"The holiday season has always been the best time to be a gamer. It’s not hard to see why. With hyped titles hitting our shelves and Steam sales hitting our wallets, there’s never been a shortage of things to play. But long before these days were commonplace, before DLC, E3, or even Windows 95, I spent one Christmas with the greatest game I have ever played, a game that trumps every other title to this very day: Tetris."

delayedreaction via bitmob.com »

The success of the original Gameboy was successful due to Tetris which appealed to the general non gaming masses. The launch of the Wii was successful due to Wii Sports. Will Nintendo be able to capture the non gaming audience again?

kube00 via www.goozernation.com »

"This is not a list of diabolical villains of gaming. No, it is a list of the unsung pricks in the gaming world. The ones who aren't really evil, just annoying as all hell. Okay, well sometime's they are evil. I'm 90% sure that Toad is nothing but a mushroom headed piece of evil."

blackrosedelt via PolishTheConsole.com »

"Having purchased the Google Nexus One Android Phone not long after it was released in America back in January, I seem to be sitting down a great deal more and spending hours on end playing the games that are on offer for the Nexus One. Hours that I used to normally spend on console gaming.

From Tower Defense games, Basketball games, racing games, or simple Tetris-esque games, the Nexus One has taken up most of my gaming time over the past 2 months.

The XBOX 360 has had nothing that has..."

XboxOZ360 via oxcgn.com »

"It appears that Nintendo has done a good job of relying on the short-term memory loss of the video game community. While many people enjoy the Nintendo DS, lite, DSi, and subsequent XL editions of Nintendo's portable system, there's one big question - Where the hell is the Game Boy Nintendo?"

AcFreeze via www.gofanboy.com »

"You’re standing in a dank dungeon, looking for a door that doesn’t exist. The lights flicker, and you hear the raging scream of a distant enemy. Flump, flump – the steps are getting closer. Arming yourself with your favourite weapon, you peer around a corner in the low light and you see him: the Big Daddy. By this time in the game, you have crossed over a mysterious threshold – your brain has mapped itself into the undersea world of Rapture and all you care about is saving your own skin. An i..."

Dark Arcanine via www.gamesradar.com »

""Alexey Pajitnov was just 29 years old when he was working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1984. In that year, on June 6, he completed development on the first edition of Tetris. Yes, the puzzle game that has invaded our dreams and is built using nothing more than seven unique shapes made up of four blocks (officially called tetrads or tetriminos) turns 25 years old today.""

kingjfs via www.gamingtarget.com »

Continuing on from part one, Damien McFerran of pocketgamer.co.uk brings us part two of the history of Nintendo portables! This time it's the Game Boy, easily a big winner with most.

Read on to find out about the portable which gave birth to some very popular classics and more.

Dark Arcanine via www.pocketgamer.co.uk »