Few stories can overwhelm a major game reveal like Gears of War 3, but the disintegration of the studio that pumped out 2009′s cash powerhouse definitely qualifies. If ever there was a week for pyrrhic news victories, this was it.
Jesus H. Christ we had a lot of original copy this past week – fuelled by our examination of religion in games and the latest break in the breakup of Infinity Ward’s founders and their former Activision masters.
April Fools’ Day usually means you can write off one day of that week to complete BS, fakery and hoaxes. But if anything, we had 20 per cent more news than normal – discounting our own satire, of course.
The onslaught of news this week was enough to send anyone to the nuthouse. Activision sacking Infinity Ward’s founders takes the gold, the PS3 clock error the silver, and Portal 2 a hard-fought bronze. The week in Kotaku’s original reporting:
Last night a hunk of plastic no one ever played set a sale price record for rare video games. In 1987 it retailed for $US30. And people complain about $US60 price points and used sales today.
Who better to guest star on Kotaku in Valentine’s Week than porn star Ron Jeremy? His opinion on sex versus violence in video games was one top story in a week that saw major reviews and news from X10.
Impertinent remarks – calling Sony’s motion controller “Arc” and the ESRB’s bluntly accurate description of the activities in Dead or Alive: Paradise – highlighted our front page this week. Dante’s Inferno sneaked in underneath it. Our original news coverage:
Apple’s unveiling of a tablet PC threatened to crowd out the rest of the games and devices news this week, but we didn’t let that stop us from delivering our usual slate of reports, reviews and rumours.
