular combat set in a breathtaking place.

Funny, touching and full of action and smart in-jokes, Citadel is Mass Effect’s heartwarming last hurrah to its fans.

A cheap and cheerful action game that won’t win any awards, but provides solid knockabout laughs.

A traditional RTS essential for anyone interested in competitive strategy games, and highly recommended for anyone who isn't.

It stays close to its inspirations and risks growing repetitive, but Anodyne’s darkly surreal atmosphere is gripping.

Dungeonland is nowhere close to perfect, but in multiplayer it’s a brilliant bastard of a game. Just add friends – or enemies.

Tense and atmospheric, Teleglitch wields difficulty, action and horror to create an unsettling survival experience.

As a simulator, SimCity advances the achievements of SimCity 4, SimCity 3000, and SimCity 2000, but as a product, it is inferior to all of them. Constant connectivity does have benefits, such as leaderboards, worldwide challenges, and the Global Market, but it’s not even close to being worth the hassle for those features, and hardly touches the essence of what makes SimCity so diabolically addictive and engrossing.

Visually stunning and meticulously staged, but hindered by limited depth and stifling linearity.

We suggest you play the original, free, Flash version instead – the full explanation isn’t worth the outlay.

An inspired dynamic score makes for some sublime hiking, but it’s somewhat slim and repetitive for the asking price.

Can occasionally drag, but is a mostly funny and intelligent puzzler that may improve your lexicon to boot.

A muddled collection of good ideas, Impire has charm enough but its flaws are likely to frustrate most players.

Bleed is not as refined as the aforementioned Super Meat Boy, not is its action as satisfying balletic as most bullet shmups. But there's a real spark in it--a spirit that lights the game up every time things slot into place. [April 2013, p.63]

A neat story threads missions together and provided enough of a tug to pull me along. [April 2013, p.63]

Despite a rather ho-hum main quest, Dragonborn is crammed with enough side quests and new stuff to be an exciting add-on.

An excellent horror game burdened with action pretensions – but it still delivers a fraught, polished experience.

It’s still a terrific, dazzling action experience with a core mechanic that empowers you, and ultimately, this feels more like Crysis 2: Episode 2 than a sequel that deserves your maximum enthusiasm.

Deeply underwhelming. Neither staged carefully enough to be scary nor dynamic enough to be exciting, it succeeds only where other players are capable of breathing life into it. There are better linear shooters, better asymmetrical multiplayer games, and better Aliens sequels, and your love of the motion tracker and pulse rifle would need to be profound to surmount those obstacles.

Ace of Spades contains some good ideas and tries hard to ape its influences, but it lacks their charm and stability.