While there’s plenty of fun found in fine-tuning your tyre pressures, kicking a ball across a pitch and swinging a racket, games™ much prefers the imaginative pleasures of racing an undisciplined Chocobo and defying gravity in F-Zero. Here is the top ten imaginary sports in videogames.

2011 was a fantastic twelve months to be into games. The year kicked off with two ten-out-of-ten experiences practically back-to-back, and continued apace with sublime games like Portal 2 as early as April, right through to the triple-A bonanza of the pre-Christmas line-up. The Wii bowed out as it came in, with a stellar Zelda game, and digital distribution produced gems to rival anything on disc. Here are our definitive games of the year.

As the industry continues to churn out videogame remakes at startling frequency, games™ takes a look back at the top 10 videogame remakes ever.

Great Britain: home of ASBOs, Mr. Blobby and knife crime. It’s also the birthplace of the ZX Spectrum, the open-world game, and questionably large-chested treasure hunters. There is little question that Britain has firmly established itself as one of the leading creative and influential voices in the videogames industry today. Here, for your pleasure, are the top ten games ever produced in the UK.

games™ has decided to settle this age-old debate by asking you, our readers, to have your say.

Multiplayer gaming is big business. Call of Duty, World Of Warcraft and StarCraft have each mastered their own spin on competitive gaming . From the pick-up-and-play frolics of a cartoon racer, to the ceaseless dedication required to master an epic MMO, gamesTM has compiled the best multiplayer experiences gaming has to offer.

Silent protagonists often make for the more interesting characters to embody in gaming. Perhaps it’s because we inherently apply our own personalities into these virtual avatars making for more relatable figures, or maybe it’s just because their tacit interactions just appear so darned cool. games™ counts down the best of gaming’s quiet bunch.

The long undisputed king of the brawler, Capcom’s eye for subtle gameplay mechanics, memorable character design and hyper-stylised visuals remains as sharp today as it was back when Street Fighter was first released in 1987. games™ counts down Capcom’s best.