Based on the 1,040 responses to the DGD2 survey, I have ranked the top 10 emotions with their average score out of 5 to get a rough-and-ready estimate of the popularity of various emotions. This isn't a strict scientific measure, as such, but the highest scoring emotions are those for which the majority of people not only recognised having that emotion while playing games, but recognised it enhanced their enjoyment.

Top Ten Videogame Emotions [Only a Game]

10. Hands-On With Nyko's E3 Accessories

9. Soul Calibur Legends Confirms Fears

8. SIXAXIS Rumble Confirmed By SCEA Employee

7. PS3 Still Too Expensive, MGS4 Future Uncertain?

6. PSP Slim and PSP Slim Silver Coming in September

5. Halo 3 Handish-On, Why It's "Next Gen"

4. Peter Dille Goes Beserk, Bites Microsoft In Face

3. Metal Gear Solid 4 Is PS3 Exclusive - Last In Series

2. 3 Biggest Flops at the 3 Biggest Pressers

1. Killzone 2 Impressions

Just in time for Earth Day, which is today (living in Taipei, where a layer of suspicious-looking black gunk coats every exposed surface on my roof, I didn't even notice), Game Daily brings us a list of the top 10 planet friendly games. A couple of my pet favorites are on here: Katamari, Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon (I'm not sure farming has ever looked so fun and environmentally friendly as it does on my DS) all make the list, along with some unexpected choices like Grand Theft Auto.

And what comes in at number one? Why, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, of course. Maggie Greene

Top Ten Planet Friendly Games [GameDaily]

I came across this little Princess Lea and R2-D2 figurine made by Gentle Giant and was like, "Why is Lara Croft with R2D2?" when I realized that this is the new look for cartoon Lea. So of course, a hunt down to find other babes in gameland ensued and I found QJ's Top 10 List of gaming vixens, which are as follows:

1. The Dead or Alive Girls (Dead or Alive series)
2. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider series)
3. Tifa (Final Fantasy VII)
4. Zelda
5. Chun Li (Street Fighter series)
6. Samus Aran (Metroid series)
7. Morrigan Aensland (Dark Stalkers)-
8. Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII)
9. Mai Shiranui (King of Fighters)
10. Maria Renard (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)

Now I'm not opposed to big breasts or blond hair, I'm just saying if there have been medical breakthroughs in the real world that some of the girls in the digital realm should, I don't know, LOOK DIFFERENT?! Every girl on this list falls under Chun-Li clone or Lara-Croft look-a-like. Kim Phu

Weekend Slowdown Our Top 10 hottest game babes to date [Wii QJ]

Just because a game has "Super" in the title doesn't make it a super game. Screw Attack's handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig examine this phenomenon in their latest video, Top 10 "Super" Games. As they point out, the Super Nintendo was extremely fond of adding "super" into the title of a lot of their games. The list is rather staggering actually and I'm impressed the boys were able to narrow it down to just ten. Hopefully, they will follow this one up with a "Top 10 Worst Super Games" list. As much as I love watching clips from great games, I get much more satisfaction out of laughing and pointing at them. Flynn De Marco

Spacewar! (1962)
Star Raiders (1979)
Zork (1980)
Tetris (1985)
SimCity (1989)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Civilization I / II (1991)
Doom (1993)
Warcraft (Series) (1994)
Sensible World of Soccer (1994)

The games all represent firsts for lasting genres, such as adventure games, multiplayer, FPS, story-driven RTS, et cetera. Each gamer is required to save these titles to a microchip embedded in the base of their skull in order to preserve our gaming heritage. Michael Fahey

Is That Just Some Game? No, It's a Cultural Artifact [The New York Times, via Grand Text Auto]

In a world of DIY everything and the rise of The Food Network, everyone is jumping on the cooking bandwagon. In the last year or so, game themed cakes have been all the rage and we've seen some really incredible ones like the Mario Brothers wedding cake which pretty much puts all other game cakes to shame.

Riding one of this year's other popular trends, the top 10 list, the folks over at YouNewb have put together a list of the "Top 10 Gamer Cakes". Some of these we've featured here on Kotaku, but there are several I'd never seen before. The cake pictured at right, which I can only assume is supposed to be a Guitar Hero controller, falls into the category of "Cakes I wish I'd never seen and certainly wouldn't eat." I'm not sure what offends my senses most about it. It could be that it's in three parts with the body on a separate plate, or maybe it's the fact that the frosting looks like it was applied by a blind monkey on a feces throwing binge. Flynn De Marco

Top 10 Gamer Cakes [YouNewb]

More fascinating fodder for the 7-9 game review scale debates! Joystiq has posted a list of the top 10 games according to their aggregate review scores on Game Rankings. They are:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64, Nintendo, 97.8 avg. review)
2. Soul Calibur (DC, Namco, 96.4 avg. review)
3. Metroid Prime (GC, Nintendo, 96.3 avg. review)
4. Tekken 3 (PSX, Namco, 96.3 avg. review)
5. GoldenEye 007 (N64, Nintendo, 96.0 avg. review)
6. Resident Evil 4 (GC, Capcom, 95.9 avg. review)
7. Super Mario 64 (N64, Nintendo, 95.8 avg. review)
8. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox, Microsoft Game Studios, 95.7 avg. review)
9. Resident Evil 4 (PS2, Capcom, 95.7 avg. review)
10. Half-Life 2 (PC, VU Games, 95.6 avg. review)

As they note, what's interesting about the list is how few games from previous generations there are, or how no portable game makes this list. It looks to me as if reviewers tend to discount portable games as less serious, and therefore less worthy of a high score, than their console or PC counterparts.

So did the reviews for games of previous gens use a wider slice of the scale, or are games just objectively better now? What do you guys think? Florian Eckhardt

Current top 10 cumulative game rankings [Joystiq]

Here's one I do remember... the cheats for Doom 2.

One of the founding fathers of the first person shooter genre, you can make our hero a god by typing IDDQD with the keyboard. IDCLIP makes him walk through walls. IDCLEV## can warp you to any level that you wish. Levels 31 and 32 are Wolfenstein secret levels where you can kill Nazi soldiers in hell. IDKFA unlocks every weapon - shotgun, plasma gun, BFG, and oh yes the chainsaw. Never leave home without it. Type IDKFA again and it's an instant ammo refill.

IDCLIP is for noobs, guys. For us old schoolers, it was IDSPISPOPD.. Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris! Heck, I even remember the more useless cheats, like IDDT to reveal the full automap or IDCHOPPERS to get a chainsaw. Florian Eckhardt

British Gaming Blog is pretty optimistic about the rest of this year in 360 gaming. I mean, why not be? While Live Arcade might expel new games only after months of constipation, the 360 line-up for the rest of the year looks pretty good, and the BGB have posted their full-on geek-out pics of what the best games for the rest of the year are going to be... sight unseen!

It's a pretty good list, including titles such as Just Cause, Dead Reckoning, Assassin's Creed and Gears of War. However, the second you put a fuckin' Sonic game on a top 10 list, you've really just blown your street cred... it's like calling pot 'marijuana cigarettes' during a drug deal while waggling around air quotes.

But I'd never heard of Stranglehold... a video-game sequel to Hard Boiled! I'm sure the level of my expectations when confronted with that concept practically guarantee the game's abysmal quality, but as Kotaku's own J.M. Barrie, I'd like to encourage everyone in the comments to clap their hands three times and shout out: "I believe in you, Stranglehold!" Florian Eckhardt

The 360's Blindingly Bright Future [British Gaming Blog]

If GT had any sanity rattling around in their cerebellums at all, this list of the Top Ten Video Game Weapons would be Painkiller's entire arsenal and five other guns. It isn't; they don't. And there's a lot of often gibbering hyperbole. But it's still a lot of fun early on a Friday Morning.

But huh? The Doom chainsaw wasn't found until late in the game? Yeah, I guess E1M2 is later than E1M1. I also like what they say about the BFG: "the most brilliantly disguised acronyms in video game history!" How do you brilliantly disguise an acronym? Florian Eckhardt (Thanks, Jonathan!)

Believe it or not, before the advent of the Internet, the world's resourceful self-pleasurers actually had to use their imaginations to achieve Onanistic bliss. This entire time period, it's safe to say, was the millennia long dark age of pornography.

But in between the invention of computer and the advent of Internet porn, there was sort of a transitional time... a period of 8-bit boners and 4-colorhorizontal mambos. Video games became a prime distributor of virtual pornography, and games.net has an intriguing list of the Top 10 Nude Moments in Gaming, largely garnered from that period.

Everyone's favorite porn titles are there, like Custer's Revenge (bizarrely listed as a PS2 title), Leisure Suit Larry and Bubble Bath Babes... the latter title one I would definitely pay to see remade. Florian Eckhardt

Top 10 Nude Moments in Gaming [games.net]

As the founding member of Kotaku's own branch of the He-Man Woman Hater's Club, I probably should not deign to cootie myself up touching the subject matter of the Top 10 Girliest Games of All Time. Best to put on my Haz-Mat suit, hand off the assignment to our token female staffer, then go watch some Pumping Iron to up the testosterone levels again. But Eliza's never around when you need her.

So pastels ahoy! Kotakuite Paul K. was kind enough to direct us to this Aeropause post trying to determine what girlie games have the most rainbows, sticker parties, ponies and puppy dogs. The Spice Girls, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake and Hello Kitty are all over this list, so if you have any unfilled cavities, best to avoid.

Like the Top 10 Manliest Games of all Time, this list contains a stark omission: Super Princess Peach, otherwise known as the Pretty Princess Temper Tantrum Game. How could you miss that one, guys? Florian Eckhardt

The 10 Girliest Video Games EVAR! [Aeropause]
Previously: Top 10 Manliest Games Ever

It won't be a surprise to any of you that, like my men, I like my games manly. So I was delighted to see that Arthur's Hall of Viking Manliness (one of the manliest sites on the Internet) has posted a list of the 10 Manliest Video Games of All Time, featuring games like Contra and Mike Tyson's Punchout and Double Dragon.

Unfortunately, this is largely a let down. Look, I don't want to kick sand in the face of a 98 pound weakling here, but dude. Where's Bad Dudes? Is there anything more manly than that game's premise, timelessly summarized at the beginning of the game in 17 terse, manly words by this cool, square-jawed hunk? "The president has been kidnapped by ninjas! Are you a bad enough dude to save the president?"

The answer, of course, is no... hell no. That's as manly as it motherfuggin gets A for effort, Arthur, F for... Florian Eckhardt

The Top 10 Manliest Video Games Ever [Arthur's Hall]

The British Gaming Blog has posted a list of their top 10 GBA games.

Gentlemen, you know the protocol: nod your head with the smug confidence of a connoisseur every time you come across a game you agree with. The second your opinion differs from the author's, say "What the hell is this CRAP?" You should start off by hissing 'What' in a dangerous whisper, raising your tone of voice after each word so that by the time you've reached 'crap', you're hammering your fist madly against the table and screaming. Remember to over sibilate your s's — it really adds to the overall effect.

On my part, I had a problem with the list from mother game fuggin one. Mario Vs. Donkey Kong? The inferior spiritual successor to the excellent GB Donkey Kong? And the second you put Metroid Fusion over the excellent Metroid Zero Mission, you've just lost me. Props to their number one pick, though: Mario & Lugii: Superstar Saga is indeed the best game on the GBA. FLORIAN ECKHARDT

Top 10 GBA Games [British Gaming Blog]

The wrap-ups and top ten lists just keep continuing. GamerGod's list of the 10 Most Interesting People of 2005 is up. Number one? Everyone's favorite lawyer, Jack Thompson. Two and three on the GamerGod list were more interesting, however. Two, was Leroy Jenkins from World of Warcraft and one a more serious note, number three was Brenda Braithwaite, who's Sex & Games is one of the most interesting reads around.

The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005 [GamerGod]

Prodigious Gaming just put out a top ten list for Xbox 360 launch titles. While reviewing the list, keep in mind that it's got to be mostly based in the ephemeral, mostly fictional world of early builds, screen shots and gigantic early-production lies of Molyneuxesque proportion.

Here's the list, check the site for the reasons:

10. Kameo: Elements of Power
9. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
8. Ridge Racer 6
7. N3: Ninety-Nine Nights
6. Dead or Alive 4
5. Call of Duty 2
4. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
3. Project Gotham Racing 3
2. Madden NFL 2006
1. Perfect Dark Zero

Top Ten Xbox 360 Launch Titles [Pro-G]

I just noticed that Games.Net, the people who brought us the Ten Mario Sellout Moments, has a whole list of top ten feature stories. Some of the more interesting include Ten Hugely Over-Rated Games, The Coolest Modern Video-Game Characters and Games to Play When You're Stoned. I really liked the Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever list.

The thing most impressive about this particular list is its inclusion of such a wide variety of games.

Top ten weapons include the Voodoo Doll form Blood and Blood 2, the Shrink-Ray from Duke Nukem 3D and the Pistol from Halo.

How did they leave off the Land Shark gun and Topsy Turvy bomb from Armed and Dangerous, and you can't talk FPS weapons without at least mentioning the Deagle (Desert Eagle). Boom, headshot!

Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever [Games Net]