The big news this week: Rock Band 2′s dates slipped out, Rockstar finally goes ahead and tells us GTA IV is coming to the PC, and Crecente is gonna blast his genetic material into space. But wait, there’s less: The Tower formally unveiled the penalty of “disemvoweling“, which means miscreants who don’t necessarily commit banhammerable offences will have a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y removed from their comments.

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So we had a little drama regarding the fate of Ghostbusters and other titles at Activision, and lo and behold an early build landed in his mail to prove that all things Gozer and Zuul are still going forward. They didn’t even mind if Brian wrote about the preview code, and he did in a spoiler-filled post. We also had a big bodyimage discussion week, as Tuesday saw Soulcalibur IV’s boobalicious release, and Fat Princess continues to stir shit, with its title alone. In all, pretty newsy week around these here parts. Some highlights below, with the full list of original reporting on the jump.

This being the E3 week, we churned out a huge amount of reporting and you consumed it in record-breaking numbers. Knowing that this post would serve as an E3 recap of sorts, I’ve categorised some things out in the jump. This covers stories that we tagged original; there might have been some others from the conference that didn’t get that tag. Either way, this is our comprehensive E3 coverage list, so if you’re not seeing something below, check that.

As a part-timer and the least experienced game writer on this staff, I had my own impressions of E3 which I will write up later, from an outsider’s perspective. (I was only there Sunday and Monday). We all work in separate cities, and this event allows us a time to work together, in person. And the Kotaku staff of Fahey, Bash, McWhertor, Leigh, Adam, Maggie and of course, Crecente — with help from Gawker managing editor Noah Robischon in Los Angeles, and Jim Reilly working offsite on multimedia assets — came together like a team of superheroes to put out one hell of a report for you this week. They’re all recovering this weekend, but show the Supa-Kotakufriends a little love in the comments.

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Much more after the jump.

Epic week for the KO-riginals, friends. And this is just the runup to E3. Only next week could make this week’s avalanche of fresh reported copy pale in comparison. Lots of pre-E3 leaks and reportage dominated Originals, not to mention Leigh digging into the bitchslap handed Jack Thompson to tell us he faces a fat fine, and Bash’s hee-larious translation smash of the faek Wii HD. It was a lively half fortnight of reporting in Kotakopolis, refresh yourself with these highlights (and more after the jump.)