Natural Selection: How fast can you run?

Imagine a multiplayer first-person shooter that takes place in an abandoned mining facility. You are a member in a squad of marines sent to secure the mine, which happens to be infested with ravenous aliens. Not a shabby assignment, except these creatures are no ordinary opponents.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI: The beauty of glorious death in combat ... in ancient China

Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdom XI still feels fresh despite being the 11th game in the series. The story revolves around the military generals of the late Han Dynasty in China, and plays similar to Sid Meier's Civilization series, where players control cities and armies in turn-based combat over a strategic map. The game borrows its storyline from history but relies on the novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms to fill in plot points; including some fictional characters found only in the book.

Where to Buy Old PC Games

Think back to the time before the digital age and before children all starting using cellphones – writing things down on paper was important.

For gamers, this usually meant writing down CD keys. Before digital distribution, gamers would get all of their games in these large, shelf-hogging boxes that you have to go to the store to buy. Inside each box would be a CD, a manual, some advertisements, maybe an art book or map, and most importantly, the CD key.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Nice galaxy, we'll take it

Having lost all contact with Earth, human colonies scattered in far flung reaches of space struggle to rebuild in Ironclad Games' Sins of a Solar Empire 4X real-time strategy title. 4X stands for eXpand, eXplore, eXploit, eXterminate and is usually a term reserved for turn-based strategy games.

The developers at Ironclad Games, who also created the acclaimed Galactic Civilization series, have outdone themselves this time. Strategy fans of turn-based and real-time games alike can both rejoice – Sins has found the best of both worlds.