Aussie emulation mash-up Jan. 27
The PlayStation Network Store and Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace get a bit wet this week thanks to Konami's latest puzzle game.

Living to create
Before Bryan Gentry traveled the country as a professional musician, before he became a tattoo artist whose work graces the bodies of hundreds of people in North Platte and beyond, he was just another kid with big dreams and talents just waiting to be discovered.

IMPRESSIONS: Kid Icarus: Uprising Impressions
Pit packs a punch... and a staff, and a club, and a blade, and a... Taking place 24 years after the original, Medusa has returned to torment humankind, and Palutena calls upon Pit to take down the snake-headed goddess and her Underworld Army. Though it's populated by many of the same monsters, Kid Icarus: Uprising is nothing like the original games, but it's a huge mish-mash of several types of ...

NintendoWare Weekly: Mutant Mudds, Mario & Sonic, Flush the Goldfish
As promised , another 3DS demo is available on the eShop, this time for Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games . It may not have zombies, but then, it may have Waluigi. Renegade Kid's Mutant Mudds , its first self-published project, is also up on the eShop this week, offering challenging platforming and shooting and some dramatic 3D effects. DSiWare features a sequel to the indie game ...

Next-gen textbooks? It's the ecosystem, not the device
I love hardware as much as the next geek, but solving our ed tech problems will require one heck of an ecosystem; hardware is a tiny piece of the puzzle.