Mercury is a classic video game, though we haven’t seen any revolutionary changes in the formula lately. Mercury Hg may just change that though. While the basic premise is still to guide a drop of Mercury around a game board, from one point to another, Mercury Hg adds gameplay elements that make the game a little different than you remember.

Mercury Hg has new types of tiles, new challenges and a new way to see how well you’re doing…

A Vanillaware Dreamcast project is finding new life as a PS3 and Vita game. Vanillaware and Ignition have just announced the 2D, HD, dungeon crawler Dragon’s Crown. Up to four players can journey through dungeons together as amazons, dwarves, elves, fighters, sorcerers and wizards to make their characters stronger and find out why a dragon is so mad that it’s willing to try and destroy the world.

Dragon’s Crown is a side-scrolling, beat’em up with RPG elements…

If you’re heartbroken about not making it to E3 2011, then wipe away your tears and head to your nearest PS3 or Xbox 360. Ignition wants to make things better by helping you recreate the E3 experience in your living room. Well, in a round about way I suppose. The El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron demo that’s on the show floor is now available to download from Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store.

Once you download the El Shaddai demo, here’s what you do. Call about five of your friends over. Tell one of them to stand next to you and keep telling you how to play and have the other four talk about some other games. Make sure all of their voices are louder then the demo…

Ignition is at E3 2011 this year and it has just sent out a cavalcade of press releases for the eight games its announcing for 2011 and 2012. Rather than cluttering up your afternoon with eight stories to go through, let’s make things simple and handle everything at once. We’ll be all organized and such, and you can spend the time you save reading up on even more E3 news.

Ignition’s going to be covering lots of platforms in 2011 and 2012, withgames being released for the 3DS, PS3, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and iOS devices. So odds are, there’ll be something coming out that you might want to play. Let’s look through them now…

Something a lot of FPS fants probably thought was never going to happen is going down next week on October 26, 2010. Blacklight: Tango Down is actually going to be released on the PlayStation Store! Finally! After over three months of waiting, PS3 owners will get to play Ignition’s FPS too! The PS3 version of Blacklight: Tango Down will cost $15 and, to make up for the delays, there’ll be some PS3-exclusive features…

If your Blacklight: Tango Down experience hasn’t been everything it could be, you should really give it a second chance. Ignition has just announced that it has released a patch for the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the FPS which not only fixes issues reported by players, but also adds in features people have been requesting…

For $15 this week (1200 Microsoft Points), Xbox 360 owners can get themselves a new FPS! Ignition Entertainment and Zombie Studio’s Blacklight: Tango Down makes its debut tomorrow, on July 7, 2010, and gives players access to tons of weapons, a handful of missions and many multiplayer maps. Think of it – for the price of probably two DLC packs for other games, you get a full game.

Blacklight: Tango Down is actually a futuristic shooter. It takes place 25 years from now and the story mode, which can be played cooperatively with up to three friends, tasks you with finding Colonel Klein and his team…

One of Ignition’s two playable games at E3 2010 was the Wii RPGArc Rise Fantasia, from Luminous Arc creators Image Epoch. When I stopped by the booth, I got to see just how Arc Rise Fantasia plays from the beginning to the first town.

L’Arc is with a crew of other warriors fighting dragons from an airship. The first battle is a rush attack on a dragon that swoops down on the ship. All I could do was attack, and attack I did until the beast fell. Unfortunately, the dragon knocks him to the ground as well.

When the dragon hits the ground, it starts to release a noxious gas called Feltburst which could poison the land and all people near it…

I visted Ignition’s booth and got a chance to try out Black Light Tango Down a FPS for the 360 and PS3.

I played multiplayer mode against the other players at E3. You have tons of guns, thousands in fact because of all the different scopes, stocks, and barrels you can get for them. You also have special bombs that when thrown create a sort of pixilated atmosphere that is hard to see out of if you walk through it. Good for confusing the other players. There are over 12 maps and 4 player co-op.

On April 20, 2010, Ignition Entertainment USA invited Gamertell to a cozy preview session of its soon to be released addition to the Nintendo Wii library called Arc Rise Fantasia (ARF).

Coming from the studio that brought such quality games as Luminous Arc, ImageEpoch’s first and exclusive venture on the Nintendo Wii is set for an official release on June 22, 2010 and promises to provide a bonafide JRPG (Japanese role-playing game) experience.