How well do you know your video game consoles? How much attention have you paid to the boxes they come in?

You see them on store shelves for years. But can you identify which boxes belong to which consoles based on just a tiny detail from each box?

We have put together another little photo quiz to test your gamer skills. Click on each of the thumbnails to see which system came in which box.

Here are a handful of hints to help you on your way:
1. There are both console and handheld hardware boxes.
2. No special editions.
3. Redesigns don't count as special editions.
4. To the best of my knowledge, these are all U.S. editions.

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Can you spot the logos of your favorite game developers? Even if we just give you a tiny glimpse?

The Game Developer's Conference is rapidly approaching, and this year is stacking up to be one of the biggest and most exciting years ever. In honor of the many great developers that will be in attendance we have put together another one of our photo quizzes for everyone to enjoy.

Below you will see the details of 10 different GDC attendees' logos. Each of these developers will be represented at the show, either on the floor, or via a speaker. You should be familiar with each of these logos from those screens that pop up right before you start playing some of your favorite titles from the past few years. Try and see how many of them you can recognize.

Click the images for the answers.

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With the monumental success horrendous flop of the latest video game based movie "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" the gaming community was yet again subjected to the bastardization of properties that they hold near and dear to their hearts. As we all know, this has happened time and time again over the last 25 years. Many video game based movies have come, and swiftly gone from the theaters, appreciated by few, and ridiculed by many.

In honor of these films, we have put together a little quiz for all of you to test your game movie knowledge. Can you name the movie posters, from the details that have been pulled from the images? We fully understand that most of you probably never saw these posters before, so we made sure to make the quiz (almost) as difficult as possible.

On with the quiz....10 questions. And the prize is? Pride.

The Multiplayer Video Game Movie Poster Quiz 
(Click each thumbnail to reveal the full poster)

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You stared. You played. You answered. You took the Multiplayer photo quiz.

And now it is late Tuesday and you're getting the answers.

Who was really playing and who was the faker? I can't tell you about the woman in that Target ad. But I can tell you about the 10 photos in the quiz.

Some people thought this quiz was about which people are real gamers. Nope. It was just about whether you can tell what someone playing games looks like. We tried to fool you in a few; we played it straight in others. Almost no one got #4 wrong. Many people were tripped up by #2. The most controversial was #5.

Regular readers of the Multiplayer blog had a leg up. Photos 1, 5, 7 and 10 were all taken from earlier posts featuring, respectively, Shigeru Miyamoto, MTV's James Montomgery, MTV's Gerald Flannory, and me.

Of the people who posted answers on Multiplayer or on Joystiq,the worst (though funniest) showing was Brendan's 30% correct ballot. And the winner? That goes to the near-psychic 90%-accurate Sneakypants. Take a bow, Sneaky.

And to those who thought this was a trick... that everyone pictured was either playing or faking? That's not my style.

Click through to find the truth behind all 10 photos, to discover what these folks were really doing. Each photo now links to a bigger image that explains all.

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(Update: Answers to this quiz are now online at this link.)

Is the woman in the billboard to the left really playing PlayStation 3?

Or is she faking?

Up until last week I looked at that woman every work day, wondering exactly that. She was plastered on a six-story billboard, selling something for Target, something that required the innate sense of fun that emanates from anyone holding a Sixaxis PS3 controller.

But I think she was faking.

We here at the Multiplayer blog have used that photo for inspiration. We've heard the jokes, the comments, and the complaints from friends, family and significant others about gamers who are hypnotized in front of their gaming console, staring blankly, not answering questions.

So we've wondered: Can you really spot the face of a gamer? Does playing video games really instill a telltale facial expression like nothing else?

What follows are 10 photos of people either playing or fake-playing a video game. Today we're showing you the 10 people. You tell us: Who is really playing? Who is faking?

Tomorrow, we will provide the answers.

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