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The Week In Review: > Take Job, Shove It

1:00AM October 31, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

This week? It was enough to make anyone consider throwing in the towel, packed to the gills with even more BlizzCon 2010 coverage, a week’s worth of love for PC gaming and a flood of reviews and previews. More »


The Week In Review

1:00AM October 24, 2010 | Owen Good

BlizzCon 2010 kicked off this week, with Mike Fahey on the scene, and the top man at the Entertainment Software Association laid the case for striking down California’s anti-video game law, which goes to the Supreme Court in 10 days. More »


The Week In Review: Crossing The Threshold

12:00AM September 26, 2010 | Owen Good

Winter transited to spring as Civilization V deployed, Project Milo met an unfortunate end, Nintendo celebrated its 121st (yes, really) birthday, and Activision’s boss drew sharp rebukes for his comments to investors. The week in Kotaku Original reporting: More »


The Week In Review: Exciting Game Show

12:00AM September 19, 2010 | Owen Good

Two major drops – Halo: Reach on Tuesday, PlayStation Move on Friday – vied with Tokyo Game Show 2010 to dominate the past week. They may have been the biggest news, but they weren’t the only news. More »


The Week In Review: So Long, Summer

12:00AM September 12, 2010 | Owen Good

A short, quiet week bridged PAX and the traditional end of summer leisure in this half of the world, with the run up to Tokyo Game Show and next week’s heavily anticipated release of Halo: Reach. More »


The Week In Review: The First Kinect-ion

12:00AM August 29, 2010 | Owen Good

This past week delivered major Microsoft news: The Kinect Beta began with updated dashboard software and new hardware shipping. Pirated versions of Halo: Reach leaked, with attendant banhammer threats, but Stephen Totilo spent a full day with it, legitimately. More »


The Week In Review: What’s Brewing In Germany

12:00AM August 22, 2010 | Owen Good

PS3 news again made a big splash at Europe’s leading games expo – with Mass Effect 2 coming to the console, and a higher-capacity hard drive configuration arriving in all regions by the holidays. More »


The Week In Review: Duke Nukem Finally?

12:00AM August 15, 2010 | Owen Good

The rumour that Duke Nukem Forever might arrive at long last raises an interesting question. What thrills us more, the game’s release or the thought of it? More »


The Week In Review: It’s Fair

12:00AM August 8, 2010 | Owen Good

Not many would consider a hole-in-the-wall shopfront in the middle of Chinatown, with missing letters on the sign out front and decades of grime pounded into the floor, as “welcoming.” But it is. More »


The Week In Review: Hot Fun In The Summertime

12:00AM July 25, 2010 | Owen Good

When I was a kid, summer meant saving up my paperboy money for two things: fireworks and video games. More »