Storm Warrior boasts a fast loader, twelve screens and five levels of play as well as a demo mode. It's one of the most atmospheric arcade-adventure games we've seen for some time and we'll be carrying a full review very soon.

Chiller from Mastertronic was to be launched on September 5 and we'll carry a review as soon as we can.

Traffic is unusual because your task is to smooth the flow of traffic through various screens by altering the traffic lights at the different intersections. The graphics are rather basic - traffic is shown as rectangular blobs, large for artics, small for bikes. You focus your attention on the intersections by moving a white square, and pressing the fire button changes the lights. Your current score is shown and you're given some indication of trouble spots by an index of queuing vehicles. Not very exciting and no way a chart-topper.

Tir Na Nog won't be released until October, but the press release describes it as a computer movie with state of the art animation. The action is presented though a camera is aimed at the central figure and the player can move the camera to get four different views. The game is an interactive graphics adventure in which the hero Cuchulainn attempts to reunite the fragments of the Seal of Calum in the landscapes of Tir Na Nog, the 'Land of Youth' of Celtic mythology.

Pitfall from Activision is Cuthbert In The Jungle in thin disguise. Jump over the holes, climb up the ladders if you don't, jump the logs, crocodiles and on and on. If you like that sort of thing you'll love this - the graphics are quite good and the action is smooth.

Some of the other new releases from Activision are less than exciting. In Beam Rider, you can move right and left over a forward scrolling grid landscape firing at oncoming aliens which release projectiles at you... and that's about it. Fast and furious as you mount up points, but old-fashioned by anyone's standards.

Hero is a mines game. As Roderick Hero you must rescue miners trapped by an earthquake. With your rotary prop pack, dynamite and microlaser beam you have to kill spiders and other underground beasts, blast walls and move ever deeper into the mineshafts. Brilliant it's not.

Adrift In Space is a text-only adventure game. While we've nothing against that, the way the screen is completely refreshed after every entry makes it rather slow and gets very tedious. The game itself is a reasonable adventure, you find yourself in an alien space vessel somewhere in deep space...

Automata's latest releases naturally include the magic letters 'PI', though at the expense of readability and the English language - how about Pi-In-'Ere? (Pioneer?) It takes ages to load, but despite some clever graphics effects it's not really up to much. You control one of those funnel-nosed beasts so beloved of programmers, and are searching for various items scattered around a computer's RAM. While doing this you have to avoid various classes of bugs, which look much the same apart from their colours, but which have slightly different patterns of behaviour.

The first screen shows some brick walls, you, the bugs, items to collect and rotating EDIT keys. There are watches of blue through which you can plough, but doing so extends the bugs' range. Removing the blue from beneath an EDIT key makes it fall, and if you can engineer a drop onto a bug you'll gain extra points. Hardly a winner, but it's difficult and reasonably novel.

Piromania is a 'levels and ladders' job, Walter has to fight spontaneous fires by throwing water over them. More water can be collected from the tap at bottom left and there's a spare ladder for making new routes to help the inmates of Automata Towers to escape. The graphics are fair and smooth, but the keyboard controls are complex and awkward.

Silversoft's last release Worse Things Happen At Sea was very good indeed, so it's a pity that its latest Hyperaction is poor. The first screen fills with large green acorns and small blue mushrooms, then some of these are erased and you're a white spider in the middle. Pursued by Pac-Man characters you can collect objects, push acorns and so on. Further screens offer different scenarios, but I wasn't tempted to continue.

Southern Educational Software is preparing language revision programs for students taking GCSE exams. The programs are suitable for those taking 'O' levels, because there's unlikely to be much difference to the way subjects are taught or examined in the so-called 'new' system. French Revision Level 1 covers regular verbs, nouns and adjectives.