Dying for Daylight It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call Charlaine Harris the new queen of multimedia. The author of the best-selling Southern Vampire Mysteries series has watched it smoothly
transition to television in HBO's "True Bood." Based on characters from those stories, it's been a big hit for the potent cable network.

Next up for Harris? Video games, naturally. Dying for Daylight,
an adventure game for the PC, opens a new avenue for the 59-year old author.

It wasn't a familiar world for her to explore, though. Harris notes she's not a particularly technical person and hadn't even played a video game prior to this.

"I would watch as my sons played multiplayer games with
friends," she told Y! Games.

3DS - Nintendo If you're planning to pick up a Nintendo 3DS when it goes on sale March 27, you'll have a solid 18 games to choose from for your starter
collection -- but they're going to cost a bit more than regular DS titles.

Nintendo has unveiled its launch day line-up for the handheld gaming system as well as a $40 price tag for games -- $5 more than
titles for the existing DS platform.

The 3DS won't launch with the support of a heavyweight
Nintendo icon like Mario or Zelda, but external publishing partners will pick up the
day-one slack with some very familiar names, including Super Street Fighter,
The Sims, Star Wars, Rayman, and Madden. The system will also come with built-in titles Face Raiders,

GDC In terms of big splashes, the Game Developer Conference generally pales in comparison to E3. But even though it might lack a circus
atmosphere and onslaught of new product announcements, that doesn't mean
there's a lack of news.

This will be the 25th time industry developers and executives have gathered to network, seek inspiration and learn more about the
industry of making games. Started in a developer's living room in 1988 with
roughly 25 people attending, this year's show is expected to welcome more than
18,000 attendees to the Moscone Center in San
Francisco when it kicks off on Feb. 28.

Here are a few of the topics you're likely to see make the headlines:

Nintendo's big surprise

Old-school Link Adventurous video game hero Link might stay forever young, but he's a
lot older than you think. On the heels of Mario's 25th birthday last year,
Nintendo's beloved Legend of Zelda franchise turns 25 this week.

First introduced to gamers in Japan on February 21, 1986, the smash series has spawned some of the best-selling games ever released, from the revolutionary, gold-cartridge NES classic to the seminal Nintendo
64 hit The Ocarina of Time -- still among the highest-rated
games ever (and soon to get the 3DS treatment). Toting a sword, shield and a variety of useful items, series staple Link has been a cash cow for Nintendo, helping the company sell a good 60 million Zelda games worldwide.

Compared to a meal at a good restaurant and a night at the movies, board games certainly seem like an inexpensive way to keep the family entertained for an evening.

But while you can pick up a brand new version of Monopoly, Clue, or Scrabble for a mere $20, what if you wanted to spend a little more? Turns out even the regular, plastic-and-cardboard variety board games can hit some shocking totals under the right circumstances -- and that's before you factor in Collectors Editions and specially crafted one-off versions that easily top a staggering seven figures. The wallet-draining board games typically fall into one of three categories:

The out-of-print

Though you might associate board

Today's most special game trailer is brought to you by the letters D and W and the number 1.

The D is for Double Fine Studios, the wildly creative team behind quirky hits like Costume Quest and Stacking. Their next project, however, takes kid-cool to a whole new level: it's Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster for the Xbox 360 and Kinect. Published by Warner Bros. Interactive (there's the W), it's due out this fall.

The number 1? That's in honor of the game's very first trailer, which we proudly present exclusively on Yahoo! Games:

Details are still a bit scarce, but based on the trailer, it seems that players will control famous monsters like Cookie Monster and Elmo while dancing, flying,

Killzone 3... D! 3D hasn't exactly taken the gaming world by storm so far, but that's not stopping Sony from giving the technology another big push.

Killzone 3, due out this week, is the latest installment in the company's eye-popping shooter series. And Sony's pulling out all the stops this time. Arguably the best graphics to appear in a PlayStation 3 game to date? Check. Integration of the PlayStation Move controller? You bet! 3D? Oh yeah -- it's in there, too.

The game, in fact, was built from the ground up with 3D in
mind. And it was one of the first selling points Sony management hyped when it
showed off the game at last year's E3.

But part of the problem with 3D gaming is that the video
game industry

Bulletstorm

Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC

Bulletstorm Potty-mouthed and rampantly violent, could EA's new shooter Bulletstorm be
2011's most controversial game? Fox News certainly seems to think so:
the network ran a story earlier this month headlined "Is Bulletstorm the Worst Video Game in the World?"
which accused Bulletstorm (and other violent video games) of including gratuitous violence and sexual references in order to drum up media attention, among other more lurid claims.

Launching this week, Bulletstorm is already in the hands of the gaming press, but will they agree?

Racking up an aggregate score of 86% so far, the answer's a solid "no," and there's a broad consensus that Bulletstorm's