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Your parents and politicians are right. Gaming is an absolutely filthy pastime. Sex! Perversion! Nudity! The stuff is pretty much everywhere… even in the places they - and you - never thought to check.

Gizmodo writes:

"I was just invited to the beta of the GameFly Trade-In Program because I’ve been a customer for a while, and the whole thing seems like a brilliant idea. You can apply credit toward your monthly payments only (used games would have been nice), and the prices they offer are actually pretty great compared to what you’d get at GameStop.

Examples:

BioShock: $23.00

Call of Duty 4: $23.00

Halo 3: $23.00

Lost Odyssey: $31.62

Kingdom Under Fire: $28.75

Rainbow Six Vegas 2: $31.62

The only downsides are that you can only get money off your subscription and you have to pack and ship your own games, but other than that it seems like a good deal if you can get a beta invite."

This Gameplayer article examines the timing of the Gears of War movie announcement and speculates as to what it means for other movements in the series, and the Xbox console itself.

This Gameplayer article examines the timing of the Gears of War movie announcement and speculates as to what it means for other movements in the series, and the Xbox console itself.

Why do Real-Time Worlds need another 50 million for APB. Gameplayer examines the recent budget increase secured by the developer of Crackdown in this article.

On March 31, 1998, Blizzard Entertainment released StarCraft, a revolutionary real-time strategy game pitting three powerful and distinctive races against each other in a war-torn galaxy. In StarCraft, the resourceful terrans, mysterious protoss, and relentless zerg find themselves in a confluence of events that has only one possible outcome: an epic war for conquest and survival.

The year of its release, more than 1.5 million copies of StarCraft were sold around the world, making it the bestselling PC game of 1998. To date, it has sold more than 9.5 million copies worldwide. A considerable number of those copies have been sold in South Korea, where the game continues to enjoy unprecedented levels of popularity.

WASHINGTON (AP) — IBM Corp. and certain employees received subpoenas from a federal grand jury seeking testimony and documents relating to a contract it sought with the Environmental Protection Agency, the company said on Monday.

The company also has been temporarily banned from receiving future contracts with all federal agencies.

As you might have noticed, the PS Store is currently blooming with new content (in certain countries of course) and with a new layout coming soon the PS Store has quite a promising future ahead of it.

Anyone with a passing interest in the videogame internets will have caught the very mighty Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw’s weekly video reviews. If not, check ‘em out, very funny, very cool, yes we wish he worked for GamesRadar… Anyhow, unless you spend all your free time poking around in the neatherbelly of YouTube, you may not have seen the bastard offspring of Yahtzee’s crude animation style and nimble-mouthed swear-mongering.

Put simply, loads of people have ripped him off. They’ve stolen the visual style. They’ve attempted the breakneck-babble. They’ve shoehorned a rather sweet jewel of originality into a number of videos that’ll leave you either red-faced with fury or red faced with embarrassment.

It’s true: female gamers do exist (the shock!). Just like male gamers who come in different shapes, sizes and flavors, we can come up with a diverse list of girl gamer types. No, Frag Dolls and 6-year-olds fascinated by the Wii don’t count. South Korean StarCraft fangirls were tempting to add, but we decided to cut them from the list since we can’t tell if they actually play games or just read magazines to drool over the pros.

If you ever need a brief guide on the who and the what of female gamer types, this QuickList is for you. No need to put up those flame spears, because we don’t have anything against those who don’t fall under our categories. Furthermore, apologies go to our female readers who weren’t covered, but right now, here are the more prominent types we’ve seen of our beloved industry’s non-male audience.

Hardcore Gamer - You don’t need a pair to kill Altima in Final Fantasy Tactics with one blow or defeat Metatron from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne without losing your sanity. While the hardcore who would go discuss their "1337" gameplay tactics and strategies on notorious message boards almost never expect to run across girls, it is a fact that the male dominated scene of spending hundreds of hours to kill secret bosses and pull off insane Achievements for bragging rights is not without the presence of the opposite gender.