Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty has plenty of cool secrets, stories, and Easter eggs to distract you from its excellent campaign and online multiplayer.

As I have mentioned numerous times in my writing, I'm pretty far behind with the video game world. I need to catch up on the classic franchises I've completely missed out on and play through the landmark titles that I've yet to touch. Feel free to read along as I do. This time, I'll be covering Metroid: Zero Mission, Portal, and Flower.

Does Heavy Rain have more inherent value than Bejeweled? An argument for the peaceful coexistence of serious and lighthearted games.

Is backtracking really poor game design, or can we learn something from Metroidvanias?

Video Blips for May 24, 2010. Come check out a producer interview for the upcoming Splatterhouse remake, a flashback video for Metroid: Other M, a seductive Blur promo, and more.

In this week's edition of the Tweetbook Q&A, we asked you whether you will be picking up Street Fighter 4 and what is your favorite game of all time.

As mentioned in yesterday's Mailbag, one question we received nearly brought the entire staff to blows. That question? The top 10 games of all time, of course. And if that question wasn't hard enough to answer on its own, just wait until you see the rules imposed on us...

Sixteen years ago, Super Metroid defined a genre that was badly in need of a standard bearer.

The Internet's ubiquitous funnyman/former Super Friend Seanbaby joins Bitmob's Dan Hsu, Demian Linn, and Brett Bates to celebrate the Mobcast's 50th episode. The group discusses their favorite games, frustrating experiences, great moments in video game history, gaming-related birthday memories, and which games they'll be playing in 2060.

If you thought April is a historically light month for video games, you would be wrong. This installment of This Week in Video Game History gives us an opportunity to celebrate a classic game that is still very relevant, curse gamers for avoiding two fantastic games, and confirm that video games are worthy of a show about nothing.

Retro Gaming History Lesson

Is the division between casual and hardcore a new phenomenon? Perhaps you'll discover the answer as I explore whether gamers were homogeneous in the past.

We sat down with Nintendo of America's localization producer Nate Bihldorff to learn more about a more realistic Samus, why they wouldn't give the same treatment to Link or Mario, and whether we'll see our star in a wii bikini. (You do know who's developing this game, don't you?)

Have action/adventure games dropped the adventure part in favor of more action?

Richard Eisenbeis examines how suicide has acted as an emotional catalyst in video game narratives.

Welcome to part two of four of my "Top 100 Games" list.

The Top 8 Boss fights of all time according to Mike Minotti, an expert in the field.

Shadow Complex is clearly inspired by games like Super Metroid and Castlevania, but it also innovates fundamentally on this subgenre in ways that simply can't be ignored in future iterations of these traditional franchises.

While probably not destined to go down as a classic like the games that inspired it, Shadow Complex replicates their formulas admirably in a scaled down, $15 package.

A detailed review of Shadow Complex