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Sarcastic Gamer’s Game of the Year is revealed

Sarcasticgamer.com reveals it's Game of the Year, and it's guaranteed to disappoint.

From the article: "What a year 2008 has been. Great PS3 games, crappy Wii games, a resurgence in PC gaming and an explosion of RPG's on the Xbox 360. There's been a ton of great games that have been released on every platform. Unfortunately, as Connor McCloud would say, there can be only one…

There's only one Game of the Year. Chances are that you're gonna disagree with our pick. We're okay with that. Find out, after the jump!"

Nominees Announced for “X-Play Best of 2008 Awards”

G4 and their hit show "X-Play" have announced their complete list of nominees for the "X-Play Best of 2008" awards show that will premier in a one-hour special on the network Tuesday December 9, 2008 at 8pm est/pst. The show's hosts Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb will be revealing the selections from the 20+ categories in the sixth annual special.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Patch 1.05 Available Now for Windows PC

The first major patch for EALA's Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 is available for download now. Patch 1.05 is mainly focused on giving players two tools the Command & Conquer community has been asking for. Including removal of the DRM protection so you can install it on all the computers you own.

GTA IV PC a buggy mess, Steam customers ask for refunds

It seems that the PC port of Grand Theft Auto IV is having some problems; the official forums are filled with people suffering from glitches, crashes, and graphical issues. Oh, my. How bad have things gotten? Gamers are reporting that Steam is actually offering refunds on a case-by-case basis.

Diablo 3 Dev Team Does Not Have all Classes and Act 1 Done

Diii.net reports that there has been a misunderstanding growing among the Diablo community since Rob Pardo made a few comments on the game's progress in an interview at WWI 2008, which would imply that Blizzard have all the classes and most of the game ready to play in their office. The rumour has it that a lot of work is done on the game and that Blizzard is just keeping their great game back to spite the fans.

Mirror’s Edge PC confirmed for January

As well as announcing the first wave of DLC coming to Mirror's Edge early next year, EA also confirmed that the PC version of the game will ship to retailers in North America on January 13th and worldwide on January 16th, 2009.

Grand Theft Auto IV PC: Graphics Settings Detailed

Medium settings should provide a superior experience, say Rockstar:

Most users using current PC hardware as of December 2008 are advised to use medium graphics settings. Higher settings are provided for future generations of PCs with higher specifications than are currently widely available

GTA IV PC: Many Problems Exist But Rockstar is on Top of the Issues

If you recently bought the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV and are experiencing any minor to major difficulties, you're not alone. This is a PC release of a GTA game with the single most problems ever. This version of the game was outsourced and developed in Canada at Rockstar Toronto and this might have something to do with the problems, we honestly can't say for sure. But I'm sure you all expected to have a fully working game when you meet the listed hardware and software requirements.

edge-online.com : Inside The Old Republic

This sort of brand synergy is what gets game industry execs very excited. The Old Republic is going to be "ground breaking" says Ray Muzyka, CEO of BioWare,. "it's a whole galaxy, it's a galaxy of Star Wars". One thing that is clear is that Star Wars has a host of reasons for being prime MMOG material, even though the less-than-stellar performance of Star Wars Galaxies means there should be no complacency about the licence. It is perhaps the most visually iconic science-fiction setting that exists, and one with incredible mainstream awareness.

Microsoft Releases a Firefox Addon

Microsoft has today released a plug-in for Firefox that allows Open XML documents to be viewed within the popular open source browser.

The software giant said that its new Open XML Document Viewer works within Firefox and can be used on Windows and Linux platforms without needing a local installation of MS Office.

Microsoft said its new Firefox-friendly OXML* viewer would improve translations between formats including "direct interoperability" from OXML to HTML formats.