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Fallout 3 Wins The Golden Joysticks

4:20AM Mike Fahey | The 27th annual Golden Joystick Winners were announced in London today, with Fallout 3 being crowned the “Ultimate Game of the Year”. What other games were big winners? More »
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Aussie Wins Top Prize In Indie Games Fest

11:00AM David Wildgoose | Did you know China has its own Independent Games Festival? Well, it does, and an Aussie-made game took out the top honour. More »
Culture

A Reward For Doing Good Xbox Work

6:20AM Stephen Totilo | Here is the Xbox “Playmaker Award”/Lamp as seen by Kotaku at the Microsoft Xbox offices in Redmond, Washington. You can’t buy this. It’ll be passed around to exceptional employees. More »
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Gamescom Awards Includes Gameboy In Potential Contenders

3:00AM Brian Crecente | That’s right, when Gamescom premieres in Cologne in two weeks they won’t just have their very own awards, they’ll also be looking for possible contenders out of the possibly extinct Gameboy market. More »
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And The Edge Interactive Innovation Award Nominees Are…

12:20AM Mike Fahey | Edge Magazine has revealed the shortlist for its 2009 Interactive Innovation award, which recognises titles that have done the most to steer videogaming in a new direction. So who made the list, aside from LittleBigPlanet? More »
Culture

Taste The Painbow, Belgian Rofl Honored In Gamertag Awards

6:00AM Owen Good | Two weeks back on 1 vs. 100, The Ones were – consecutively, now - players the with gamertags BLooDYxGenocide and Banana Hammicks. Definitely memorable. In that spirit, The BBPS has created its inaugural gamertag awards. More »
Features

Games Of The Half-Year

10:00AM David Wildgoose | Today is June 30, the halfway point of the year. I thought I’d look back on the first six months of 2009 to determine just how good a gaming year it’s been… so far. More »
Features

The Top 10 Best Original Games Of E3

2:00PM David Wildgoose | There were a lot of predictable games at E3. Lots of sequels, lots of franchises, lots of licensed properties. But there were also plenty of great looking original games. Here are the ten best I saw. More »
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Portable Game Beats Console Games For… The First Time Ever?

7:00AM Stephen Totilo | The selection of Scribblenauts as best game of E3 2009 by three major gaming outlets is a milestone for which we can find no precedent in gaming history. More »
Features

The Kotaku AU Alternative E3 Awards

9:00AM David Wildgoose | We were at the E-Triple all last week. While some sites may bring you their best games of the show, we though we’d try something different. Here are our alternative E3 awards. More »