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The 25 Best Videogames of the Last 25 Years (1,585 diggs) These are the "new classics" - GTA 4 makes the list!

We'll Halo there: 'Cold Storage' map free on July 7 (612 diggs) ungie's Luke Smith has announced via Bungie.net that "Cold Storage," a chilly new multiplayer map for everybody's favorite cyborg shoot-em-up, will be downloadable -- for free -- from the Xbox Live Marketplace beginning Monday Bungie Day, July 7.

Top 5 GTA 4 Stunt Videos (766 diggs) With the advent of Grand Theft Auto IV's new Euphoria behavioral physics engine, stunting has been taken to a whole new level. Players in the game realistically respond to crashes, bullets, and even fly out of their vehicles. In the open world of Liberty City, stunting has practically no boundaries.

Xbox 360 To Get A 3D Dashboard Makover (1,109 diggs) Something big is in the works for the Xbox 360 Spring update. How big? Well besides the gi-normous list of rumored updates we're now hearing from a number of sources that the Live dashboard is going to be getting a second interface option, one that will use the yet-to-be announced motion controller to navigate.

Microsoft Pole: One of Five Canadian Men Game in the Nude (772 diggs) Next time you're on a multiplayer server, you might want to ask everyone who's a Canadian, and then ask who among them are dudes. Because according to a Microsoft survey, every fifth one of them (in the long run) has gamed in the nude, and might be doing so now. Also, wash your hands after playing games at your friend's house.

Cliffy B Explains Gears of War 2's Multiplayer [VIDEO] (637 diggs) Today you finally get to see the chainsaw battling, meat flag holding smorgasbord of gore in action as we go behind the scenes at Epic games with an exclusive interview with lead designer Cliff Bleszinski to discuss the evolution of the Gears multiplayer experience.

Microsoft To Let Other Companies Build, Release 360 Consoles (1,713 diggs) We'll tell you what's up with Microsoft: new hardware options. It may sound totally insane, but word has it that Microsoft may begin allowing third-party manufacturers to create Xbox 360 hardware. And we're not talking about peripherals, people; we mean hardware that runs 360 game discs created by someone other than Microsoft.

Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player (1,496 diggs) Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen —you already have everything you need. Using the free Windows Media Center plug-in, vmcNetflix, you can turn your Xbox 360 into a Netflix Watch Instantly box.

Spore Creator Editor Spawns Xbox 360 Controller (2,490 diggs) People aren't just using the Spore Creature Creator to make penis monsters. Creative kids are trading cocks for controllers — just look at what Kotakuite zOmbi's friend Eric made in the Spore creator editor a few minutes ago. Yep, that's right, Eric made an Xbox 360 controller.

Why Xbox Live Isn't Free (2,100 diggs) Until recently, Microsoft could brag about how Live was by far the most feature-complete online service on any platform, with a unified Friends list, the best online shop, voice and video chat as standard and a consistent and stable online experience. But in recent months there ’s been a shift in the market, and even bigger changes are coming. . .

Distracted Kid in CoD4 (3,765 diggs) I guess there's a lesson to be learned in this.

Rumor: "Avatars" are Microsoft's take on Mii's and Home? (833 diggs) An online survey reveals that Microsoft may be working on its own version of Nintendo's Miis called "Avatars." The new Avatars will replace Gamer Pictures beginning this holiday. The Avatars will be completely customizable. No word yet on what other functions they may have, though it's possible they could be integrated in to games in the future.

Ten Xbox LIVE Achievement Commandments (1,338 diggs) Inconsistency amongst Xbox 360 games and their achievements has been a problem, so here are Ten "Commandments" developers should follow when creating their achievements for future titles.

Amazing Halo 3 Montage (1,115 diggs) MACH1NEGUNKELLY and Mr King Uber at their best... the best and finest of Halo 3.

Sessler's Soapbox is Tired of the Bigots on Xbox Live (2,198 diggs) For this week ’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam Sessler brings up an issue that’s old, but still unfortunately valid. That is, he, like many people, is fed up with the amount of racist and homophobic talk on Xbox Live. As he points out, the situation is just getting uglier all the time.

Saint's Row 2 'Pompous' To Attack GTA IV (559 diggs) As part of a new analyst note, Janco Partners' Mike Hickey has referenced the latest Grand Theft Auto IV-satirizing trailer for THQ's Saint's Row 2, suggesting the move is "unusually pompous" and reiterating "conservative" sales expectations for THQ's urban open-world title.

Naked Gun intro done in GTA IV (3,091 diggs) GamesRadar recreates the Naked Gun introduction using Grand Theft Auto IV

New Soul Calibur IV Trailer Shows the "Secret Apprentice" (622 diggs) You may have heard by now that the upcoming Soul Calibur IV will be getting one more Star Wars character thrown into the action with “Starkiller,” the protagonist of the also-upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. That means Namco Bandai has to unveil a new trailer for the game, complete with a brief, teasing segment about the new character.

Top 10 Xbox 360 Games For Your Girlfriend (942 diggs) Indeed, there is a social stigma that goes along with being a gamer that seems to be at its worst when dealing with the fairer sex. It ’s clear that there are female gamers out there, but unfortunately the majority of them just don’t have a spot in their life for a 360. When dating, the videogame topic is one that’s often avoided until. . .