Features

• Post Modern (Digital illusion's Battlefield series takes a step into the dark future of warfare with its latest instalment, 2142)
• The Seed Of An Idea (Will Wright's Sim Everything proves that great oaks grow from little acorns, and 11 legs can be as much fun as four)
• The Next Crusade (After some bad years, the sun is rising once again on LucasArts. We visit its new home to assess the future)
• Different For Girls (It's an industry in which aliens are more common than women - we investigate the great gaming gender gap)
• The Making of... (Metropolis Street Racer. One of the Dreamcast's last hurrahs was the start of something big for its developers)
• Coding By The Sea (Not just another developer conference, but the first ever Develop conference)
• Can Games Heal? (We report from a games conference looking at their therapeutic benefits)
• Double The Half-Life (Valve announces a startlingly generous console bundle for Half-Life 2)
• A Mythic Tale (Warhammer is back online in the hands of Camelot's favourite sons)
• Agents Of Change (Why shouldn't developers have agents like rock starts of quarterbacks?)
• Playing To Win (Host France didn't have things all its own way at the E-sports World Cup)

Including Previews of:

• Call Of Duty 3 (360, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Wii)
• Gunpey Rebirth (DS, PSP)
• Superman Returns (360, DS, PS2, PSP, Xbox)
• Contact (DS)
• Dead Rising (360)
• Ryzom Ring (PC)
• Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic (PC)
• Elebits (Wii)
• Bit Generation (GBA)
• Hot PXL (PSP)
• Need For Speed Carbon (360, DS, GBA, GC, PC, PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox)
• Bleach Wii (Wii)
• Tingle RPG (DS)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Prey (360, PC)
• Ultimate Ghosts 'N' Goblins (PSP)
• Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (PS2)
• Bad Day LA (PC, Xbox)
• The Ship (PC)
• Metal Slug 3D (PS2)
• Tekken: Dark Resurrection (PSP)
• Miami Vice: The Game (PSP)
• Ape Escape: Million Monkeys (PS2)
• Over G Fighters (360)
• Point Blank DS (DS)