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PC Game Review - Hoyle Poker Series

Gambling addicts rejoice! Will Barker reviews Hoyles new poker series game for the PC, where you can gamble with pretend money, which makes the whole thing a lot less physically painful when the debt collectors come knocking. If you've been bitten by the Texas Hold 'Em poker bug, or have always fancied yourself as a card shark, this is the place to sharpen your skills. Simple, but addictive, this game features more 14 poker varieties and online poker tournaments.

Xbox360 Game Review - Amped 3

For many Australians, the 2006 snow season has been the worst on record, and even our resident knob-end Will Barker is having withdrawal symptoms. But there is a touch of salvation on the horizon, and it comes in the form of the new snowboarding game for the Xbox360, Amped 3. With half a dozen massive mountains to explore, tons of tricks, plus snowmobiles and sleds to ride, this is "easily the best snowboarding game" according to Mr Barker.

PS2 Game Review - Over The Hedge

Tom Machuca reverts back to his inner child and takes a look at the Activision game Over The Hedge. Look past the fact the game's aimed squarely at the young ones - and it's all to repetitive gameplay - and this turns out to be one of the more solid children’s titles and does much better than most movie-to-game adaptations. Read Here.

PC Game Review - The Movies: Stunts & Effects

Of course, as a game gets older, the interest in the game drops and you’re left with only a few hardcore movie nerds still interested. Well, that's where this add-on comes in, to spice up this semi-forgotten game, The Movies: Stuns & Effects allows you to blow up, shoot and destroy anything you wish in the ultimate add on for movie buffs. The Jackal explains.

PS2 Game Review - X-Men: The Official Game

What the freak happened to Nightcrawler between X2 and the latest X-Men movie installment? All is answered in this latest official game penned by Hollywood screenwriters Chris Claremont and Zak Penn. Thomas Machuca takes a delayed look at a game that promises alot, but may leave the gamer feeling about as hollow as a pirates peg-leg.

DS Game Review - Mario Kart DS

Looking for some vehicular warfare that won't turn Little Johnny into a psychopath? Mario Kart DS is the perfect game for young racers, but also gamers of all ages, explains Will Barker. Join Mario, Luigi, Bowser and their demented friends as you speed around some of the wildest race tracks this side of pluto. And the icing on the cake? WIFI gaming means multiplayer mayhem anywhere, anytime!

Xbox360 Game Review - Kameo: Elements of Power

Before it was enveloped by Microsoft - in the Nintendo days - Rare was one of the world's top development houses, but lately it's let itself go. But what's this? A new game from Rare on the Xbox 360 with stunning graphics and the kind of gameplay that could win back its legion of fans...? An unhinged Will Barker puts this action adventure to the test.

Xbox360 Game Review - FIFA World Cup 2006

Have you caught the FIFA World Cup fever yet? It involves lots of screaming at the tele, staying up late and sometimes an itchy tongue. Will Barker has caught the World Cup fever, even mangaging to prolong the malaise by immersing himself in EA Sport's officially sanctioned videogame. With awesome graphics and sweet ball play, he put this timely sports game to the test.

PC Game Preview - Rise & Fall - Civilisations at War

In Rise & Fall, a new RTS in the vein of Age of Empires, players assume the role of one of history’s greatest heroes and must build a civilization from the ground up. On leave from an 'assignment' in the Balkans, The Jackal took to this almost-finished build of the promising game like a duck to water, whose major drawcard is that you can take control of individual hero units and do some hacking a slashing on a more personal scale. Welcome to the future.

Xbox360 Game Review - Dead or Alive 4

Featuring some of the most gorgeous anime babes in the history of gaming, Dead or Alive 4 on the Xbox360 is quite an eyefull. But on top of the stunning eye candy, there's also a eminently playable fighting game hidden beneath the gorgeous veneer, and as the sometimes lucid William Barker explains, it's easily accessible for newcomers to the fighting game genre, yet has the kind of depth to keep core gamers happy.

Xbox360 Game Review - Project Gotham Racing 3

After emerging from a military hosptial with a second hand cerebellum, a slightly unhinged Will Barker returns to review our first Xbox360 game, Project Gotham Racing 3. As the Xbox360's premier racing title, there's a lot riding on PGR3, and we put the game to task, testing all modes, online and off, to see if the next generation of gaming is truly upon us.

PS2 Game Review - Rampage: Total Destruction

In Rampage: Total Destruction, players take on the role of mutated giant creatures created by the unscrupulous Scum Labs Corporation (operating under the guise of a soft drink company). The player’s goal is to progress through a series of cities around the globe destroying as much of them as possible in an effort to locate all the other captive monsters. Tom Machuca explains.

Xbox Game Review - Black

Special agent Harm Assist is known for his sincere distaste of authoritarian regimes and non-skippable cut scenes, which we thought made him highly suitable to review the latest game from EA and Criterion, simply titled Black. It's another special ops shooter, but with the added feature of (almost) fully destructible environments. Check it out.

Xbox Game Review - True Crime: New York City

Are you a good cop or a bad cop? Do you arrest the crims or buy drugs from them? Will Barker and Chris Green join forces, discovering that freedom of choice in the seamy underbelly of New York City is the ultimate prize. True Crime: New York City allows players to roam freely across the sprawling mega city, kind of like GTA - and it's a big improvement on the original.

PSP Game Review - Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play

Sometimes a nostalgic trip back to the where the games industry began - the 1980s - is the perfect tonic for a case of modern-day gaming blues, and as The Jackal discovered, these games may look a little dated, but that doesn't mean there aren't good times hidden away, particularly with wireless multiplayer. Turn up the synth - it's party time!!

PC Game Review - Age of Empires III

Martin Kingsley is no stranger to games such as the impressive Age of Empires III. He has often been seen fraternising with games at various dinner functions, sports events and sordid nights at the opera. Will their relationship go any further, is Martin willing to take it to the next level? Its's irrelevant, unlike this review.

PS2 Game Review - Smackdown VS Raw 2006

The Jackal laid some Smackdown on Oprah Winfrey in his Hollywood apartment this week, and he's doing a bit more than that as he takes a look at the biggest Wrestling monster mash of 2006. But watch out Jack, Oprah's reverse squirrel grip is a killer...

Xbox Game Review - Fable: The Lost Chapters

When he's not giving tai bo advice to Oprah and Donald Trump, Thomas Machuca likes to spend his spare time dungeon crawling through the best RPGs on the market. So why is playing the Fable addendum, you ask? Simple. Because wombat ninjas told him to.

Feature - The Best Console Multiplayer Games

Fresh from his posting with Interpol in Eastern Europe, Oliver Von Trapp III found time in his busy fake-dossier building workday to put together the ultimate list of console multiplayer games. You will laugh, you will cry, and possibly even shake your head in bewilderment.