While playing Sims games of yore, sending your little computer people off to work was a straightforward process: The carpool drove up, and you waved good-bye to your digital self, who then earned simoleans by doing unseen tasks in some unseen work environment. In the Sims 3, you could exert minimal control, but your sims’ [...]

Army of Two: The 40th Day is a third-person shooter in which your objective is simple: get out of Dodge. Or more accurately, Shanghai, a city that is being torn apart by missiles for no discernable reason. Why is this happening? Who is behind it? Who cares! You can paint skulls on your shotgun and [...]

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter If you were putting together a list of the PC first-person shooters that most deserve to be remade, chances are pretty good that Serious Sam: The First Encounter would not make the cut. And this is not an insult. The original 2001 Croteam game has aged so well that [...]

The Europa Universalis series is the undisputed master of a niche genre so small that few serious competitors come to mind. After all, how many other series let you guide one of more than 100 countries through hundreds of years of human history (1419-1820) in real time on a detailed, Risk-style map of the world? [...]