You may or may not have seen my drunken attempts at first pronouncing beef bourguignon and then cooking it with the help of my DS.

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This is the last game you'd ever want to play while you're sick - lot's of running, arm-waving, and opportunities for cheek-burning humiliation.

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After selling more than 1.8 million copies of the first game, Ascaron Entertainment returns to the world of Ancaria with the release of their new action RPG Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.

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Sony scared the living shit out the nice folks in Dublin, today, with full page advertisements for Resistance 2 masquerading as front page stories declaring "America Under Attack!"

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To commemorate the sale of the new Prinny PSP game, developer Nippon Ichi has just released a slew of goodies

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SEGA has dated yakuza adventure Ryu Ga Gotoku 3, the fourth entry in the franchise known as Yakuza abroad. It will be out February 26 for ¥7,980 ($128).

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Yesterday Mike McWhertor, Mike Fahey and Adam Barenblat joined me in a friendly game of kill the zombie on the Xbox 360 while we talked about the flagging economy, our personal favourite games, whether the balance board is a gimmick or controller and why Zombie Tanks suck in Left 4 Dead. That's right Zombie Tank, I'm talking to you!

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Combine a sport that requires you to shift your body weight atop a board and a peripheral that requires you to do the same and you've got a match made in heaven, right?

That's what EA is hoping for with Skate It, the Nintendo Wii iteration of their Skate series of skateboarding games. Taking the gameplay of the original and adding support for the Nintendo Wii Balance Board controller, EA had the chance to create the most realistic skateboarding experience to ever come to a home gaming console. Let's ask the assembled video game critics of the world how that all turned out.

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East meets West as Square Enix releases The Last Remnant, their first attempt at creating a role-playing experience with both Japanese and Western audiences in mind.

The game follows the adventure of Rush Sykes, a small-village boy who gets thrust into global intrigue after his sister is kidnapped by a sinister man in a flying golden machine. It features a unique union-based battle system that supports large-scale encounters, a cast of memorable characters, and an antagonist easily as powerful as Square Enix's more famous villains, if not quite as pretty. The whole thing is powered by Epic's Unreal Engine 3, marking the first time that Square has reached outside of their own toolbox to develop a title.

So how did their first stab at a globe-pleasing RPG pan out? Read on and find out.

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So Nintendo sent me a copy of Personal Trainer Cooking earlier this month and I immediately started messing around with it. See, I love to cook. It's one of the few hobbies I have (next to reading and writing) that I find helps me relax.

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