We’re on vacation this week but trying to keep you informed and entertained with a round-up of our favorite Multiplayer content.

We like doing things in pieces here at Multiplayer. We like series. To wit:

What’s a college woman to do when she needs to make a Halloween costume based on “Halo” hero Master Chief? We ran a series on that.

What’s up with all these new-gen games that feature heroes named “Nathan”? We did a series on that too.

How did developers of “Dead Rising,” “Gears of War,” “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” “Double Dragon” (XBLA) , “Rock Band” and “Call of Duty 4” concoct the Xbox 360 Achievements for their games? You guessed it: we did a series.

Who came up with the mini-games in “Ratchet & Clank Future,” “KOTOR,” and “BioShock“? And what were they thinking? Series.

What can N’Gai Croal and Stephen Totilo say when they decide to critically analyze “Halo 3,” “BioShock,” “Metroid Prime 3,” short-session games, “Manhunt 2,” “Portal” and “The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass“? A lot. And we’ve run a series of series on that.

And that’s it for our series of year-end wrap-up posts. We’ll be back on January 2.

Happy new year!

We’re on vacation this week but trying to keep you informed and entertained with a round-up of our favorite Multiplayer content.

MTV News covered plenty of gaming goings-on this year. And not just the obvious stuff like E3, “Halo 3” and the creation of new Wii mini-game collections.

We did all that, of course.

But..

• We also talked to video gamers in Baghdad about keeping up with games like “Metal Gear Solid” while living in a war-torn city.

• We found pro wrestlers who do moves based on video games (and some who dress up in Nintendo Game Boy tights).

• We broke a lot of stories related to the fallout surrounding the fascinating “Donkey Kong” rivalry documentary King of Kong (coming to DVD in January).

• We even investigated how video game designers decide what happens to the virtual dead bodies of the enemies you kill in most action games.

We did plenty more. But that’s not a bad variety, huh?

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We’re on vacation this week but trying to keep you informed and entertained with a round-up of our favorite Multiplayer content.

MTV Multiplayer blogger Tracey John had been wanting to interview women in the gaming industry for quite some time.

As 2007 drew to a close she found five with whom she could conduct frank interviews about the highs and lows of being female in a predominantly male industry.

We’re indexing those conversations in one place. Lots of mixed opinions in these Q&As and some interesting feedback in the comments sections.

• Women Working In Games: G4’s Morgan Webb Talks ‘X-Play’ And Being A Pin-Up

• Women Working In Games: Game Girl Advance’s Jane Pinckard Talks Lara Croft, Male vs. Female Gamers

• Women Working In Games: ‘Assassin’s Creed’’s Elspeth Tory On Jade Raymond And Entering The Boys’ Club

• Women Working In Games: Brenda Brathwaite On Maternity Leave, Making The ‘Playboy’ Game And Hope For The Future

• Women Working In Games: Sega PR’s Tali Fischer On Progress, Sweatpants, And Naked Women At The VGAs

• Women Working In Games: Pinckard, Brathwaite Respond To Reader Comments

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We’re on vacation this week but trying to keep you informed and entertained with a round-up of our favorite Multiplayer content.Okay. Maybe a season-ending cliff-hanger about myself wasn’t the brightest idea. But all fall we tried to help the greater gaming populace learn how to pronounce hard-to-pronounce video game words.

If you want to know exactly how to say…

“Ubisoft”

“Ninja Gaiden”

“Crecente”

“N’Gai”

“Lara Croft”

“Kratos”

“Uwe Boll”

“Reggie Fils-Aime”

“Totilo”

…. then check out the index for MTV Multiplayer’s Pronunciation Guide.

And bear in mind, these are the experts telling you these things. Are you going to call Reggie and Uwe liars?

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We’re on vacation this week but trying to keep you informed and entertained with a round-up of our favorite Multiplayer content.

For starters, here are some of the most popular posts we published.

People read these posts, sent them around, and just came short of trying to buy the film rights from us to turn them into major motion pictures.

Here are some favorites:

• Two months after we published the post, hundreds (often thousands) of people still read this post I did about the “Still Alive” song in “Portal.” And they keep adding suggestions in the comments section about The Greatest Video Game Songs of all time.

• We took pictures of Shigeru Miyamoto, Gilbert Arenas and eight other people who were either playing a video game or just pretending to. And then we challenged the population of Earth to guess who was for reals. The quiz and the answers live on.

• I managed to find a fresh angle to the “Manhunt 2″ year-long hysteria, an angle that came from -gasp - playing the game. Well, actually playing the AO and M rated versions of the game (he said, showing off). How does a game change when it no longer gives you more points or other incentives for doing things like, say, killing someone more brutally? Lots of people had reactions to this.

• I laugh at those of you who tell me long headlines are a bad idea. When you’ve got a Jonathan Blow interview beneath that headline — an amazing one that everyone seems to have read — then your post will probably do okay. You know what? Even if you read this one already, read it again.

More Multiplayer highlights coming tomorrow!