Nintendo and Team Ninja’s collaboration may have ruffled the feathers of a few traditonalist Metroid fans but Other M is actually much more faithful to its heritage than you might think.

Eight years on from the release of Mafia 2K Czech’s gangster sequel is finally here, but is it worth the wait?

Playdead’s Limbo is at once frightening, stimulating, evocative and deadly. It’s a lingering concoction of art and mechanics, and one of XBLA’s most beautiful offerings yet.

Hydro Thunder might be the most recent of many classic franchises to be dredged up and defibrillated back into the land of the living, but it’s more importantly one of the few that shows a developer with a clear understanding of what made the source material so good in the first place. But can the series still deliver the same wake-weaving thrills a decade on?

Having already shown that it is keen to innovate in order to help the JRPG genre out of the rut in which it finds itself, what did Sqaure Enix do next? Why, it made the most traditional and old-fashioned JRPG in years, of course. And man, are we ever glad it did…

The original Crackdown came from out of nowhere and captivated an entire collective of gamers that didn’t even know that they enjoyed collecting reems of glowing orbs. And while it seemed like Ruffian was making a lot of serious alterations to the formula, it turns out that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Import fiends will no doubt have their copies already but for those that like to spend their cash a little closer to home, the good news is that From Software’s sublime and punishing action RPG is winging its way onto shelves this week. Welcome to dying…

With four-player co-op and staccato mission structures becoming the norm as all games converge on the single point that is the all-powerful Monster Hunter franchise, does this radical change in direction help or hinder Snake in his latest sneaking mission?