“To the Moon” is the first game to make me cry. It’s actually the first anything to make me cry, as I’ve never shed a tear over any form of media prior to finishing the game last week. I didn’t bat an eye at the montage in the opening act of “Up,” but I felt a single tear roll down my cheek as I watched the ending to this pixilated adventure game written by one man.

I had Portal 2 spoiled for me by a man who posted the major twist in a thread title on the official forums – an instant permanent ban. Now, I usually don’t mind if something is spoiled for me, so as disappointed as I was, I didn’t get too angry. Then I reached the twist. The twist that would have been that so much more powerful if I hadn’t seen it coming. Suffice to say that there now exists a person whose day I’d like to ruin.

With recent news that a 3-D conversion of “The Phantom Menace” will be released next year—and really, is anyone surprised that George Lucas has latched on to yet another way to sell more copies of the same movies––I thought maybe we could focus on one of the few good things that sprang from the “Star Wars” universe: “Knights of the Old Republic.

With the introduction of every new form of multimedia comes a fountainhead of new pornographic material. In an America when VHS was the peak of technology, the Atari 2600 allowed for vast new forays into porn-material-porn-user interaction. From this brave new world emerged “Custer’s Revenge” on Oct. 13, 1982.

When we last left my budding career as a pro gamer, I was heading into the first match of the Community Highlander Tournament against a team called, “HiSpy.” In case you were wondering, my team was called, “Ø.” Yeah, the symbol.

It’s easy to hate on “Chrono Cross,” the much-anticipated follow-up to “Chrono Trigger”. Its story was clumsily told, diluted between too many characters, and it threw in one confusing twist too many. Yet as the years have passed since its release, these same idiosyncrasies have made “Chrono Cross” as much of a classic as “Chrono Trigger”.

On Monday, I covered “Passage,” and, as promised, today I return with another art game for your perusal. This time it’s another short emotion-‘em-up, but worry not: Today’s selection is not nearly as morbid as Jason Rohrer’s five-minute wonder. “Passage” may have instilled the fear of death in people across the globe, but today’s game will leave you in awe of the kindness of the human spirit—or something to that effect.

“Aliens vs. Predator” returns once again to the video-gaming world as a new installment from Rebellion Studios, which produced the critically acclaimed PC version of “Aliens versus Predator” in 1999. How does the new title stack up against the rest? “Aliens vs. Predator” sets itself apart from similar games by providing three separate campaigns: marine, Alien and Predator.

Before the Wii came out, there was a lot of hype over two games: “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” and “Red Steel.” Given how the games are remembered nowadays, it may surprise readers to hear that the original “Red Steel” had nearly as much buzz around it as “Twilight Princess.

“Torchlight” is an excellent action RPG that offers one of the most inexplicably compulsive and cathartic experiences to grace PC gaming since the “Diablo” series. This should be no surprise, given that developer Runic Games is home to the co-designers and composer of the original Blizzard franchise.