Wipeout Pulse
PlayStation Portable

SCEA's pet brand of almost terminally-groovy antigravity racing is back, following in the neon tracers of its predecessor, Wipeout Pure. Pulse sweetens the deal for PSP owners with an expanded career mode, online multi-player, custom audio tracks, with at least one caveat: It's brutally-demanding in terms of reflexes and precision on the part of the player.

Turok
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Consistently stunning, visually, as you'd expect from any old new-generation shooter, Turok is only sporadically fun, and you've played it before under some other no-neck name, and probably with an original sense of purpose.

Lost Odyssey
Xbox 360

To paraphrase a phrase, with great expectation comes great responsibility. Unfortunately, Lost Odyssey from master game maker Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy fame, does very little to take stock role-playing gaming to another level, though the promise of such has been emanating from the Xbox hype machine for some time now. On the upside, Final Fantasy games remain the pinnacle of RPGs, and Lost Odyssey ranks right beside them... just not on top of them.

God of War: Chains of Olympus
PlayStation Portable

An excellent reason to own a PlayStation Portable, God of War: Chains of Olympus is an almost-perfectly excellent game to go in it, or a mostly-perfectly excellent game, depending on your half-full interpretation of half-empty glasses. Or mostly-full... Nevermind.

Dynasty Warriors 6
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Meet the new Dynasty Warriors game, same as the old Dynasty Warriors game, which was the same as the four (or more) other old Dynasty Warriors games before that, which makes Dynasty Warriors games, well, a dynasty. Not so much a memorable dynasty though, because, by now, they're all just one glorious hacking smear of vague memorableness.

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Windows PC

Though "stand alone expansion pack" is something of an oxymoron, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts nonetheless expands on the original Company of Heroes to great effect. Plus, you don't have to own the original game to play this one. Follow?