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The Making of BioShock: What Went Right, What Went Wrong (943 diggs) The story of developing BioShock is an epic one. It took a visionary to make the creative choices to guide the game, and an incredibly talented and hardworking team to bring that vision to life.

Yoshida: LittleBigPlanet Will Be Biggest Sony Title of 2008 (593 diggs) Speaking to VG247, Sony worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has predicted that Media Molecule blue-sky platformer LittleBigPlanet will be the biggest PS3 game this year on a global level. “LittleBigPlanet is going to be the biggest title for Sony in all markets this year,” he said. Yep. That includes Japan.

Electronic Arts Bets Big on Spore (649 diggs) EA has been losing money for six quarters. This new game had better be good.

The Reality Behind World of Warcraft (1,421 diggs) A response to all those who say that World of Warcraft is a complete waste.

Top 5 Best Diablo Clones (1,027 diggs) As everyone awaits more Diablo III goodness to be trickle down Blizzard's milky teat, there are more than a few games out there to provide us with our Diablo "fix", as I like to call it.

The 13 Most Badass Video Game Power Suits Ever (991 diggs) The Mark VI is quite a number, allowing lead model Master Chief to strut faster, jump higher, and regenerate that oh-so-fashionable outer layer of shield faster than you can say, "I ´ve got to have that!" To top it off, the suit automatically injects biofoam to heal your wounds, so no more trips to the dry cleaners with pesky bloodstains!

Wait, Michael Phelps Didn't Get Call Of Duty Early (1,223 diggs) On Thursday, you would have seen Michael Phelps, still basking in the glow of his olympic triumphs, presented with a copy of Call of Duty: World At War. A game that's months from completion. Turns out Phelps didn't receive the game at all; what he got instead was a box of lies. An Activision PR rep has confirmed that Phelps was presented with an em

Ubisoft CEO: Europe more important than US now (637 diggs) And he's not just saying that to make up for years of financial inequity and utterly perverse release schedules. "First, our money - the pound or the euro - is very strong and because of that the turnover from those countries is heavier than they used to be," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot tells GamesIndustry.biz. "So for Ubisoft turnover Europe is act

EA Can't Process Address Change,Cancels Warhammer Pre-Orders (837 diggs) Electronic Arts immediately forwards all pre-orders to a secretive processing facility, so if you happy to change your address after ordering a game eight months in advance, well, tough.

11 Cool Nintendo DS Mods (1,098 diggs) While we ’re waiting with bated breath for a possible new updated Nintendo DS model that has been rumored, we thought we would take a look at some of our favorite DS mods. Some are weird, some are awesome, some will make you wonder what’s in the modder’s local water supply, but all are creative.

This Cake Will Never Harm You [Pic] (2,206 diggs) Companion Cube Cake

A Day in the Life of Link (1,274 diggs) Hilarious cartoon showing the downside of being a mute protagonist.

Papercraft Half Life D0g is Amazle (PICS) (1,432 diggs) Reader Metal Dom found this on 4chan — a 12-inch high, incredibly detailed papercraft model of D0g, from Half Life. 4chan user chamoo232 assembled it, said it took him two weeks and nearly 50 hours of work. The pose captures D0g's lumbering, bucket-of-bolts gait and rip-your-arms-off awesomeness. Win.

The Cosplay of PAX 2008 (PICS) (850 diggs) The cosplayers of Penny Arcade Expo are a diverse group, some coming as Penny Arcade characters, others as game characters, but they all share a resolve to mug for anyone's camera given the opportunity. Hit the jump for a tasty selection of the cosplayers I captured on digital film.

500GB Blowout: How to Supercharge your PS3! (1,410 diggs) Is that measly 40GB hard drive keeping you from downloading all your favorite movies and games from the PlayStation Store? Here are five easy to follow steps to supercharge your PS3 to a whopping 500 gigs for all your downloading pleasures. Watch the video walkthrough to see how it's done.

Man Faces 21 Years for Killing Baby Who Interrupted Game (1,640 diggs) A man has pleaded guilty to killing an 18-day-old baby so that he could finish his videogame in peace.

Audio slideshow: Video game orchestra (517 diggs) In this audio slideshow, a symphony orchestra takes us on a trip down memory lane playing some of the most dynamic video game music written to date. Read this blog post by James Martin on News - Gaming and Culture.

Why Mario should retire from Video Games (786 diggs) The stuff of gaming legend The thing is, Mario is a true icon of gaming. He's forever going to be associated with all that's good about our favourite consoles of yesteryear. His Jumpman beginnings in Donkey Kong and the arrival of Luigi for Mario Bros make him more old-school than the Tucker years on Grange Hill.

Four-Foot SNES Controller Actually Works [PICS] (814 diggs) Taking inspiration as well as construction cues from the massive NES controller table built in May, SCAD Inc., which I will charitably call a garage-based novelty enlargement collective, set out to build a giant-sized SNES controller, complete with functioning buttons. A few months later the build is complete, and it looks, well, huge.

The 13 Videogames that Desperately Need to be Remade (1,052 diggs) While most classic titles have been given requisite facelifts, there are still dozens of games desperate for true remakes that have never had the next-gen silicon implants they deserve. Here are thirteen from our 8 and 16-bit halcyon days of yore which remind us that games back then were really better, albeit a little shittier looking.

22 Nostaigic Videogame Commercials (908 diggs) These commercials are a riot. What were they thinking?

10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble (1,847 diggs) I’m not a champion Scrabble player by any means - I often resort to words like “at” and “it” just to use up a turn. But with this list, hopefully I’ll be a little more creative when using tiny little words.

Team Fortress 2 Blog - Evolution of the Demoman (1,204 diggs) The path to arriving at a final design for a character is sometimes a long and winding one. This was especially the case for the Demoman and we thought it would be interesting to step through that process and shed a little light on how we arrive at our final designs.

Leipzig: The real-life Half-Life 2 [PICS] (1,137 diggs) There's something strangely familiar about the city of Leipzig. Gravity guns at the ready...

How You Can "Save" PC Gaming (985 diggs) If the press is to be believed, we ’re a dying breed, friends: the PC gamer is slowly slipping loose the surly bonds of expensive upgrades and Byzantine hardware requirements, and gently rising to grab onto the tray-and-play hem of console gaming. So here’s a handy cheat sheet for how you can “save” PC gaming.