This week an old PS One classic comes to the PlayStation Portable, the game that started it all on the PlayStation, Metal Gear Solid. Players can re-live the defining mission for Solid Snake at Shadow Moses for $9.99. Save Meryl and rescue Otacon all over again while sneaking into the complex and infiltrating the compound to find and destroy Metal Gear. Play the missions that were only referenced in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

Also new this week, with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue recently becoming a PS3 Greatest Hits title, the price of the game has been reduced from $39.99 to $29.99 permanently and is available for download now…

Day two of the E3 2009 conference brings more trailers featuring sneak peeks of upcoming games and news players may have missed while taking a break from watching E3. In addition to the free trailers, conference videos and other goodies, the PlayStation Store is offering free pilot episodes of Showtime’s Dexter and Toei’s Voltron now until June 8, 2009.

Just about the only thing funnier than bad box art are bad/ridiculous box quotes. Just as boombastic and stupid as bad art, dumb quotes can add that extra comedic panache to the grand gamer pass time of laughing at the past. Games Radar has an excellent list of the most ridiculous of all, from the sheer “awesomeness” of Gamepro’s Stranglehold quote: “the game is ripe with more awesomeness than Gears of War and Rainbow Six Vegas put together” to the utter stupidity of gamespy’s oh-so-articulate thoughts on Stuntman: “Stuntman ROCKS!”.

Oh, GamesRadar. You’ve outdone yourselves with the best list of embarrassing game moments. Aptly titled “Game moments you don’t want a loved one walking in on”, and completely hilarious, the list has everything from the smut-related (like catching Meryl in her undies in Metal Gear Solid to the tender-hearted (crying over killing a great beast in Shadow of the Colossus) to the utterly shameless (Killing crackheads in Condemned).

ICV2 has just reported that graphic novels will soon be eligible for the prestigious Hugo Award. The notion does have to be ratified, but if it goes through, “‘Any science fiction or fantasy story told in graphic form appearing for the first time in the previous calendar year’ will be eligible.” It got me thinking – if graphic novels are enjoying literary legitimacy these days, could videogames be next?

We all have our favorite examples of which games we feel qualify as bona-fide works of art or pieces of literature.

Who doesn’t love a good “top xx” list? Kezins.com has an awesome little list of videogaming’s best urban legends, including the infamous “Nude Raider” code and the “PS2 will be used to launch Iraqi missiles” conspiracy theory. My personal favorite has to be the Polybus mystery. From the post: “The Urban Legend – A government more »

Next Tuesday (January 29, 2008) marks the release of The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters on DVD. This week’s Cut/Scenes takes a closer look at what many consider to be one of the best videogame related films ever to see mainstream release.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters strays far from the usual formula. The film is actually a documentary, focused on the trials and tribulations of nice-guy Steve Wiebe as he challenges the ultimate Donkey Kong score (and Ego) of Billy Mitchell, the self proclaimed king of classic arcade games…

If your like me, you have tons of movies, games , music and books collected over the years from birthdays, Christmas or random prizes. You don’t really want to throw them away and you can’t really give them away or the person who gave it to you will get their feelings hurt.

There’s a new solution to the problem aside from posting it on eBay and hoping someone will pay for it. Trade it with someone who really wants it at SwapTree.

The Presidential candidates are debating nearly every relevant issue these days. Videogaming has found prominence as a political issue in recent times – sadly enough – so, it would be nice to know the candidates’ positions on the issue. Common Sense Media tried to sample the opinions of the candidates about videogames but only three more »

Indicative of the recent platform-traversing trend in entertainment, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is developing a keen interest in the videogames business. It was only a month ago that the news of its $210 million acquisition of TT Games (publisher and developer of Lego Batman) broke out and now it has named John P. Quinn, a more »