Enjoy a taste of the beautiful game by taking on the challenges of Football Manager 2013.

Can you mould a team to realise your dreams of glory, with a choice of teams from over 50 countries to pick from and an incredible database of 500,000 real-life players and staff to pick from.

The best-selling and most realistic football management series ever made, Football Manager 2013 celebrates 20 years by introducing an array of new features. As well as new landmark features in the Career Mode, you can also enjoy more realistic game highlights and a Challenge Mode that involves a shorter game for when time is tight.

Network Play also allows you to enjoy online games against your friends, including setting up one-off leagues and cup competitions.

Age from 3 years.

Heading off to university is a big moment to anyone's life – now the Sims are ready to embrace those opportunities, from social connections to career growth.

From class activities to major-specific objects, your Sim will find new ways to learn. Not that university is just about hitting the books. Join a protest, flirt at a party – there's a lot to explore outside the lecture hall and library.

With new locations like the bowling alley and SimBurger to visit, and new activities like juice pong and spray painting murals to enjoy, this Sims 3 University Life expansion pack deserves top marks.

Learning is more fun than ever with challenges such as broadcasting your own radio show as a Communications student. Your Sims can also learn through class activities, lectures at the student union and joining in social activities.

Get ready to party! From hosting bonfires by the lake to doing juice keg stands at a dorm party, there's plenty of fun to be had at university too. You can also grow your social networking skills through texting, blogging, and streaming video.

Just like in real life, your Sims' decisions are deeply interconnected. For example, a Fine Arts student benefits from the Avant Garde trait, develops their Street Art skill and cred with the Rebels by tagging and spray painting. Just don't get caught by the cops!

Explore your own imagination with SimCity as you create your own city and make the choices that shape it and the Sims who live in it.

Every decision, big or small, has real consequences. Invest in heavy industry and your economy will soar but pollution rapidly becomes a problem. Implement green technology and improve your Sims's lives while risking higher taxes and unemployment.

Team up with your friends to solve global challenges: launch a space shuttle, reduce carbon emissions, or build architectural wonders. Compete on global and regional leaderboards to be the richest, the dirtiest, the happiest or the best place to live.

The Sims in your city speak to you directly and you must decide how to respond to their needs. Will you listen or abuse your power for fame and fortune?

Develop your city as a casino resort, manufacturing hub, educational enclave and more, and then watch as a unique look and feel emerges.

The new multiplayer option lets you build a region with friends for the first time as you collaborate or compete in regional and global challenges.

SimCity also introduces GlassBox, the revolutionary simulation technology that gives you the power to impact individual Sims lives, manage city level simulation and balance multiple city simulations at once.

Age from 7 years.

The zombie apocalypse returns: They thought they had survived the Zombie outbreak on Banoi. They thought they could get back to civilization. But after our heroes had reached the treacherous safety of a military ship - suddenly Fate strikes - a storm hits and horror and chaos come flooding back into their lives.

Dead Island: Riptide throws players back into the phenomenal mixture of RPG, Open World and Multi-player Co-op action. Taking the best of Dead Island and evolving it even further, Dead Island: Riptide will build on the brand's success, with millions of gamers worldwide having to fight for their lives again! Dead Island: Riptide takes the best of Dead Island and adds even more layers to it. With new Multi-player communication features, a wider arrange of zombies, a new weapon proficiency system and many other features, Dead Island fans as well as players new to the franchise will enjoy yet another unique survival experience.

Get ready for action with new skills, weapons and communication features. Explore Palanai, a completely new island filled with deadly quests and addictive zombie slashing. Fight for survival alone or gather your friends in gruesome drop in, drop out coop multi-player. The zombie apocalypse returns: They thought they had survived the Zombie outbreak on Banoi. They thought they could get back to civilization. But after our heroes had reached the treacherous safety of a military ship - suddenly Fate strikes - a storm hits and horror and chaos come flooding back into their lives.

Age from 18 years.

Far Cry 3 drops you beyond the limits of civilization, on a lawless island ruled by piracy and human misery, where the only escapes are drugs or the muzzle of a gun.

Trapped in a place that's forgotten right from wrong, you must step into the shoes of Jason Brody as you decide how the story unfolds, from the battles you choose to fight down to the allies or enemies you make along the way.

Stunning graphics bring this lush tropical landscape to life as you slash, sneak, detonate and shoot your way across the island in a world that has lost all sense of right and wrong.

There's a range of challenges to take on, from trying to outwit the ruthless, desperate characters you encounter to hunting for food to driving vehicles to playing a game of poker. You'll need more than luck to survive the tense thrills of Far Cry 3.

Age from 18 years.

Bioshock: Infinite is the story of former Pinkerton agent Booker De Witt, sent to the floating city of Colombia to rescue a young woman named Elizabeth, who has been imprisoned there since childhood. The Bioshock Infinite story takes the player through battles in the clouds, into the beautifully rendered environments of Columbia and head first into the battle to save Elizabeth from the city that is falling from the sky. Just like other Bioshock games, Bioshock: Infinite features a whole arsenal of weapons and abilities, and the key to your survival is to learn and perfect these abilities and keep yourself heavily armed!

Age from 18 years.

F1 Race Stars is a fresh and fun new take on Formula One for racing fans of all ages. Race with all your favourite teams and stars, including Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso in never seen before, personality-packed toonified form. With 4 player split-screen, online play and an extensive career mode, it's a whole new world of Formula fun designed to be shared with friends and family. Featuring accessible controls, super-fast wheel-to-wheel action, awesome power-ups and Formula One circuits turned into racing "theme parks" filled with shortcuts, loop-the-loops, jumps and more, F1 Race Stars takes Formula One over the top for the broadest F1 audience yet.

Age from 3 years.

Aliens: Colonial Marines follows a group of crack space troopers as they search the abandoned USS Sulaco spaceship for clues about the fate of the crew. What they find is a nightmare straight out of the Aliens film franchise. Players take control of the US Colonial Marine team and utilise quick commands to guide them safely through the atmospheric corridors and service ducts of an abandoned space ship. Featuring content created by film and TV professionals who worked on the film itself, Aliens: Colonial Marines is as close as you can get to dropping yourself into the heart-pounding thrills of the movie series. Another great feature of Aliens: Colonial Marines is the multi-player and cooperative game modes - you and your friends depend on each other for survival.

Warp Your Sims Back in Time!

• The Groovy 70s Pump the tunes on your Sims stereo system and show off their moves and their righteous threads. From flared jeans and bellbottoms to halter top catsuits and platforms shoes, your Sims are ready to boogie the night away in style! Add some righteous d'cor to your Sims home with a console stereo system, minimalist furnishings, a far out disco ball, and more.
• The Awesome 80s Don some legwarmers, a leotard, and a headband and your Sim is ready to get physical - at the gym, that is! Outfitted in a vibrant structured suit with shoulder pads, they're set to bound up the career ladder. Set your Sims up with radical pinup wall art, tubular arcade games, and a, like totally slick entertainment system and let the shimmies start shaking!
• The Grunge 90s
  Whether your Sims are sporting the anti-fashion grunge look in tattered jeans and
  layered tops or a casual-chic outfit featuring an asymmetrical handkerchief hemline skirt, they're sure to get mad props for their 90s fashion sense. Drag out the distressed furniture for an industrial metal look that says you don't care
  about the establishment even if secretly you do.
• Complete your Sims flashback look with new hairstyles from their favourite decade, from the feathered look of the 70s to the poofed tease of the 80s to a lank grunge do of the 90s and more.

* Requires The Sims 3 to play.

Dishonored is a visual spectacular full of intriguing challenges that demand courage, cunning and a little dash of magic.

You take on the role of Corvo, a former bodyguard of the Empress who has been framed for her murder and forced to become assassin in your search for revenge.

Known only by the disturbing mask that has become your calling card, you must navigate a world torn apart by plague and oppressed by a government armed with strange new technologies.

The stunning city of Dunwall runs on whale oil and is full of cut-throats out to line their own pockets at anyone else's expense. Can you hide in the shadows to eke out information and battle for your life when required?

The truth behind your betrayal is as murky as the waters surrounding the city and the choices you make will determine the fate of the world.

Age from 18 years.

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion to the award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty.

Heart of the Swarm features a new campaign continuing the epic story of Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of Blades, as she gathers the remnants of the zerg Swarm and plots her revenge against the treacherous dictator of the Koprulu sector, Arcturus Mengsk. It also introduces several new multi player units and features that enhance the acclaimed StarCraft II online experience.

New weapons of war also debut in Heart of the Swarm's multi player, including new units such as Terran Hellbats, Zerg Swarm Hosts, and Protoss Tempests, while certain existing units from Wings of Liberty will be updated with new capabilities.

New features will enhance the game experience, including group and clan systems; unranked matchmaking; Global Play, enabling players to battle others in different regions around the world; additional stat tracking; user interface improvements; an enhanced physics system, for more visceral looking battles; multi player replays, to watch replays with friends; a leveling system that gives players a new way to earn customisation options for their online profiles; and much more.

Age from 16 years.

It is September 1998 and the action centres once more on the ill-fated Raccoon City and the horrific consequences of the deadly T-virus outbreak from the Umbrella facility. With a cover up required, Umbrella orders an elite team into Raccoon City to destroy all evidence of the outbreak and eliminate any survivors. Hearing of this plan, the US Government dispatches its own special forces to uncover any evidence that exposes the cause of the viral infection and Umbrella's actions. Players take on the role of an Umbrella Security Services soldier (U.S.S.), competing alone or in four player co-op in a battle against all the competing forces at play in Raccoon City. Expect the return of original Resident Evil enemies, iconic landmarks such as the Raccoon City Police Department and fan favourite characters, including Leon S. Kennedy, who as a rookie police officer in Raccoon City is on your hit list to eliminate. Players will experience a retelling of classic moments from past titles Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 and watch the events unfolding from the menacing perspective of the Umbrella Security Service, giving fans the chance to rewrite the history of the Raccoon City outbreak. In addition, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will deliver a number of competitive online multiplayer modes. Each one of these will provide a unique gaming experience thanks to the three way combat between the Umbrella Security Service, US Special Ops and threat of zombies and B.O.W's that could only exist in the deadly and twisted Resident Evil Universe.

Age from 18 years.

Doom 3: BFG Edition marks the 20th anniversary of the Doom franchise with this superb collection of the games that first defined the first-person shooter.

You get the original Doom and Doom 2 Hell on Earth games, as well as Doom 3, plus the Resurrection of Evil add-on pack which features hours of new content, including 8 new levels in the Lost Mission campaign.\

Tackle demons, Nazi zombies and much more as you battle for survival in this thrilling series of games for the PC.

Age from 18 years.

Max Payne 3 continues the tale of former New York City detective Max Payne, who has fallen on hard times in Brazil but still can't turn down tackling a good mystery.

Still haunted by the memories of his traumatic past, Max is now working in private security protecting a wealthy industrialist and his family in Sao Paulo.

When gangs target the family under his protection, Max is forced to fight to save his clients and clear his name, in a bid to, once and for all, rid himself of the demons that have tortured him for far too long.

Max Payne 3 gives you seamless, cinematic action experience, incorporating the latest advances in Natural Motion physics and the latest version of Rockstar's Advanced Game Engine, resulting in highly refined gameplay, realistic weaponry, an intelligent cover system and sophisticated Bullet-Time mechanics.

In addition to an expansive single-player campaign, Max Payne 3 is the first title in the series with a multi-player experience. Enjoy dark, gritty action experience that is sure to satisfy newcomers and fans to the historic franchise.

Age from 18 years.

Detailing Dante's early years and set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry will retain the stylish action, fluid combat and self-assured protagonist that have defined the iconic series but inject a more brutal and visceral edge. The Dante of DmC is a young man discovering and coming to terms with what it means to be the child of a demon and an angel. This split personality has a major impact on gameplay with Dante being able to call upon angel and demon abilities at will, transforming his Rebellion sword on the fly to dramatically affect both combat and movement. For DmC Capcom has teamed up with UK development studio, Ninja Theory, renown for delivering action titles with compelling characters and narrative coupled with high production values. The combination of Ninja Theory's expertise and Capcom's unrivalled heritage in producing combat-focused action titles will ensure that this latest addition to the multi-million selling series will remain true to the Devil May Cry DNA so cherished by the fans, while bringing a new level of cinematic quality to the title.

Age from 16 years.

Have you got what it takes to steer your team to glory on FIFA Manager 13?

With a stunning level of detail, you can recreate the pressures and pleasures of football management in a truly believable way.

You are responsible for the line-up, the tactics and training of your team, for signing the right players and the extension of your club facilities and the stadium. With more than 40,000 licensed players to pick from, many with original player pictures, you can create a team in your own image.

There's also player manager and national team manager modes, as well as a new Team Dynamics feature that makes your team come alive.

Once all the planning, negotiating and training is out of the way, you can enjoy the FIFA 3D engine that gives you incredible game highlights that will have you on the edge of your seat.

You can pick your favourite club to guide or head for Create-a-Club mode and design an entirely new club to take charge of.

With a Match Prognosis Tool and a unique, comprehensive editor, FIFA Manager 13 promises to make 12th edition of the franchise the best yet.

Age from 3 years.

Assassin's Creed Revelations is the latest thrilling instalment in the franchise that brings together stunning graphics, bloodthirsty action and crafty gameplay in a hugely satisfying whole.

An engaging and intriguing storyline switches between 16th century Constantinople and a future dream factory where reality and fantasy can merge in potentially dangerous ways.

Much of the action in Assassin's Creed Revelations focuses on master assassin Ezio Auditore as he walks in the footsteps of the legendary mentor Altar on a journey of discovery and revelation.

It is a perilous path that take you to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilise the region.

You must acquire wealth, deal with your enemies, engage in lethal combat, move stealthily through the beautifully realised city and train other assassin's to help you in your plans as a complex and riveting storyline plays out.

In addition to the culmination of Ezio's award-winning story, a refined and expanded online multiplayer experience returns with new and additional modes, maps, and characters, allowing you to test your slaying skills against others from around the world.

Age from 18 years.

Tomb Raider The world's favourite adventurer returns on 5th March 2013! Have you ever wondered how Lara Croft got started? Tomb Raider lets the player take control of a young Lara Croft as she is shipwrecked on a lonely beach and forced to fight for her survival. Using only Lara's wits, physical ability and will to survive, Tomb Raider drops you into an original and engaging story line, full of traps, pit falls and exciting encounters. Tomb Raider shows you how it all began.

Age from 18 years.

Kick off the action with FIFA 13 for the PC.

When the whistle blows in FIFA 13, the world’s greatest players face off in a battle for possession. First touch, complete dribbling, unparalleled AI and tons of skill moves make FIFA 13 the most intuitive and realistic football game yet.

Size, strength and power are more important than ever – you can utilise your player's physical abilities to shrug off a challenge, or send an attacker sprawling with some solid defending.

Pro Player Intelligence also enables players to behave and make decisions based on their own real-life skills and tendencies, as well as giving them the ability to understand the strengths and weaknesses of teammates in every situation.

FIFA 13 features over 500 officially licensed clubs with players, including – Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sylvain Ebanks-Blake.

Useful info:

• PC FIFA 2013
• Over 500 officially clubs
• All new ways to attack
• Precision passing; complete dribbling
• Manager mode with real-world drama
• Online and multiplayer modes
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