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Some of you have set specific goals to more thoroughly revisit titles you have already played, and still others of you are choosing installments from gaming's illustrious back catalog -- you know, real vintage stuff like Super Mario Galaxy.

Raining In The Real World SVGL 2009

And we sum up a number of the DS and Wii games that went undermentioned at Nintendo's E3 conference: the WiiWare port of gold-standard indie platformer Cave Story, the gorgeously serene 'gaming's version of the bedtime story', Night Game (above), twisted indie platformer And Yet It Moves announced for WiiWare, the Kid Icarus-esque WiiWare game Icarian, and the possible localization of the brilliant DS logic puzzler Picross 3D.

Boing Boing 2009

Hopefully we'll see gaming's Walt Kelly and Will Eisner and maybe even our Jack Kirby in ... well, 2046?

Kicking The Dog SVGL 2009

No disrespect intended to Jaffe, his games are fun, but I don't think anyone will ever mistake him for one of gaming's great thinkers.

Come Out And Play SVGL 2009

My point is all these different forms of media come from different places, so to expect "gaming's Citizen Kane" (A dubious notion in and of itself) to have come out by now is silly.

Kicking The Dog SVGL 2009

Some of you have set specific goals to more thoroughly revisit titles you have already played, and still others of you are choosing installments from gaming's illustrious back catalog -- you know, real vintage stuff like Super Mario Galaxy.

Archive 2009-01-01 SVGL 2009

But as long as games journalism continues obsessing over pre-release "exclusives" and chasing NPD stats post-release, it will continue to miss gaming's important cultural impact.

Moment of Silence SVGL 2009

With new console Wii U on the horizon, and Microsoft's Kinect stealing gaming's motion-sensing thunder, it's easy to forget there are still games being made for Nintendo's previously pioneering platform.

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We don't necessarily need gaming's landmark Citizen Kane.

Let The Kane Thing Go SVGL 2009

I think gaming's big problem when compared to other forms of media is that it rarely takes it's inspiration from anything outwith gaming.

Come Out And Play SVGL 2009