Our finalists for Game of the Year have all been announced and continue to be hotly debated within Kotaku Tower as we try to come to a conclusion, but those three titles weren't the only ones of note in 2009.

Microsoft's Stephen Toulouse may be known as the man with the Xbox Live banhammer, or the keeper of Live's big book of naughty words, but there's a lot more to what he does than that.

Video game use among children is, if you happen to be a parent, a worrisome issue. Even I worry about it with my own son.