COPS! The GX4000 gets some love as Chris reviews an 8-bit shooter that surprised us all by turning out far better than your average film tie-in. Meanwhile, Tom wonders how games like Dead to Rights keep getting sequels.
VROOM! Two rocket-fuelled racers for our petrolheads. Shane looks at how incredible craft and the culmination of little details make Forza 3 a modern great, whilst Tom relives the joys of running over the chequered flag man in SMGP.
BALLS! Contrasting styles and fortunes for today's titles. Chris serves up a dose of Super Tennis, the progenitor of the modern tennis game, whilst Shane suffers through a terrible cartoon movie tie-in. The things our writers go through, honestly.
BRUTAL! Two fine examples of why sometimes it's kind to be cruel. Alan relives the awesome, violent futuristic sport of Speedball, whilst Tom looks at how new technology can make destruction an art-form in the third PS3 MotorStorm.
JEWELS AND DUELS! Two cracking games this week: a revered puzzler makes a successful transition to the small-screen, and the game that was once known as True Crime: Hong Kong exorcises a few of the series demons.
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BEJEWELED TWIST DS
2008, PopCap Games, Puzzler 27/9/2012 
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SLEEPING DOGS X360
2012, Square Enix, Sandbox; Adventure 27/9/2012 
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LEGO! Ah, the number of puns we could have made around Lego is positively eye-watering. Alan and Tom try their best not to descend too far into such rhetoric with reviews of two excellent portable titles that are (wait for it) clearly built to last. Whoops.
RACING! Well, okay. Racing, and in the case of Driver, er, driving. Chris remembers the GX4000's pack-in speedster whilst Shane charts a modern series' unexpected revival, in two titles separated by 21 years and four generations of gaming.
RETRO! Old is good in gaming, and especially in the case of the evil genius that is Prince of Persia. As if that's not enough vintage goodness, Chris got all misty-eyed over his GX4000. Never heard of it? Now's the time to atone for your sins.
PREVIEW! Rumour has it that Alan
needed several new pairs of pants after getting wind of Half-Life
remake Black Mesa and retro-modern sandboxer Retro City Rampage. Just to
clear this up: The Pixel Empire did not pay for them.
MISCELLANY! It's never been explained how Tom managed to review a spy adventure, a motion-based party game and a handheld golf title in such close proximity, but he's understood to have altered his medication since.
