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Sony's new handheld, the Playstation Vita, stole the show this year at E3 according to the Game Critics Awards. Even though it was formally announced in January, the handheld still out shined Nintendo's new home console and current portable in the annual awards. More »
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It's going on six years now that Spike TV has been handing out awards to game developers on television for the year's best video games and each year, it seems, the show gets just a touch better. More »
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Every year I vote on a number of different game of the year, best of E3, best of whatever awards and every year I run into the same problem: The categories never really work for me. Often it ends up feeling like you're trying to squeeze a round peg into a square hole and hope for the best. More »
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In 2007, I became a somewhat avid observer of MMOs, even though I don't play them - mostly because there are so many interesting issues wrapped up in the wide, wide world of online multiplayer games, especially in Asia. 2007 was a pretty interesting year for MMOs, and Gamasutra names five of the most important trends and moments of '07 for MMOs: 'little' games get huge, messy MMO failures, WoW's mainstream success, big companies go head to head, and new questions on the best way to play: More »
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Popular Mechanics is the new Alpha Mom. The publication loves Wii Fit so much, it put it on its Top 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of 2007 list, writing that it "turns fitness into a game, instead of a chore." It shares a spot on the list with consumer products like Apple's iPhone, Microsoft's Surface and the Zonbu Zonbox, none of which make exercising fun and therefore fail miserably. I suppose I could do a thousand bicep curls with my iPhone and see some results. I'll let you know how that goes. More »
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E3 is a full week behind us and, including Kotaku, most gaming journalists/fanboys have weighed in with their collectively jaded opinions on what blew and what blew them away at E3. Big winners include EA's Spore, Irrational's Bioshock, Ubisoft's Assassins Creed, and Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy, but here's the full rundown of this week's "Best Of"—and "Worst Of"— More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175182&view=rss&microfeed=true They are not even through their so far flawless first year and The Escapist has already decided to fill a week with a "Best Of" issue. I don't know about you, but every time I saw one of these best of clip-jobs show up in my favorite sitcom I knew the show had inched one step closer to the reruns grave. More »
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