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Welcome to the relaunch of the War Department. Those of you who were fans of VGH probably remember this as one of our most popular interactive sections back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Internet (aka 1998-2000 AD).

So what's this all about? As you're aware (hopefully), the gaming world is made up of a variety of systems. Of those systems, each of us has his/her own personal favorite. Even those who own all of them or who aren't particularly loyal to any company still favors something for some reason. The object of the War Dept. is for you to tell us what those reasons are. As time goes on (as you can see in the archives), you will then be able to debate what other readers said about the various systems.

So you can see how it operated in the past, we've put the archives from 1999 and 2000 here.

Just in case you're wondering "What's the point of points?" here's an answer to that question. Points have two purposes.

1. They're used to determine where each system stands in the war. For each of your letters, we may add or subtract points to or from a given system. The one with the most points will be in the lead, indicating that participants like it best.
2. Contests. We'll be giving you more info on this soon. Suffice it to say that the person(s) who gets the most points in the contest will win the prize(s). We plan to have regular contests where we give away free games and peripherals in the near future.