Game Publisher: Sega

For all of its gifts to gaming, it's a shame James Cameron's Aliens has never birthed a great videogame. There have been a few earnest attempts, most involving Predator(s), but Aliens aches for a defining moment - something akin GoldenEye 007 or Escape from Butcher Bay - to understand its influence and realize its potential. Aliens: Colonial Marines, in some phase of development for over five years at Gearbox Software and a handful of other studios, desperately wants to be that game. Billed as a canonical follow-up to Aliens, it seeks to engulf the player in sights and sounds from the 1986 classic. Colonial Marines sure looks and sounds the part, but only by playing its part could it break the cycle of pedestrian Aliens games.

Ron Gilbert and Double Fine Productions attempt to combine their trademark humor, nostalgia for point-and-click adventure games with the practicality of the modern puzzle-platformer.

  Too weird to live, too rare to die.

Sega’s Ostensible Nostalgia Induction Contraption

Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is based on the latest Arcade build and features plenty of technical combat and customization.

Something blue.

The fourth House of the Dead game has never been released on consoles, until now.

It's about time.

The 2009 Wii exclusive gets the HD treatment and some extra goodies added. Does the Extended Cut have a place in your collection?

You can't be satisfied without it...Sega Model 2.

Motion gaming and me. Where to begin? It's been a bit of a roller coaster, but for the most part, my experiences with motion gaming have been either decent or disappointing. The Wii never lacked in terms of quantity of motion titles, but it has always lacked in quality. PlayStation Move and Kinect suffer from similar shortcomings right now, but Sega's latest release, Rise of Nightmares, has become my favorite motion game to date, and I'd like to share why.

Next Level Games and Sega teamed up for the Captain America movie videogame that was released today. I know, I know -- movie videogames are nothing to get excited about, we've all had our hopes dashed in the past. Then again, not every game in this niche genre, if you can call it that, is bad. That's exactly what I discovered again with Captain America: Super Soldier. While not AAA quality, Captain America: Super Soldier (CA:SS) is a fun experience that provides a solid six hours or more of simple action adventure.

Sega returns with another edition of their franchise tennis game Virtua Tennis. Still kicking from the arcade days, Virtua Tennis attempts to reclaim some ground that Top Spin ruthlessly stole from it with Virtua Tennis 4.Shall we find out the score?

The Conduit is filled with cheese.