Platinum Games, the wonderfully creative team behind thrilling action titles such as Bayonetta 2, Vanquish, and Anarchy Reigns, blesses the Wii U with what will be the company’s first next-generation effort, The Wonderful 101. I previously played the game at New York Comic Con, but an updated E3 build showcased many of the game’s new features.

It’s Father’s Day 2011! Instead of taking a trip to the mall to buy dear ol’ dad a heinous tie or coffee mug, consider opening your laptop and showing daddy our list of memorable video game fathers. They may not be the best, they may not be the worst, but you’ll definitely remember them. Just like pops.

Killer Instinct, Rare’s bombastic fighting game series, returns to combat after a 17 year hiatus. Last appearing on the Nintendo 64 as Killer Instinct Gold, Killer Instinct lied dormant until it was teased at Microsoft’s E3 2013 Xbox One press conference.

Killer Instinct, now under the guidance of developer Double Helix, has returned at the right time. Fighting games have enjoyed a renaissance that’s resulted in Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Dead or Alive, and Virtua Fighter receiving new series entries. The fighting game landscape hasn’t been this rich in decades, so its good to see Killer Instinct, one of the ’90s fighting game posterboys, contribute to this second coming.

World War II continues to serve as a backdrop for many comics — The Rocketeer and Half Past Danger are just two books which we recently reviewed that used the battle as a backdrop. While those books aim for big adventure, Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem aims for a more intimate tale — at least in this first issue. The three issue series from the creative team of Steve Niles and Matt Santoro (writers) and Dave Wachter (artist) draws from the Jewish golem legend — a story of a clay creature brought to life via a holy person.

The Web’s forever changed the way we consume entertainment — and for the better. Instead of being beholden to network TV and cable companies for chuckles and drama, we now turn to the internets for the lulz and teh dramaz. This isn’t recycled stuff; original Web video content is booming, but the sheer amount means that you have to dig through the muck to find the gems. Not anymore!

I was tuned into NYC’s Hot 97 the night that Funkmaster Flex unveiled “Glaciers of Ice” over the radio airwaves. The collective hip hop populace lost it. Not only was the track absolute fire, but we were throughly convinced that RZA sampled Castlevania to create what sounded like an organ from hell. RZA is known for digging through the crates, grabbing obscure samples, chopping them up, and sometimes distorting them. This is crew that referenced anime and martial arts flicks, so this had to be a Castlevania sample, right?

Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection is the singer’s first greatest hits compilation. Released in November 1990, the album culled together The Material Girl’s most popular tracks from the early stage of her lengthy career, 1983-1990.

Capcom’s Street Fighter II is the game that put one-on-one versus fighting on the map and staved the arcade’s inevitable death by a decade. Released months after The Immaculate Collection in March 1991, Street Fighter II forever changed the video game industry.

What’s odd is that I discovered both the record and the game in the same place: Coney Island’s legendary Faber’s Fascination arcade.

Capcom’s Street Fighter II is the game that put one-on-one versus fighting on the map and staved the arcade’s inevitable death by a decade. Released months after The Immaculate Collection in March 1991, Street Fighter II forever changed the video game industry.

What’s odd is that I discovered both the record and the game in the same place: Coney Island’s legendary Faber’s Fascination arcade.

The internet is filled with overzealous vocal minorities, defenders, fanboys, and haters who sometimes mask valid complaints beneath an idiocy layer, but I have to begrudgingly admit that I’m somewhat impressed with the sheer voracity of their Xbox One attacks. The internet is as the internet does.

Many of the attacks focus on the Xbox One’s potentially revolutionary/infamous place in home video game history, even if that position isn’t publicly promoted in such a manner: Xbox One may be the world’s first mainstream, all-digital home console.

Think about that for a moment.

This is probably the wrong time to go on vacation.

Months ago, I decided to shut down 2D-X from 5/26 – 6/8 in order to give myself and the staff some much-needed unwind time in the weeks leading up to E3. We’d scheduled a mix of new and archived articles to run during our downtime so that we can keep you guys entertained while we were sleeping ’til noon, sipping cold ones, and partaking in all manner of springtime shenanigans. It was an excellent plan.

Then Microsoft revealed the Xbox One.

Half Past Danger #1′s cover features a ninja, dinosaur skull, a burning Nazi flag, an attractive British agent, and a ruggedly handsome pulp-like hero. So, basically, spoiler warnings are out the window.

Protagonist Staff Sergeant Thomas Michael Flynn serves as a leader of men during Dubya Dubya Two, but his life’s forever altered while leading a band of brothers across a nondescript Pacific Island. The surprise discovery of a Nazi camp forces the troops to alter their trek route, which leads to…a dinosaur battle. Not between multiple monster-lizards, but between the dinos and Flynn’s men (who are swiftly turned into chopped meat). Flynn is the lone survivor, escaping with just Kodak camera footage of both the dinos and Nazis.