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Kuju Entertainment Closes Its Dedicated Unreal Engine Branch
9:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Sources tell Kotaku that British game company Kuju Entertainment has shuttered Chemistry, its Sheffield, UK studio. Chemistry was founded in 2002 as “Kuju Sheffield”. More »
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Sieve-Like Ubi Site Leaking Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed Vids
3:30AM Owen Good
Astute tipsters discovered a way into a couple unprotected directories on Ubisoft’s site, and we now have 20-second clips of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed 2. More »
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Lay Offs Strike Crystal Dynamics
9:40AM Brian Crecente | Crystal Dynamics laid off 30 people this morning in the wake of underperforming Tomb Raider Underworld sales, reliable sources tell Kotaku. More »
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Rumor: NiGHTS Sequel Was Originally An Xbox 360, PS3 Game
9:30AM Michael McWhertor | Sega’s NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams for the Wii was once planned for release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but shifted platforms against the wishes of Sonic Team producer Takashi Iizuka. More »
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Rumour: Kojima Working On First-Person Shooter, Calls On Infinity Ward
12:00PM Michael McWhertor | According to an anonymous poster on the popular but perennially sketchy 4chan board, Metal Gear Solid series director Hideo Kojima visited the offices of Infinity Ward today. Why? “To learn” about first-person shooters, allegedly. More »
Ex-Team Ninja and Brawl Staff Working On TMNT Fighter For Wii
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | According to reports from the newest issue of Nintendo Power, Ubisoft will be publishing a new four-player fighting game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But it’s who’s developing the title that’s interesting. More »
Left 4 Dead Teases Tenth Team Fortress 2 Class
11:40AM Michael McWhertor | Eagle-eyed Kotaku reader Srider spied something interesting during his playthrough of the Left 4 Dead demo, amusingly enough on the back of an in-game box of “Chocobites” cereal. Seen in the first apartment in the game’s first campaign — and wherever cereal is eaten in Left 4 Dead — the back of the box promises a free six-inch Team Fortress 2 action figure. The catch? It teases us to “collect all 10!” More »
Rumor: Sega Channels The Conduit To Wii
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | At last check, High Voltage Software’s sharp-looking Wii game The Conduit was homeless, without a publisher to give it a snazzy marketing campaign and necessary distribution. Fortunately, thanks to an eagle-eyed NeoGAFer, it appears that Sega may have picked up the Wii MotionPlus-ready sci-fi shooter, with The Conduit appearing briefly on the Sega of America press FTP earlier today. It was rather quickly deleted, but not before screen grabs captured the moment for posterity. More »
Pirated NTSC GTA IV Leaked Online Early
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | 48 hours? You’re not giving yourselves enough credit. Less than a day after the PAL copy of the game was leaked, NTSC copies of Grand Theft Auto IV have begun popping up on torrent sites, courtesy of a group calling themselves 101. We’re still unable to verify whether this is the real thing or not, but regardless, the files are already pushing 20,000 leechers. Shame. We’re still waiting on Rockstar for comment. More »
