Just like cats, man's best friend is a returning character in every genre. We've selected those video game dogs—from games both old and new—which are usually portrayed as companions; sidekicks who can both help us with minor tasks and save our asses in difficult situations.

Emrah Elmasli is a Turkish concept artist who now resides in the UK, where he's done a ton of concept art for the last few games in the Fable series.

Starting today, and for a limited time, an Xbox 360 bundle will go on sale in Canada that is, well, better than any other I've ever seen for the console.

Mike McCarthy, of Lionhead Studios, has for many a year now been working on the Fable series, bringing us some of the weirdest and most wonderful characters going around.

With experience on both the PC and Xbox 360, Fable studio Lionhead is well aware of the pitfalls of both platforms. And feels one pitfall is deeper than the other.

Fable III's PC version has been dated and, surprisingly, it's going to be available via Steam.

Game designer Peter Molyneux, he of Populous, Fable, Black & White, Kinect's Project Milo and lots of really great promises, won a lifetime achievement award at the Game Developers Conference this week.

Only the best-dressed adventurer will survive the three new levels for Fable III in Traitor's Keep, the new downloadable content pack coming to the Xbox 360 on March 1.

In today's silent-but-deadly episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Inspector-Jones quietly sings the praises of video game characters that have nothing to say.