After everything was said and done, Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) walked away with the Game of the Year award at this year's Spike TV Video Game Awards, winning out over Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Gears of War 2. Hit the full article for a rundown of the big winners during the event.

A conservative Christian Investment firm, The Timothy Plan, puts out a warning for parents on getting some games for their kids for the holidays. For that, they put out a list of the 30 "most offensive" video games out there today. The list includes your usual suspects, but The Timothy Plan flags games that ring the gay-dar, even those little negligible things like Niko Bellic turning down gay ads in online dating.

Looks like sackboys have nothing on Niko Bellic. Grand Theft Auto IV and LittleBigPlanet both launched on the same week in Japan, and it's pretty clear who the winner is. The PlayStation 3 version of GTA IV sold more than twice LittleBigPlanet did. Also worth noting that the PS3 version of GTA IV sold almost 4 times the Xbox 360 version did.

Full list of Japan's top games in the full article.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu recently gave out scores on today's hottest titles. Four reviewers would score a game on a scale to 10, with 10 being the highest. With a near-perfect score, it looks like Niko Bellic and the gangboys of Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) bested the LittleBigSackboys in LittleBigPlanet - even by just a tiny margin. Full scores and details in the full article.

Time to stop twiddling thumbs people, and go over the NPD results for top hardware and software sales for the month of May. Wii still maintains its lead, as well as the DS, and Niko Bellic is still on top of the food chain with the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. And oh, what's this? The PS3 overtakes Microsoft Xbox 360? Check out the hardware and software charts in the full article.

Looks like the UK's infatuation with Mario has been set aside in favor of Niko Bellic. Despite ever-declining sales, Grand Theft Auto 4 is still going strong in the UK, weeks after its release. Check out the full article to see what else is on top of the charts in the UK.