Bangai-O Spirits
Nintendo DS
If you enjoy freakishly difficult games as you whittle away at your down time on your Nintendo DS, by all means, check out Bangai-O Spirits.

Madden NFL 09
PlayStation 3
Meet the new Madden. Same as the old Madden. Except with some new stuff to make it seem new. Just like the old Madden.

Soul Calibur IV
PlayStation 3
The preeminent weapons-based fighter returns as Soul Calibur IV, replete with the expected melodramatic underpinnings, hopelessly garish costumes, impossibly huge swords, staffs and axes, flagrant flamboyance, and defiantly cheeseball, soul crushing mythology.

Soul Calibur IV
Xbox 360
"Hrm. My element out of I am. Perhaps all pinball on your exposed buttocks I will go." Okay, Yoda doesn't actually say that, but you know he's thinking it... in Soul Calibur IV anyway.

Reset Generation
Mobile, Windows PC
Funny, but neither the mainstream- nor the enthusiast press have covered "mobile games" all that much -- probably because the quality of mobile gaming content thus far has been about as headline-worthy as "Innovations in Ketchup." Reset Generation is set to change all that.

Wonder World Amusement Park
Wii
Oh look, a mini-game collection on Wii. Not just any old mini-collection, mind you, but one specifically geared toward kids and their grandmas. How clever. They might be on to something here.

Battlefield: Bad Company
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Battlefield: Bad Company has you and three military misfit buddies getting tossed to the wolves as disposable manpower. Thankfully, said buddies don't die... but they don't shut up much either.

Top Spin 3
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
If you're a tennis fan, the lack of Rafael Nadal in the Xbox 360 version of Top Spin 3 is probably not enough to make you swap allegiances and become a PlayStation3 loyalist, but it is a stinger. If you're not a tennis fan, Top Spin 3 on either system (and excluding Wii) might make you one.