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Unlike the last few years, Valve had a massive presence at this year’s gamescom. In celebration of their newest game,Dota 2, they held a massive tournament called “The International.” During this contest, we were able to talk to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell in an extensive 12-minute video interview. Topics discussed include Valve’s keen eye for new talent, the viability of the free-to-play model, the community aroundDota, and what the company is planning on doing withCounter-Strike: Global Offensive....

Wideload Games is best known for a few things, the least of which is that the company’s founder, Alex Seropian, was also a founder of Bungie (those are they guys that madeOni, right?). More importantly, Wideload is known for letting players “be the zombie” in the 2005 sleeper,Stubbs the Zombie. While their upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 title,Hail to the Chimp, doesn’t appear to feature a single flesh-eater, the game’s unique aesthetic and “over-the-top” party game angle is certainly appealing....

November has been a pox upon my free time, my wallet and my self-esteem; as such, I didn’t expect my girlfriend to be too hyped on this recent splurge of games. She’s got gaming in her blood, though, having grown up with two fiercely geeky older brothers. Despite herterriblysexy nigh-encyclopedic knowledge of gaming, she doesn’t reallygameall that much. She was always afraid to be geeky growing up. Since we got a place together I’ve been making small moves to get her back into console gaming....

Our friends atCandyAddictknow that we love candy. So we jump with joy at the rare chance that we get to talk about candy in relations to videogames. Brian recently went to the All Candy Expo and came across a couple of new Nintendo themed candy products in the ever growingNintendo themed candyproducts. The Wii Candy Dispenser looks to be the size of a regular Wiimote and looks to dispense some type of delicious candy from the top of the Wiimote....

Congratulations toZeroToloas he is the Grand Prize winner of theFrontlines: Fuel of Warand Xbox 360. We will be getting in touch with you shortly to send you your prizes. And just because we just love to give as much as we can around here, the first three runner-ups will be receiving some swag based onFrontlinesas well. mikemqn, Corncobtacular and Quisling, you three will be getting an e-mail from me shortly....

Easily one of the better downloadable games to come out this year,‘Splosion Manwas really only hurt by one thing: the inability to consistently get a good online co-op match going. The further you progressed through a level, the more out of sync you became with everyone else. It was hilarious to see ‘Splosion Man swimming in the air at first, but then it became annoying pretty fast when the difficulty ramped up....

3D Dot Game Heroesis one of the games I ammost looking forward to next year. Already out in Japan, the game is heavily laden withZeldareferences and has a fantastic art style that really makes it stand out. If I love it as much as I hope I will, then it will not leave my wallet alone, because it will support plenty of DLC. A free update is hitting the Japanese version this Holiday season a loading screen, an optional hard drive installation, and the aforementioned DLC support....

Activision’s first Kinect game has been revealed asWipeout in the Zone, the publisher has announced. Based on the ABC showWipeout, the game will have players going through “hilarious” obstacles (30 of them!) using the motion sensing camera. Hosts John Anderson, John Henson, and Jill Wagner (hey, hire more hosts with “J” names!) will lend their talents for an authenticWipeoutexperience. The game is set for release this summer, and will serve as a grim reminder that Activision canceledTrue Crimeand won’t be releasing aDJ Herogame this year....

Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist. GENZOMAN has been making therounds this weekdue to hisadult Link drawing. Wouldn’t it have been hilariously awesome had Nintendo gone this route instead when people were all up in arms aboutWind Waker’sstyle? Anyway, GENZOMAN’s art rocks. The styling is great and I just love the coloring in all of his pieces too. GENZOMAN has a big thing forStreet Fighter III’sElenaand thanks to all of his fan drawings of her I have a new found appreciation for the character....

We’veknown about it for a while, but today Atari has officially announced that it will be publishing Terminal Reality’s newGhostbustersgame. The title was left in limbo after Activision shut down Vivendi and spurned a number of IPs. After a long time hanging around like a dog with no collar,Ghostbustersseemed to have a home with Atari but we never had any official confirmation. Now we have it, along with a tiny offering of new screenshots....

The upcomingGhostbustersgame has crossed a few dimensions in its development time. After Activision and Blizzard hooked up, they let go of all the games that couldn’t properly be beaten into the ground on a yearly basis and one of the victims of that was theGhostbustersgame. Thankfully, Atari were able to use a Proton Beam to wrangle the game over to their Ecto-Containment Unit (my jokes are horribly corny, I know)....

TheMexican gaming communityain’t one to be f**ked with. Thislatest taleis a prime example of just that. Question for youWorld of Warcraftplayers: Have you ever wanted to beat the living crap out of an annoying griefer? Don’t you wish that one day you could just take a baseball bat to the face of that fat slob who has nothing better to do than take his level 60 character and piss all over your up-and-comer?...

Point-and-click adventure games? Hey, you may never have to many of those — especially when it comes to a platform like Xbox LIVE Arcade. The Czech Republic-based indie developer Silver Wish Games is helping out this cause with its upcoming titleAxel & Pixel. While we hadheard rumblingsof the game before, it wasn’t until today that publisher 2K Games unleashed a bunch of media forAxel & Pixel. On top of screenshots and a debut trailer, there’s also the announcement of an October 14 release date....