Emmanuel Brown has reviewed Sega's latest Sonic adventure on the PSP, Sonic Rivals 2. In this review Brown believes that whilst Rivals 2 has its fair share of problems, the race mode alone shows the path that should be taken for the future of the series, and for that reason, he can just about recommend it to any single-player Sonic fan out there.

Paradox Interactive released a third Developer Diary for their upcoming Horror adventure game, Penumbra Black Plague. In this Developer Diary Frictional games two man team talk about the physics being one of the main features for Penumbra Black Plague.

Whenever a new Sam & Max release hits us, it's always JanaLee that gets to play, and review it for us. So Sam & Max are into new adventures. Will we like the game?

Check out what JannaLee had to say.

NiK NaK, the new Guildford based studio from Kuju Entertainment, announced today that its first titles developed for the Wii will be Dragonology and Wizardology which will be published by Codemasters.

The action games are based on the ‘Ology series of books from Templar Publishing, which have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Dragonology explores the study and conservation of dragons, while Wizardology is a manual of spells and magical information, purported to be written by the legendary magician Merlin.

Activision's recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has knocked Halo 3 right out of the top spot for this weeks most played Xbox Live titles. Halo 3 is now in second position, with Guitar Hero 3 being 3rd and Gears of War coming in 4th position.

Telltale Games has released a playable demo for CSI: Hard Evidence which allows gamers to try out a portion of the first Hard Evidence case.

You can download it here.

We got to test an early version of Fading Shadows for PSP. There is a lot of potential within as Emmanuel Brown states. If you're interested in puzzle solver games, then read on.

Microsoft is celebrating the release of 112 games on the Xbox Live Arcade by announcing a reward program that will allow gamers to vote for their favorite games on the service. Voting begins Tuesday, 22nd January at 10:00 a.m. and runs until Wednesday, 30th January at 07:59 a.m.

The finalists in each category were selected by a panel of consumer and video game industry journalists and the winners will be determined by popular vote. Microsoft will announce the winners at the Game Developer Conference in February.

Zavvi has told MCV that they'll be increasing their games area by 15 percent, taking shelf space from the music section.

The reason for this increase is because during the Christmas season the store saw a big increase in the amount of game products that got sold. This will mark the second time its increased its range of gaming products.

In an exclusive interview with IGN today, Executive Producer John Melchior revealed that Sierra are working with Team 17 on a new Leisure Suit Larry game entitled “Box Office Bust” which is to be released on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

It's well known that the last game wasn't a huge success, it didn't do very well with sales and generally departed from the past games that were released in the late 1980's, but this time they've got a new developer that hopes to create a sequel with true mechanics and a vision that it catered towards today's gamers.