As console gaming increasingly takes over as being the home of high-def gaming, it is a return to the roots of gaming that seems to be thriving on PC. Hit PC titles that employ bleeding-edge graphics, like Neverwinter Nights 2, are getting rarer and rarer, but it is the re-emergence of sim games on PC that has really captured a lot of my gaming hours on PC.

Whether it’s Grey Dog Software’s Total Extreme Wrestling 2008, or Wolverine Studios’ Music Wars Rebirth, the past year saw this reviewer lose plenty of hours to this quiet little time thief of a genre. I expect 2009 to be no different.