Believe it or not, it’s already been two years since Fruit Ninja sliced its way onto the iTunes App Store. The slash-happy game notched up over 20 million sales for Aussie developer Halfbrick within the first 12 months, and now the studio is celebrating with a week-long competition tour that will see someone crowned Australia’s Fruit Ninja Master.
The weather must be getting cold too quickly or something, because just about everyone seems to be coming down with some sort of virus. Mark’s not feeling his usual flashy self today, so you’ll be having breakfast with me. Come, let’s talk video games.
At the Fan Expo in Vancouver, we pulled aside the voice of lady Commander Shepard for a quick chat. She tells us how she felt about the Mass Effect 3 ending and reveals her upcoming plans to visit Australia.
While you were sleeping, soooo many things happened. I went to see The Hunger Games, emailed my mum, ate macaroni and cheese… oh, you mean in video games? Lots, actually. Come, I’ll show you.
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Welcome to ‘While You Were Sleeping’, where we round up the best gaming news that you might have missed from overnight. Unless you were up all night obsessively reading Kotaku. That’s how it feels like for us sometimes.
Did any of you guys head to the dawn service this morning? Or are many of you in fact still sleeping? I’m going to come and tickle those of you who are, because there’s fresh gaming news to be had.
Mark thinks that just because I’m now in Canada he can get away with not telling me when he goes travelling. He went to Perth recently without telling me, and now he’s apparently on my side of the world, but I don’t know where exactly. Can someone find him for me?
Mark, Tracey and Kotaku were big winners at the Microsoft ITJourno Awards (The Lizzies) on Friday night. Kotaku picked up the award for ‘Best Gaming Coverage’, while Tracey took home not only the ‘Best Gaming Journalist’ gong, but also picked up the most points to take home the Gold Lizzie as ‘Best Journalist’. I’m so proud of my babies… uh, I mean colleagues.
Mark’s on holidays and Tracey has gone to interview someone, so she’s asked me to make sure you read these stories from overnight. I’ll also mention here that Tracey and I are separating.
