It’s rare, but everyone once in a while you come across fan art that satisfies more than the official game art. Patrick Brown delivers plenty of it in his gallery. His gritty comic book style works very well for the types of games he chooses to create artwork for, and he manages to make that desaturated-everything-is-grey-and-brown look work in his favor.

About four years ago Rockstar modified GTA, GTA 2, and Wild Metal for use on the modern PC. A few days ago my brother brought this to my attention, and I thrilled in the old school Grand Theft goodness. It was incredibly magnanimous of Rockstar to give these games away, but I was also impressed by how easy they made it to install and enjoy. My experience with these Rockstar games was nothing like the difficulty I had in getting Day of the Tentacle to run on my XP PC a few months ago.

Each year brings new and exciting moments in video games. Be it experiences within actual games or pieces of news from the industry, 2008 was packed full of memorable moments. Below, in no particular order, are my ten most powerful moments of 2008. Read them over, share your opinions and tell us your favorite moments in the comments section.

After extensive time with Fallout 3 I could not help but long for the bug-free games of yore. As any PC gamer knows, computer games have always had their share of problems. This has mainly been attributed to the problems…

We here at Check Your HUD don’t normally regurgitate news you can get elsewhere. It’s not what we’re about. In this case, I’m willing to make an exception. Kotaku is reporting that Florida attorney and all around menace to gamers Jack…