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EA Games to release DRM-free titles on Steam (1,328 diggs) EA has signed on with Valve's highly popular digital distribution program Steam to distribute their games including recent releases, and with some added good news. Titles such as Spore and Mass Effect that have come under heavy fire for DRM usage, will no longer have any SecuROM protection. All games will use Steam's DRM.

Top Ten Video Games You Should Be Listening To (650 diggs) We've taken the time to assemble this list of video games you should be listening to. That's right, listening. Play them all you want, but we're betting that your memories of laying waste to the final boss will fade over time while the melodies from these adventures will keep playing in your head forever.

The Top 25 Game Industry Heroes for 2008 (411 diggs) Welcome to Edge's 2008 Top 25 Game Industry People of the Year Awards. This is the third year that we've collected and presented a list of the 25 people we felt have had the most positive impact on the game industry in the past 12 months.

Economics: Play On, Video Games Recession Proof (582 diggs) Is it any surprise that an industry that enables its customers to escape from reality into elaborate fantasy worlds is thriving in today ’s gloomy economic climate?

The Zombies Look Better Every Year (818 diggs) THE video game industry has never been more reliable in producing high-quality mass entertainment for a variety of audiences with a variety of tastes. Three years into the current generation of game systems, developers are ceding nothing to other entertainment media in terms of high-end production values and overall attention to detail.

Xbox 360 Vs. PlayStation 3 Graphics Comparison: Now With PC! (2,133 diggs) You asked for it. We went back and looked at several games from past Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 graphics comparison features to see how the graphics compare when we add the PC to the challenge.

YouTube game videos become big channel for game marketers (341 diggs) YouTube is starting to pull out the stops to enable game developers to launch video campaigns on the video site — and to make money by doing officially sanctioned game videos.

Guitar Hero: Metallica trailer released (789 diggs) Metallica has released the debut trailer for their new Guitar Hero game. Up the irons.

The Best Video Games of 2008 (1,763 diggs) The coolest, most attractive end-of-year awards list on the planet. We all love a good list, and you won ’t find a better barf bag of random praises than the Platinum Chalice awards, the place to have someone else’s gaming opinions shoved upon you.

QuakeCon 2009 Announced, Quake Live soon (520 diggs) id Software has announced the dates and first details of QuakeCon 2009. Id Software's upcoming browser-based upgrade to Quake 3, Quake Live, will have a prominent showing at the event.

75 Must Have Video Games for the Holidays (553 diggs) The holidays are here and you all know what that means: you're going to be buying a crapload of video games. The store shelves are jam packed with amazing titles but knowing which games are worth your hard earned cash can sometimes be difficult. We've put together a list of games that's sure to satisfy anyone on your holiday shopping list

The most heart-rending gaming disappointments of 2008 (698 diggs) The 2008 year in video games is almost over. There were many great games to play... but some things let us down badly. Ars takes a look back at some of the gaming moments that broke our hearts. We had such high hopes!

Top 10 Beards in Video Games (523 diggs) It's about time the beard got some credit for being so great.

7 games set up for sequels that never came (600 diggs) For the love of God. We need closure. Please!

3D Realms unwraps new Duke Nukem Forever images (1,279 diggs) After countless delays and promises by 3d Realms, it seems that something graphically has finally come to light concerning the development of the new Duke Nukem. The game probably isn't coming out any time soon, but you have to at least drool after seeing these images.

Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy Writers To Make Machinima (1,071 diggs) Writers from 15 televison sitcoms, including The Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy, have signed on with Machinima.com to make 15 original episodic comedy pilots for the online network using video games. The Machinima Comedy Lab pilots will air on Machinima.Com, but no date was announced for the first pilot.

Top-Sellers? Bah, Let's Look At The 10 Most "Engaging" Games (617 diggs) It's easy to track the biggest-selling games. You can track them with sales numbers. But how do you track the most-engaging games? That's harder. But Networked Insights reckon they've got the answer.

5 Video Game Franchises that Need Facelifts (665 diggs) In examining the best gaming franchises in recent years, we ’ve found the best titles to be those that tweaked a significant portion of the core mechanics. We’ve come up with some ideas to reinvent franchises before they go the Sonic route. Behold: the franchises that would benefit from some plastic surgery.

Kathryn Lyn, Video Game Player -- Hot Girl, Cool Job (1,502 diggs) And now we present the women who make you actually want to go in to the office. Are you a hot girl with a cool job? Write us so we can appreciate your ravishing beauty.

Mom 'plays' Second player (comic) (2,433 diggs) Lesson learned...

Top 20 Video Game Failures of 2008 (1,258 diggs) Oh 2008, you provided me with so much. From penis shaped levels on LittleBigPlanet to penis shaped monsters in Spore. From over sized sweater monkeys in Soul Calibur IV to Snake's ED in Metal Gear Solid 4. And when I wasn't busy gawking at virtual sex organs, I played some great games too.

28 Video Games Being Made Into Movies (Will They Suck?) (1,037 diggs) With the negative reception of Max Payne and Postal this year, you'd think Hollywood would stay away from making video games into movies. But as stubborn as Hollywood is, of course, that isn ’t the case. We found 28 video games that Hollywood is producing into films or announced that they will be producing into a film in the next few years.

Zero Punctuation: Sonic Unleashed (2,873 diggs) Zero Punctuation review Sonic Unleashed in order to unwind during this stressful Christmas period.

Top 5 Video Games That Ended Halfway Through (769 diggs) Isn't it awesome when you really get rolling in a game and suddenly the curtain comes down with a bang? Sometimes, if you're lucky, you'll have the game itself dump a few pages worth of plot on you just before. You know, the stuff that didn't make it in because the dog ate somebody's homework. Here are our favorites.

Top 10 Overused Video Game Story Lines (943 diggs) If you stop to consider just how many games have been released over the years, you can imagine that some plot devices have been used more often than others, while some have become staples for the medium.