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News

Former Chinese WoW Operators Releasing Shameless WoW Rip-Off

Never mind that The9 have lost the contract to run World of Warcraft in China to a rival firm. They’re going to compensate by releasing their own game! Which… looks a lot like World of Warcraft.


News

Myst Is On The IPhone Right Now (And Big For An IPhone Game)

The iPhone port of Myst has gone live. The game is priced at US$5.99, and the download size is extra large.


In Real Life

What Sequels Does Japan Want?

Lots of games get sequels. Some of them Japanese games want, and others Japanese games want really bad. Game magazine Famitsu polled its readers about which franchise sequel they crave the most.


Monday Musings: The Morality of Megaton

What’s the Monday Musings? It’s a new regular column designed to get you thinking and talking about game design or an industry topic. I’ll be tackling a specific subject each Monday, but today we’re looking at Fallout 3 and the idea of morality in games.


The Week In Games

Guess how many games are coming out this week?


Breakfast Wrap: Best of the Weekend

Morning everyone. If you haven’t visited Kotaku since Friday, you’ve missed cakes, crafts and several delicious rumours. Here’s the best of the weekend.

For Some Reason, I Want To Jump On This Cake Now this is a wedding cake.

Left 4 Dead Means Close-Knit Zombies How could you possibly want to shoot these guys?

Microsoft’s Full Body Motion Controller Revealed? A more sophisticated Eyetoy coming for the Xbox 360?

Scribblenauts Has The Write Stuff Drawn To Life devs show off their wildly inventive new DS title.

Is Point Look A New Fallout 3 Expansion? What would you like to see from another Fallout 3 expansion?


In Real Life

Protest Against Video Game Army Recruiting Ends In Arrests

Yesterday in Philadelphia, a crowd of 100 marched on a mall demanding the shutdown of the “U.S. Army Experience” – a video-game based recruiting station. Seven were arrested for cosplaying Shyguys wearing masks.


In Real Life

Survey Says …

Faithful Kotaku reader Beaver apparently takes marketing surveys over at something called Play Insights, which assures visitors in fine (and grayed) print “Please be assured this is a legitimate research study.”


Forza 3 Event Spits Out Another Perfect Dark Tease

Last week’s Xbox 360 event in Sao Paolo, which teased Forza 3, also spun off another rumour tidbit. That pic, sent over to Destructoid, which is the second in-the-wild sighting of Perfect Dark on XBLA.


News

Housers Named To Time’s ’100 Most Influential’ List

Time’s latest issue is its “Time 100″ in which they name the most influential people in the world, for this year anyway. Rockstar rockstars Dan and Sam Houser are in the “artists and entertainers” category.