On ourprevious flash adventurewe ran into yet another locked room and most of us promptly conquered the “escape the room” in record time. However, this time around the block won’t be as easy, and will constitute of many more times spinning around looking for the exit in a much more imaginative environment. One of my gripes with all games of this genre is a cliché complaint with a cliché game mechanic: they need to think outside the box....

Uber Entertainment is showing off new content — a map dubbed Uncle Tully’s Funland — for the PC version ofMonday Night Combatat PAX East (booth #560). In anticipation of fresh meat getting into the team-based multiplayer game, Uber has introduced an All-Star rating system to help ease them into the fight with gear-laden veteran players. The update also brings new Outlander gear, taunts, and the Cardboard Tube Samurai (of Penny Arcade fame) outfit for the Assassin....

MonkeyPaw Games is still going full force with these digital PS1 imports. This week they bringDezaemon Plus!andBlockidsto the PlayStation Network. Both really cool games. Oh, and with these we have twelve games from MonkeyPaw on PSN now. Hopefully you’ve sent some thanks their way via a couple of purchases. Dezaemon Plus!is something so cool that it’s still imported. It’s a shmup with editing tools. The game editor lets you make levels, enemies, characters and even music....

[Our first promoted blog for last week’s Motion Control topic is from ICLHStudios, who brings us a very insightful and well-illustrated examination into the dissatisfaction many of us have with waggling, and offers some suggestions to make a better motion-controlled swordfighting experience. Promotions for Motion Control will continue all this week. If you want to see your blog make it to the front page next week, make sure you write something aboutour current topic, eSports....

[Our final promoted blog for the Motion Control call for blogs comes from fulldamage. Thanks a ton to everyone who participated this week — we had some really great blogs, and more I wish I could have promoted. If you want to see your own stuff on the front page, you still have this weekend to finish up yourblog on eSports. A new topic will be posted on Monday, and eSports blogs will be promoted all week....

For those of you hoping that today’s mandatory Xbox 360 system update brings new features, I’m sorry to disappoint. In all actuality,the patchis merely just another one of those “behind-the-scenes” sort of things that’ll improve Xbox Live’s scalability. In similar news, Xbox Live will be down from 2:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday for “scheduled maintenance.”Major Nelsonalso informs us that Xbox.com will be unavailable and you won’t be able to post on the Xbox....

Thomas Bidaux, NCsoft’s director of product development, thinks that while Home is “very interesting,” it probably won’t cause PS3s to fly off the shelves. “One of the limitations is linked to the PlayStation 3 – so the success of Home is 100 percent tied to the PS3’s penetration into the market,” Bidaux said. “I don’t think you can say you will sell more PS3s because of Home, but if the PS3 had the right penetration in the market, then yes – Home will be very interesting....

I have to admit that after not connecting withFinal Fantasy XIIas I hoped I might, I lost a lot of enthusiasm for the Final Fantasy series. You meet people all the time who say there hasn’t been a good Final Fantasy sinceVII, and while I personally loved several of the games following it, I definitely sensed that there was some spark missing as of late. That being said, it’s hard to know whether I’m experiencing a Pavlovian reaction over thebrand spanking newFinal Fantasy XIIItrailerthat just went live on the game’s Japanese website, or whether I am really am loving what I’m seeing, but either way I think I just tapped into my sense of excitement for this game, and that’s a bit of a thrill when you have loved games in this series as much as I have....

I think my head just exploded. This new trailer forTNA iMPACT!put together for Leipzig Games Convention is packed with action. Thumping dance music, lots of explosions, a really excited guy with a deep voice telling us to “embrace the pain.” Kind of makes me want to hit someone with a steel ladder. Even if you’re not a wrestling fan, you have to admit that the game is looking pretty great. As the deep voiced guy reminds us, the gameispowered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 3....

Yes, you read that right. DSiWare, Nintendo’s latest and most disappointing online service, has released its second clock in just a matter of weeks, following up on the ridiculousAnimal CrossingclockwithPhoto Clock(Nintendo, 1 player, 200 Nintendo DSi Points). InPhoto Clockyou get to put a clock face over the photographs you have taken with your DSi camera. Why you’d want to do that, nobody knows, but it’s surely better thanAmerican Popstar: Road to Celebrity(Gameloft, 1-4 players, 800 Nintendo DSi Points)which also released today and has a title that says enough....

Nintendo has threatened a number ofPokémonfansites with closure over the posting ofPokémonBlack/Whitescreenshots. The game, which is already out in Japan, had its entire cast of Pokémon revealed recently, and the flood of information has apparently brought down Nintendo’s angry legal hammer. “While Nintendo appreciates your interest in and support of thePokémongame series, your publication of this content infringes Nintendo’s copyrights in violation of federal law,” warns Nintendo. “Your activity also and has the potential to cause substantial damage to Nintendo, and leaves Nintendo with no choice but to take steps to protect its intellectual property rights....

AmericanStarCraftfans looking for a chance to take on their Asian counterparts will have to wait a bit, asStarCraft IIis not going to be supporting cross-server play on day one. While considered for initial conclusion, and is still being considered for a future content patch, Blizzard decided that they want to keep all servers regional for the initial launch of the game. This means that people in the US can only play against other North Americans, the Euros have to play with other Europeans, and the Asian servers will be playing amongst themselves....

No More Heroeswas a passable game but had a lot of things I hated, such as the overworld, the driving and the overworld. The overworld was pretty crap as well, honestly. The sequel changes all of that. Now, my only real complaints are a couple of unreasonable boss fights and somewhat iffy platforming in a couple of special sections. That’s why I feel totally comfortable recommending that you buyNo More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggleon Amazon today....