The team discuss the merits of DJ Hero as an educational tool, what everyday activity would make a good game and read out your confessions ...

The end of summer means the beginning of the game season, and today is the last Friday before the game industry’s big holiday push. Publishers jam the fall with games to challenge the true worth of your credit card – a double dog dare in the uncertain economy of 2009. ...

The debut trailer of one of this year's most talked about films was released yesterday and demanded repeat viewing - even if it was just to decide what you thought of the weird-looking blue Avatars. ...

This year marks the 27th Golden Joystick Awards which will be held in London, England on 30 October 2009. For the maths-challenged that means the first GJAs was held way back in 1983.

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Strange, unusual, and utterly bloody ridiculous.  ...

Every game looks great in screenshots and trailers. Do you really want to wait four months before finding out the game you’ve been lusting after actually sucks and just got its face rocked off by some other game? Of course not. That’s why we’re here. We’ve played everything at E3, and this is what we’re rating each game in its current state, right here and now. Let’s get it on ...

Listen and win a free DS. Simple as that. Chris outlines the particulars further into the cast, after we’ve already tackled such weighty topics as disappointing games, games you don’t want for Christmas and games that are all gamey games games. Games.

Be sure to check out the question of the week, too, as it’s something every single person who visits this site will have an answer for.

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In all honesty, some games would be better off left on the whiteboard at the design meeting. Whether they're too ambitious, too expensive or simply too good to be true, we're frequently led to imagine great things only to have our expectations dashed when the game finally arrives. How could these games be so good on paper yet underwhelm so spectacularly? Let's take a look... ...