News, everyone!  Today marks the beginning of a new era.  From this moment forward, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X and Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower are both available for download from the PlayStation Network.  PSP users can now get  both their fresh-classic Mega Man action and their sleek-hot Darkstalkers fighting action downloaded directly to their minds (Actually, PSPs and PSP gos).

The fresh and classic: Mega Man Maverick Hunter X is a remixed, remastered, re-awesome version of Mega Man X (a la the SNES).  When Sigma leads a group of Reploids in a revolt against mankind, it’s up to X and Zero to protect the world from ruin.

It’s still side-scrolling, but we’ve updated it with 3-D graphics, remixed music, and unlockable features.  If you like good games, this is one of them.  That’s what it comes down to.  Ask anyone who knows, Mega Man X rocks.  I almost failed my Discrete Mathematics test Sophomore year when it failed to have any of the Mega Man Maverick Hunter X I had studied the week before.

The smooth and sleek: Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower brings the elegance of vampires to a smooth, sleek fighting game.  Choose your character, then decide which of five different fighting styles you want, each of which heralds from its own game in the Darkstalkers series.

With a game like Darkstalkers, the attraction is simple: come for the characters, stay for the gameplay.  Succubus vs. Vampire?  Yeti vs. Cat-Woman?  These are matchups you have to see.  When you get your hands on the game, it actually proves itself to be a functional and sophisticated fighting game.  It’s like hearing a supermodel spout off on jab connectors and proper combo technique—it’s the best of both worlds.