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Loot Ninja's Cosplay Girl of the Week 12.10.09

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:38:21 GMT

Loot-Ninja says:

"What is better than video games and really hot chicks? When said really hot chicks are dressed up as video game characters. After the jump is our official Loot Ninja Cosplay Girl of the Week. We don't know her name, but we like it that way. Remember, just because you wanna bang a Pikachu, that doesn't make you a deviant.

As always, SFW"

Geoff Keighley teases "biggest surprise premiere in VGA history"

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:56:06 GMT

Geoff Keigley has one more tease before the Video Game Awards start: The biggest premiere in the history of the show.

G4TV's Best of 2009 winners

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:39:59 GMT

Check out the list of winners from G4's Best of 2009 awards, which just aired on TV (including Game of the Year).

Top 5 Douche Bags In Gaming - 2009 Edition

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:16:20 GMT

It's that time of year again. The time of year when websites publish "best of" and "biggest" lists to no end. A ploy to boost traffic to be sure, and Allegedly Speaking is no exception. That's right boys and girls their big whores plain and simple. With that in mind Allegedly Speaking gives you their 'Top 5 Douche Bags In Gaming - 2009 Edition', and away we go...

Video Game Awards 2009 Live Stream Goes Live

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:21:48 GMT

Want to check out the live stream of the show from 4 different camera angles? Head over to the official page. They already have it live! The live stream starts at 8pm EST.

Killzone 3 Updated Engine At GDC '2010 Behind Closed Doors HipHopGamerShow 12/13/09

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:37:29 GMT

1. PS Home Creator Jack Buser On The HipHopGamerShow
2. EA's MMA Game Dead On Arrival
3. Game Review – NBA Live'10 (8 out of 10) Game Is Hot
4. HipHopRss – Timbaland Quits HipHop

Gizmodo: Microsoft Beats Xbox to Pieces for Getting an RRoD

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:02:48 GMT

Rosa Golijan: Nic H tells us that this is how his Xbox was returned after being sent to Nurse Microsoft. If that's really true, then it looks like Microsoft is getting brutal on Xboxes that dare get an RRoD.

Spike VGAs Live Blog At E4G

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:19:02 GMT

E4G: For those of you who don't want to watch the Spike VGAs on TV or on the live stream, you are in luck.

Greenberg on VGAs 2009 "well deserving winners across the board"

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:02:38 GMT

VGArabia: With VGAs 2009 winners have been announced and each winner studio is celebrating its own success, we are starting to see famed people from the video games industry comments on the prizes and on the show as a whole.

Geoff Keighley Sets the Stage For The VGAs

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:26:50 GMT

E4G: Geoff Keighley is showing some of the stuff that will be appearing at the VGAs and talks about Halo Reach.

VGA's = Failure

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:34:51 GMT

Ironstarmovement Writes: Like many gamers on Saturday night, I wasted two hours of my life trying to enjoy the VGA's. Considering the tremendous amount of hype generated for this event, it was extremely hard for me to crack a smile.

Game Informer review scores

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:23:06 GMT

The latest G.I. magazine scores include Assassin's Creed 2, God of War Collection, The Saboteur, LBP PSP, the first western review of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, and more.

Spike TV 2009 Video Game Awards a bust

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:41:43 GMT

"Focusing on scripted moments that had Jack Black being removed from the stage by security and moments of silence from the crowd such as Star Trek's Zachary Quinto hyping up Star Trek Online, the Spike TV 2009 Video Game Awards turned out to be uneventful and overly disappointing.

Featuring musical acts of Snoop Dogg and The Bravery, Spike TV once again proves that they don't any clue on what gamers want.

This year was supposed to be all about world premieres and exclusive trailers. The end result was actually more along the lines of teasers with little gameplay footage to accompany said games.

Let's not get started on the awards that were handed out – some were obvious choices, while the majority of others reek with "corporate sellouts" – so that's a topic for whole another time. "

Top 11 Most Overly Hyped Games

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:06:47 GMT

Baxy-z takes a plunge into the world of money hats and over-rating, as they spell out the top eleven worst cases of hyperbole in video games and why. From Grand Theft Auto to Super Smash Bros., this comprehensive list from Baxy-z explains in detail the phenomena of hype and how it effects its victims: the gamers.

Pachter: We Were Wrong

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:58:56 GMT

Analyst Michael Pachter was wrong, and he knows it. He and other analysts believed that 2009 would be a significantly better year than it turned out to be. However, recent NPD data shows that they were wrong. Dead wrong. As we reported yesterday, the gaming industry took a substantial hit, contracting 7.6% last month alone.

Metal Gear Solid: Moments You will never ever forget

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:53:30 GMT

GB writes: "Metal Gear Solid is one of the best franchises in video games history to date. Besides being my personal favorite franchise, Metal Gear Solid is the pinnacle of storytelling and technical achievement in video games. We at GamingBolt revisit some of the moments which were actually responsible for making the franchise great. The series is full of stunning moments so it would be impossible to list all of them over here, but we have tried our best to pick some special ones."

What Gears Of War Could Learn from Uncharted 2

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Gameguru.in "The game literally "looks" to put Epic effort to shame by giving audiences a much more accurate definition of what was perceived to be a part of this generation almost five long years ago."

2010 PS3 Role-Playing Extravaganza - Part 1: Exclusives

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:14:19 GMT

DualShockers writes:
"I'm an RPG fan, I don't pretend to hide it. I like the quirky JRPGs and the down and dirty Western incarnations. I'll be honest here, I purchased a PS3 not long after launch with the assumption that RPGs would be as prolific on that system as they were on its predecessor. I have been horribly disappointed for the last couple years, even to the point of using my PS3 for nothing more than a BluRay player. I'm far from a Sony fanboy, in fact, the Xbox 360 is my primary system and it is the system on which I will usually play multi-platform titles. If anything, I'm an RPG fanboy - I love RPGs in almost any form and on any system. Naturally, when RPGs actually come to the PS3, I'm all over that."

Top 5 Games of 2009 that Could Have Sucked...But Didn't

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:10:36 GMT

"Each year, there are certain video games that players just know will be awesome. For instance, months before games like Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2 or even original properties like Dragon Age: Origins, hit shelves, everything from their gameplay trailers to their developer's pedigree suggested that those games would be instant hits.

On the other hand, there are video games that look like they're not going to be any good. Maybe it's because the developers aren't exactly renowned for making quality titles, or maybe it's just because the graphics don't look up to par. Maybe the gameplay appears to be bland and derivative. For whatever reasons, these games looked simply unappealing.

Early impressions, though, can be entirely wrong, as the following five titles clearly indicate. Despite not looking particularly stellar at first, these video games defied all expectations by being pretty awesome instead of being terribly mediocre. "

These videogames are not art, they are extreme pornography

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:42:35 GMT

Jacqueline Hunt: "My organisation, Equality Now, has heard a lot from the fans of some of these games. We highlighted the game RapeLay, produced in Japan, as one example of many that promote violence against women. In RapeLay the player manipulates an onscreen penis to simulate rape of a woman and her young daughters over and over again."