Saturday, September 19, 2009 - Page 2

Petz Preview: There’s Some Strategy Here

Sometimes at a press event, it’s a good idea to try the one game everybody doesn’t want to play — because it’s usually right next to the one everybody would kill to see.


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Visualisation: A Weird Experience With Beaterator

How do you get a feel for a music game when there’s no sound? Answer: Learn to visualise music.


Tetris Preview: Adding And Subtracting From A Classic

It’s hard to preview a game you’ve been playing most of your life — especially one that has no narrative, little in the way of visuals and long history of success in its simplicity.


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‘All You Need Is Love’ Needs Only Two Days To Set Record

The combination of an iconic tune representing both a band and an era, sold to support a charity, helped the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love’ become the fastest-selling downloadable song in Rock Band history, two days after its release.


In Real Life

This Time, The Teletubbies Are The Zombies

Wanna see a horde of burning Teletubbies? Wanna hear them coo “la-la!” while their limbs are blown off? Would you relish seeing a dozen waddle over to a pipe bomb, then vanish in a red mist? Damn right, you do.


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Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Graduates To Holocron Canon

Star Wars Battlefront’s story never made it into the books, comics or cartoons that comprise most of the Expanded Universe — but Elite Squadron is completely canon as far as LucasArts is concerned.


Undead Knights Preview: Tag! You’re A Zombie!

Undead Knights had nobody representing it at Sony’s PSP media frenzy, but the game pretty much speaks for itself. In the moaning screams of the undead, that is.


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Notebook Dump: Greg And Patrice, This Clip, An Unseen Photo

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we?


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Valve ‘Pretty Bummed’ By Australia’s Refusal Of L4D2

No teeth-gnashing just subdued disappointment from Valve when, asked for comment on the Australian government’s refusal to classify Left 4 Dead 2, effectively banning it for sale there. Maybe Gabe Newell’s gonna talk to someone about it when he visits?


PSP’s Comic Book Store: Watch Civil War Unfold

I’ve always scorned digital readers because no matter how nifty the controls are, they just don’t have the tangible joy of real books.