Do not buy this game. We’ll explain why, but it’s important that we get that out of the way to begin with. Put your credit card back in its plastic sheath, so we can talk with less urgency. Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is about $20 (including various taxes). For that, you get 30 levels, each taking between one or two minutes. ...

With every siege-able dungeon on Earth now thoroughly sieged, Gas Powered Games’ Space Siege goes not-so-boldly where few action RPGs have gone before - to a cavernous starship in the inky blackness of space. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Remember the moment you found out that most fairy tales weren’t originally the happy stories the Disney Corporation would have you believe, but rather brutal morality lessons? American McGee’s Grimm manages to turn that childhood disillusion into an episodic game (this review covers the first three of 23 30-minute episodes, to be released weekly on GameTap.com), by playing off those dark origins. ...

Remember those free Cracker Jack prizes, like the magnifying glass too crappy to fry ants with, and the rub-on tattoos that became ugly smudges? Downloading Requiem: Bloodymare (from www.playrequiem.com) is like finding a five-dollar bill in your Cracker Jack box - quite a pleasant surprise!

Despite being free to download and play, Requiem is fully featured, and arguably better than many subscription-based MMOs out there. ...

In all but name Crazy Machines 2 is the successor to ’90s classic franchise The Incredible Machine. You’re set a task – usually sending an object to a specific place – and must utilize a series of seemingly random items to do it. This is a delightfully simple and devilishly addictive premise that CM2 has fleshed out into a fiendish, frustrating, and wonderful series of 180 different logic-bending puzzles.

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Chaos Theory is another of the smaller games to get boosted into the public eye by Steam. We’ve had Gumboy, Gish, Audiosurf and the slightly unjustifiable Ninja Reflex, and now it’s Chaos Theory’s turn to look slightly awkward rubbing sholders with Call of Duty 4 and Chuzzle Deluxe. ...

For what it is, The Incredible Hulk isn’t too bad. The problem is, it’s still bad. Sega risks turning PC gamers green with anger by continuing the trend it began with its Iron Man game - porting the PlayStation 2 version rather than the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version. ...

One day an MMORTS will appear that captures the dynamics of online warfare. Dreamlords: The Reawakening, the follow-up to the risible Dreamlords, most certainly isn’t that game. Trapped in a split-personality limbo, it feels like a substandard MMORPG with a few RTS ideas tacked onto it. ...