‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky’ has already gone gold ad will not be released until September 5th. This is a sign of big things for the highly anticipated title. More information about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is available on the official channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/stalkerofficial.

GSC Game World, computer games developer, its publishing subdivision GSC World Publishing and Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products, today announce that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky has gone gold. The international release date of the game has been set to September 5th of 2008.

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E3’s plans this year have been laid out and put in a fancy site map you see above, via Kotaku. The biggest video game companies are planning to show up, with the exception of a few, into a more centralized area away from the city-wide hijinks of the Santa Monica setting last year. This year, the show will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center and hopefully reduce the headaches, trauma, nausea, etc. of running around in the nasty heat wave that’s been hitting South Cali lately.

The following is the full list of the companies you can expect to hear from at the show:

* 1UP Network
* Akella
* Atari Inc.
* Bethesda Softworks
* CAPCOM Entertainment, Inc.
* Codemasters
* Crave Entertainment
* D3Publisher of America
* Deep Silver
* Disney Interactive Studios
* Eidos, Inc.
* Electronic Arts
* Fox Interactive Media
* Jagex Ltd.
* Konami Digital Entertainment
* LucasArts
* Majesco Entertainment
* Microsoft Corporation
* Midway Games, Inc.
* MTV Games
* NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
* Natsume
* Nintendo of America Inc.
* Novint Technologies, Inc.
* Nyko Technologies
* Rebellion
* SEGA of America
* Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
* Sony Online Entertainment Inc.
* Southpeak Interactive
* Square Enix Inc.
* Take-Two Interactive
* Tecmo
* THQ, Inc.
* Toshiba America Information Systems
* Ubisoft Entertainment Inc.
* Valve Software
* Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment

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[Updated May 23rd, 2008] What makes video games successful? Is it the marketing, the gameplay or the name? While the correct answer is not known, what IS known is that Video Gamers know what they want. I’ve listed below the “Top 5 Selling Video Games on Every Gaming Platform” with how much revenue they’ve made. Did you know all of the games for PS2 begin with a letter “G”?

Atari 2600

1. Pac-Man (7 million)
2. Pitfall! (4 million)
3. Missile Command (2.5 million)
4. Demon Attack (2 million)
5. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1.5 million)

Nintendo Entertainment System

1. Super Mario Bros. (40.23 million)
- DuckHunt (28.31 million)
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (18 million)
3. Super Mario Bros. 2 (7.46 million)
4. The Legend of Zelda (6.51 million)
5. Tetris (5.58 million)

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