The compliment to a perfect visceral and visual experience - like Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption - is often times the perfect score. This clip gives us an inside view to what it's like building a dynamic and meaningful score into a video game.

Here's a great mashup of all your favorite 8-bit video game baddies (plus a little bonus Portal thrown in for good measure) and some extreme sports.

Nothing exploits the multi-touch interface better than a great point and click adventure. Thankfully LucasArts has taken it upon themselves to regard Apple's iDevices as a tier 1 platform, launching the re-worked Monkey Island classic alongside Xbox and Playstation offerings.

Here's all you need to click on in order to experience the best in adventure gaming;

The Monkey Island 2 review over at Touch Arcade

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If you're wondering what 25,000 Barrels looks like, you're in luck. Prepare to be in a Physics (or PhysX as the case may be) - induced trance as the barrels come crashing down. neat.

If you're a car fan and have a Playstation, you're likely intimately familiar with the Gran Turismo series. You're also likely growing impatient waiting for the next full installment - Gran Turismo 5, a title which has been in the works for years, and has thus far produced nothing but a few isolated tech demos and screenshots.

E3 2010 brings some hope, however, in the form of a release date (November 2010) and a handful of gorgeous screenshots. There's also some amazing shots of the Top Gear test track - which will be fully simulated in the upcoming title.

OnLive - the virtual gaming platform which allows users to play games that are hosted on remote servers, gave a demo to TouchArcade at E3 2010. The controls looks a bit awkward, but the tech appears pretty solid. My guess is that this is better suited for RTS games and the like and not for FPS titles which require super fast reactions.

Over at NeoGAF they've found an overseas ad for a new slim version of the Xbox 360.. Just ahead of E3 2010. In addition to the aggressive (tacky?) styling, this new Xbox 360 will supposedly sport integrated WiFi, a 250 GB HDD and support for 'Kinect' (i.e. Project Natal)

Found over at GiantBomb