week in review

The Week In Review: > Take Job, Shove It

This week? It was enough to make anyone consider throwing in the towel, packed to the gills with even more BlizzCon 2010 coverage, a week’s worth of love for PC gaming and a flood of reviews and previews.

October 24, 2010

The Week In Review

BlizzCon 2010 kicked off this week, with Mike Fahey on the scene, and the top man at the Entertainment Software Association laid the case for striking down California’s anti-video game law, which goes to the Supreme Court in 10 days.

September 26, 2010

The Week In Review: Crossing The Threshold

Winter transited to spring as Civilization V deployed, Project Milo met an unfortunate end, Nintendo celebrated its 121st (yes, really) birthday, and Activision’s boss drew sharp rebukes for his comments to investors. The week in Kotaku Original reporting:

September 19, 2010

The Week In Review: Exciting Game Show

Two major drops – Halo: Reach on Tuesday, PlayStation Move on Friday – vied with Tokyo Game Show 2010 to dominate the past week. They may have been the biggest news, but they weren’t the only news.

September 12, 2010

The Week In Review: So Long, Summer

A short, quiet week bridged PAX and the traditional end of summer leisure in this half of the world, with the run up to Tokyo Game Show and next week’s heavily anticipated release of Halo: Reach.

August 29, 2010

The Week In Review: The First Kinect-ion

This past week delivered major Microsoft news: The Kinect Beta began with updated dashboard software and new hardware shipping. Pirated versions of Halo: Reach leaked, with attendant banhammer threats, but Stephen Totilo spent a full day with it, legitimately.

August 22, 2010

The Week In Review: What’s Brewing In Germany

PS3 news again made a big splash at Europe’s leading games expo – with Mass Effect 2 coming to the console, and a higher-capacity hard drive configuration arriving in all regions by the holidays.

August 15, 2010

The Week In Review: Duke Nukem Finally?

The rumour that Duke Nukem Forever might arrive at long last raises an interesting question. What thrills us more, the game’s release or the thought of it?

August 8, 2010

The Week In Review: It’s Fair

Not many would consider a hole-in-the-wall shopfront in the middle of Chinatown, with missing letters on the sign out front and decades of grime pounded into the floor, as “welcoming.” But it is.

July 25, 2010

The Week In Review: Hot Fun In The Summertime

When I was a kid, summer meant saving up my paperboy money for two things: fireworks and video games.

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