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10 perfect Christmas presents for...PC gamers

Welcome to day 3 of the Pocket-lint Christmas gift guide bonanza. So we've got photographers covered and laptop addicts, but today is the turn of the gift guide for the PC gamer in your life. If you can coax these people down and away from COD or their meaty...

Best Video Games 2009 nominations

Here are the nominations for Best Video Game in The Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2009.

The following products were chosen because we feel they represent the best video games on sale in the last 12 months that are available in the UK.

The nominations...

Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2009 - gaming hardware

2009 has been something of a glass ceiling for gamers. Yes, the software has continued to come and in more inventive ways than ever, but it's been pretty much the same kinds of consoles available on the shelves. At the same time, at E3 this summer, we saw some of the...

Why are game-inspired films so terrible?

The Prince of Persia film trailer has just hit the intertubes and with it our hearts both flutter and sink at the same time as we realise that it's going to be terrible. It may sound premature but anyone who knows anything about either games, films or ideally both, will...

Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2009 - games

The Best Game nominees for the Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadgets Awards 2009 are likely to be much more of a fight than last year's cut and dry selection. Without quite such monumental hits as Little Big Planet, GTA IV and Wii Fit, the field is wide open and there are one...

Plants vs Zombies arrives in free online version

The smash hit casual game Plants Vs Zombies, which showed up earlier in the year, has been turned into a free Flash game by developers PopCap. It's available to play now on the company's website.

If you've not given it a go, you have to place plants in your...

Nvidia: 3D Gaming is "right here, right now"

Nvidia is arguably at the forefront of 3D gaming - its 3D Vision kit is one of the few solutions available to people who want to experience a litle more depth in their games. We asked the company's PR Manager, Ben Berraondo, a few questions to try and find out a little more...

Is Stereoscopic 3D gaming ready?

Amidst all this talk of 3D televisions and 3D movies, it's easy to forget one art-form that's been 3D since 1981 - Gaming. The Sinclair ZX81 had what many regard to be the first 3D game - 3D Monster Maze, which placed the player in a maze with a T-Rex, the objective being...

Sony PS3 back catalogue unlikely to go 3D

Sony's ability to retrospectively turn all games on the PS3 into 3D is unlikely to become a reality according to the President of the S-3D Gaming Alliance.

"We aren't sure how the rumour started, but it is unlikely to be possible for Sony to make all games...

Classic trading game Elite celebrates 25th birthday

Originally created by David Braben and Ian Bell, Elite has now turned 25-years-old and with its anniversary comes a wave of nostalgia.

The game, originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, is cited as having a huge influence and...

3D Stereogram Tetris revealed

"If you can see 3D stereograms, why not try a game with the same idea?"

Why not indeed? Squinting at your monitor trying to see the durned image will at least while away a few minutes of your boring work day.

All we got was a mild headache and...

Blizzard announces World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Exactly as we predicted, Blizzard has announced the next expansion pack for the world's largest MMORPG - World of Warcraft. Titled "Cataclysm", the pack will see major changes to the world of Azeroth, as well as increased level cap (to 85) and new playable races.

Championship Manager 2010 on sale for 1p

Radiohead tried it, now it seems the video game publisher Eidos is following in the same vein with the "Pay what you want" model for the latest version of Championship Manager.

"This is the first time an initiative like this has been tried in the videogames...

New playable races for World of Warcraft leaked

The next expansion for World of Warcraft has been the subject of intense speculation, ever since developers Blizzard trademarked the term "Cataclysm". Now, it appears that two new playable races have leaked - Goblins and Worgen.

Community site Wow.com is quoting...

First Sims 3 expansion announced

EA has announced the first expansion pack for the Sims 3, and it's called "World Adventures". It'll allow players to take their Sims out of Sunset Valley and Riverview and into the wider world.

"Players will be able to take their Sims on the adventure of a lifetime",...

Addiction therapists sign up for WoW

There are reports that therapists are trying a new tactic to reach people that they think are "addicted" to online games like World of Warcraft - they're joining the game themselves.

Dr Richard Graham, a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Centre in London,...

VIDEO: Command and Conquer 4 set in Manchester

The first trailer for the forthcoming Command and Conquer 4 has been revealed, and it seems - inexplicably - to be set in Manchester.

Kane's back, and he's got a proposal for the GDI, apparently. Something to do with a crystal ball. Due in 2010, it's going to...

Warcraft movie gets director

The forthcoming live-action film based on the massively multiplayer World of Warcraft will be directed by none other than Sam Raimi, Variety is reporting.

The MMORPG, which has more subscribers than the population of Greece, is based on a series of RTS games...

Sky launches free gesture-controlled webcam games

Sky Games has launched an exclusive collection of online games with gesture-recognition controls for PC users with webcams, powered by OmniMotion.

Sky says the free webcam games - which range from sports to puzzles - "put players in the middle of the action,...

Plants Vs Zombies heading to other platforms

Popcap's excellent "Plants vs Zombies" tower-defence game, which scored a whopping 9/10 when Pocket-lint reviewed it, appears to be shambling slowly towards other platforms, moaning "braaaaains".

The company's senior director of public relations, Garth Chouteau,...

EA confirms Command and Conquer 4

EA has confirmed that it plans to release a fourth instalment of its Command and Conquer series of games next year.

Titled, Command & Conquer 4 (see what they did there?), the Real Time Strategy (RTS) game will see you once again pick up the reins of the Brotherhood...

Comment: What does Chrome OS mean for PC gaming?

Picture a future that's a few years away. A future where Chrome OS has been released, has gained some decent market share, and is having an impact on Microsoft. A future where Windows 7 hasn't really taken off and most laptops run Chrome OS and not Windows.

What...

Win a copy of The Sims 3

Pocket-lint has teamed up with EA to bring you the chance of winning one of three copies of the The Sims 3.

Featuring "endless creative possibilities" the new game gives you the ability to customise your Sim's appearance, personality and their home before sending...

Empire of Sports adds UK City

Empire Of Sports, the virtual world dedicated to sports, has announced that it's opening up a brand new city for the game - the UK - as well as a partnership with "legendary" Welsh footballer Ian Rush.

The company hopes that the new UK location will bulk up...

World of Goo founder creates "Egg Worm"

Award-winning indie game developer Kyle Gabler, responsible for the smash hit "World of Goo", has posted an interesting bit of software on his website.

It's an evolution simulator called "Egg Worm" that generates random creatures and then animates them. The...