The good news keeps on coming for publisher ZeniMax Media. Worldwide revenues generated by The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have placed it among the industry's most successful titles, and demand for the title shows no signs of slowing. Measured by revenue, Skyrim was the second best selling game of 2011, and 2012 sales remain strong, with continuing digital downloads and large shipments of units to retail. Within the first month following its release in November, Bethesda Softworks® reported it had shipped over 10 million units of Skyrim across all platforms, representing approximately $650 million in retail sales, and those results have since increased substantially.  

The man who conjured Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, is behind one of the most impressive PlayStation Vita launch games. Gravity Rush follows a young woman with amnesia, who names herself Kat, that is able to manipulate gravity. Set in the skyscraper-clad city of Hekseville, the game utilizes PS Vita's gyro sensor to allow Kat to float through the air. Toyama is already working on DLC for the game and would like to develop a full sequel. Checkout the game in action in the exclusive video walkthrough below.

When I played Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D for Nintendo 3DS last year, I saw some great potential out of the game, save problems and all.  But it still felt a little short-handed to me, as if Capcom was holding back for something better – in this case, Resident Evil Revelations.  And this problem has happened more than once, and is likely to happen again when next month’s Operation Raccoon City is dwarfed by Resident Evil 6 later this year.  But that’s later on.  For now, I humbly suggest you enjoy Revelations, because it’s the Resident Evil experience that the 3DS needs.

Activision is once again blending the virtual game world with the very real and lucrative world of toys. High Moon Studios’ latest Transformers game, Fall of Cybertron, marks the debut of new characters in the mythology. These Transformers made their toy debut at the 109th annual New York Toy Fair.

I wasn’t the biggest fan in the world of Final Fantasy XIII.  Number one, role-playing games aren’t my bread and butter anyway, though good ones, like Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, still find a way to suck up all my time.  Number two, the game just wasn’t nearly as engaging to me as previous chapters in the series, nor some of my favorite Square Enix RPG’s, like Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.  (Maybe I’m SNES spoiled.)  That said, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a step in the right direction, and a little more involving than its predecessor…despite a few hiccups.

When I saw the remake of Journey To the Center of the Earth a few years ago, I found it to be completely unnecessary, a movie make merely to milk the whiz-bang 3D technology that was just getting off the ground at the time.  That said, I still had more fun with it than I thought I would, mainly because it had Brendan Fraser being, well, Brendan Fraser, and some of the stuff actually looks pretty good in the third dimension.  But I always had that worry about producers taking things a step too far.  And in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, they do exactly that.

It’s frustrating to see an interesting concept in a video game go to crap because the developers couldn’t come up with a way to make the gameplay more enjoyable.  Case in point with Konami’s NeverDead – it has some good ideas behind it, and the main protagonist has a good head on his shoulders.  Well, part of the time, anyway.  But the game's potential is squandered by bad controls and ultimately bad decisions that may leave you cursing at the thought you have to live through all this.