There was a great moment in the first of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films where everything stepped up, where for the first time you felt genuinely frightened for those wee hobbit chaps and their other-worldly companions.

Previously available only on the PS2 in Japan, Flower, Sun and Rain has made it through to release on the DS out of sheer cult brilliance and a storyline that pulls you in so completely that it urges you to complete it at all costs.

It’s a strange world sometimes. When J.M. Barrie first dreamt up Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up and runs away to Neverland to fight pirates and generally be frightfully immature...

Of all the launch titles that arrived at UK retail alongside the PS3 last year, MotorStorm is, for many, the game that still commands the most time in their console’s Blu-Ray drive.

Rayman has come a long way since his initial excursions all those years ago on the Atari. Making a name for himself on the PS2, the little wonder has recently taken to party games based around his ongoing struggle against screaming hoardes of...

There’s nothing more satisfying than shooting a Nazi. It’s built into us at a genetic level, and battered home by 60 years’ worth of film and media confirmation that, yes, the Nazis were a very naughty bunch, and yes, it really is okay to hate them.

It’s hard to agree upon a strict definition of what is or is not a triple-A title. If you’re a retailer, it’s most likely defined by how many copies a game manages to shift. If you’re a publisher, the main criteria is possibly how much money has...

Yes, we know it’s not real. And yes, we know the winner has already been decided and the battling pair currently thumping ten bells out of each other in the large steel cage have already practised the off-the-turnbuckle suplex reverse that will...

The marriage between tech-based military author Tom Clancy and video games has proved a hugely prosperous one for Ubisoft.

First there was the joytick. Then the paddle. Then the joypad arrived, and somewhere in between folk also started playing games with a mouse and keyboard. Then, in the late ‘90s, things began to change.

With Disney Th!nk Fast covering the quiz genre, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance ticking the dance game box, there’s still one casual console genre looking for some love – so step forward karaoke title Disney Sing It.

It’s a revolution of almost unparalled power. Bypassing the cinema and heading straight to DVD, it’s unlikely that even Disney knew the phenomenon it was about to create when it unleashed High School Musical onto the world.

If there’s one thing that’s for absolute certain in this big old scary world we live in, it’s that gamers old and new will never grow tired of taking control of Lara Croft.

Ninjas have always been an alluring subject for the entertainment industry, from TV’s assault course challenge Ninja Warrior to those child-friendly ninja turtles from yesteryear.

It’s been well over a year since battle-hardened World of Warcraft gamers have had an expansion pack to sink their teeth into.

Everyone likes a puzzle: and Nintendo is uncommonly good at packaging them up in palatable chunks for consumers.

You will have had to have been living under a particularly well sound-proofed rock not to have noticed that music is massive in gaming right now.

As the extreme sporting world’s premier ginger prodigy, Shaun White is certainly the right man for Ubisoft’s new snowboarding cracker. Rob Power hits the slopes to find out more...