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With every new generation of games they become both more advanced and more realisitic. We have seen first person games increase in realism almost infinitely in comparison to their original precursors, but nothing has matched the level of detail and realism that the flight sim genre has achieved.

Based on the story of the man who sold his soul to the devil, Faust is sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny, and almost always downright bizarre...

Nomad Soul (the game formerly known as Omikron) is downright weird.

Up until a few years ago, if you mentioned "Microsoft" and "game" in the same sentence, everyone thought of MS Flight Simulator.

Rogue Spear throws you into the near future, 2001 to be precise. The former Soviet Union is falling apart at the seams, plagued by terrorists and mostly controlled by the Russian mafia.

Homeworld is a refreshing new take on the real time strategy genre, abandoning the usual forest, ice, desert and volcanic worlds of most RTS games and instead setting the action in deep space.

It's been almost twenty years now since Elite was released, and people are still trying (and largely failing) to clone the ancient masterpiece.

Freespace 2 is the sequel to Conflict Freespace, a space combat sim set 32 years after the Great War fought against the Shivans in the original game.

Rites Of War is a combination of two of my favourite wargames, Warhammer 40k running on a modified Panzer General II engine.

Nintendo's latest DS title, New Super Mario Bros, has recorded the second biggest launch week ever for a DS title in the UK - but it wasn't enough to move the PS2 version of GTA Liberty City Stories off the top of the weekly software charts.

Adventure game development hero Ron Gilbert is having trouble shopping his new story-driven project around, and reckons that publishers are missing a trick by not funding small, low-budget games.

Atari's "Want To Be A Car Designer?" contest has entered the polling phase - so time's running out if you fancy getting your own dream car design into Test Drive Unlimited, which is due out later this year.

The third Resident Evil film, Extinction, pits the last dregs of humanity against a dying world overrun by zombies, according to scriptwriter Paul W.S. Anderson.

TrackMania developer Nadeo has told Eurogamer that the new TM compilation will be in the shops by the end of the year. Nadeo also revealed that a beta is scheduled to start some time around the end of August / start of September so they can try out all the new network features.

505 Gamestreet has announced plans to bring psychological horror game Rule of Rose to Europe later this year.

The ideal puzzle game is deceptively simple, increasingly involving, and balances high pressure with moments of calm. Magnetica fails at every single element, but remains reasonably interesting.

Shadow Man might be a third person action adventure game, but this is no Tomb Raider.

Outcast is a truly European game. Its developers are Belgian, its publisher French, and it was available here in Europe for over a month while the Americans sat and twiddled their thumbs waiting for it to be released State-side. Which makes a refreshing change...

So, what is this wrongly shaped device I've got here? It's a Nokia N-Gage QD, and it's, yes, a rather oddly styled machine. In fact, it makes me wonder what exactly Nokia was thinking when it envisioned the N-Gage.

Given that excellent early Championship Manager games are available for thruppence and capable of running on a Casio wristwatch, let alone a modern PC, the compromises of console-based equivalents - which to this day remain hamstrung by a lack of important PC components to churn the data and crap, low resolution displays - are off-putting. Like accepting a lift to the station from your gran when walking would get you there quicker and without having to talk about your diet/job/when you're getting married/the dangers of baiting mallards.

Texan developer Edge of Reality is working on a brand new military combat game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

A blogger has kicked up a right old storm of controversy after suggesting that PSP puzzler LocoRoco has racist overtones.

The TrackMania United website has revealed details of the new compilation that's set to include all the previously released games and add-ons in the series.

Last week saw the release of the new Day of Defeat: Source summer update, which features a new game type, Detonation, plus two new maps.

Nintendo has launched a new website for bit Generations, the new series of simple but funky little games heading to Game Boy Advance.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that the Silent Hill movie will be out on DVD, UMD and Blu-Ray this summer.

WarHawk developer Incognito may only have "officially" known about the PS3 tilt controller for a couple of weeks before E3, but Sony Santa Monica game director Brian Upton now claims the companies had been plotting for ages.

Microsoft has shot down reports, based on comments made by an Australian Toshiba executive, that Microsoft plans to release an Xbox 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive.

The Ubisoft team working on Wii title Red Steel have started up a new blog designed to keep us all up to date with how the game's coming along.

Last week Microsoft said it had nothing to announce to do with Xbox Live Arcade at retail - so naturally on Friday it said completely the opposite.