With the 2K Sports release Major League Baseball 2K10, producer Ben Bishop and gameplay designers Jonathan Rivera and Sean Bailey were eager to sit down and discuss the details of the game. They had more than just the excitement of a game release to discuss; they had an urge to set the record straight. After all, MLB 2K9 has become something of a critical disaster for the team. With their latest installment in the MLB series, they went back to the fundamental design elements that made other 2K games a success. Their promise: MLB 2K10 not only exceeds expectations but also completely knocks expectations out of the ballpark.

The Omega Stone — along with its predecessor The Riddle of the Sphinx — is well-known adventure game that I never had a chance to play when it was released in 2003. Timely as ever, only a mere 7 years after The Omega Stone was released, I decided to play it. I just couldn’t help but wonder what an old adventure game would have in store and how it held up over time.

You have to admit, Lara Croft has done a lot for videogames. There’s a reason she is viewed as the female version of Indiana Jones. The first three games she was in delivered high adventure with some gun combat. They were fun to play, as you never truly knew what was coming next. Well, what if you combined some of Indy’s adventuring spirit, Lara’s gun skills and a razor sharp wit? You would end up with Nathan Drake, the star of a game I’ve probably had too much fun playing: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

I was asked to review a laptop cooler. I responded in the affirmative, wondering what there was to review. A laptop cooler is a laptop cooler, but I do have a hot-running Toshiba that’s a productivity workhorse — though I don’t use it for gaming. Sometimes, on cold winter nights, I would watch a movie in bed and have it warm up the bed nicely. So I had a suitable test subject.

Enter Pandora: a seemingly endless desert full of dangerous wild animals, men who are in search of treasure, and other men who look like they’re straight out of the Mad Max movies and are out to kill for the fortunes they seek. That’s why people come to Pandora: to find treasure. As I played Borderlands for the Xbox 360, I felt the sense of a California gold rush — except on another planet and in the future. And with lots of guns.