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Sega Rally's demo served a valuable purpose beyond just giving me a chance to try the game out. It reminded me that the arcade sim racer genre still existed. Back in the heyday of arcades, people lined up for literally minutes to sit in a comfortable molded plastic chair and drive a few laps around a Daytona track.

Good evening all, welcome to the Demo Critic, where I, the titular critic, judge videogames based on the small portions that their developers and publishers see fit to release over Xbox Live Marketplace. Today's subject? Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.

Welcome back for the third round of the Xbox Live demo round-up, where I, the idlest hands in the game-reviewing community desperately try to use a plethora of demos to take time away from the vast, barren expanse that is my schedule.

Welcome back for the second round of the Xbox Live demo round-up, where I, the idlest hands in the game-reviewing community desperately try to use a plethora of demos to take time away from the vast, barren expanse that is my schedule.

Welcome to the 11th installment of the long-absent Portable Project, last seen July, 2004. The ‘Project is a feature devoted to handheld gaming that gives critics a chance to dish on smaller titles that might not otherwise get their fifteen minutes of fame, and this relaunch of the feature is dedicated to critic emeritus Erin Bell, who originally created the concept before going on to pursue a career outside of GameCritics.com.

Welcome to the most superfluous of features here at gamecritics.com, Dan's demo roundup! It's where I, the only video game reviewer on the internet with a lot of time on his hands, have taken it onto myself to play all the new hot, hot and new demos currently available at the Xbox Live Marketpalce. That's the motto here at Dan's Demo Roundup: Spending a very small amount of time with tiny portions of games, so you needn't bother!

Welcome to the eighteenth installment of a semi-regular feature here at GameCritics.com: the Bargain Basement covering Tron 2.0: Killer App, WinBack 2: Project Poseidon and Hulk.

Welcome to the seventeenth installment of a semi-regular feature here at GameCritics.com—the Bargain Basement.

Welcome back to the fourteenth installment of a semi-regular feature here at GameCritics.com—the Bargain Basement.

Like most debt-riddled working middle-class Americans, I get a kick out of buying “cool” stuff. Right before my son Ryan was born in June 2005, I swore that I would make sacrifices for my new family and cut down on frivolous spending.