• Tobe’s Vertical Adventure (PC)

    ...game’s downloadable soundtrack and art gallery (which includes a number of nifty concept sketches that, disappointingly, never surfaced as actual concepts in the final game). Happily, Tobe’s Thoughtfully Crafted Adventure...

  • Mega Man (PC)

    ...offers a number of elements that any gamer worth his robo-salt would expect from a Mega Man title. What’s more, as many as two of the three special weapons are...

  • Capcom, Shall I Compare Thee?

    ...full-price with a small number of new or different characters, and we’re supposed to take it. You know what? Wait, I promised I wouldn’t rant. Oh yeah, the sonnet! I...

  • Trace Memory (DS)

    ...some lines together to form a letter and a number required in order to continue. Down to even the coolest little touches—how you need to blow out the candles on...

  • You Blew It: Mega Man Legends 3 Canceled

    ...on a number of criteria with input from different sectors of the company. Unfortunately it was not felt that the Mega Man Legends 3 Project met the required criteria.” In...

  • Puzzle Agent 2 (PC)

    New Dog; Old Tricks? Puzzle Agent, released last year, was at the time what I considered to be a breath of cold, fresh and long-sought breezy air in a stagnant...

  • Blade Kitten (XBLA)

    ...a fine platformer with a few redeeming features, such as a mass of stuff to unlock. The number of levels spans into the double figures, so if you’re just looking...

  • Alt-Play: Jason Rohrer Anthology (DSiWare)

    ...for these days). Released in silence over the turn of the new year, this almost unnoticed collection contains three games envisioned by this man: Between, Gravitation and… Passage If you’ve...

  • Ridge Racer 3D (3DS)

    ...this was no doubt the game for me to obtain. Ridge Racer or Rigid Racer? Ridge Racer 3D has a decent number of courses, each with harder versions that you...

  • Brink (X360)

    ...though it’s better than mopping up after spilled Mountain Dew all day, you knew they were capable of so much more. Brink was that valedictorian once—or at least, the hype...