Incase you weren’t with us over the holiday, you missed this bit of news. Peter Moore questioned Eurogamer’s Top 50 list, which didn’t include FIFA 09 and some EA titles he would have liked to see included. Eurogamer has posted a rather lengthy response to the matter.

Obviously it’s a shame people get the wrong impression about our own list. But it would be an even greater shame, I feel, if we didn’t consider ways to address that in future. I believe the Top 50 writers’ commentary on each game is great fun (a few snipes excepted!), and I want to preserve that. However, there may be a better way of presenting our favourite games of the year without winding people up. It’s meant to be a celebration of the year’s games, after all. So we’ll spend a bit of time in 2009 considering where to take it. You’ll still get a list, and we’ll still say what we think about our favourite games, but hopefully you - and Peter - will be able to enjoy the results without recourse to pitchforks.

I am, and have always been a big advocate of parents being deeply involved in the gaming experiences that their kids have. Just as parents protect their children from movies and music that isn’t appropriate, they should do the same with games. This guide should help get parents ready to fairly police the gaming activities that their children want to engage in. It even goes so far to suggest some helpful hints for physical safety, such as going with wireless controllers to avoid tripping accidents.

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A portion of a Resolution Magazine review…

On a system with literally hundreds of puzzlers to choose from, Gravity falls well short of the mark. These big red buttons are best left well alone.

A portion of a BuzzFocus review…

Castlevania Judgment is a game that is easily passed on. Konami would have done better to dedicate its time and resources into making a Castlevania Adventure title that would instill the same memorability that drew us to the franchise so long ago.

As these listings usually go, we don’t have any idea what ‘Time Crisis Strike’ really is. Could it be a new game in the series? What platform will it head to…or is it an arcade release? Will the Wii see yet another lightgun game?

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This preview is focused on the 360/PS3 versions of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I really don’t want to discuss details, because we don’t know how much the Wii version will mimic the gameplay and features of the 360/PS3 versions. Read on at your own risk.

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“Not only would we have to somehow align events from Japanese gaming of that era to their US counterparts, but we’d also have to strip out all the references to the TV show while trying to retain the humor found throughout the game.” - XSeed

I still can’t believe that this game is getting localized. It seems like one of those strange mix-and-match localizations that the NES got back in the day. I’m just happy that someone decided to go ahead with the project!

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