Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is a Sonic kart racer mashing up characters from different game series, but still somehow manages to be a solid, entertaining game.

Dead Island Riptide PS3 is at its best as compulsive as the first game, but don't play it alone - not because it's scary, but because you'll need friends to motivate you through the shoddier bits.

Tomb Raider PS3 introduces a new Lara Croft who isn't the heroine you used to know, but may well be the right Lara Croft for 2013.

Card Games: The Classics DS is less a swish night at Casino Royale and more 3AM at the all night Burger King.

Darksiders II 360 is a slick, entertaining adventure set in an interesting world which takes far too long to get where it's going.

May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville DS falls flat in its attempts at whimsical charm, and will stand or fall on whether you like its specific brand of brainteaser or not.

Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident Wii proves itself a cut above the average hidden object game.

House MD: The Official Game DS retains some of the TV show's wit but is otherwise a cheap and overly linear cash-in.

Borderlands 2 360 is a pretty much perfect sequel, a whole world packed with funny, violent adventures to have alone or with friends.

Iron Brigade XBLA 360 is as thoroughly charming as Double Fine's other games, but couldn't overcome this reviewer's difficulties with the tower defence genre.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron 360 is even better than its predecessor, War for Cybertron: a bigger, brighter, funnier epic adventure.

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift: Arctic Games DS is an uninspired minigame collection barely enlivened by some cinema-quality animated cutscenes.

007 Legends 360 mashes bits of five old Bond movies together and inserts Daniel Craig's Bond to create an indigestible muddle.

Sola to Robo: Red the Hunter DS is a beautifully animated, inventive JRPG... which has anthropomorphised dog characters. The horror, the horror.