As the Joker said in the last Batman film.... "Where do I begin?"

Get your stuff on.

Third person action gaming goes to hell this month with the release of Dante's Inferno. Developed by Visceral Games (creators of Dead Space and Dead Space: Extraction), and published by EA, Dante's Inferno takes players through hell based on the events in The Divine Comedy. This game has looked solid ever since I first saw it in person at E3, and now having completed it, I'm still under that impression.

Having already beaten the Playstation 3 Dragon Age: Origins, I felt compelled to try out and review the Collector's Edition from EA on the Macintosh. Is there much of a difference or was it more of the same? Read on....

If you're not familiar with the Left 4 Dead series, where have you been? The first Left 4 Dead was a survival horror FPS that that fitted 4 four players against hordes of zombies that could be played cooperatively or competitively (4 other players on the "infected team"). Left 4 Dead 2 takes the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor, but is there enough there to warrant spending another fifty bucks? Read on to find out.

An expansion pack that expands the definition

EA and Valve follow up the hit game Left 4 Dead with the equally interesting sequel Left 4 Dead 2. The big question here is, "Can a game with such a simple premise really top itself again?" Let's find out.

Two epic games in one week? Man, my thumbs are sore, but it was all worth it. Sorry for being late folks, but I wanted to give you all the goods and bads of this Bioware beauty. Trust me, there isn't a lot here to dislike.

It's a family game night where you don't have to feel bad about your purchase.

You're about to get NERFed.

Soccer where have you been all my life?

When we got FIFA Soccer 10 in for review we all stared at it like it was an alien object from an unknown planet.  That reaction is typical when it comes to soccer in these areas as Kentucky is mainly known as a basketball state. Football comes after basketball in the listing and somewhere around field hockey and kickball, soccer shows up. We had requested this game, though.  As silly as it sounds, my daughter's first year in soccer was this year and I was determined to learn what I considered nothing more than a 'glorified game of kickball'. What I learned through her propelled me through this review.

I've had the good fortune to be able to check out all three NBA titles this year. First, SCEA's NBA 10: The Inside, then 2K Sports' NBA 2K10, and now, the winner of the most improved NBA game of the year, NBA Live 10 from EA Sports. In recent years, the gap between 2K and Live has been considerable, but this year the choice isn't nearly so obvious with a tremendous effort from the Live team. For those of us that remember the glory days of NBA Live in the 90s and early 2000s, I have two words to say in regards to Live 10: "I'm Back."

As a long time Need For Speed fan, I had my concerns when I heard the newest iteration of Need For Speed was going sim, rather than sticking with the familiar arcade racing I had come to know and love from the series. To date my favorite NFS is Most Wanted; the thrill of the police chases and the memories I have of working my way through the Black List are still fond today. There are no police chases in SHIFT, but what you do get is a great racer in the vein of Forza and Gran Turismo. No, it doesn't have hundreds of licensed cars and it's not as hardcore of a sim as those, but can SHIFT, in its first year, compete with these two juggernauts? Well, I'm no expert on the other two nor in technical sim racing, but I can tell you that SHIFT is a hell of a lot of fun and very addictive.