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Paradox continue their successful in-depth real-time-strategy series with style, keeping the feel of the game while making significant enough adjustments to important game systems to justify it’s nature as a fully-fledged sequel.

I have not been in the online gaming zone for a while now, more hiding in the single player world waiting for something to pull me back in. A friend suggested to me to check out Defiance, a MMOG open world Third Person Online shooter, and all I can say is I am hooked. In a first, Defiance links the game and TV show - they influence and depend on each other and some Player characters will even be used in the show as extras.

A Survivor is born. Rebooting a series is always a risky prospect. Change too much and people hate you, change too little and people will also hate you. Can a developer ever win? Well, maybe not. ‘You can’t please everyone’ as the old adage goes but despite this Crystal Dynamics has managed to create one of the best gaming experiences of this year or recent memory.

Aliens: Colonial Marines isn't as bad as the metacritic and some reviews suggests, but neither is it good, and with some seriously misleading advertising from Sega and relatively poor form from Gearbox, it's not hard to see where things went wrong.

Spec Ops: The Line from 2K Games is a third-person modern military shooter set in Dubai. A Delta Force team is sent to search for survivors in the dead city, but find a city that couldn’t be anything but dead, and must fight between the warring factions to find the man at the heart of it all - Colonel John Konrad.

Sleeping Dogs is a third person open-world game akin to the Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto series. It is single player only, and takes place in a stylised version of Hong Kong. Originally to be released under the True Crime series before changing publishers, it continues setting the perspective from the law enforcement aspect of organised crime.

Ever wanted to line up a fight between Kratos and Nathan Drake, or Sack-boy and Parappa the Rapper? Now you can!

Black Ops Returns, and brings with it a new campaign, near-future online warfare and more Zombies!

Criterion brings together two arcade driving titles to create the best arcade racer since (at least) 2009's Burnout Paradise.

Criterion returns to the Need for Speed Burnout franchise, and their attention to detail and polish shine through.

Turn-based strategy and tactics meet alien invaders in a remake of this 1990s gaming classic.

A shooter that surpasses expectations and provides a fun and frantic experience.

The first game was quality, but the sequel knocks it out of the park, improving in literally every area.

It's been the best selling sim-style racer for three console generations now, but does best-selling mean best? Gran Turismo 5 is the fifth (non-prologue or PSP) version of Polyphony Digital's superb simulation-style driver/racer, and the first to make the jump into HD. After being a long time coming, insanely high expectations meant that there was some disappointment by some gamers at launch, but nearly two years on, the game has well and truly stood the test of time.

Is the latest installment in the Resident Evil franchise a step in the right direction or another failed attempt to revamp the series?

Arkane studios' choice-laden first-person adventure game impresses.

Gearbox and 2K take us back to Pandora in a shoot-and-loot fest follow-up to one of the unexpected hits of 2009. Does it have what it takes to keep us hunting for more loot?.