Dead Money, the first batch of downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas, is now available on Xbox Live, and we've got a lovely screenshot gallery so the PC and PlayStation 3 gamers can play along.

Fallout: New Vegas players that scraped up the 800 Microsoft point asking price for the Xbox 360-exclusive Dead Money are likely searching for the lost treasure of the Sierra Madre Casino as we speak, so they need no gallery. The rest of us must content ourselves with a series of screenshots, as well as the knowledge that the expansion pack would have been that much more enjoyable had it been called Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Monkey. Just a 'K' away from true greatness.

Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Culebra takes a look at the biggest games of the year that he never got around to playing. Which have you missed?

Well, we're almost at the end of the year, and as we know, we'll all see the same 'Best Of Year' lists that'll have the same four or so games on it. You'll also see those lists that try to be different, but probably aren't.

This is one of those.

My focus: Big releases that for some reason or other, you just didn't play.

For me, six big names pop to mind.

1: Halo: Reach

That one you could blame on Halo 3 and ODST. As much as I loved Halo 1 and 2, there was somehing I just didn't like about Halo 3, and it grew worse with time. And ODST didn't help much either, as I sent it back to Gamefly without even beating it. So I guess falling out of love with the series is what held me back.

2: Fallout: New Vegas

I loved Fallout 3. It was a post apocalyptic Oblivion, two things I adored. I sank so many hours into that game, and did damn near everything in it. Every quest, every dlc. But by the time Zeta dropped, I was getting sick of it. It felt like I was eating the same meal day in day out. No matter how tasty, you get sick of it. So Vegas is a victim of 'Too Soon' for me.

3: Call Of Duty: Black Ops

Did every game have a :Subtitle this year? Sheesh. Mostly the ones I didn't play, it seems. This one suffers from the same 'Too Soon' syndrome Fallout did, with the major difference being that I'm a casual COD player at best, so I've always been bi-annual with the series.

4: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Not sure if that ':' officially belongs there...but I think the theme must not be broken. This one could be chucked up to me not being a fan of the series in general. Which was odd, as people everywhere were harping on about how 2 was the greatest thing since toilets, and I'm there wondering if we're playing the same game. So, Brotherhood just held no appeal.

5: Gran Turismo 5: Epilogue

I know it doesn't belong there. Shut up. I also know that GT fans can be quite cultish, and I totally expect to wake up strapped to my floor surrounded by hooded figures. But that doesn't change the fact that I haven't loved a GT since 2, for whatever reason. I don't dislike them, and GT5 sits on my 'I'll get to it' list, but that won't be happening in 2010.

6: Civilization 5

To keep it nice and simple, I've never played a Civ game, so the draw isn't there. I think I'm reserving this one as an emergency game, for a period of time where there aren't any immediate releases, and I need something long and engrossing.

So there you have it, my 'Big Games Everyone Has Apparently Played But Me' list.

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After over a month of various technical woes, particularly on the PC version of the game, it seems as though Fallout: New Vegas may actually be fixed soon. Maybe.

Publishers Bethesda have hit the game's support page to let gamers know that a cross-platform patch for all three versions of the game - believed to be the "comprehensive update" developers Obsidian have been working on since the game's release - has been submitted for approval, meaning it should be with us soon.

Let's hope so! A lot of people will be getting the ambitious post-apocalyptic role-playing game for Christmas, and I'd hate to see a smile turn upside down on December 25 should a game hit some weird bug that brings everything to a halt.

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Bethesda Softworks is calling Fallout: New Vegas' launch a success, with more than five million copies shipped since the game's release, with retailers calling for more. Now all they have to do is fix it.

After the warm reception Fallout 3 received a few years back, it was a no-brainer that Fallout: New Vegas would sell like crazy, and it has. More than five million units have shipped for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, with a " heavy volume of digital downloads" rounding out what amounts to well in excess of $300 million in sales.

"We are delighted by the reception Fallout: New Vegas has received from fans around the world," said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks." Despite the large launch quantities for this title, we have already received substantial re-orders from our retail partners, underscoring the tremendous popularity of this highly entertaining game. We believe Fallout: New Vegas will be the "must buy" title for gamers throughout the holiday season."

I don't know. I'm just not feeling it this time around. I've tried playing the game multiple times now, and always wind up quitting after an hour. Maybe I just feel like I've done enough wasteland wandering.

Anyone else in the same boat?

What happened when you pile 200 frag mines around some guy standing around in Fallout: New Vegas and then shoot the explosives? Fun, that's what!

Actor/rapper Ice-T's right there with you. Of course this was pre-patch.... right? As seen on FINALLEVEL's Twitter.

So, we've seen tributes to Star Wars, Blade Runner (actually, a carry-over of a Fallout and Fallout 2 reference to that movie) and we know there's one for Indiana Jones in Fallout: New Vegas. That's three. There must be more.

Reader Paige B. just sent that in; the "Rodent of Unusual Size" is a nod to "The Princess Bride." Spot on!

Just for the record, here's the fedora-in-a-fridge, well early in the game, supplied by reader TheTingler. Many of you have seen and mentioned this. It makes fun of the infamous and implausible scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Han Solo Jack Ryan President James Marshall Calista Flockhart's husband survives a nukeular blast by hiding in the Norge.

As we're about a week into release, we should be seeing many, if not most, of these kinds of homages in New Vegas. Post them here, screenshots if you can dig 'em up, or just gab about any other ironic or darkly humorous detail that tweaks your funnybone in the latest Fallout installment.

You've seen the Fallout: New Vegas Collector's Edition. You've seen its contents. But you've never seen it unboxed quite like this. This potentially NSFW video may change the way you open boxes forever.

My fiancée has already told me that this is the wardrobe I'll be wearing for the next unboxing video she helps me film, only I'll be wearing black socks, because I'm a naughty boy. This guy makes the whole overweight, balding, breathless and slightly clueless shtick look effortless. I assure you when I do it it will take absolutely no effort on my part.

Hope this helps get that whole Sasha Grey thing out of everyone's system! You can thank Felix for passing this along.

Early reports say Fallout: New Vegas needs a good delousing, because the game seems to be buggy — and buggy from the game's start. Update: Bethesda responds.

Apparently, the above bug appeared at the game's intro for YouTube user Shodan10. "FIRST THING THAT HAPPENS IS BROKEN," Shodan10 writes. When meeting Dr. Mitchell, his head...started...

...spinning around — while he was still talking! Watch the video below for the full, creepy effect.

This isn't the only bug Kotaku's heard about. It is one of the best ones, though. The dog eye bug and moonwalking dog are good, too. As are the phantom computers and the ceiling head.

Other bugs supposedly include error messages that the game's downloadable content cannot be found and save corruption issues.

Kotaku is reaching out to the game's developer to see if there are plans to patch Fallout: New Vegas and will update if we hear back.

Update: Patches are coming. Pete Hines, marketing man at Fallout studio Bethesda Softworks, tells Kotaku that "We are currently working on releasing patches/updates as quickly as possible for Fallout: New Vegas, for all platforms. Announcements regarding the patches are forthcoming." He advises anyone seeing this head-turning bug to re-verify their files on Steam, as the issue is due to a "corrupt mesh file." Also notable: The head-turning bug here was highlighted two days ago in a blog post by one of the game's producers, who identified it as a known bug that was "eradicated" prior to the game's official release.

Fallout New Vegas Bug [YouTube]

The Guild's Felicia Day struts her stuff at this weekend's launch party for Fallout: New Vegas held, appropriately enough, in Las Vegas.

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