If you´re looking for a fun adventure sailing around the Caribbean, definitely give Pirates! a try. The graphics are great, the music fits in well, and we really enjoy the gameplay.

The sequel to "Shogun: Total War" (released in 2000), Shogun 2 uses immersive graphics and solid gameplay to create a distinct advancement to the Total War series.

The second downloadable content pack for "Total War: SHOGUN 2", Fall of the Samurai deals, naturally, with the end of the samurai era and the beginnings of modern Japan.

"Shattered Horizon" is an unusual take on the standard "space marine" genre, in that it actually uses space in gameplay.

A fast-paced shooter that eschews the cover-based mechanics of games like Call of Duty, "Serious Sam 3" is an appeal to the glory days of the high-reflex, high-intensity FPS.

Semper Fidelis - Marine Corps is in essence Soldner 2. They avoided the name Soldner for this release because Soldner (the original) did so poorly. It's a great concept - but poor implementation.

An intriguing psychic-based game by Free Radical, Second Sight is difficult to categorize; it's a third-person stealth action adventure game. It's got a lot of interesting design elements and choices and has a pretty good mix of action and stealth.

The first game reviewer I followed was Scorpia, back in the days of GEnie and CompuServe. She was great, her walkthroughs were wonderful, and she was female.

A revival of the old LucasArts adventure game "Sam and Max Hit the Road", the new "Sam and Max" games are new, shorter adventures released periodically on the GameTap downloading service.

"STALKER: Call of Pripyat" is an open-world first person shooter. Like its predecessors, Call of Pripyat takes place in "The Zone" - a mutated wasteland formed after the (fictionalized) disaster at the Chernobyl power plant.