It wouldn't be E3 without any subsequent fanboy bickering over which game or console "won" the show. Well, bicker no more, because the Games Critics Awards, an independent coalition of 36 US games journalists from various media outlets, has just released their Best of E3 2008 list. Any game present in hands-on playable form was eligible - so if you're wondering why Fat Princess isn't Best of Show, there you go. ...

For the benefit of budding handy-cam critics everywhere we've put together this five point checklist that we hope will provide some priceless pointers for making better video reviews. ...

Gentle reader, we know of your thirst for the finer things in life: vintage wines, sartorial attire, and most importantly, realistic boob physics. After all, what would be the point of a new high-def Soulcalibur game if the teat-jigglies were not tuned to perfection? Some may say that DOA perfected the art with the “independent bounce” feature, but we found it to be a bit excessive and grotesque. ...

You know that phrase people use when something "stays with you long after it's over?" Nothing fits that statement better than video games, and here we've collected the seven best examples of games that leap out of the screen and infect, impede or enhance your daily existence. In other words, you're still playing these reality-altering games even when the power's off.

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It’s not that we don't find the ladies of Soulcalibur IV beautiful. We just thought we had what it takes to design a better tit, er, fighter. ...

If you’ve been reading gaming lists - magazine, internet or bar napkin - for as long as we have, then you’ve probably noticed a number of inclusions that seem to always make it. It’s like you can’t have a “Defining Moments”, “Worst whatever” or “Underrepresented blah” list without mentioning what every reader assumes will be the top pick. ...

We love games. We love girls. Would it be wrong to question which we love the most? Probably. So let’s do just that.

If you’re on this website it’s probably safe to say you love games. It’s also highly probable you love girls too. (By far most GR readers are guys, of which, according to accepted academic thinking, approximately only one in ten is gay.) So the vast majority of you love games and girls. ...

1. The classic Story mode is gone.

Remember that whole “trekking across the world” thing? You’d choose the next location and there would be some crazy rules for each match, like “you’ve been poisoned” or “the arena is made of quicksand” or “avoid the burning rats”? It was brilliant, and considered by many to be the best story mode in the history of fighting games. ...