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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Is Out Nov. 12

2:00PM David Wildgoose | Nintendo has revealed the Australian release date for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. And that date is November 12. More »
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Preview: All The Modes, Chaos

8:00AM Stephen Totilo | Not content to just finally explain how New Super Mario Bros. Wii’s Super Guide works today, Nintendo also showed how the game really works. We here at Kotaku have also learned how not to ride a roller-coaster into lava. More »
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LunchTimeWaster: Jumpy-Jumpy-Jumpy

12:00PM David Wildgoose | I take a perverse pleasure in playing really simple games that I’m actually rubbish at. Oh look, here’s another one. More »
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Ratchet & Clank Future A Crack In Time: Lombax In Space Impressions

2:30AM Stephen Totilo | Let 2009 hereby be known as The Year Of The More Interesting Hub World. The spokes of Wolfenstein emanate from a German city overrun by Nazis; those of Halo 3 ODST to New Mombasa. The new Ratchet? An action-packed galaxy. More »
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Insomniac: New Ratchet & Clank Future Is Single-Player

10:00AM Michael McWhertor | Despite what the back of the box for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time might have said, Insomniac Games newest PlayStation 3 exclusive will not feature a multiplayer component. More »
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LunchTimeWaster: This Is The Only Level

12:00PM David Wildgoose | The trend of literally named indie games continues with This Is The Only Level. Although it’s not quite telling the full story. More »
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Shadow Complex Review: Genre Upgrade

4:30AM Michael McWhertor | Chair Entertainment’s Shadow Complex is a rare entry in the genre trail-blazed by Nintendo’s Metroid, the side-scrolling action-adventure-explore formula later successfully aped by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. More »
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LittleBigPlanet GOTY Edition Box Art Offers $30 Of Bonus Content

8:20AM Michael McWhertor | The “Game of the Year Edition” of PlayStation 3 hit LittleBigPlanet is coming later this year with a cheaper price tag and some amount of downloadable content included on the disc. About $US30 worth of content, apparently. More »
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Yeah, Braid Is Coming To The PS3

12:20PM Luke Plunkett | Those Germans know a thing or two about upcoming game releases, because no sooner do the USK display a listing for a PSN version of Braid than we get official confirmation of the game’s PS3 debut. More »
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Splosion Man Micro-Review: An Exploding Barrel Of Monkeys

10:00AM Michael McWhertor | Xbox Live’s “Summer of Arcade” kicked off with some serious heat, courtesy of Twisted Pixel’s ‘Splosion Man, an original side-scrolling platformer that lets the player do one thing: explode. Or ’splode, as they say. More »