First things first, Nintendo’s hard brain training game, Brain Age: Concentration Training, is available for the 3DS today. Dr. Kawashima, the master of brains himself, has promised that you’ll have a devilishly good time with the third game in the Brain Age series.
Moving on, this week’s other major release is Aliens: Colonial Marines. The Sega-published, Gearbox-developer continuation of the Alien saga has been in development for a long time, but if you’ve ever wanted a direct sequel to Aliens, this is your best chance. Pick it up on Tuesday for the PC, PS3, or Xbox 360.
Also available this week is Omerta: City of Gangsters. If you’ve ever thought, “a strategy RPG starring gangsters and set in the bootleggin’ Prohibition era would be a hoot-and-a-half,” then this PC and Xbox 360 game might be for you. It also might be for you if you regularly use the phrase “hoot-and-a-half” in regular conversation.
Finally, a pair of 3DS games make their belated debut on the portable platform. Both Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 3D are now available on Nintendo’s handheld.
Are you sitting down? You might want to sit down. Activision has announced something shocking at their quarterly financial conference.
On the “Hardcover Advice and Miscellaneous” list that is. The top non-fiction book is actually Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World, a spot its held for three straight weeks. But that doesn’t stop Dark Horse Comics from crowing about their “#1 New York Times Bestseller,” which they’ve begun to do on their 
According to the weather report, and everyone who likes to engage in small talk, there is a large quantity of snow headed my way. The only reason this is upsetting to me is because it might cancel my Dungeons & Dragons game tomorrow, which would be a sad thing indeed. But if it did, then I could sit at home and play all the video games that have been piling up over the last few weeks, which is a happy thing. And it would also give me lots of time to work on homework, which is sad but also good. I mean… you get me.
When the last Hitman film debuted six years ago, it left such a sour taste in moviegoer’s mouths that the franchise’s fate seemed as sealed as a stone tomb housing a rotting corpse. However, the powers that be at Fox International Productions have decided to give it another try with a rebooted film, Agent 47. Working from a script by Skip Woods, the writer of the original mess, they have opted to cast the blue-eyed Paul Walker as Agent 47, most famous for the Fast and the Furious series.
Ubisoft’s ZombiU is one of the unquestioned successes of the Wii U’s early life. The game has given the zombie genre a new twist and it has made more than a few gamers interested in the game of cricket. Hoping to hook new Wii U purchasers in the same way, Nintendo has announced its first special system bundle: the ZombiU Deluxe Set.
