Despite swinging into retail stores amidst a flurry of hype, nostalgia, and relatively kind reviews, Capcom's Bionic Commando failed to capture big numbers at retail, pushing only 27,000 units in its opening month.

A fighting game blow-out. An EA surprise. As always, some notable omissions. And an NPD-PD PlayStation bump! For your May NPD gaming sales armchair analysis, consider the following:

EA's Boom Blox Bash Party is out and people are already making levels for download featuring famous stuff to wreck.

Oscar winning filmmaker and budding game designer Steven Spielberg is! The idea man behind Boom Blox and the newly released sequel Boom Blox Bash Party shows what a lifetime of directing does to one's extremities.

The original Boom Blox may have been a critical hit, but it never quite sold up to expectations.

The newly revealed box art for EA's Wii sequel Boom Blox Bash Party says a lot. Namely, that the Boom Blox brand doesn't carry much weight, at least not in terms of pimping the "party."

Two of them to be exact.

It's try, try again for EA and Steven Spielberg tonight, with the publisher announcing BOOM BLOX Bash Party for the Wii, due sometime this Spring.