Last December, I forked out twenty big ones to Telltale Games with the promise that I would be getting treated to a new adventure in the Back to the Future universe.  Eight months later, the series of episodes promised me have come to an end.  As an avid fan of the movie trilogy I was terrified that this game would tarnish the good name of the franchise, but ever hopeful that it would live up to it.  I’m glad to say that as the credits rolled, I thought truly felt as though I had just finished watching Back to the Future: Part 4.

2009's MadWorld was my favorite game of 2009 (and what first made me buy a Wii in the first place), so when word got out that Jack and the rest of the best characters from that title were to return to the console world in Anarchy Reigns my heart began to pound ecstatically. At E3 I was able to go hands-on with the online brawler, the end results of which left a bittersweet taste in my mouth.

It seems that nowadays the survival-horror genre is a thing of the past.  Where atmosphere and storytelling were once paramount in the design of games deemed scary, action seems to be main thing on people’s mind.  This is surely not a bad thing as it brings about games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 5, both fantastic games in their own right.  The main issue with these games is you are decked out like a marine, so the scariness gets a bit watered down by the giant guns you get to shove in your back pocket.  Just when I had all but given up on finding a truly scary game, I stumbled across Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

It's Embrace Your Geekness Day today, and I was bouncing around the interwebs looking for neat things to share when I came across a video of a gamer who specifically set out to get the lowest score possible on the classic Nintendo game Super Mario Bros., completing the game and without dying. Hit the jump and check out the video and let us know what you think: genius or madness?

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We had a bit of a hard week here in the land of ESH. Both NinJa and Panda were under the weather and we'd rather walk barefoot over hot coals in August in Arizona than put out a crappy show. So what does that mean for you?

It'd be fair to say that Rayman has been standing in the shadows of those furry bastards known as the Rabbids since he invited them into his life. Since then little had been seen of the armless and legless protagonist who first won our hearts in the 1990s. Fortunately our hero from the Sea of Lums has prepared himself for a major comeback, in the form of the four-player co-op adventure Rayman Origins.