Throughout the year we have been looking at the inside of the cover of the games, more precisely what's on the disc. I thought it was time to look on what's outside the cover. While some are horrendous, I decided to refrain from pointing them out and instead looking at what have been good. It has been a beautiful year in gaming, and the artistic covers is no exception. From colourful over sharptoned images to unique styling.

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VITA was released mid-December in Japan, and while the rest of us have to wait until February 22nd, we can sit back and watch how bad or good the launch goes. As an added bonus for the waiting time, we'll have more titles available to us at launch.

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I've always wanted to cross America from coast to coast by car, and withNeed for Speed: The RunI can get a taste of it. I won't be driving as fast when I actually take the drive in real life though.

So who's racing?
This games protagonist is going by the name Jack Rourke and as the intro unfolds, you'll discover that he made a mistake by borrowing money from some shady mobsters – and he can't pay them back. Jack wakes up inside a car, and realises that he's tied up to the steering wheel of a Porche 911 Carrera S – and the cars he's in is about to be crushed. With a little help from you, he escapes the crushing machine and jumps into another car. Now it's up to you to get away from the mobsters, and they don't go easy on you.

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Rocksteady Studios came out of absolutely nowhere with Batman Arkham Asylum two years ago. A game that took many by surprise including myself. Now we've returned to Gotham City to fight crime and once again stop Joker and his sidekick Harley Quinn from completing their sinister plans. We had high expectations for the second installment and rightfully so, because the last title kicked ass.

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Dance Central 2 is the sequel to Harmonix's very successful Kinect launch title (and is truthfully what made me buy a Kinect in the first place). The good news is its successor does not disappoint! Read more here.

Once again you are in for an adventure with Drake and his friends; Sully, Elena and Chloe. This time you'll visit various sites around the world, including Colombia, France and Arabia. You can read more here.

A little post on reddit caught my eye earlier today. The user that goes by the name of nerdyfeminist234234 (the account were made just before the post, so looks like a throwaway account for some reason) tells about a little, but very compelling story from when she played some EVE Online.

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Season Two have the same graphics, the same sounds, the same way of playing. They basically kept what was good and refined the gameplay with enhanced movements, better steering and more complex games.

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I thought I would add some insight as to how it works behind the scenes when it comes to making and running a gamingrelated website, so I decided to start on a series of blog posts.

Note, that the website in question is a very small one, just a few years old. It is nothing compared to big and very well known sites such as Gamespot, Kotaku and a like. We all know those sites, and just a few of us really know how they work and how they coordinate with their staff.

I started out as a freelance writer - no pay, but the games I reviewed were the payment in return. Fine for me, just a great way to expand my gaming collection without emptying my pockets.

After a few years I got more and more frustrated that I could not get the games I wanted to play - maybe I got picky, I don't know, maybe I just grew tired of playing games that I really didn't wanted to play from the start. That's when I decided I wanted to start my own website, but I really didn't expected it to catch the direction it did nor the pace.

I needed to find a theme, or a motto, something that would make the site unique and make it stand out from the rest of the gaming websites out there.

I must go now - Alice: Madness Returns has just arrived in the mail, and I have to get hold of my writer. And it's about time Section 8: Prejudice review gets online, so I need to finish the reading and correction.

Next time; The decision of theme/motto, the design and the panic when I realised that I couldn't make it all by myself.

Read the review here.