Video Games: Legos? in 3D?

Everytime I go to the GameInformer website I am dumbfounded by its incredibly slow speed. Despite its graphics/video-intense content, its design is relatively bland, and I would think that the herd of nerds that works there would be able to figure out how to make a predominantly black & white website run at full speed.

Anyway, GameInformer recently informed me of a few things:

• Puzzle Quest 2 for Xbox Live Arcade is finally being released today
• Nintendo is yet again updating the DS, to the Nintendo 3DS, which apparently can display 3-d images without the need for those awesome glasses*
• GI likes Lego games a whole lot

I have long awaited the arrival of Puzzle Quest 2, which I thought was being released in May, but then it was delayed until last week, when it was released for DS, and now it is finally available for XLA download. Yay! Why are video game release dates so often delayed?

I feel so behind with my DS Lite. Soon after I got it, the DSi came out, then the DSi XL (not that I'd want that anyway - the purpose of a portable gaming system is defeated when said system can no longer fit in my purse), and now the 3DS, which uses something called autostereoscopy to produce "3D effects without the need for any special glasses." The 3DS made an appearance at E3 earlier this month, and will be released sometime...after it is released in Japan. I don't really understand how it works, and I don't really care about it unless the console comes in pink and allows me to see Pokemon in 3-d, so whatever. (Actually, it might be pretty cool, but with the release of new hardware also comes the inevitable harassment from Game Stop employees asking "do you want to preorder a 3DS? Are you sure? They're gonna go fast. You can trade in your DS Lite. Come back if you decide to preorder. Are you sure you don't want to preorder a 3DS?" every time you walk in or out of a Game Stop, so I think I'll avoid everything 3DS-related until I can actually see the thing).

As for Lego games, I do not understand them. Why bother with Lego Indian Jones when there's regular Indian Jones? or Star Wars or Harry Potter or whatever else. Aside from the novelty of seeing characters break into pieces when they die instead of fall to the ground in bloody agony, I don't see any differences between regular games and Lego games, except that Lego games are cute (and no one dies in Lego Rock Band, so there's really no point to that one). They're also WAY harder than anything that cute should be. (Well, I've only played Lego Indian Jones, but it was NOT easy). Anyway, in honor of the release of Lego Harry Potter, GameInformer compiled this list of Lego games they'd like to see. Their graphic renderings are actually incredibly adorable, especially the Lego Toy Story one. And who wouldn't want to see Lego Pulp Fiction and Jurassic Park? I was going to suggest Lego Gears of War, but Lego Half Life is on the list, so I guess that covers the genre of 'games that are too complicated for me and involve a lot of killing.'

*I have yet to see a 3-d movie, but despite their increasing popularity in recent years, I still think of them as incredibly 80's. You know, back when the glasses were cardboard and had red and blue lenses. I can't think of 3-d movies without thinking of my favorite movie of all time, The Muppets Take Manhattan: "your poppin' corn's in...3-d!"