Trine 2 combines a beautiful and vibrant world with platforming, puzzles and RPG elements to create one of the best downloadable titles of 2011.

Terry Cavanagh’s excellent VVVVVV will be coming to Nintendo’s 3DS handheld, published by Nicalis. The game will be available through the system’s eShop.

This time I obtained several cool Nintendo goodies.

The Ball is a game where, somewhat predictably, you push a big ball around. There’s a bit more to it than that, but really it’s all you need to understand the basics.

We sat down with the producers of both titles to get an insight into just how and why Capcom will soon be holding your Nintendo DS captive.

Popcap games and Valve have announced that the Game of the Year edition of Plants Vs Zombies is available now on Steam and on PopCap’s home page…

Have you ever played Tetris and thought that the game could use better physics? Of course you haven’t, it’s Tetris. It takes a certain kind of crazy to reimagine the legendary puzzle game with more realistic physics involved, and thank god that kind of crazy exists.

We know you loved all the readily available footage from Valve’s behind the scenes E3 2010 demo of Portal 2. Of course you did. Valve knows it too. But you probably hated the fact that it was all shot off-screen …

One of my highest rated and most enjoyable games from 2010, Darksiders, has been given the green light for a sequel by THQ with an expected release some time in 2012. The original focused on the story of War …

Lara Croft: Guardian of Light is not a Tomb Raider game, and although it does share a protagonist with the series, the differences outnumber the similarities …

Nintendo’s DS has plenty of third-party support, and Professor Layton And The Unwound Future is just one of a massive list.

Darrell Rodriguez, president of LucasArts has resigned from his position, along with several other members of his team. The reasons for his resignation are still uncertain, but it seems that LucasFilm’s Jerry Bowerman will take his place until a full-time replacement can be found.

I consider my iPod touch to be another gaming handheld that happens to play music. It’s great for budget gaming on-the-go, I always have it with me, and the number of great games on the platform is ever expanding. In all honestly, it’s my favorite gaming device, and I’m always excited to find new games [...]

Before playing Crosswords DS, I asked myself, “How am I going to review a game with a foundation built around a collection of crosswords?” However, after obsessively playing the game to the point of crossword-induced dreams, Crosswords DS had me in a headlock that would not let go.

Who says Wii games don’t look good? Activision today announced that Pitfall: The Big Adventure is currently being developed by Edge of Reality, the folks who are in the motions of creating Cipher Complex and The Incredible Hulk, and who also brought us the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games on the N64.