Ok, we're a little late, but technically you can wish someone a happy New Year until March of that year. So on behalf of GameCritics.com, have a Happy New Year. Hopefully, 2009 will be an improvement on 2008!

"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." -Alfred Hitchcock

HIGH Wonderful art style & environment.

LOW Game feels too easy at points.

WTF I didn't realize so many people in the 50s kept audio diaries and left them laying around in random boxes, air vents, and dead bodies.

It’s Dance Dance Revolution for my hands

HIGH My standout tune: “Battle for Planet Earth” by Tokyo Robot Gangsters.

LOW Disappointment that there isn’t much variety beyond the core game.

WTF I could half-heartedly wiggle the Wiimote and still score.

Komodo OpenLab's Aibicom, or Asynchronous Interpreter of Binary Commands is a development library for making "binary control applications" that use a single button or switch. Aibicom can control two separate domains at once; thus, Michael Dzura could use Aibicom to play a game of Neverball using only one key:

A paper on Aibicom was published in the October 29, 2008 issue of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

The staff at GameCritics.com would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Hope your Christmas morning was as great as this kid's:

Faithfully retelling a myth that never was

HIGH Choosing "no more talk" after being insulted by an Ionian on Mycenae.

LOW The lack of a minimap during navigation.

WTF Getting through the entire game without realizing I could throw my spear.

I've been playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for forever—well, sort of. I got stuck and put the game down for a while, maybe a couple of months. But when I picked Phantom Hourglass back up again, I couldn't get unstuck. And I didn't even know why I was stuck in the first place.