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Lightsabers and force powers are some of the tastiest ingredients found in the Star Wars universe. In The Force Unleashed, they are mixed together with a delicious story, and sprinkled with enemies of all descriptions, giving you a wonderful playground to run riot in.

The story is set prior to the events of Star Wars Episode IV, and sees you take on the role…

Billed as “the spiritual successor to System Shock”*, Bioshock features weak gunplay, heavy scripting, and not particularly inspired RPG elements. Forget all of that though, because the art direction, sound and lighting design and storyline make it a wonderful experience, and worthy of its predecessor.

Bioshock has one of the best openings of any video game ever, so I’m not going to spoil it here.…

Taken on its own merit, Beat Hazard is a reasonably good time, a shoot-em-up that you’d expect to find in any arcade in the early 90s. Having levels created from particular songs elevates it to being something you must own if you enjoy the genre. You can enjoy the irony of shooting things in space whilst listening to the Star Wars theme, or take a more surreal approach and enjoy the irony of shooting things in space whilst listening to some Gospel music. The possibilities are truly endless.

Beat Hazard started life on the Xbox Live Arcade, gaining popularity and biding its time in order to make the…

Rufus, the not-quite-hero of Deponia is a bit strange. Kind of an arrogant, whiney dolt (think Homer Simpson without the charm), he’s nevertheless able to build rockets out of household parts whilst cracking (at times confusing) jokes, all the while on a mission to win the affection of a sort-of angel. You’ll either love him or… turn the sound off.

The game is traditional point-and-click, but greatly streamlined. The mouse cursor changes to show what each mouse button will do…

Originally released for the PlayStation Network, Rochard seems to have elements of Portal, the Xbox Live Arcade game Shadow Complex,…

On the surface, a run-of-the-mill puzzle-platformer, a few minutes spent with Rochard reveals it to be something rather special.