'Powered-up racing' is a pretty generic tagline, yet Blur is anything but. While the game is advertised as a grown-up version of Mario Kart, Bizarre Creations has built something far more fun and complex than a one-off kart racer.

As I pumped battery after battery into my flashlight, I came to realize that the tension in Alan Wake is created through investment. Sure, hulking beasts biting at your heels can induce a certain kind of fear, but an emotion based in personal immersion is all the more exciting.

Super Street Fighter IV is an odd commodity. Not a true sequel, but also not merely a game of the year style repackaging, the release begs the question, ‘Is it worth it?’. In short, absolutely. Everything that I loved about Street Fighter 4 is back in Super, and many aspects have been made better.

In the past, Splinter Cell meant being a spy. Sneaking and suffocating, creeping and crawling. For the most part, that's no longer true. The gruff new Sam Fisher is focused solely on revenge, forgetting some of the subtlety that so prominently defined previous entries in the series.