The Babysitter – offers a fun change of perspective and stars a team of elite ODST drop-troopers who find themselves playing second-fiddle to a godlike SPARTAN.

PC Format was at the premiere of Halo Legends this week, but don't worry: if you missed out, the DVD goes on sale on the 15th. Is it the game to movie conversion we've been waiting for? Well... no. Actually, it's depressingly mediocre stuff for the most part.  read more »

The trailer for the latest Fallout game has been released, and I've done a second-by-second breakdown of precisely what's happening, for easily-confused people. Like me.  read more »

It's mind blowing the incredibly sophisticated processes involved in producing some of the everyday technology we take for granted. Until SSD becomes cheap and large enough for practical use, the good old hard drive will remain with us for the foreseeable future. It's reliable and cheap, just £40 gets you 500 GB of brand named storage. But even at this disposable price point, the work involved in engineering such a device is intensely complex and precise. PC Plus have turned this manufacturing process into a rather interesting 'hows it's made' article you can find here.

I really like Bioware games, in fact I love their games! Epic story telling, incredible attention to detail and the superbly balanced action and RPG elements. With Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 released within a hair's-breadth of each other - "Ambassador you are really spoiling us".  read more »

The Conquest mode opened today for Global Agenda. This is the paid-for section of the new MMO shooter from Hi-Rez Studios, but for the next month it'll be free to those that have bought the game. This is where agencies (read guilds) can fight over territories in a month-long campaign. Word so far during the open beta is that Conquest needed a few safeguards to make it just a smidge less backstabby, as it turns out we all really quite devious. Fancy that.

Here's a nice little guide from Designer Scott Zier to whet your appetite for WORLD DOMINATION.

Is it basically a gigantic fancy iPhone without the phone bit, or the future of portable computing? We'll let the sale figures decide it's fate.  In the meantime Techradar had an opportunity to play with Apple's new gadget post Wednesday's the big announcement and published an early review of their first impressions. Check it out here:  Hands on: Apple iPad review

Our chums across the way on PC Plus have just posted a mammoth feature on freebie software from both Microsoft and several third-party sources, neatly categorised under the following heading: Utilities, Makeover, Productivity, Web, and Entertainment. Check it out here.

I received a rather ominous package in the office today: a long cardboard box. What could it be? A shotgun? A plutonium rod? The Classic Thermos Flask Collection 1960-1962, packed end-to-end?  read more »

Hello and welcome to the not review of Global Agenda. The game's not officially out until 1st February, but I’m playing the beta for PCFormat at the moment. The question I get asked a lot (after “Is it any good” and “Where did you get that cool OCP T-shirt from?”) is what kind of game is it?  read more »