Excited for Halloween? So am I. Sink your fangs into this: the new, standalone InFAMOUS 2 DLC, Festival of Blood. You can read my review on GameZone or buy it yourself. Happy biting! And staking, and flying …

“Ada, wait!” Before las Plagas, there were zombies. Ankle-dragging, brain-hungry zombies, the undead who waited behind corners and inside lockers, hoping an unlucky S.T.A.R.S. member or even some exhausted shop owner with a shotgun would walk straight into their open arms. Hey, it happens. Resident Evil 2 is proof.

When it comes to horror video games, Resident Evil tops the chart, nails the head shots, and splatters the screen with blood and gore. Although the popular series changed its mainstream viral formula with the “action horror” award-winner Resident Evil 4, fans still consider the second game a hot favorite. Leon S. Kennedy may be a teenage girl’s knight in zombie gut-stained armor now, but he wasn’t always such a looker who rolled with Umbrella’s punches as slickly as the bad puns and bingo jokes. Once upon a time in Raccoon City, he was a rookie cop whose first day on the job ended in city-wide decimation. He slogged through grimy sewers, followed a corporation’s blood trail, befriended Redfield’s sister … and fell for one dangerous lady in red.

Interested in the full retro review? Click here and read it on Spawn Kill.

Hooray for giant, spazzy cats from hell! No release date has popped up on the interwebz yet, but here’s some good news for PlayStation owners who are feeling the Xbox blues. Or maybe the reds (rings). Okay, bad joke. Moving on …

Castle Crashers, the side-scrolling beat-em-up with RPG flair, lands on the PlayStation Network this … well, sometime. The indie publisher, Behemoth Company, recently spilled the news that they’re developing a PSN adaptation for the Xbox Live Arcade runaway hit, which makes me (and surely countless PlayStation fans) very, very happy. I’ve wanted to really explore the stylish game ever since I got a taste of it last year.

PSN shoppers will find a few new goodies in their bag, too—namely an in-game volleyball mini-game, which allows for 8-player matches (local/online). If you’ve never played Castle Crashers but enjoyed the lighthearted, 2D romp of Fat Princess, chances are you’ll drool over this medieval quest.

The very first Silent Hill game was re-released in North America this month on the PlayStation Network for both the PS3 and PSP consoles in anticipation for the new Shattered Memories game in October. This is a great chance to shake off the chains of that iffy movie adaptation and the disillusioned shroud of the upcoming retelling. Now you can enjoy the horror adventure all over again, or discover it for the first time.

Just lay off the walkthroughs, would you? Instead, head over to RadNerd and take a tour through the town that started it all with this handy and totally not misleading brochure.

When games suck, you know it’s a job for video game reviewers. Somebody has to get their hands dirty, right? I stepped in to review a game I was hoping wouldn’t suck, but sadly it did. I know, I hope all games won’t suck, but so far it’s worked out all right for me. Or maybe I’m just choosy. Whatever.

Anyway, my review of The Punisher: No Mercy on the PSN just went up over at the Girls Entertainment Network, so you can check that out and see why I’m such a comics nerd. Go for the review, stay for the GEN Eisners. Comment on any of those Eisner articles and you’ll be entered to win a prize pack! One, two, three—ooooohhh!

Capcom just recently announced some cool news for PlayStation Network gamers. Today they launched a laundry list of retro games in Capcom Classics Collection Remixed (whew, that’s quite a mouthful!):

•    1941: Counter Attack
•    Avengers
•    Bionic Commando
•    Black Tiger
•    Block Block
•    Captain Commando
•    Final Fight
•    Forgotten Worlds
•    Last Duel
•    Legendary Wings
•    Magic Sword
•    Mega Twins
•    Quiz and Dragons
•    Section Z
•    Side Arms: Hyper Dyne
•    The Speed Rumbler
•    Street Fighter
•    Strider
•    Three Wonders
•    Varth

Unfortunately, this CCCR bundle is only for the PSP. PS3 owners will have a few gems to brag about soon enough with the PSOne Classics releases of Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, but it looks like PlayStation handheld gamers will reap the most out of this PS/Capcom deal with the upcoming UMD Legacy releases of Mega Man Powered Up, Power Stone Collection, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Darkstalkers, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, and Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded.

At least we’re getting Marvel vs. Capcom 2 come late July … right? Either way, it looks like now is the time to stock up on those PSN Cards. Ugh, I should just go buy a PSP so I can have “an entire arcade in [my] pocket,” too.