This week, puzzle games get no love. See why. Read more...

In today's Lunchtime Video, I explain where I was yesterday afternoon -- and why you should expect gaming reporters to keep vanishing this spring.

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The back of the box for the newly-released XBox 360 game "Ninja Blade" visually advertises three features. One of them is the game's "Quick-Time Events," those commonly-used cinematic sequences that require players to tap specific buttons in order for them to play properly. QTEs seldom are offered as a selling point. Do most people even know what they are?

When "Rock Band Unplugged" was first announced, I had visions of tiny plastic instruments or four people sitting next to each other rocking out on their PSPs. Not so.

Unlike the console iterations of "Rock Band," "Unplugged" is a one-person band. Read more...

The lawsuit, analyzed by gaming website Gamasutra, details months of drama. Read more...

I spent four hours playing the new "Bionic Commando" last night, but more on that in a preview post a little later today. Right now, just about all I can think about is the pain in my neck that makes it painful to turn my head and kept me from the gym this morning. Should we blame "Bionic Commando" or some mysterious sleep malfunction? Do games ever cause people to wake up with neck pains the next day? No, right?

Activision launched the official website for this summer's Transformers video game today and managed to bury a few surprises in it. Read more...

Not a whole lot came out this week, but that doesn't mean a game's box art is safe from our critique. Here goes... Read more...

Who had to explain to their mom what "tea bagging" is? And who lost their tennis racket? Find out.
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The follwing Lunchtime Video is wrong. Read the post below to find out why I'm exposing my ignorance to the world.

The Lunchtime Video you see above is wrong. Dead wrong. I recorded it about two hours ago, but was slow to post it because I was waiting to hear back from Nintnendo about the questions I was going to raise in that video. My questions involved the newly revealed June 8 release date for Wii MotionPlus. As you'll see in this video, I tie myself in knots trying to figure out why Nintendo would release the peripheral a week before any MotionPlus-compatible games are out. And then, seconds before I was going to post this, a Nintendo rep e-mailed me to point out that Sega's "Virtua Tennis," shipping May 19 will support the MotionPlus. So watch this video if you must, and laugh at how ignorant I was just a couple of hours ago.

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