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Geoff Keighley teases "biggest surprise premiere in VGA history"

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:56:06 GMT

Geoff Keigley has one more tease before the Video Game Awards start: The biggest premiere in the history of the show.

G4TV's Best of 2009 winners

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:39:59 GMT

Check out the list of winners from G4's Best of 2009 awards, which just aired on TV (including Game of the Year).

Top 5 Douche Bags In Gaming - 2009 Edition

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:16:20 GMT

It's that time of year again. The time of year when websites publish "best of" and "biggest" lists to no end. A ploy to boost traffic to be sure, and Allegedly Speaking is no exception. That's right boys and girls their big whores plain and simple. With that in mind Allegedly Speaking gives you their 'Top 5 Douche Bags In Gaming - 2009 Edition', and away we go...

Video Game Awards 2009 Live Stream Goes Live

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:21:48 GMT

Want to check out the live stream of the show from 4 different camera angles? Head over to the official page. They already have it live! The live stream starts at 8pm EST.

Killzone 3 Updated Engine At GDC '2010 Behind Closed Doors HipHopGamerShow 12/13/09

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:37:29 GMT

1. PS Home Creator Jack Buser On The HipHopGamerShow
2. EA's MMA Game Dead On Arrival
3. Game Review – NBA Live'10 (8 out of 10) Game Is Hot
4. HipHopRss – Timbaland Quits HipHop

Gizmodo: Microsoft Beats Xbox to Pieces for Getting an RRoD

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:02:48 GMT

Rosa Golijan: Nic H tells us that this is how his Xbox was returned after being sent to Nurse Microsoft. If that's really true, then it looks like Microsoft is getting brutal on Xboxes that dare get an RRoD.

Spike VGAs Live Blog At E4G

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:19:02 GMT

E4G: For those of you who don't want to watch the Spike VGAs on TV or on the live stream, you are in luck.

Greenberg on VGAs 2009 "well deserving winners across the board"

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:02:38 GMT

VGArabia: With VGAs 2009 winners have been announced and each winner studio is celebrating its own success, we are starting to see famed people from the video games industry comments on the prizes and on the show as a whole.

Geoff Keighley Sets the Stage For The VGAs

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:26:50 GMT

E4G: Geoff Keighley is showing some of the stuff that will be appearing at the VGAs and talks about Halo Reach.

VGA's = Failure

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:34:51 GMT

Ironstarmovement Writes: Like many gamers on Saturday night, I wasted two hours of my life trying to enjoy the VGA's. Considering the tremendous amount of hype generated for this event, it was extremely hard for me to crack a smile.

Game Informer review scores

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:23:06 GMT

The latest G.I. magazine scores include Assassin's Creed 2, God of War Collection, The Saboteur, LBP PSP, the first western review of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, and more.

God of War 3 Dev's Message to Bayonetta, Dante's Inferno, etc.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:12:31 GMT

Split-Screen: "Bruno Velazquez is Lead Game Animator for SCEA and working on God of War 3, and not too long ago, he delivered a message to all upcoming action/adventure contenders, namely Bayonetta, Dante's Inferno, Darksiders and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow."

Spike TV 2009 Video Game Awards a bust

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:41:43 GMT

"Focusing on scripted moments that had Jack Black being removed from the stage by security and moments of silence from the crowd such as Star Trek's Zachary Quinto hyping up Star Trek Online, the Spike TV 2009 Video Game Awards turned out to be uneventful and overly disappointing.

Featuring musical acts of Snoop Dogg and The Bravery, Spike TV once again proves that they don't any clue on what gamers want.

This year was supposed to be all about world premieres and exclusive trailers. The end result was actually more along the lines of teasers with little gameplay footage to accompany said games.

Let's not get started on the awards that were handed out – some were obvious choices, while the majority of others reek with "corporate sellouts" – so that's a topic for whole another time. "

The Graphical Most Impressive Games of 2009

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:06:37 GMT

Videogameszone has chosen it's five graphical most impressive video games of 2009. Are you surprised about number one?

Pachter: We Were Wrong

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:58:56 GMT

Analyst Michael Pachter was wrong, and he knows it. He and other analysts believed that 2009 would be a significantly better year than it turned out to be. However, recent NPD data shows that they were wrong. Dead wrong. As we reported yesterday, the gaming industry took a substantial hit, contracting 7.6% last month alone.

Zelda Producer Reveals Big Secret

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:03:56 GMT

In an interview with Eiji Aonuma, the producer of The Legend of Zelda, the German based magazine Videogameszone has adept a big secret about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The question was, why Link got an item without doing anything. Were more temples intended for Ocarina of Time? Hit the jump to learn more.

Metal Gear Solid: Moments You will never ever forget

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:53:30 GMT

GB writes: "Metal Gear Solid is one of the best franchises in video games history to date. Besides being my personal favorite franchise, Metal Gear Solid is the pinnacle of storytelling and technical achievement in video games. We at GamingBolt revisit some of the moments which were actually responsible for making the franchise great. The series is full of stunning moments so it would be impossible to list all of them over here, but we have tried our best to pick some special ones."

What Gears Of War Could Learn from Uncharted 2

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Gameguru.in "The game literally "looks" to put Epic effort to shame by giving audiences a much more accurate definition of what was perceived to be a part of this generation almost five long years ago."

Former Killzone 2 Dev's Opinion on ODST: "Applaud Bungie's Decision for Two Discs"

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:39:27 GMT

Split-Screen: "Aaron Butler, a former Senior Game Designer at Guerrilla Games responsible for the SixAxis systems and gameplay mechanics of Killzone 2, got his hands around Bungie's Halo 3: ODST around the time of launch. Surprisingly, he's found many of the intended new features as plus points in the overall scheme of the game's design. He especially approved the use of two separate discs for single- and multi-player modes, which had become a point of criticism for Bungie's inclusion of all previous Halo 3 MP content."

These videogames are not art, they are extreme pornography

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:42:35 GMT

Jacqueline Hunt: "My organisation, Equality Now, has heard a lot from the fans of some of these games. We highlighted the game RapeLay, produced in Japan, as one example of many that promote violence against women. In RapeLay the player manipulates an onscreen penis to simulate rape of a woman and her young daughters over and over again."