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Kotaku Originals: Post-Nuptial Agreements

12:00AM Owen Good | If it’s Saturday morning in October here, that means, what, it’s a Tuesday evening in March for Australia? I kid, I keeeeed! But it’s definitely past the magic hour when Luke and his bride have said “I do.” More »
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Kotaku Originals: No Show-Stopper

12:00AM Owen Good | Tokyo Games Show dominated this week but it didn’t account for all the news. Just like this week won’t account for all our TGS coverage. We’ll have plenty more when the team returns to the States. Well, except for Bash. More »
Features

Five Good Breakup Games

10:40AM AJ Glasser | Breaking up is hard to do, but video games can help. Here are five 2009 titles that’ll get you through the five stages of grief. More »
Culture

E3: The Great Walk- Off Results

2:20AM Brian Crecente | Last week we polled you, our readers, to see which of the writers covering E3 you thought would walk the most during the show. The results? I won by a landslide, with McWhertor getting the least votes. More »
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Namco Bandai Editors Day Round-Up

10:40AM AJ Glasser | Namco Bandai Editors Day kicked off with the announcement of both Soulcalibur and Tekken games for the PSP – and it was all pretty much gravy from there. More »
Features

What AJ Learned About Machinima Law Today

11:20AM AJ Glasser | Today kicks off Stanford University’s Play Machinima Law Conference with panels of machinima artists, copyright lawyers and legal representatives from Blizzard, EA and Microsoft. More »
Regulars

AU Diary: Hello Melbourne!

9:00AM David Wildgoose | Yes, I’m in sunny Melbourne today. Why’s that? I’ll be listening to the guy who designed Planescape: Torment give a talk. More »
Regulars

AU Diary: Riddick Me This

1:00PM David Wildgoose | I’ve been playing Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena this morning. Except I haven’t. Instead I decided to check out the remake of Escape From Butcher Bay that developer Starbreeze has generously included on the same disc. More »
Features

Interview: Aussie Dev Halfbrick Talks XNA Community Games

11:00AM David Wildgoose | Halfbrick is a Queensland based development studio. After a number of years producing DS and PSP editions of the Star Wars, Spyro, Avatar and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger franchises, they’ve made the jump to focus on downloadable games for Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and PSN. We caught up with Phil Larsen to talk about their Halfbrick Fridays initiative, XNA Community Games and how life as an indie studio is treating them. More »