Gratuitous Space Battles

Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets. Read more »

Kudos

Now that The Sims has earned the rank of best-selling PC game of all time, it's no wonder we're now witnessing a handful of other "life simulations" created for players with a yen to live a different life vicariously though a digital alter-ego.

An intriguing new British computer game, Kudos, borrows a bit from The Sims' fulfillment meters - so you can visually see if your character is running low on, say, energy or happiness - but tackles the day-to-day tasks and accomplishments in a more strategic, turn-based fashion.

Kudos 2

I could write 10,000 words about Kudos 2 and still not cover everything there is to say about this incredibly deep, yet completely accessible "life simulation" game, where you get to create an alter ego and decide what path his or her life will take during the ten pivotal years from age 20 to 30.

Comparisons to EA's The Sims can obviously be made here, but in truth Kudos 2 bears more in common with casual downloads like Hanako Games' Cute Knight. Although it's a matter of opinion, I actually preferred Kudos 2's simpler menu-driven gameplay to the more active approach of The Sims, where you have to fiddle with house furniture and herd your Sim from one room to another.
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Kudos: Rock Star

With insanely popular television shows such as Fox's American Idol and CBS's Rock Star - not to mention our celebrity-obsessed culture - it's no wonder video games are also allowing us to let our hair down and vie to become famous musicians.

Arguably the most-talked about video game on the planet is RedOctane's Guitar Hero series, where you can plug in a guitar-shaped controller into your video game system and jam along with some of rock's classic tracks.

Oval Office

With the countdown to election season quickly drawing near, it seems like practically everyone's got an opinion (and one they're all too happy to share) on how America should be run. Thankfully for the more outspoken among us, would-be policy makers finally have a chance to put their money where their mouth is with Oval Office.

A comprehensive simulation of modern politics and matters of state, the game quickly wows with its detail and depth, even if the scope and difficulty will be hard for the average player to stomach.
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