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Here is a truth: that less, quite often, is more. I mean, how do you write about a pretty darn okay game? How do you do that? It's eas...

This is a nitpick. Let's get that straight. Heavy Rain is an excellent game and everyone should play it. After all, to really bitch a...

I know that the point of blogging is to present opinions, but sometimes you just have to say, "I don't know what to make of that....

It's tempting to believe your own hype. If you're Mike Myers coming off the success of Wayne's World, Austin Powers , and Shre...

#5: The World Ends With You (2008) Nintendo DS There is more innovation in The World Ends With You than in the rest of the decade of gaming...

#10: FarCry 2 (2008) Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC There is nothing quite like FarCry 2 . Certainly there was nothing in its flawed predecess...

#15: Animal Crossing (2001) GameCube Actually to be honest it's the DS Animal Crossing , Wild World , that was the one I fell in love wi...

#20: Katamari Damacy (2004) PlayStation 2 When I say Katamari Damacy , really I'm talking about its sequel/remake We Love Katamari , as ...

An individual of my acquaintance has commenced reading ESRB game rating statements in a phone-sex-line voice, and YouTubing the results. T...

#25: Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004) PlayStation 2 There's some debate about which is the best Silent Hil l; we're all agreed that it...

#30: Guitar Hero 2 (2006) XBox 360, PlayStation 2 There's no doubt the Guitar Hero franchise is one of the defining icons of this gamin...

#35: Super Smash Bros Melee (2001) GameCube Substitue Brawl if you prefer it but Melee is the Smash Bros title that won my heart and it rem...

#40: WarioWare Inc. (2003) GameBoy Advance There's nothing quite like WarioWare Inc . Even the sequels don't manage to quite captu...

#45: Wii Sports (2006) Wii Wii Sports is one of the most important games ever made, and if it's not higher on this list it's only b...

#50: Burnout Revenge (2005) PlayStation 2, XBox Take Burnout Revenge as exemplary of any or all of Burnout 3, Burnout Revenge, Burnout Lege...

It seems everyone is making "Games of the Decade" lists, and it seems they're doing it wrong . They're recentist, they...

From my perspective, the only difference between an AI and a 14-year-old American is that the AI is polite. I think this is what impressed m...

The period from February through to August this year was a gaming drought of unprecedented proportions. I'm hard pressed to cite anythi...

I am a fan of B-movies. If there is such a thing as a B-game, Wet is it. When Activision and Blizzard went through their cyclopean merging ...

The very best of games don't sell an experience; they sell an identity. I, for example, have always been a huge fan of metal. Black Sab...