Saturday, October 31, 2009 - Page 2

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

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Have you finished Uncharted 2 yet? Still racing through your Forza 3 career? Or maybe there’s just some more toilets to loot in Borderlands?


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PlayStation Home Manager: Exec Was Misquoted

And finishing off the PlayStation Home priorities controversy, the service/virtual world’s community manager has told users on the official Home forum that the Sony executive was misquoted in reports that he’d said Home is “not a priority.”


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DS Lite, Xbox 360 Only Positives In This Week’s Japanese Hardware Chart

Hardware buying was down ever so slightly in Japan this week, with Media Create’s sales figures showing the Wii bearing the brunt of that slowdown. Two consoles were up, however — the Nintendo DS Lite and Xbox 360.


Notebook Dump: My First DSi-Only Cartridge, Gears And More

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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It’s The N-d Of The Line For N-Gage

Act fast, N-Gage users. You only have until September 2010 to snap up games for the platform, as Nokia Oyj is putting the oft-ridiculed mobile platform turned mobile games service down for good.


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Forza 3 Makes Inroads Into Japanese Game Chart

Forza Motorsport 3 gives the Xbox 360 a rare top 10 placement on Media Create’s weekly list of the bestselling games in Japan. It’s one of a handful of new debuts that came nowhere near unseating Pokemon as software champ.


Dawn Of War II: Chaos Rising Preview: The Darker Side Of Dawn

The Chaos Rising expansion adds a lot of what you expect from expansions (new race, class, gear) — but it also introduces a corruption/purity element to change up both the plot and gameplay.


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God Of War III Demo Unchained Early For Some

Hey, Kotaku readership. You may want to check your email, as God of War III demos appear to be going out unsolicited to “valued PlayStation Network user[s] “.


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Which Tekken Fighter Makes A Cameo In We Cheer 2?

Oh, Panda does. That mountain of an unlockable King of Iron Fist contestant finds some time to shed layers of hibernation fat in Namco Bandai’s latest promotional attempt for Wii game We Cheer 2.


Can Bigger Screens Save A Shrinking Market?

News of a new, extra-large, extra-priced portable from Nintendo was met more with confusion than enthusiasm when it was unveiled this week.