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Apple's own Texas Hold 'Em app may be old, but it's given us hours and hours of entertainment over the past couple of years so it comes with a wholehearted recommendation. With real actors playing your opponents, the game looks slick and you might even be able to read a few 'tells' if you look closely enough.

Every weekday someone at GamesRadar takes a moment to honor a classic piece of game music, be it from consoles past or a memorable tune pulled right out of today's biggest franchise. The only problem is, there was no home for each Game Music of the Day article, and within a few weeks there were so many spread across the site that it was nearly impossible to find 'em all.

No more! Feast your ears on our compendinarium of game music! And please accept this hub as compensation for no GMOTD articles this week. It's E3, man! We won't have any time! Back to normal next week, promise.

In less than 48 hours, Microsoft's E3 2010 press conference will kick off four days of non-stop videogame insanity. We'll be there for the duration, reporting on all the latest news and announcements as fast as our withered fingers will allow, but before we fully dive into that madness, let's take a couple of minutes to look back five years at E3 2005.

Why? Because we still have the pictures. And because it's always fun to go "zomg I remember when that game came out."

Mystery. Betrayal. Men who voluntarily go by the name "Tracer Tong." These are just a few of the things that made Deus Ex - one of the first RPG/shooter hybrids and an enduring example of PC-gaming superiority - great. And with Deus Ex: Human Revolution looming large at E3 next week, we can't help but wax a little nostalgic about them, particularly the one thing that's arguably lasted longer than anything else in the minds of Deus Ex fans: its music.

We try desperately to keep our energies high as the monster that is E3 creeps up on us to rip apart our souls. So it's non-stop talk about next week's mega-convention, except for when we do stop to talk about Green Day, Metal Gear, capitalism and whiskey...

Normally, when we get our first glimpse of a game at E3, it means we’ll be seeing more of it throughout the following year. It’s where new games debut, and if we’ve been waiting to find out about a game, E3 is where the floodgates will begin to open. That’s not always the case, though – sometimes, a game will be teased or shown somewhere at the expo, and then mysteriously drop completely off the radar. It might have had a big reveal or a strong showing, but then we won’t see or hear about it again until a year later – or sometimes not at all.

Last year’s E3 was a treasure trove of games like that; some were high-profile announcements, others seemed pretty far along, but all of them have been conspicuously invisible since 2009’s show. What follows are the most notable...

Next week, GamesRadar is off to Los Angeles for the videogame event of the year. It’s like the Oscars, the Super Bowl, Christmas and the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus all rolled into one. As always, there are a ton of amazing games to look forward to, and this video is our way to share some of our excitement with you...

It's been a long time coming, but after kicking all kinds of journalistic arse for over 15 years, our sister magazine PC Gamer are finally joining us proper in the warm, frothy internet pond, with the launch of their new full-fat website. Come, let us welcome them, for they bring good and exciting things.  Details after the click.

As in life and Uwe Boll's Postal, it's always the good that die young in video games. Playing Earthworm Jim HD recently, we suddenly started thinking about 90s characters we'd loved that slipped away into gaming obscurity long before they should have. So join us, as we hold a wake for our favourite game stars from the decade of Jar Jar Binks, who all checked out in premature or undignified fashion . Sleep well, gentle princes. You truly were too beautiful for this world <sniff>. 

Powerful high-tech space ships capable of warping through vast trans-dimensional pockets of space have the tendency to pick up extremely undesirable stowaways during their treks across the deepest reaches of the galaxy. When a derelict ship capable of such incredible feats winds up stranded in space, it seems hopping on board to have a closer look at what caused its distress isn’t in the best interest of avoiding having your body infested by malevolent xenomorphic creatures. But has that every stopped anyone before?