I missed Mario. Sure, there’s been a great Mario game on each of Nintendo’s last three consoles, but it’s just not the same when he’s in three dimensions. Mario is the one character that I don’t want to see punching bad guys in the face. NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII gives me the chance to stomp on goombas again. Not much has changed....

I picked up a used PSP this week, so I spent a good portion of the past seven days experimenting with the system. Word of warning: Don’t buy a game on the account of the guy who owned it before you and then reset the settings so you can set up your own account. The first thing I did was download Castlevania: Symphony of the Night from the PSN store. I had been...

As a gamer, you’re bred to take chances. There’s little penalty for throwing yourself off a cliff just to see what’s below. After all, what’s one death among the extra lives, automatic saves and endless continues that most games throw at you today, or the save states that make death in older games meaningless. Put enough time into most games...

Watch out! The dead have risen and are headed for the kingdom. The good news: A wizard, thief and knight are prepared to stop it. True, they’ve been fused together by this thing called the Trine, but the wizard, Amadeus, suspects the two things might be linked. TRINE is a 2-D sidescroller set in a 3-D universe with realistic physics, meaning when a rope is...

Awesome, in-your-face limited edition. If you don’t have it already, we feel sorry for you. On June 30th, Aksys Games published two console versions (PS3, 360) of the arcade 2D fighter BLAZBLUE: CALAMITY TRIGGER. Living more than 50 miles away from a major city, I never had the opportunity to play this particular fighter on an arcade cabinet. But, being a...