Meet Strong Bad. He’s cooler than you, is way awesome, gets all the hot babes, and really hates Homestar Runner. If that makes about as much sense to you as an episode of Hannah Montana, then steer your browser to Homestarrunner.com and catch up on the hip, animated world of this web phenomenon. ...

In Insecticide, Crackpot Entertainment are giving two genres an honest bash, doing their best to combine a 3D platformer in the vein of Psychonauts and a 3D point-and-clicker like Telltale’s Sam & Max series. The game takes place in the city of Troi, where a sudden crime wave has kicked off, giving newbie detective Chrys Liszt a great deal of work. ...

We’ll forgive the creators of this game for bringing this to PC almost a year after releasing it on console, because this smash-’em-up racer is enormous amounts of fun. ...

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, they say, and that’s exactly how you’ll feel for the first half an hour or so here. Bizarrely, this retro-styled platformer doesn’t have a jump button, forcing you to rely on the titular appendage to negotiate baddie-infested levels. ...

Match three games seem to have broken through the shit barrier. Puzzle Quest took basic plan-ahead gameplay into the realms of RPGs and Aurora Feint is giving a simpler distraction for free, to anyone with the new iPod software. ...

Do not buy this game. We’ll explain why, but it’s important that we get that out of the way to begin with. Put your credit card back in its plastic sheath, so we can talk with less urgency. Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is about $20 (including various taxes). For that, you get 30 levels, each taking between one or two minutes. ...

With every siege-able dungeon on Earth now thoroughly sieged, Gas Powered Games’ Space Siege goes not-so-boldly where few action RPGs have gone before - to a cavernous starship in the inky blackness of space. ...

Since the disappointing SimCity Societies was released last year, a lot of changes have appeared in various updates. Many have significantly improved the core game, and addressed the reasons why it scored so poorly. Yet a number of important issues have not been fixed, leaving Societies hovering precariously between the poorly designed initial release and something deserving of the SimCity mantle. ...

Out of the Park Baseball 9, or OotPB 9 for short, is a comprehensive, astonishingly intricate sim. It’s just one that doesn’t have a friendly way in for new players. ...

Remember the moment you found out that most fairy tales weren’t originally the happy stories the Disney Corporation would have you believe, but rather brutal morality lessons? American McGee’s Grimm manages to turn that childhood disillusion into an episodic game (this review covers the first three of 23 30-minute episodes, to be released weekly on GameTap.com), by playing off those dark origins. ...