At the Game Developers Conference last month, we asked a few developers some of the most important questions about video games.

Like... "What's your favorite video game dog?"

In our quest to find the Greatest Animal in the History of Video Games, this month we highlighted the best dogs and wolves for consideration.

First, we had Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski and Mark Rein weigh in with their picks. Then we had Lionhead Studios' Peter Molyneux talk about his favorite virtual dog, which happens to be to his own four-legged furball from "Fable 2" (and our one and only canine nominee from a game that's not yet released). See why he thinks his "Fable 2" dog deserves top prize and which other dog inspired him to create it:

(And don't forget to check back later in the week to see if Molyneux's dog wins or not.)

Starting today on GameTap, you can watch “Pre-teen Raider,” the latest episode in the site’s Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series crafted by various writers and artists. The eighth animated short in the ten-part series, “Pre-Teen Raider” was written by comic scribe Gail Simone (formerly of Birds of Prey and starting Wonder Woman in October), designed by Six Point Harness and features Lara Croft as a mischievous 12 year-old at the Croft Academy. Simone took some time to talk about turning a video game sex symbol into a tween, how it was almost "Kindergarten Croft" and how things are going with a certain Amazon princess…
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