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Flash Fridays: Auditorium

3:22PM David Wildgoose | Released in demo form late last year, Auditorium is an astonishingly clever music-based puzzle game. The full version is now available for purchase, but you can still check out the demo. More »

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10:30AM David Wildgoose | If you’re like me, you take pride in your games collection. You display them on a shelf in a prominent location in your home – and you insist on keeping them in alphabetical order. What’s that? You don’t? I see. Or rather, I don’t see. Which is why I want you to send me photographic proof. I want you to snap some pics of your personal collection and send them in. This’ll be fun, trust me. More »

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8:50AM Seamus Byrne | LittleBigPlanet Faces Global Recall For Qur’an References NSider’s Letter To Sony And Media Molecule Re: Qur’an References Very, VERY big news. Dates have been pushed back by a week in the USA. We’ll hear later this morning from local SCEE reps what the impact will be here. Blizzard’s Next MMO So Won’t Be World of Warcraft 2 They plan on keeping WoW alive alongside their next MMO. And why wouldn’t you? First Official SCIV Yoda / Darth Vader Fighting Screens Is Microsoft Making It Harder For Small Developers? Cut Warhammer Online Classes Return In December How’s That Mad Max Game Coming Along, Cory Barlog? Expect a long wait, folks. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg: We’ll Outsell PS3 Worldwide This Holiday Them’s fightin’ words! More »

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9:00AM Kym Weathersten | Boy, what a weekend. What with TGS08 going strong in the land of the rising sun and BlizzCon popping up in the land of the shitty economy, not to mention all the usual weekend happenings, the news didn’t stop. So just in case you weren’t permanently fixed to your computer screen, eagerly awaiting every Kotaku update (and, really, who wouldn’t be?), here’s a run down of what you missed from Japan, Anaheim and the rest of the gaming world: TGS 08 On The Possibility Of 2D, HD, XBLA & PSN Sonic Games Klonoa Wii-make Hands On: Awesomely Waggle-Free First Look At Castlevania Now-Gen Is Shorter Than This Headline Microsoft Coy On Future Spring & Fall Updates Where The Hell Is White Knight Chronicles? First Hands-on With Street Fighter IV’s Sakura First Look At Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li Movie Poster Halo 3 Expansion Is A Prequel, Hits Fall 2009 Molyneux Walks Us Through Fable II’s Deep, Casual Combat Konami Whips Up Castlevania For Xbox 360, PS3 Goichi Suda Has Not Given Up On You Nintendo Wii Bionic Commando Movie Is A Definite Possibility For a complete TGS08 rundown, click here BlizzCom 08 Hands On With Diablo III: Everything Old Is New Again Behold The New Diablo III Logo T-Shirt StarCraft II Single Player Is A Trilogy! For a complete rundown, click here And in other news: What Could Lara Croft Do? New Behind The Scenes Look At Tomb Raider: Underworld TimeSplitter 4 Star Wars Parody Disappears Console Diablo III A Teeny Tiny Bit More Likely Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 Sales Slip In Japan More »

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9:00AM Kym Weathersten | Tokyo Games Show 08 is due to start 10am local time (12pm EST) today and Kotaku is already there covering all the pre-show hijinxs. For the highlights from TGS08, plus anything else that happened over night, check out below. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Starting To Sound More Like LEGO Grand Theft Auto Rare definitely have something unique on their hands. Let’s Patapon 2 Multiplayer It’s not all about combat and competition. First Look At Final Fantasy CC You can play it on Wii and DS. Finally, We Can Buy Games From YouTube It’s all part of Google’s plans for world domination. More »

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9:14AM Kym Weathersten | Here’s Microsoft’s TGS Booth Game List What’s Q Bringing To TGS More news from TGS on its way. Fracture Review: Breaking New Ground Gears Of War 2: The Non-Review But are they better? Guitar Hero: World Tour Bags Deluxe $US240 Version It’s all about the keychain. More »

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9:00AM Kym Weathersten | Lets TGS The Tokyo Games Show starts this Thursday and Kotaku is gearing up to bring you all the best bits- except for maybe those free ladies. Sarah Palin, in Video Games Look, I can see Alaska from my screen! A Look at the New Xbox Live Marketplace Oooooh, pretty. Rumour Smash Galore: EA Not Interested In Epic, No Sega Portable Sony and Nintendo breathe sigh of relief. EGM: LBP Getting “Non-Sony,” Disney DLC? Kingdom Hearts meets LBP. Oh mickey you’re so fine…

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8:59AM Seamus Byrne | Nintendo Conference Round-Up DSi, Wii updates, and the rest. All in one handy post package. Take-Two Won’t Be Merging With Anyone, Thanks Do what you wanna do, be what you wanna be. Yeah! No DRM Issues For Fallout 3 Pretty much the same DRM they used for Oblivion. Which wasn’t much. Resistance 2 Public Beta Sign Ups Live Join the fight! Would you like to know more? More »

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9:01AM Seamus Byrne | Queen Hits PS3 SingStore, Song Selection Is Amazing Who wants to live forever? Dead Space Gold, Platform Exclusive Suits For Launch Players Outfits matching the console colour schemes? Fanboy heaven, right? Pirates Of The Burning Sea Offers Free Trials It’s the right price for a test drive. LittleBigPlanet Devs Talk PSP Plans No concrete plans yet, but I’d love to make/play stuff while on the go. Blizzard Awarded $6 Million In Glider Bot Battle Just say NO to bots! It’s Official! MGS4 Producer Now Working on Halo Fanboys, it’s handbags at 10 paces time. More »

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9:19AM Seamus Byrne | EA Axes Tiberium For Not Meeting Standards Thus began the real Tiberium Wars (boom tish?) Namco Brings Back Pole Position On iPhone Accelerometer steering FTW! Rock Band’s AC/DC Live Track Pack – The Details Aah aha aaaah aha aaaah aha, THUNDER!! New Campaign, Characters Coming to The Force Unleashed Play the game as Jedi Skywalker (not wuss bag New Hope Skywalker). Dario Argento In Dead Space Great reason to play Dead Space in Italian. More »

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