Features

• Once Upon A Time ('The spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate' is a heavy mantle for a game. Can Dragon Age take the name and fly with it?)
• The Last Free Man (Gabe Newell sits at the top of Valve's increasingly complex gaming empire. He talks us through his vision of the future)
• Miniature Heroes (Why, when games are supposed to get bigger, do they keep getting smaller? We explore mini-game mania)
• OK Computer? (Forget what you think you know: PC gaming is bigger, richer and far, far stranger than most have ever realised)
• Time Extend (It wasn't about the tunes, the story or the infinite grinds, we return to Jet Set Radio Future's unforgettable cityscape)
• 2006 In Review (The biggest sellers and the biggest surprises from a year spent gaming)
• Game Studio Express (Make your own games with XNA and Microsoft's 'YouTube of videogames')
• Riding The Lines (How a doodle in a schoolbook became an online favourite)
• Gadgets Galore (News from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas)
• A Portable PlayStation (The latest firmware for the PSP opens up a world of PS1 games)

Including Previews of:

• Motorstorm (PS3)
• Blue Dragon (360)
• Ryu Ga Gotoku 2 (PS2)
• Virtua Tennis 3 (360, PC, PS3, PSP)
• Crackdown (360)
• Trackmania United (PC)
• Gran Turismo HD (PS3)
• Battlestations Midway (360, PC)
• Heatseaker (PS2, PSP, Wii)
• Penumbra Overtune (PC)
• Kaitou Wario The Seven (DS)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP)
• Elebits (Wii)
• Far Cry Vengeance (Wii)
• Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 (360)
• Full Auto 2: Battlelines (PS3, PSP)
• Free Running (PS2, PSP)
• Final Fantasy III (DS)
• Ennichi No Tatsujin (Wii)
• Kirby: Squeak Squad (DS)
• Kororinpa (Wii)
• Earth Defense Force 3 (360)
• Sam & Man: Situation: Comedy (PC)