This is the second WiiWare effort from High Voltage, the outfit behind much-hyped shooter The Conduit. The first one was total cack, but happily this old-school space shooter has a good deal more going for it than giant floaty man hands. ...

Imagine Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber but with a flexible mucoid hero instead of a giant ape, and you’ll have a good idea what Mister Slime (Mr. Slime Jr. in the UK) is all about. Touch the screen to attach Mr. Slime’s many arms to the little yellow pegs that mark the path through the levels. Touch again to detach them, causing him to spring around with elastic tension. ...

Travel back in time and enter a parallel universe and you’ll read an Xbox World 360 brave enough to call Braid the best game ever; a land without the likes of Super Mario World, Ocarina of Time, Portal and Fallout 3 all vying for the same spot. It’s a world where the platform game never died and a world where ingenuity and ideas curry greater favour than high definition visuals and bigger, louder guns. ...

Do you consider fart jokes to be the pinnacle of human humour? Do you sides split at the merest hint of a belch? If so, then prepare to scoop your intestines off the floor, because here’s the game of your dreams! Us? ...

You remember POGs, right? They were those little collectable cap things that were hugely popular for 15 minutes at some point during the 1990s. We seem to remember them turning up in our breakfast cereal boxes occasionally. ...

There weren’t many takers in the office to review this one. After all, it’s a platform game in which the objective is to grow plants by pollinating them. Hardly inspirational stuff when we could be swatting Stormtroopers in The Force Unleashed instead. And true to form, the first couple of minutes left us utterly confused and dismissive before things suddenly clicked. ...

Since the disappointing SimCity Societies was released last year, a lot of changes have appeared in various updates. Many have significantly improved the core game, and addressed the reasons why it scored so poorly. Yet a number of important issues have not been fixed, leaving Societies hovering precariously between the poorly designed initial release and something deserving of the SimCity mantle. ...

Major league ballplayers are filthy, disgusting creatures. Constantly spitting and grabbing their crotches, they’re the furthest thing possible from lovable cartoon characters. It’s remarkable, then, how MLB Power Pros manages to turn everything about these gruff, vulgar “athletes” into cheek-pinchingly cute caricatures of themselves on and off the field. ...

Major league ballplayers are filthy, disgusting creatures. Constantly spitting and grabbing their crotches, they’re the furthest thing possible from lovable cartoon characters. It’s remarkable, then, how MLB Power Pros manages to turn everything about these gruff, vulgar “athletes” into cheek-pinchingly cute caricatures of themselves on and off the field. ...

Out of the Park Baseball 9, or OotPB 9 for short, is a comprehensive, astonishingly intricate sim. It’s just one that doesn’t have a friendly way in for new players. ...