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  • Year in review 2008

    A Year in Review: The Top Features and Reporting Of 2008

    By Brian Crecente, 10:00 AM on Wed Dec 31 2008, 10,779 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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    It's been a pretty amazing year for the game's industry. We've seen record sales, major layoffs, the disbarment of Jack Thompson and not a few smaller stories to mull over as well.

    I combed through the year's worth of features and original stories that ran on our site this year to find the most read among them. That isn't to say these are our best efforts, but they're certainly our most popular. They also offer interesting insight into what you, the readers, find most interesting.

    The top ten features of 2008 includes an ecclectic mix of topics which touch on everything from the sorts of desks developers keep, to dissecting and disproving the Madden curse, to a highbrow discussion of objectivism in BioShock with Ken Levine and the president of the Ayn Rand Institute.

    Who says gamers aren't smart?

    Top Features
    It's Shocking, We're Pissed, Wii Fit Sorta Works
    What Game Developers Do When Their Games Launch
    Activison's Ex is Now Playboy's Miss November (And She Prefers Rock Band!)
    GTA4 Hands-On: The World is Yours
    Work and Play: A Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming's Greatest
    GTA IV: Reinventing a World
    Pure Energy: A Critical Look At Energy Drinks
    Feasting On The Bones Of The Madden Curse
    No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock
    Does Survival Horror Really Still Exist?

    Top Originals
    Nintendo Torpedoes The Wii Grey Market
    Which Version Of GTA IV Should You Buy? We Compare The PS3 and 360 Versions
    EA Calls Fox Out on "Insulting" Mass Effect Inaccuracies
    Rockstar Support: No GTA Freeze Fix in Sight
    Two Brothers Meditating Upon Questions of Pac-Man
    A 70-year-old's Take on GTA IV
    Holy Crap, King of Fighters XII Is 100 Percent Hand Drawn
    Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing, Bar Recommends Enhanced
    Disbarment

    Jack Thompson Disbarred
    Thompson Responds To Disbarment

    Also check out our most popular videos of 2008.

    What were your favorite features and originals of the year.

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