Mercury HG is a XBLA puzzle game that fuses music, time trials, frustration and science. Fortunately, it’s not as I feared and an attempt at teaching you the periodic table, but Mercury HG can teach you that a solid balance between patience and speed is the key to life’s problems. Assuming life’s problems lay with trying to get a ball of mercury from point A to B. And for a few hours, that m... more.

Outland is a downloadable game brought to us by Housemarque and published by Ubisoft, and is a 2D platformer seemingly in the vein of past atmospheric games such as Braid and Limbo. But does Outland miss its mark because of its AAA industry roots or can it be as evocative as its independently developed predecessors? GAMEPLAY You play as a faceless warrior re-experiencing the struggle of an a... more.

We all remember Goldeneye from back on the ‘64 right? You know, that little shooting game that completely redefined 3D gaming and shooting all in one? Well one that no where near as many people will remember is Perfect Dark. But for what reason? The game was the spiritual successor to Goldeneye and improved on literally every aspect of the great Goldeneye gameplay mechanics, graphics and level d... more.

A genre which is populated with casual, fresh and often very simple puzzle based games with one or more types of puzzles to master in order to traverse the simplistic and usually very dull and lifeless game worlds; the Puzzle RPG. Puzzle Chronicles is the latest effort in a fast growing genre which gathered great momentum and critical praise from the like of Puzzle Quest. But are the few stand out... more.

The following review contains puzzles, lots and lots of 'puzzles'. Adapted from the Nintendo DS version of the same name, Puzzle Quest 2 by Infinite Interactive, is the 3rd game to bear the name on XBOX Live Arcade. Sitting pretty next to the original/Challenge of the Warlords and Puzzle Quest: Galactixs though, is it the best? Journey with us as we go questing to find out. Gameplay The Puzzle... more.

Apparently, R-Type has a long and sordid history. Apparently the game is popular enough, at least in Japan to allow for a number of sequels and this, an attempt at 3D graphics. Apparently, it would seem that the game can be beat, level for level, without dying repeated times, over and over without any clue as to who you are and why you are doing this. R-Type has, already, garnered a 41/2 star rati... more.

Downloadable titles are getting better and better. And they continue to prove to all that some of the best gaming experiences are the most easy going and casual ones. Raskulls continues the same trend as titles like Castle Crashers, but can it break ground and actually compete with the best of the best? Read on to find out. GAMEPLAY Raskulls is a very simple game. Very simple, yet very enjoyab... more.

Much has been said about episodic content in recent years, and none more so than the titles released under Telltale Games; their most recent contribution being collaboration with Lucas Arts to reboot a series based on the seminal point-and click adventure game ‘Monkey Island’. However long before we were getting lost with monkeys on Islands two of video games most unlikely heroes were burning ... more.

Certainly if the world hasn't versed Scott Pilgrim yet, in this- the game based on the movie based on a serial Canadian comic book series; they should if only to live the agonising memories of button bashing, 3 life living, 8 bit crunching, boss battling co-operative mayhem from days gone past. The genius re-imagining from Ubisoft, the not-movie-tie in has a lot to live up to... GAMEPLAY As lo... more.

One of the Block Party 4, Scrap Metal is a top-down racer built for fun. It mainly excels in the multiplayer side of things and can give you and your mates a ton of fun for hours on end. But how long can fun last for a game like this? Does it have enough content to keep the action enjoyable for long? Scrap Metal aims to be a part favourite and one for the collection, but can it deliver? Read on to... more.