In Boom Street, Square Enix teaches Mario to play Monopoly – with surprisingly strategic results.

New issue on sale now, featuring an in-depth look at the return of the Deus Ex franchise and how Human Revolution is fully equipped to thrust the series into the modern age with gusto. Also, we speak to Kojima Productions about Metal Gear Solid: Rising, take a trip to Shanghai to meet American McGee and check out his return to Wonderland, chat with the guys behind the incredible Euphoria engine and lose countless hours to Square Enix’s latest DS triumph, Dragon Quest IX.

Having already shown that it is keen to innovate in order to help the JRPG genre out of the rut in which it finds itself, what did Sqaure Enix do next? Why, it made the most traditional and old-fashioned JRPG in years, of course. And man, are we ever glad it did…

A round-up of some of the internet’s most interesting bits and pieces over the last few weeks.

We take another look at some of the smaller stories occurring across the internet over the past week.