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Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.

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The video game gift guide: bonus content and video

By Omar Gallaga | Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 01:15 PM

The year’s top video games were rounded up in today’s Life & Arts section with our games holiday gift guide. Dale Roe, Joe Stafford and I rounded up our top games of the year, top games by system and other goodies. In the online version, you can also see a roundup of the game systems: don’t know the difference between the Xbox 360 Elite and the Xbox 360 Pro? That’s where we tell you what to look for if you’re shopping.

We also shot a video (thanks, Rob V.!) to go with the story. I will only say that I am a new dad who has not been to the gym in weeks and the camera has decided to make the point that I not only played all of these video games, but I also ate them. “BioShock,” for the record, was delicious.

I also posted a bonus video on YouTube — we kept talking long after the initial video stopped and you can hear more of our thoughts on the year’s best below. Do not let my belly distract you: