SAN FRANCISCO -- Richard Garriott is at GDC 2010 this week to talk about his new venture into social games. With the declaration of its formation as a company less than a month old, officials with Portalarium, Inc., announced today that its first game, Sweet @$! Poker, is now in commercial launch. The game is available on Facebook and during its short beta cycle of only five weeks has already zoomed to become the 12th most popular poker app on Facebook (out of 47 total) and the 32nd most popular Facebook card game overall (out of 200+ total).

When it comes to avid videogame collectors, there are fans and then there are fanatics. Twenty one year-old Lisa Courtney from Hertfordshire, England is celebrating this week after being officially recognized as the individual with the largest Pokemon memorabilia collection in the world, having accumulated 12,113 different items over 13 years.  Her incredible record-breaking collection, which is still growing in size, has been featured in the new Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, now available in the U.S.

We are coming to you live from SpikeTV's Video Game Awards 2009 in Los Angeles with host Jo Garcia, Playboy's 2008 Cybergirl of the Year. She's hot and our coverage will be hot so stay tuned here as we beam to you live video reports from the VGAs as we interview the top developers and, of course, celebrities on the Red Carpet, Backstage and in the Green Room. It all starts at 8pm Eastern Time.