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There's something so defiantly old school about Revolution's latest that you want to hug it like an old security blanket. With Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, Charles Cecil and co have done exactly what we've been asking them to do for the past six years or so: get back to basics. They've stopped trying to make hopeless concessions to action games. They've stopped listening to the naysayers who claim the adventure game is dead. And best of all, they've convinced publisher THQ to let them made a game that's all about the puzzles and the narrative. Want action? Go and buy an action game; there's plenty of them out there.

Nintendo Wii will launch in Europe on December 8th 2006 and cost EUR 249 / GBP 179, Nintendo announced during a conference in London this afternoon.

Excellent PSP game Mercury is to make the transition to PlayStation 2 this winter, Atari and Ignition Entertainment announced today (probably without thinking very hard about the timing).

Closer examination of Nintendo Japan's enormous list of software titles in development for Wii reveals that Big Brain Academy, Super Paper Mario, Kirby and others will be making the leap in 2007.

Good news for any Australian readers out there - you'll be getting your hands on Nintendo Wii a day earlier than us!

Nintendo UK has admitted that the Wii console is region-locked after all, despite comments from Nintendo of America to the contrary.

Nintendo UK has confirmed the pricing for Wii points - the magical currency that will buy you Virtual Console games through Wii's shopping channel.

With Nintendo's London press conference now over and all my friends busy whacking tennis balls around with Tim Henman and hugging Satoru Iwata, I'm in the press centre ripping the media pack to shreds for your benefit.

It's nice to see that in a world dominated by killjoy politicians and political correctness, you can still enjoy a game that's solely predicated on dropping bombs in an attempt to blow other people up.

Microsoft's high profile blogging fraternity has once again disputed claims that the company is working on a revision of the Xbox 360 hardware that includes an internal HD-DVD drive.

Majesco has hopped onto the Steam bandwagon and plans to start flogging excellent platform title Psychonauts through Valve's system in October.

Making, and indeed reviewing, a motorcycle game is always a tricky business. On the one hand, you've got bikers who want an accurate representation of their hobby, which despite its tearaway reputation involves a lot more thought, skill and effort than driving a car. And on the other, you've got gamers, who are more acquainted with car games and Super Hang-On than the delicate physics of bike riding. Understandably, they want to get on and have fun without actually learning to ride a bike before they can play.

Nintendo will make money from every unit of Wii hardware and software sold, according to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime.

Looks like Europe might be losing out yet again - Argos has updated its website with a banner advertising the "March 2007" launch of Nintendo Wii.

With The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess set to launch alongside Nintendo Wii in the US on November 19th and Japan on December 2nd, you might wonder what's happening to the Cube version.

Japanese demonstration videos posted on Nintendo's relaunched Wii.com website offer a few clues as to how things like the "Mii Channel" will function.

SEGA has announced that Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz will see the introduction of two new characters - YanYan and Doctor.

If you're under the age of 15, it's unlikely you remember the days of Big Breakfast and Ben the Boffin, the resident computer games expert on Channel 4's breakfast TV show. Nor Gamesmasters' north-of-the-border cheeky chap Dominik Diamond. You probably won't remember a game called Turrican, either. It is to Halo what milk is to cheese, a forerunner, if you will, from a time when Wagon Wheels were five times bigger than they are today, when boys discovered enlightenment through grunge, and girls were mourning the loss of New Kids On The Block. It was an age when the sideways-scrolling platform shoot-'em-up was in its' prime, offering the complete entertainment package for any self-respecting nerd, geek or dweeb.

During the early years of the space race, NASA discovered the ballpoint pen didn't work in zero gravity. Presumably fearful of disgruntled astronauts being unable to write their postcards home, the Space Agency immediately assigned some of its brightest minds to the problem. Six months and a million dollars later they solved it, developing a ballpoint that worked upside down and in zero gravity.

There are few concepts more satisfying in life than a cat chasing a mouse. Somehow it seems part of the natural order. Especially when the mouse turns around and whacks the cat in the chops with a saucepan.

Marbles date back to a time when the world was flat and men thumped each other on the head with clubs. Even though they're merely little glass balls with a pastel swirl running through the middle, marbles have been a cheap way to keep kids out of trouble for generations.

Welcome to 1980's Miami. Huge hair, giant sunglasses and girls sprawled over shiny red Lamborghinis. The streets are littered with drug dealers and gun-toting thugs who can only be stopped by the coolest vice squad in TV history. With such an iconic setting, you'll naturally be expecting a glitzy, attitude-packed game.

If you happen to be a terrorist or a drugs kingpin, keep an eye out for the Spectrum Warriors. They're an elite group of men, fearless under pressure, who wouldn't even break a sweat when eating chilli in a sauna. To mere mortals, they're an enigma - shadows in the night, ghosts in the day, that cool breeze on your backside when you're leaning into the boot of your car with your grocery shopping. They remain hidden until they find their target, and when they do, they tend not to exchange pleasantries, just a swift cap to the head.

On the face of it, the Egyptians and Incas don't have much in common.

The best thing about video games is that they allow you to indulge your fantasies and guilty pleasures without fear of any of the real-world consequences. You can race cars at suicidal speeds without losing your licence, take on world champion boxers without losing your teeth or, as is the case with Super Bomberman, simply delight in blowing stuff up without risking your life or having a national holiday named after you!

Some people just aren't happy with the ordinary. People who dress their dogs in little jackets, for example, or the sort of person who buys a deep-fried Mars Bar on the way home from the pub.

For a man who never smiles and talks like a baby robot, Jack Bauer sure knows how to attract the ladies. With his unflinching resolve to fend off terrorists, he manages to save the World (otherwise known as America) and protect civilisation itself from the pesky bad guys all while maintaining that trademark scowl the female characters find so alluring.

It's bad enough being stuck indoors on a Saturday afternoon due to rain, so we'd rather not imagine how tiresome it is to be caught up in a real siege.

The sharp crack of leather upon willow can only mean one of two things - either it's cricket season again or Mistress Trixibell is holding one of her special garden parties. Thankfully we can spare you the sight of high court judges in ladies underwear as it's very much the former that we're discussing here today.

There are thousands of good games, there are hundreds of great games, but there are only a handful of digital creations that can truly be hailed as iconic. Megadrive owners had their Sonic, SNES had Mario and these days the PS2 and Xboxers have their Metal Gear, Halo 2 and Gran Turismo. For Amiga owners though, especially footballing ones, there was simply no challenge to the might of Sensible Soccer.