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Check out this list of the ten best Xbox 360 games out in the market right now. The compiler describes himself as someone who plays nothing but XBox 360 games. What do you think about his ranking?
10. Orange Box
9. Assassin’s Creed
8. Mass Effect
7. Bioshock
6. Guitar Hero
5. COD 4
4. GTA IV
3. Madden 08
2. Gears of [...]

If you’ve ever felt that the US presidential race is just a big game, or that you could run a presidential campaign better than that other guy or gal, well now here’s your chance.
“Political Machine” is a PC strategy game for Windows computers that allows players to take up the role of Barrack Obama or [...]

Sales forecasting company Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has predicted in a note to investors that Microsoft will likely announce a price cut for it Xbox 360 game console in the USA at E3 this year.
It was added that such a price cut would probably have Sony following suit with a similar price cut [...]

Anthony Puzo, son of the late Mario Puzo, is suing Paramount Pictures for at least $1M for breach of contract, after the studio allegedly failed to turn over revenues from the video game adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”.
Paramount licensed game published Electronic Arts to turn the original 1972 film into a video game [...]

It’s interesting to me that the PC game version of the latest Narnia film, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” is being released before the film actually comes out in theaters.
Could it be that the publisher expects demand to be so great that players will want their Prince Caspian fix any which way they can [...]

A recent study by an Australian Psychology graduate suggests that gaming addicts, for all their shortcomings, are not the antisocial nerds we tend to make them out to be.
Of the 621 adult respondents to the study, 15% calimed to spend more that 50 hours a week playing video games, but only 1 percent exhibited behaviors [...]

If you haven’t heard about Video Games Live, it’s just about the coolest concert series there is. They play video game music, live, on a full-on classical orchestra with all the works, hi-tech lights show and everything. It’s one of those few gaming-related things (like conventions and such) that simple cannot be recreated as a [...]

Gaming is such a broad and complex world, full of accomplishments and human achievement, that the people behind the Guinness Book of World Records has an edition of records dedicated purely to gaming-related stuff.
The Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008 is now available and if you forgot to give your gamer dad something for Father’s [...]

Here’s a list of video games slated for movie adaptation. Look out for ‘em and enjoy!
Direct to video stuff:

Resident Evil: Degeneration (slated for release this year)
Alone in the Dark II (coming in 2009)
Sabotage 1943 (coming in 2009)
Zombie Massacre (coming in 2010)

For theatrical release:

Max Payne (coming this October)
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (coming [...]

For Playstation 3 owners, your gaming experience is going to get a lot more commercial, and cluttered, and distracting, etc. etc. insert sellout rant here. But naturally, if Sony is to be believed, it’s all going to be subtle and stuff.
How much does Sony stand to gain by opening up the PS3 to advertisers? By [...]