When I played Anomaly: Warzone Earth a couple of years ago, it was a refreshingly different take on the tower defense genre, but one that seemed almost more like a proof-of-concept. Now, with Anomaly 2, this reverse-tower-defense concept has been polished up and expanded into a well-developed new iteration that offers a number of neat new twists on the idea. This includes a multiplayer mode that is the real selling-point of the sequel, but which might struggle to find a stable player-base.

Metro: Last Light is the direct sequel to Metro 2033, and promises to fix all the complaints about the original while simultaneously looking drop-dead gorgeous and pushing your PC as far as it can go. Does it live up to the claims? Find out in our video review.

WARNING: Metro Last Light is rated R18+ in Australia. The following video contains scenes and language that are not suitable for viewers under 18.

Rise of the Hutt Cartel, the first expansion to The Old Republic, was released last month with a promise of fresh content to play through and more carrots to chase by upping the level cap from 50 to 55. So, with the galaxy saved and level 50 reached, my character headed back to his starship, to find a holocall waiting for him. After a cutscene featuring a delightful action sequence with some training droids, and a conversation about the imminent destruction of Makeb, my giant green Jedi zoomed off to the newest entry in Star Wars lore.

It took me a little while to warm up to Mars: War Logs. Somebody had described it to me as “the poor man’s Mass Effect”, and having enjoyed Mass Effect as much as I did, I jumped at the idea.

If you’ve heard that as well, forget it. You will have a better time.

Don’t Starve’s campfire should be the starting point of legends. In truth, it serves more utilitarian purposes —flickering warmth fighting winter’s grasp, defending against the horrors of the moonlit hours, and cooking device for a would-be Bear Grylls. Yet as history will tell, the campfire is also the place for stories, so good they’re told a million times, each variation grander than the last. And what better tool for story creation than a world of horrors and your own papercraft marionettes?

Greenheart Games’ debut title Game Dev Tycoon has received a lot of press lately, primarily for their inventive and undeniably ironic cracked release where piracy ends up bankrupting your fledgling game start-up. The company, started by brothers Patrick and Daniel Klug has set out with a mission to “develop games that are fun to play instead of mind-numbing money-grabbers.” An honourable endeavour – but how does the actual game fare?

Zeno Clash 2 promises a bigger and better experience than its predecessor, but this effort at expansion loses some of the charm.

The folks at Paradox Interactive have never seemed concerned about being accused of ripping off other developers. The shortest, sharpest way of describing Leviathan: Warships would be to call it ‘Frozen Synapse with boats’. On the one hand, we prefer to champion fully original creations… but on the other, it’s like Frozen Synapse!

But with boats!

In Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, you play a Mark IV Cyber-Commando named Rex Power Colt, and if that doesn’t tell you basically everything you need to know about what sort of game this is then I… really don’t know what else to tell you. Perhaps this video review will help you understand.

(Sorry about the awful voice acting.)

Star Trek is the latest game in the series brought to us by developer Digital Extremes, just in time for the release of the second major movie. Players have the option of picking either Captain Kirk or First Officer Spock in this adventure, set between the 2009 feature film and the upcoming release of Star Trek Into Darkness. While my Trek exposure is limited to Voyager, the recent movie, and a few torrid fanfictions, that’s okay — an entrenched knowledge of the series is not a requirement to participate.

Fans of the television series have reason to pause, because this game follows the movie exclusively — and like most movie tie-ins, this is one mission you wouldn’t mind being on the away team for.

The AMD Radeon HD 7990 is one of the strangest reviews I’ve had to write in quite some time. You see, the first dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 was released “unofficially” by PowerColor way back in December of 2012. Then ASUS released the ARES II, another version of the 7990 living off a H2O diet thanks to its built-in water cooler. Yet it’s taken AMD several more months to get around to releasing the official version of the card — and now we’re ready to put it through its paces.

Eador: Masters of the Broken World (or just MOTBW for short) sounds like the kind of game a fan would dream of. Take all your favourite games of a particular genre, cherry-pick some of the best elements, put your own twist on it and voila! You have your own perfect game: a broad turn-based strategy featuring paladins and demons, imps and elves, priests and minotaurs, castles and dungeons, resources and towns, vampires and ghosts while you battle to control the universe.

MOTBW just might be one of the most ambitious fantasy turn-based strategy titles in years.