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Spike Video Game Awards Nominees Announced
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | We here at Kotaku get to vote in the Spike VGAs. Nominations were made public today. Predict winners and complain about omissions below. The awards air live on Spike on December 12. More »
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Guess What Made Time’s 50 Best Inventions Of 2009 List
7:20AM Mike Fahey | Project Natal continues to rack up awards for innovation faster than the Nintendo Wii circa early 2007, making its way onto Time’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009 list. Microsoft is pleased. More »
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2:00PM David Wildgoose | The Golden Joysticks are a staple of the UK games industry and the biggest popularly-voted games awards. Now they’re coming to Australia and you can have your say right now. More »
Vote For Australia’s First Golden Joystick
2:00PM David Wildgoose | The Golden Joysticks are a staple of the UK games industry and the biggest popularly-voted games awards. Now they’re coming to Australia and you can have your say right now. More »
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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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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 »
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
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 »
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 » 
