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His movie revels in videogames culture, but Scott Pilgrim vs. The World director Edgar Wright has told Eurogamer TV he became "too scared to have a console in the house for 10 years," after becoming hooked on PlayStation games.

PlayStation 3's internal security scheme is a shambles, with all of its major anti-piracy features failing abysmally. The system is so vulnerable that hackers now have the exact same privileges as Sony in deciding what code can run on the console.

Happy New Year folks! So what can we expect from mobile gaming in 2011? Judging by the endless rumours circulating at the back end of last year, it looks like it's going to be the year that Sony finally enters the market in some form.

This is happening. Following yesterday's explosive/lengthy rundown of the first 40 of your 50 favourite games of 2010, today we get to the real meat: the Eurogamer Readers' Top 10 Games of 2010. There may be exclusives. There may be surprises. There may be trouble. Thank you to everyone who voted!

It's the time of year when critics publicly ponder the best releases of the preceding 12 months. The results are collected, tallied and reproduced in countless lists across print and online.

By now you know that we've chosen Mass Effect 2 as our Eurogamer staff Game of the Year, and we've also championed a few individual favourites over the Christmas break. But with so many games released every year and so many passionate gamers reading Eurogamer, we knew it was vital to get your take on the last 12 months - so we did. You replied in your thousands and told us what you thought while you were nominating your top games. The result is the Eurogamer Readers' Top 50 Games of 2010. Check out 50-11 today and come back tomorrow for the Top 10...

Welcome to part two of Digital Foundry's 2010, a retrospective article where technology editor Richard Leadbetter discusses the major stories of the year, adds some personal thoughts on the games and hardware unveiled and reveals some behind-the-scenes information on the making of Digital Foundry's articles.

What a year 2010 was for gaming news headlines. From studio shutdowns to vengeful lawsuits to top executives saying their motion controller is better than the other top executive's motion controller, it's been a real rollercoaster. All right, more like a reasonably swift bus ride.

Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson has been appointed an OBE for services to the computer games industry in the New Year Honours list.

Recent news that Mass Effect 2 on PlayStation 3 is running on a newer, enhanced engine and may even be the "definitive" version of the game raised more than a few eyebrows. While performance is close, Unreal Engine 3 typically favours the Xbox 360, and it's safe to assume that BioWare's prior customisations to the tech were carried out very much with the Microsoft platform in mind. So, is the PS3 version genuinely enhanced and improved?

Uncharted 3 was unveiled with a teaser trailer that showed series star Nathan Drake venturing out into an expansive desert following an airplane crash – a setting some took to indicate that the game will feature open-world elements.

Yo ho ho! Deck the halls with red hot bargains! It's Christmas next week, and our friends at Get Games have decided to celebrate by doing a series of special festive promotions – giving you as much as 75 per cent off some amazing PC games between now and Boxing Day.

While Digital Foundry takes a short break over the Christmas period, Richard Leadbetter looks back over the year in gaming tech, discussing the major stories and offering behind-the-scenes tales of some of the ambitious features posted, and the ways in which DF puts together its unique articles.

Developers and fans of hardcore, sandbox online games like EVE or Ultima Online – emergent, changing worlds born from dog-eat-dog player interaction – like to dismiss the more populist virtual worlds, like World of Warcraft's, as "theme parks".

56 roundups and more than 300 games later, you could say that it's been an eventful nine months since we started to focus more of our attention on the downloadable games arena. But when we kicked things off back in March, little did we know just how many great games would fall into our laps.

The increasingly bitter war between mega videogame companies Activision and Electronic Arts levelled up this week when the Call of Duty publisher attempted to drag its chief rival into its countersuit against ex-Infinity Ward stars Vince Zampella and Jason West.

Touch of Evil may be the classy choice, but for me, the first moments of Back to the Future offer the greatest opening shot of any movie ever made. The magical twinkles of sound that accompany the date and time – date and time! First thing you see! – appearing on screen, followed by the steady, comforting chittering of dozens of pendulums and cogs, and then the fade up and the pan past that endless array of time-pieces.

Thrustmaster has unveiled the £400 official steering wheel for PlayStation 3-exclusive simulation racer Gran Turismo 5.

Bad news, everyone. Despite numerous appeals to the European Court of Human Rights, I have been unable to gain an injunction against Christmas and the New Year, so we will all have to retire to our homes to sit around not working for the next fortnight or so. (Honestly, it's called the European Court of Human Rights – you'd think they'd know a thing or two about how to enforce my right to make others work.)

A four pack of songs from Paul McCartney, and singles from Inhabited and Siouxsie and The Banshees, will be available to download from the Rock Band 3 Music Store from 28th December.

On announcement, Final Fantasy XIV was met with equal parts confusion and trepidation. For those who had not played Final Fantasy XI, it was an aberration in a series which was otherwise becoming more streamlined and approachable. For those who had, it was either seen with disgust or excitement – another MMO from a company that eschewed ease-of-use for deeper gameplay and a full-on grinding, old-school style.

New job advertisements suggest the Tomb Raider reboot will be the first pillar release in the hit series to feature multiplayer.

Mysterious Wii-exclusive JRPG The Last Story is 30 hours long, creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has revealed.

Football management games have always been about the great players of the present - the Ronaldos, Rooneys and Messis of this world.

The future of MMO Fallout Online was cast in doubt today after it emerged that Bethesda and Interplay were still embroiled in a thought-settled lawsuit over the post-apocalyptic IP.

I doubt Japan ever expected to play Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360, but last week a cut-price, content-boosted version of the game on Microsoft's machine was released.

The full Achievements list for upcoming three-on-three fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has found its way online, and it suggests the inclusion of a number of unannounced characters.

Hip hop karaoke game Def Jam Rapstar now works with Kinect.

Fresh from her somewhat arousing molestation of high-pitched Chris Martin wannabe Matt Cuddles on X-Factor, Barbados-born starlet Rihanna has entered the murky world of Kinect as downloadable content for Harmonix game Dance Central.

In the midst of January, Super Meat Boy gets even meatier - yes, trumpets, a beefy update is on the way.