For all Half-Life 2's blinding technology, it didn't contain a single wizard. Tsk. Spotting this gargantuan flaw, developer Arkane whipped the Source engine from beneath Gordon's feet and ran off to cast spells with it.

The result: a first-person stabber/archer/speller based within the Might and Magic universe - and it's looking good already. And yet, ironically, we still haven't seen a single wizard.

Never mind. Even those not familiar with the M and M games (which reached well into double figures with role-playing and strategy variants before fading away several years back) needn't worry about not being up to speed.