(It goes without saying, or it should, but the video embedded above comes courtesy of the fabulous Giant Bomb. The text below comes from me.) As promised, my revealing and contrition-inducing first hour of MONSTER HUNTER TRI for the Nintendo Wii. 0:00 Never have I felt sillier about booting up a new purchase. The whole franchise conjures nothing but disgust in my...

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...