Sunday, August 23, 2009
Dead Nation Brings More Zombies, More Twin Stick Shooting To PSN
11:30PM Michael McWhertor | Look, when you’re close to the action, sometimes games like Dead Nation slip through the cracks. While at Gamescom this week, we didn’t get to devote much time to quietly announced PSN games like Dead Nation. More »
Booth Babes, Cosplayers And Mascots: You’re Not Doing It Right
11:00PM Brian Crecente | Gamescom has a lot going for it but, with a few admirable exceptions, cosplay and booth babes shouldn’t be included in that list. More » 
BlizzCon 2009 Comes To An End
4:00PM Mike Fahey | BlizzCon 2009 has come to a close, but our coverage will continue well into Monday with interviews, hands-on impressions, pictures of stuff and something very special from the man in this picture. More »
BlizzCon 2009: The View From The Show Floor
12:30PM Mike Fahey | Since you’re reading this, I am assuming you didn’t get a chance to see what the BlizzCon 2009 show floor looked like. Don’t say I never gave you anything. More »
Sunday Supplement: “you delve into forgotten spaces between floorboards”
12:00PM David Wildgoose | Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain.
EDGE: The Elegant Dodge
Thief III designer Randy Smith writes eloquently about his new iPhone game where you play a spider.
Experience Points: Missing in Action, part 2: “Seeing the Elephant” in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Linked to part 1 last week, but I can’t recommend this series highly enough. Part 3’s here, too.
GameSetWatch: Design Lesson 101 – Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Manveer Heir analyses the way in which Naughty Dog’s action adventure paces its combat encounters.
One More Go: How Galleon may take you on an unexpected voyage
Margaret Robertson celebrates one of the last console gneration’s most unfairly overlooked titles, a pirate adventure from the man who made Lara Croft.
PopMatters: TIE Fighter: A Post 9/11 Parable
LB Jeffries finds contemporary resonance in the commentary on war and empire found in LucasArts’ classic space combat sim.
Kotaku Approval Ratings: Batman And Your Game Platforms
11:30AM Owen Good | Last week’s inaugural Approval Ratings seemed to be a success, with more than 15,000 of you responding to nine questions. Now let’s look at this week’s major release, your gaming habits and some current titles. More »
Guitar Hero 5 DLC Incompatible With World Tour
11:00AM Owen Good | So, we know that Guitar Hero 5 has—for a price—backward compatibility with existing song catalogues. But does it enable frontward compatibility in previous titles? More »
Sign Up Now For LittleBigPlanet Water Beta
10:40AM Owen Good | Media Molecule is now taking sign-ups to test the water they plan to bring into LittleBigPlanet. More »
BlizzCon Cosplay Round-Up: We’ve Got Purple Girl
10:20AM Mike Fahey | A good photographer communicates what they are looking at through the pictures they take. I swear I was not stalking the purple Drenai girl. More »
