A Best of Classics line for the original Xbox is hitting European stores today. Each game in the new line will cost about £9.99 (about $18.50). The full line of best-selling Xbox games available are: Halo 2, Project Gotham Racing 2, Counter-Strike, Fable: The Lost Chapters, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, and a trio of…

While the Xbox 360 Dashboard and Xbox Live features are the most defining aspect of Microsoft’s mean green machine, it isn’t perfect as we all know. And Microsoft demonstrates what they’ve been doing to streamline their great online service and the Xbox Dashboard by announcing their first major facelift (finally allowing the 360 Live service…

Since Rayman’s creator Michel Ancel is temporarily unavailable We’ve lined up the new info info for you:

All the straight women were already swooning over Link’s good looks in his upcoming game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Heck, I’ve even heard straight guys call him cool, awesome, and some closet cases say he’s hot! And now gay and lesbian culture magazine “Out” labelled Link as sexy in their June issue, featuring…

Jeremiah Palacek, a painter in the Czech Republic, paints beautiful oils of scenes out of video games and sells them online via his “one painting a day” blog and eBay. He paints one oil painting every day. He covers imagery from all digital mediums, but his game-related scenes stand out most, as he paints anything…

The PC point-and-click adventure game Myst was originally released in 1995. Containing beautiful still screen CG artwork, an interesting and involved storyline and devious puzzles, Myst would go on to become the best-selling PC game of all time and to spawn 5 sequels. The game was finally unsurrped as best selling PC game of all…

Kotaku‘s Brian Ashcraft interviewed the game’s director at E3, it’s over 15 minutes long, but well worth the watch… “While it was great interviewing Wario Ware’s Goro Abe, there were things he did not want to talk about or flat-out couldn’t. Bound by certain constrictions, I felt as though the interview was turning into a…

Work on Halo 2 PC is coming along, but players looking forward to the game should know a few things. The game looks to be Windows Vista only and, despite the promise of the “Live Anywhere” concept at E3 by Bill Gates, the game will not be interconnected in the way that the Shadowrun game…

Yay! Your future DS Lite (June 11 US/June 23 EU) will have no clunky DS Rumble Pak sticking out from the bottom, like GBA cartridges will be, because of the DS Lite’s 34% size reduction. 4CR mentions the DS Lite version of the Rumble Pak is now available in Japan’s Nintendo Online Store. And they…