​After spending a few hours playing Borderlands 2 in San Francisco, we sat down with Gearbox's Wes Parker and Steve Gibson, character artist and vice president of marketing and PR, respectively. Both had plenty to say about what they're proud of in Borderlands 2 and how fan feedback from the first game has influenced its development.

​Sitting down with Borderlands 2 for the first time, a small part of me was worried that the game would be too similar to its predecessor. Little I'd seen so far of Gearbox's sequel had suggested that the familiar formula would be undergoing any massive changes or overhauls. Borderlands had its share of issues, but it wasn't exactly broken. And you know what they say about things that aren't broken.

Reviewing Diablo 3 is a daunting task. How can I sort through the results of over a decade of anticipation, much less shed my own personal biases regarding Blizzard and the Diablo series? I'm not even sure what's important to me anymore. Do I care whether the classes are balanced? There's plenty of time to tweak things still before PVP is unleashed. What about the story? Does it matter whether it makes a lick of sense? Or am I happy simply because there's always more loot to find, another skill to unlock, another thing to click?

Veterans of Warhawk, the second-to-last game from the studio whose employees went on to form LightBox, will be able to jump right into Starhawk—as soon as they come to understand the game's deceptively complex "build-and-battle" system.

With anticipation for Diablo 3 reaching catastrophic levels, we got to chat with the game's lead gameplay designer, Blizzard's Kevin Martens, who told me that even the most hardcore Diablo fans "ain't seen nothing yet" and that Blizzard is preparing to "punch a mountain in space".

Like Sonic before it, Silent Hill is a franchise that's fallen far from the level of quality fans expect. With a new developer on board, though, Downpour, the eighth Silent Hill title, might be the one to raise the bar back up.

Mario Party was the Game of Thrones of N64-era video games. Deceit and betrayal were commonplace. Your friends and allies could in an instant become your most hated enemies. And the enemy of your enemy was, most likely, also your enemy; whomever was in the lead at any given time was sure to receive the brunt of other players' attacks, and the tables could turn more quickly than you could say "Red Wedding."