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Zero Punctuation : Heavy Rain (520 diggs) This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Heavy Rain.

How to Build and Market a Fighting Game (204 diggs) Round 34,392... Fight!

Voicing concerns: the Problem with Video Game Acting (245 diggs) Why are modern video games still having problems with voice acting? And what can be done to solve them?

Videogame Movie Spectacular (273 diggs) Hollywood gets revenge for all the terrible videogame versions of movies.

If Modern Games Were Around on the Atari [CHART] (888 diggs) Some games just wouldn't have worked back then.

Bethesda Announces New RPG: Hunted - Preview Inside (401 diggs) RPG software giant Bethesda is bringing us a completely new RPG...

God of War III pre-orders hit half a million in the Americas (343 diggs) God of War III narrowly beats out Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver with 485,000 pre-orders in the Americas, both games release next week

Oddest Video Game Marketing, Don't Drop the Soap (280 diggs)

Whoa ‘Mass Effect’ Girl! (3,035 diggs) Just another hot Mass Effect girl.

11 Awesome "Mario Bros" Creations (PICS) (475 diggs) When Mario was first introduced, he was playing second fiddle to Donkey Kong and was just called "Jumpman." Lame. Now look at him. 30 years have passed and fans are still paying tribute to the portly plumber, bringing him (and his world) to life with their awesome creations.

Game Guru Sid Meier Explains Gamer Psychology (484 diggs) Sid Meier knows how gamers think. He has been making hit games such as Civilization for decades. Today at the Game Developers Conference, he shared his insights on gamer psychology and how he has had to change his assumptions about how players behave. More often than not, he said, players just don’t act logically.

Top Ten: Game Titles That Sound Like a Bunch of Random Words (312 diggs) For the game developer that needs a title quick, a thesaurus and a random word generator may be a good idea, but these did not come out right...

Mario Gone GTA | Koku Gamer (449 diggs) Mario is Italian, so it would make sense if there was a game one day that featured the characters from the Mario universe in a GTA like action adventure game.Â

Marketing Games: The Art of the Pole Dance (249 diggs) Activision threw a party for the press at GDC, complete with women working the poles and a flowing bar. Camera crews filmed, pictures were taken... as a marketing stunt this was genius. So why does it feel so dirty? The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer. Mixing the best parts of Stranglehold...

OnLive: Money For Nothing (311 diggs) OnLive, the streaming games-on-demand service, will launch on June 17 for $15/month, the company announced Wednesday at Game Developers

50 Best Video Game Weapons of All-Time (1,355 diggs) It's vital for a hard-hitting action game to have appropriately powerful guns, but it's also important to have weapons that are fun to wield, require in-depth strategy to use, and don't look and act like the same old thing from every other game.

Final Fantasy XIII Sells 450K Units in the Americas in 1 day (511 diggs) A very strong start for the latest Final Fantasy title with two thirds of sales on PS3 - now updated with the figures for Other Regions as well.

Makers of Halo Have a New Project (334 diggs) Bungie is working on a whole new project, but this time it's not a Halo!

Video Game Sales Dropped Again In February (245 diggs) Video game sales in the United States dropped 15 percent in February, partially due to an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower pricing on the Nintendo Wii console.

Gabe Newell: Portal 2 is "The Best Game We've Ever Done" (1,164 diggs) Following this year's Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony, 1UP were able to grab Valve's Gabe Newell for a brief chat about Portal 2, including his thoughts that Portal is the best game they've ever produced.

Why Your Loved Ones Hate Videogames (748 diggs) But can you really blame them? Probably.

Playstation Move: New Details On Sony's Wiimote Killer (312 diggs) A Review and more details and information on the new Playstation Move... maybe better than the wii mote?

Gran Tursimo 5 Trailer Hits the Web (Video) (480 diggs) The Gran Turismo series is arguably the greatest driving simulator to ever grace the home gaming platform, but fans of the racing franchise have been left high and dry as Sony and Polyphony continually delay the launch of GT5.

OnLive Release Date and Monthly Fee Announced (242 diggs) Yes, it's not vaporware, and it's releasing sooner than you think...

What's not fun about Assassin's Creed 2 (485 diggs) Let's imagine this terrifying scenario for a moment. You come home from a long day of work and sit in front of your computer to try out your newly purchased copy of the video game Assassin's Creed 2, and then ... nothing happens.