Features

• Industrious Might And Magic (With Half-Life 2's physics and the Thief games's designer, the long-running RPS series is about to be shaken up)
• The Ice Breaker (The makers of Far Cry return with Crysis, an FPS whose use of DirectX 10 will mark an new generation in PC gaming)
• One-Man Revolution (Charles Cecil, the man behind the Broken Sword series, explains his own new methods for videogame productions)
• Fun and Games (Comedy in game stretches further than bad translations and worse puns. But where are the real laughs to be had?)
• Time Extend: Radiant Silvergun
• DS and PSP: The Convergence
• Lights, Wind Effects, Action (A hands-on test of Philips' brave new amBX technology)
• A Shock to the System? (We talk to System Shock creator Ken Levine about joining Take Two)
• State Of The Arcade
• Atari Feels The Pain

Including Previews of:

• Everquest 2: Kingdom Of Sky (PC)
• Flatout (PC)
• Yoot Saito's Odama (GC)
• Buzz! The Big Quiz (PS2)
• Siren 2 (PS2)
• Top Spin 2 (360, DS, GBA)
• Contact (DS)
• RF Online (PC)
• Archlord (PC)
• New Super Mario Bros (DS)
• Tenchu: Dark Shadow (DS)
• Daxter (PSP)
• Field Commander (PSP)
• Lego Star Wars II: TOT (DS, GC, PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Onimusha: Dawn Of Dreams (PS2)
• Fight Night: Round 3 (360, PS2, Xbox)
• Driver: Parallel Lines (PS2, Xbox)
• Tourist Trophy (PS2)
• EM Enchant Arm (360)
• The Outfit (360)
• Tales Of Legendia (PS2)
• Dirge Of Cerberus (PS2)
• FSW: Ten Hammers (PC, PS2, Xbox)
• Sonic Riders (GC, PS2)
• Splinter Cell Essentials (PSP)
• Bleach DS (DS)
• Resident Evil (DS)
• Age Of Empires DS (DS)
• Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PC, PS2, GSP, Xbox)