Who knew there were 145 gaming consoles created? Sure as hell caught me by surprise. Consollection is a website that has done the dirty work for you by providing a snap shot of every video game console ever created. It includes many lesser known systems that never felt the coldness of a Walmart store shelf. The website that created the image is basically a mini encyclopedia of every console.

How many of them do you think you can name? Myself, about 50 of them I knew from the picture....that makes about 100 left to learn....dammit.

(note Consollection's site is down right now, probably due to the high traffic but should be back up soon)

We all know Christmas is the time of year to spend with family and loved ones. But for some of us that play MMO's hours at a time, we have developed close relationships with other players of those games.

Realizing this many MMO's have taken the extra step to create events for holidays like Thanksgiving and now Christmas. Below are some of the Christmas festivities that you can partake in with your gaming family.

The "Big" event of the holidays is the month long affair in the Playstation Home arena. In the Central Plaza is a "Festive Tree" that looks remarkably just like a Christmas tree. But thanks to the folks over at the ACLU, thus we have a Festive Tree. Whatever....

The Christmas Festive tree  will feature different gifts everyday under the tree that are puzzles you and your friends can solve for prizes. Also included for the holidays is new batch of items like a free menorah, for all of our community members that want to celebrate Chanukah and other items for Kwanzaa  and --GASP--Christmas!

What is actually pretty cool is a new Winter Wonderland space will allow you to interact with Santa Claus and elves as you help the crew get all its preparations for Christmas done; aka minigames! There is even a Photo Elf who will take festively decorated pictures of your Home avatar.

Continue reading to find out what Pokemon and WOW are doing for the holidays.

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Everywhere you look sites are cramming their ideas of what makes a good gift down your throat! You cannot visit a website without someone telling you they KNOW what to get your loved one better than you.

Don't let the pink on GuysGirl.com fool you as we have been guilty of this too for both sports and gaming. Perhaps the gift guides are right or they could be dead wrong. But it never hurts to see a variety of gifts to gather some ideas of what you want to buy for Christmas. Here are the best guides we found online.

This is my favorite time of the year. The tree is up and decorated, the lights are all hung up outside of my house and I'm officially done with all of my Christmas shopping.

Now its just time to sit back and gaze at everyone else's decorations including the little gems that are Christmas ornaments.

All year you wait and wait to pull your favorite ornaments out of those dusty boxes to reveal childhood memories, home made gifts from grandparents and if your lucky, a bad ass gaming ornament that have been become cultural favorites in recent years.

Check out the best video game ornaments to don your tree with this year and the years to come.

Don we now our gay apparel.. Well, ..no. Actually, I’ll be donning everything that has to do with the Playstation 3 over the next few months. Sony has officially taken the spotlight this Christmas. Look forward to not only being able to afford the system (PS3 Slim sells for $299), but enjoying masterful sequels to amazing titles (i.e. Assassins Creed II & Modern War 2).

Sony has a rock solid lineup, even though most of their heavy hitters will come early next year. Fret not, because this Christmas is for the essentials. Without spending an arm and a leg, you can equip your Playstation fan, or yourself, to be a part of Sony’s major movement in 2010.

5 Reasons Why Sony Has 2010 On Lock

#1 – PS3 Motion Controller

Sony joins the motion controlling craze with a pretty cool look. They put a lot into this too. Check out a in depth preview of this motion controller. It will show face sometime in the Spring of 2010.

Continue reading to see why you should invest in a PS3 this holiday season...