Publisher: Warner Bros Interactive
Developer: Rocksteady
Requirements: Windows XP/Vista, Intel Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz or AMD Athlon64 3000+ CPU, 1 GB of RAM, 9 GB of hard-drive space, 256 MB graphics card (GeForce 6600/ATI Radeon X1300 or better), DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
Genre: Action
Release date: Available now

Ladies and gentlemen, if I may now draw your attention to the center ring, it is now time for something that everyone has been waiting for. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but definitely Dark Knight fans: A Batman game that is actually good. No, wait, “good” doesn’t quite cut it. Let me put it this way: Batman: Arkham Asylum is awesome.

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Publisher: Big Fish Games
Developer: Namco Games
Requirements: Windows XP/Vista; 1.0 GHz CPU; 512 MB of RAM; DirectX 7.0 or later; 200 MB hard-drive space.
Genre: Hidden object adventure
Release date: Available now

It is a dark and stormy night. (Okay, maybe not.) Miranda is an author suffering from a terrible case of writer’s block. Her doorbell rings. She opens the door to discover she’s received a mysterious package, which turns out to be a book sent from a fantastic world known as The Otherside, a parallel dimension that works on dream logic, full of bizarre locales and creatures. With the guidance of Jovie, a possessed teddy bear, she must travel back and forth between worlds and unravel the mystery of a brother and sister torn apart.

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Publisher: Candella Systems Ltd.
Developer: Eipix
Requirements: Windows XP/Vista; 3.0 GHz single-core CPU; 1 GB of RAM; 4 GB of hard drive space; DirectX 9-compatible video card with 128 MB of video memory; DirectX 9.0
Genre: Futuristic Combat Racing
Release date: Available now

There are a lot of good racing games on the market, most recently Colin McRae’s DiRT 2 and Need for Speed: Shift. But one part of the racing genre that has been sorely neglected is the futuristic racer; the last one that I can recall is Kinetica for the PS2 in 2001. Now, thanks to Eipix, a small Serbian game development company, we have Pyroblazer Gold Edition.

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Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Rebellion
System requirements: Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 GHz or better, or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core BE-2300 or better CPU; GeForce 8800M GTS or better, or Radeon HD 2900 Pro or better graphics card; 2GB RAM; 4GB hard-drive space
Genre: Action
Release Date: Available Now

“Play as Dick Marcinko, real-life founder of SEAL Team Six and the U.S. Navy’s most efficient killing machine.” That’s what it says on the back of the Rogue Warrior box. Sounds pretty exciting, right? What you actually get is far less than what the media hype leads you to believe, but I’ll get to that in a minute.

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