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Nintendo Sued for $236K over Faulty DS Adapter (492 diggs) An insurance company has sued Nintendo for $236,304, alleging that a faulty Nintendo DS AC adapter ignited a January, 2007 fire at a residence in Kentucky

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

Legend of Zelda "We are the Champions" Music Video Tribute (1,120 diggs) Link channels the singing power of Freddie Mercury and Queen into an animated tribute to 20+ years of Zelda set to "We are the Champions".

The Best Video Games of 2008 (1,764 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.

3D gaming, HD video coming to netbooks in 2009 (595 diggs) NVIDIA and VIA have both made recent announcements in the netbook space, announcements that should have netbook enthusiasts drooling. Want to drive a 1080p display with your netbook? It's coming next year.

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.

Kindom Hearts Birth By Sleep Newest Trailer! Beautiful CGI! (1,101 diggs) Check out this youtube video on HD for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts game being released.

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.

Gears 2 slides further down Xbox Live activity chart (623 diggs) Marcus and company are at the #4 spot, behind top dawgs Halo 3, CoD: World at War and Call of Duty 4.

Sony's PlayStation Home Hacked (718 diggs) Sony's PS3 virtual world, Home, has already been hacked, with developers having discovered ways to exploit vulnerabilities within the software's code. According to reports in the Telegraph this week, the hack allowed the developers "to customise their PlayStation Home experience beyond the options provided by Sony."

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.

Shoe-thrower - WoW style! (5,185 diggs)

How To Download and Play Flash Games Offline (762 diggs) Do you like to play flash games online? Have you ever wondered if there is a way to download those flash games to your computer and play them on your desktop without seeing distracting ads?

Hasbro Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit (614 diggs) RJ Softwares, the creators of the popular Facebook game Scrabulous, can now rest easy as Hasbro drops the copyright infringement lawsuit they filed in order to protect their precious Scrabble.