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You've got Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. You've got Metroid, and Castlevania, and Kid Icarus. You've got almost all of the classic, legendary, franchise-establishing NES hits already available on the Virtual Console – and, today, you've got one more. The original Mega Man, Capcom's very first installment in what would go on to become the gaming industry's most prolific series of all time, has finally arrived in Nintendo's Wii Shop. You should have already stopped reading and gone to download it.

DELL'S entry into the PC netbook market, the Inspiron Mini 9, landed on my desk last week – and I have to say I quite liked it, but with one or two reservations.

Competing with the likes of the Asus Eee and Acer Aspire One, my shiny black test unit ran Ubuntu Linux 8.04, which has been modified for netbook usage and offers both the normal Ubuntu menu plus a series of tabbed desktop shortcuts.

Well, they’re almost here. The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are about to start and, after putting up with the obligatory three-hour kitsch and propaganda show, the stars will finally get to make the headlines that they so richly deserve.

I was pleasantly surprised when I got my hands on the Elevator laptop stand by Griffin Technology. The photos on their site led me to believe that it was thin, frail, and could possibly snap if too much weight was applied to it.

Twenty years ago, Bionic Commando swung its way onto the NES. Though many U.S. gamers never played the original, the name and difficulty have become part of gaming lore. Capcom is finally revisiting the classic with an updated version that takes everything that was good from the past, modernizes it, and then adds new layers of awesome. Bionic Commando Rearmed is the ultimate videogame remake.