There are far too many game studios shutting down right now. The

battered economy hasnt really hit our website hard just yet, but I'm pretty sure next year

is going to suck a lot. Make sure and tell your friends that you like videogames and

reading about them and talking about them here. Oh, and read these:

• Looking at

  Windows 7 and more

• Circuit City closing 155

  stores

• Anonymous anger on

  the internet?

• Amazon going with easy

  packages

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

• F.E.A.R. 2 trailer
• Gears of War 2 trailer with

  gold weapons

• Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor announced
• Installing Xbox 360 games improved

  graphics?

• Hellgate: London expansion in the

  works

• Universal doing the movie for EA's

  Dante's Inferno

• BioShock PS3 DLC is dated and

  priced

• No Beatles for Rock Band
• Steam Cloud launching with L4D
• THQ closes five studios
• Halo Wars footage
• Spore is 20th best 2008 invention
• Xbox Live Arcade games adding

  avatars

• PC gaming sales charts
• Worthless NFS Undercover trailer
• No more Xbox 360 price cuts
• Boku to kake Xbox 360
• Politicians hit Spore

Lastly, get your ass to bed early so you can get up and vote tomorrow morning. If you

havent voted yet and you dont vote tomorrow I will be mailing a bag of poop to your house

tomorrow evening. I am really not terribly political but I do know that we spent some time

creating that political filter for you guys so if you make use of it you better VOTE. GO

VOTE. GO GET IN LINE RIGHT NOW. VOTE.