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A-10 Virtual Cockpit Free lets you use an iPad to control DCS A-10C

Forget worrying about the keyboard commands as A-10 Virtual Cockpit Free simulates the aircraft controls on an iPad

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Final Fantasy XIII-2

2010's blockbuster RPG gets a time-travelling sequel

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Propel a cow into space with Abduction! for Android

A simple to play game that is fiendishly addictive

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Keep the children entertained with Buster's Lost Moshlings

A fun, if rather short, Moshi Monsters game for the iPad

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Transfer games to a different PC

If you're a keen gamer using Steam and want to install your favourite game on a second computer, it's much quicker to transfer it using an external hard disk

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Take to the skies with Puffle Launch from Club Penguin

Play one of the best Club Penguin games on your iPad

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Golf game lands player in a bunker

An invalid serial number rendered the game unplayable, but recent rulings says that there is no transfer of property with software, therefore no exchange of goods

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Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC

Time to bring on the big guns again

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Review: Battlefield 3 game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC

Yet more thoroughly modern warfare

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Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster children's game for Xbox 360 Kinect

A Kinect motion-control game that’s child’s play – mostly

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game for Xbox 360

Venturing deeper into the dragon’s den

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Retro gaming: Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind

How does Skyrim's predecessor stack up to its modern day equivalent?

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Pay once or pay often?

Tim wonders whether the upfront cost of a new game might actually be less than a game that's free to start with

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