Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending 
High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle 
The Last Moments Of GAME 
How Bad User Interfaces Are Ruining Video Games And Other Wonderful Things 
She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant 
The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks In Japan, Santa Claus does not have a beard — just a mustache, and an eyepatch. Oh yes; your dreams are almost true. This Christmas, MGS4 and LittleBigPlanet become one.
I think we’ll be writing about Good Old Games a lot in 2009, if moves like this are anything to go on. Especially when those moves entail Beneath A Steel Sky being offered for free.
Empire: Total War has a new singleplayer “scenario”. In it, you can take part in the American war of independence. Here’s your introductory video to the whole thing. God, this game cannot come soon enough.
Boy, that whole courting of the mainstream thing was fun, wasn’t it? The Wii sold millions, the DS sold millions..hell, even the 360 wanted in on that hot mainstream action.
Feels like QuakeCon 2008 only just wound up, and here we are talking about QuakeCon 2009. Ah well. That’s the slow, inexorable march of time for you, I guess.
Lots of rumours flying around today concerning Timesplitters developer Free Radical. So one more – this time concerning the future of their “Star Wars project” (ie Battlefront III) – won’t hurt you.
Cast your minds back to February. Japanese firms Sharp and Hitachi were accused of price-fixing over their supply of screens for the Nintendo DS. Well today, Japan took action.
Not that Duke Nukem would actually say “Jingle Bells”. Not his style. But 3D Realms, they’re more the festive types, and to celebrate the holiday season they’ve released this Duke Nukem Forever…thing.
Last we heard about Zune-360 integration was when Microsoft told Gizmodo that it was going to take “a step up”, and it was going to happen “within the year”. That was October. Now?
Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen has written a short story for Christmas, introducing the character of young street performer Samantha Everett from her upcoming adventure game Grey Matter.
