Consoles and PC's have had a slow month interms of new AAA quality games arriving for your respected platform. While January got off to a slow start, it quickly recovered to bring us high quality tittles through digital distribution. Plenty of great downloadable arcade tittles were made available through XBLA, PSN and Steam, giving us many hidden gems on the digital marketplace. Let's look back at the games we reviewed over the past month.  

There’s nothing wrong with trying to design a platformer that appeals to the old school.  A lot of us grew up playing games on the NES, SNES or some older system, and fondly remember the good ol’ days where the likes of Mario and Sonic truly got their start.  But even with the boldest original idea, your platformer doesn’t stand a chance if the gameplay isn’t solid enough.  There are countless Genesis games we can easily point out that suffer from this issue.  And, sadly, Crocodile Entertainment’s Zack Zero is stuck right alongside them.

Every Tuesday, Sony brings its PlayStation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Not the best week for new content for new content on the PSN. If you missed Duke Nukem Forever then here is your chance to get the king as he finally makes his debut on current gen consoles. Not the best game on the market, but worth a pick up if your Duke Nukem Fan.

Sony’s San Diego Studio has been working on ModNation Racers: Road Trip, a portable PlayStation Vita incarnation of the hit PlayStation 3 game. The PS Vita game allows players to connect online to share and play any creations from both the PS3 game and the new travel-sized version. Gamers can quickly create karts and tracks and then jump into competitive ad hoc races against friends (there’s on online racing support). The developer walks through the new game in this exclusive video below.

Mention the word "journey" to your friends and right away they'll probably break out into an embarrassing round of "Don't Stop Believin'"...and won't shut up until you smack them in the head.  However, that name recognition may change this year, as thatgamecompany, the developer behind such outstanding efforts as flOW and Flower, are putting together an exquisite new downloadable experience for PlayStation Network.  Say hello to Journey.

Nathan Drake just had his biggest adventure yet with Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Now the action hero is going on his smallest quest to date – at least in screen size. Sony is launching PlayStation Vita with Uncharted: Golden Abyss, a brand new game in the franchise. And yes, Nolan North is back to voice Drake in the portable PS Vita launch title. Check out the game in action from CES 2012 in the exclusive video below.

LAS VEGAS – Sony debuted its newest PlayStation Vita shooter, Unit 13, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012). Shipping on March 6, the game offers 36 missions playable in single player or co-op, along with dynamic versions of those missions; plus nine HVT missions to unlock and share via near; six different operatives; 10 levels per operative that unlock new abilities, weapons and equipment; plus the daily challenge missions and leaderboards for all 36 single player and co-op missions. Check out a video walkthough of the new game below.