Next time you go travelling across Europe, think about packing some software. European Travel Companion provides you with eight handy CD-ROMs to improve your language skills and help you find your way around the leading cities.

If you are heading for Paris, the Great Cities of Europe discs let you quickly call up maps of the streets and discover useful local information about tipping at restaurants, bank opening hours and airport contact details. The information is concise and e..

From Sega, creators of that other job-based driving game Crazy Taxi, comes 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker. While hauling logs, fuel and heavy machinery over vast distances might not be the most tantalising of prospects for a video game, Sega have thankfully condensed the mundane experience into bite-sized chunks of arcade action.

18 Wheelers main mode is "Arcade", where players can test their skills against a direct port of the coin-op original. Here your mission is to ..

Max Paynes wife and baby daughter were slain by junkies hopped up on a dangerous new synthetic drug. For three years, Max has worked undercover to find the source of these drugs and then, just when hes almost got it figured out, somebody ices his superior and pins the murder on him. Now, its payback time as Max faces off against the Mob, the police and much, much worse. Max Payne has jumped from the computer screen to the TV screen, and theres going to be hell to pay.

Max Pa..