Game Review

We have struggled to get along, Formula 1 and me.

Puzzle Agent marks a pleasant change of pace for Telltale Games, which has done the vast majority of the heavy lifting responsible for the point-and-click adventure game revival.

Given the number of perfectly good Bejeweled clones lurking in the iTunes Store, it's impressive to find one, like Smiles, that goes its own way by changing just one rule.

Apple has slowly warmed up to the iPhone and iPod Touch's accidental transformations into portable gaming juggernauts, but Game Centre makes the embrace official.

Shank For: PS3 via Playstation Network and Xbox 360 Live Arcade From: Klei Entertainment/EAPrice: $US15 ($NZ20.50) Everything about Shank has been done before and will be done again, but maybe no game has put it all together and made it look this easy to do so.

Were Blacklight: Tango Down a full-priced first-person shooter, its combination of generic atmosphere and tacked-on single-player offerings would make it almost superlatively insignificant.

After 2007's Puzzle Quest surprised just about everybody by taking Bejeweled and using it as a means of battle in a story-driven role-playing game, a handful of weird offshoots tried and mostly failed to take the idea to new avenues.