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2:30AM Stephen Totilo | The creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and forthcoming Last Guardian got a cat when he started making his new game. He talked to Kotaku about feline inspiration, a recent nightmare and how to make his games more emotional. More »
Cat-Owning Fumito Ueda Talks Last Guardian And How The PS3 Helps Him
2:30AM Stephen Totilo | The creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and forthcoming Last Guardian got a cat when he started making his new game. He talked to Kotaku about feline inspiration, a recent nightmare and how to make his games more emotional. More » 
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Can ‘Patrice Mode’ Solve Gaming’s Back Problem?
6:00AM Stephen Totilo | Patrice Desilets is both the creative director of the Assassin’s Creed games and a jovial interviewee eager to advance game design. I thought he’d be troubled that we always star at video game characters’ backs. More »
Culture
Ozzy Tells Kotaku Of His Secret Video Game Addicition
4:00AM Mike Fahey | During our post-BlizzCon interview with Ozzy Osbourne, the rock legend revealed that he had once been addicted to a video game. Help us figure out which game that was. More »
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John Carmack And The Hideo Kojima Sunset
3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Famed Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima once told me that there was something beautiful he’d been striving his whole career to create in video games: the perfect sunset. I recently asked John Carmack what his sunset is. More »
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World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm: Why Level 85?
2:40AM Mike Fahey | The Burning Crusade raised World of Warcraft’s level cap to 70. Then Wrath of the Lich King took it to 80. Why is it only going to 85 in the Cataclysm expansion? Tom Chilton explains. More »
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BlizzCon: Where Are Diablo III’s Runes?
1:00AM Mike Fahey | At last year’s BlizzCon, the Diablo II team made a big deal about the power-customising rune system, but this year it was strangely absent. We asked game director Jay Wilson where the runes went. More »
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You’re Confused About Metal Gear? Hideo Kojima Is Confused, Too
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Let’s be honest here, the Metal Gear Solid saga is hard to follow. Fascinating and intricate, sure, but like a daytime soap with clones, nanomachines and mechas. More »
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Paul McCartney And…Pilotwings
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Beatle Paul McCartney has done extraordinary things like writing classic tunes, making gobs of cash and being knighted by the Queen. He’s also done regular things, too. He’s a regular dude, too, you know. More »
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Kotick: Most Gamers Prefer Sequels To New IP
12:00PM Owen Good | Those CEOs, the things they say when they’re talking to the magazines CEOs read, thinking no one’s watching. Talking to the Economist, Activision’s Bobby Kotick said “a small segment” of gamers are the ones insisting “everything has to be new.” More »
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