NBA Live 09

If you're a basketball fan and a gamer, you probably feel compelled to buy a new NBA game every year for updated rosters if nothing else. This year, the one to buy is not NBA Live 09.

Fallout 3

Fallout 3 follows in the auspicious footsteps of role-playing/shooter hybrids before it, Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and BioShock, widely accepted as Game of the Year in 2006 and 2007 respectively. '08 just might be the year of the Fallout -- on Xbox 360, anyway (the PC version could've been better).

Army of Two game, the movie

Videogame Publisher Electronic Arts and Universal Pictures are teaming up to bring EA's Army of Two game to the big screen. Considering the production crew signed on to do it, there's a decent chance it won't suck.

LEGO Batman: The Videogame

Seems this trippin'-the-plastic-fantastic thing just doesn't get old. LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Star Wars Complete, LEGO Indiana Jones and now LEGO Batman. So what's next? LEGO Terminator? LEGO Desperate Housewives? LEGO Jerry Springer?

NBA 2k9

The battle of the basketball sims between EA Sports and 2K Sports has been going on for several years now and heading into the end of this decade, 2K Sports has edged its way into the lead, surpassing gameplay and presentation every iteration.

Surprise, most gamers aren't geeks

For some, it's hard to take the videogame industry seriously when all it conjures is images of boys playing virtual soldier shooting aliens on the spare TV in the basement. Thing is, that image hasn't been accurate for a decade or two. And now, a new Ipsos study shows it to be completely false. Go figure.

Saints Row 2

Another entry into the go-anywhere, do-anything, simulated criminal behavior in a sandbox genre, THQ's Saints Row 2 is so flagrant in its courtship with controversy that it all comes off as quaint.

NHL 09

It would seem you only need to hit EA over the head with a 2 x 4 five or six times before it realizes a better hockey game. Then, like a bonus, it realizes the best.

Bond game promo, play free, win stuff

If you like 007, freebie games, chances to win cool free stuff like a PlayStation3, have a PC and an internet connection, well, has Activision got a deal for you.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

As yet another WWII shooter, you might be inclined to dismiss Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway as derivative. But you shouldn't.