Hercules (aka Herakles or Heracles) is perhaps the greatest of mythic Greek heroes. His courage, strength, skill and cunning are literally legendary, and were revered in ancient Greek culture.

Nintendo is done for the year. There are a couple of weeks left here in 2009, but in the Big N's mind it's all in the books already -- barring a handful of downloadables to the Wii and DS between now ...