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We talk cheers, jeers, Simpsons, Elstons, zombies, and troubled Communities...

It’s not easy being a horse, especially a horse who plays games with non-horse protagonists riding horses…

The boxes that PS Vita games are packaged in are diminutive and divine. Perfectly petite. And as of right now they're at the top of my 'game boxes I love' list. But what console's game boxes do you love?

Japan can be a pretty stressful place, so when it all gets to be too much, it's nice to have a quiet place to retreat to. Enter the "mangakissa," an industry devoted to offering hotel-room-like man-caves crammed full of entertainment options...

Video game cheerleaders are not like real-life cheerleaders. Where normal cheerleaders are so often like human candyfloss, all fluffy, sugary, and liable to cause nausea, video game cheerleaders are basically brilliant. We’ve collected together seven to prove it. Some are dangerous, some are deadly. Some might even now be dead. 

Look, just click on and we’ll explain all. No crap Wii games, we promise.

Remember when you were surprised at the amount of content you get for $5 instead of being disappointed by a $15 game? What happened and will those days ever return?

We talk about Final Fantasy XIII-2, Neverdead, spin-offs, and pay tribute the departed...

No other special effect in videogames has been as over-used as lens flare. Which is why, even though we hate it, we can't help but love it. And boy, do we have some outrageous examples of it in here...

This week: The essential PS Vita buyer's guide, the best broadband providers for gaming and a Mass Effect 3 love-in. All this and much more.

For a 59-year-old figurehead of a huge multinational Japanese corporation, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto gets up to some severely weird sh*t all over the world. Thus, he is responsible for some of the best photos in the history of gaming, if not the entire internet. So I've collected together the best of them. There are 42. They're all brilliant. And odd.