Over at the GDC event, Kratos made his presence felt via a God of War III gameplay demo video. It's not a direct feed, but at least for some off-cam footage, it's clear enough to distinguish what's going on. Here we have him pulling a Niko Bellic and hijacking that poor hulking cyclops for a ride. Now we can see what Todd Papy was talking about yesterday! Rawr!

And the God of War III interviews continue! From the game director to the art director, we now have the design director. Here we have SCE Santa Monica's Todd Papy talking about some of GoW3's new elements - more specifically, how to control the harpies and cyclopses. As he describes it, it's like riding helicopters and tanks, respectively. Yeah, hijack that innocent harpy, why don't ya? Video interview in the full article! It's also got some insight on how they've tried to balance GoW3's gameplay pacing.

Move over Niko Bellic. A new GTA star may be around the corner already! What with development for the DLC episodes, Rockstar Games isn't done with Grand Theft Auto 4 just yet. Despite that, analyst Michael Pachter is already pegging 2010 as the perfect time for the next console iteration of the sandbox franchise. And that's not all: Pachter's also making sales forecasts for GTA 5 already!

Did you get the latest title update for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360, PS3)? Well if you did, then most likely you ran into that uncharacteristic, out of place censorship in Niko Bellic's world. Wow, who could have ever imagined that will ever take place? I mean, yeah, ESRB and other moral groups have tried time and again, but this from Rockstar's own backyard? Hold up, it was just an "error", they said.

While some are still not over Niko Bellic and Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Xbox 360) and still play it in the livingroom, rumor has it that Rockstar Games is already planning to launch a fifth title in the franchise. Details in the full article.

Sony might have fallen from it's perch up on high, but it hasn't been a fall from grace. The PS3 has enjoyed its best year yet, with a stable of solid releases, excellent exclusives and strong third party titles. We pick the best of the best.

After everything was said and done, Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) walked away with the Game of the Year award at this year's Spike TV Video Game Awards, winning out over Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Gears of War 2. Hit the full article for a rundown of the big winners during the event.

A conservative Christian Investment firm, The Timothy Plan, puts out a warning for parents on getting some games for their kids for the holidays. For that, they put out a list of the 30 "most offensive" video games out there today. The list includes your usual suspects, but The Timothy Plan flags games that ring the gay-dar, even those little negligible things like Niko Bellic turning down gay ads in online dating.

Looks like sackboys have nothing on Niko Bellic. Grand Theft Auto IV and LittleBigPlanet both launched on the same week in Japan, and it's pretty clear who the winner is. The PlayStation 3 version of GTA IV sold more than twice LittleBigPlanet did. Also worth noting that the PS3 version of GTA IV sold almost 4 times the Xbox 360 version did.

Full list of Japan's top games in the full article.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu recently gave out scores on today's hottest titles. Four reviewers would score a game on a scale to 10, with 10 being the highest. With a near-perfect score, it looks like Niko Bellic and the gangboys of Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) bested the LittleBigSackboys in LittleBigPlanet - even by just a tiny margin. Full scores and details in the full article.