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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

So here’s the thing: the wise and good people at Namco Bandai decided to put a few Star Wars characters in their Soulcaliber fighting game series. BUT they put Darth Vader in the PS3 version and Yoda in the XBox 360 version, and so never the twain shall meet. Enter the guy above, Starkiller, Vader’s [...]

What is Qore? It’s a bit like a gamers’ magazine, a bit like a podcast, a bit like a website. It’s basically exclusive content that Sony wants its PS3 owners to subscribe to via the online Sony Playstation Network and will feature galleries, trailers, interactive stuff, and even ads, in addition to “a few other [...]

Sandra Day O’Connor, 78, USA’s first female Supreme Court Justice, wants kids to stop playing video games and start learning about their Judiciary system. How? By playing video games, of course. In particular, she’d like kids to start playing Our Courts, the video game she’s helping to create, which is aimed specifically to help kids [...]

USA Major Soccer League team Seattle Sounders FC has revealed its official team jersey, bearing the name “XBox 360 Live”, displayed prominently across its breast. Though both sides are playing hush-hush, it’s been reported that the deal was worth about $20M, and will include playing surface sponsorship (“The XBox Pitch at Qwest Field”) and, naturally, [...]

Don’t click on the image above! The link to the actual video is at the end of this post. This Youtube vid-slash-flash-lecture is by a certain Daniel Floyd, who works at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In it he explores the oft-discussed relationship between video games and sex. You can watch the clip [...]

Today I have for you a couple of interesting virtual career paths. Either one, or both, if you so choose, can be explored via two online games you can play for free. Career path one: economist. Manipulate markets, tweak around with the laws of supply and demand and find yourself enjoying this simple yet fun [...]

I don’t play very many fighting games anymore, but if it’s Street Fighter-related I’m all ears. Or in this case eyes. It’s Street Fighter 4! It isn’t really the fourth installment, but what the heck? And what with all the hubbub about that other megafranchise that sports the number four (GTA4, for the hopelessly underinformed), [...]