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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.

The hugely popular SIMS franchise - the biggest seller in PC history - offers its most detailed and immersive bout of people-managing to date.

The graphics are now better than ever as you explore a world of linked neighbourhoods, develop your SIMS personalities in greater detail and try a wider range of jobs.

Enjoy the quick challenges and loads of exclusive extras as you sculpt your SIMS destinies and make their wishes come true, or not, depending on your mood!

Prepare yourself for endless possibilities and unexpected moments of mischief and surprise.

A World Adventure expansion pack also available – see item number PI641.

Key features:

• New Trait feature lets you tweak personalities in depth
• More natural interaction between residents
• Seamless open neighbourhood
• Age from 12 years
• The Sims 3 for PC

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.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for the PC

Get ready for an all-out adrenaline ride behind enemy lines. Set in the near future, players pull on their black gloves, night vision goggles and body armour one more time to take on international terrorists in 2025.

Call of Duty: Black ops 2 features an online multiplayer mode that continues to push boundaries with more gadgets, features and modes than ever before, and with millions of players online, you always have a fight on your hands.

There is a co-op campaign to play with friends, and Call of Duty Black Ops 2 zombies return for even more frantic multiplayer fun.

Useful info:

• PC Call of Duty Black Ops 2
• Lots of new levels and classes
• Age from 18 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.

It has been ten years since the Raccoon City incident and the President of the United States has decided to reveal the truth behind what took place in the belief that it will curb the current resurgence in bioterrorist activity. Due to be by the President's side is his personal friend and Raccoon City survivor, Leon S. Kennedy, but when the venue suffers a bioterrorist attack, Leon is forced to face a President transformed beyond recognition and make his hardest ever decision. At the same time, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member, Chris Redfield arrives in China, itself under threat of a bioterrorist attack. With no country safe from these attacks and the ensuing outbreaks, the entire world's population is united by a common fear that there is no hope left. In a first for the franchise, Resident Evil 6 sees series favourites Leon and Chris come together to face this unprecedented threat. They will be joined by new characters, each with their own unique perspective and involvement in this relentless dramatic horror experience enacted on a global scale.

The Sims 3 Seasons expansion pack offers new foods, decor and weather effects, letting your Sims can enjoy the beauty of the ever-changing seasons and play with life like never before!

Let your Sims swim in the ocean on a hot summer day, bob for apples in the autumn leaves, test their snowboarding skill on the half pipe, or welcome spring showers with a walk in the rain.

As well as new activities such as playing football, your Sims can enjoy big seasonal festivals and celebrations bring the spirit of each season to life.

Dress for the weather with seasonal fashions as your Sims enjoy a snowball fight at the winter festival, whoop it up at the spring dance or see what Halloween surprises await in the haunted house.

Whether building an intimate igloo, carving a scary Jack o lantern, taking a plunge off the diving board, or setting off fireworks, your Sim can always find new things to do throughout the year.

Experience the changing weather as your Sim gets a tan, risks being struck by lightning if they're out in a thunderstorm or catches a cold!

Age from 12 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!

The Sims 3 Pets expansion pack lets your create four-legged friends for your SIMS, from loyal dogs to daring kitties, as you determine their looks and personality traits.

Then take control of these pets and experience the world from their perspective. Enjoy a little mischief by destroying furniture or impress others by mastering new skills like hunting.

Lead your Sims on adventures, like uncovering relics and solving mysteries. In the Limited Edition you'll also get 10 exclusive, unique breeds, including tiger dogs and skunk cats. Choose how pets can enrich or mess with your SIMS lives and discover a whole new way to play with life!

Sims 3 Pets expansion pack - age from 7 years.