You find the strangest things at bankruptcy auctions. Like, say, PlayStation 4 development kits full of stuff from the now-closed developers of Sleeping Dogs.

United Front Games, the maker of Sleeping Dogs, ModNation Racers and the now-cancelled early access title Smash + Grab, has closed its doors today.

Ryan Lee, or Belbeeno on Twitter, had been working at United Front Games for five years and he loved it, but needed a change. So he quit his job to make indie games. But before leaving he created an poignant open letter to AAA development in the form of a video game. Anyone who has ever felt tired of the 9 to 5 grind is going to empathise.

The open-world action game Sleeping Dogs was one of the surprise hits of a recent pre-E3 tour of major upcoming video games by a gaggle of video game reporters.

“You have to make games for someone you love,” says William, “because that way you can imagine who you're making it for.

“You can imagine the smiles the game will bring to their face; you can imagine the good times that people you care about can have with your game.”

William Ho, Design Director at United Front Games, is making LittleBigPlanet Karting for someone he loves.

Take a look at the first trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting the PlayStation 3 game whose very existence is something of en eye-roller, except... that trailer actually looks pretty good.

Earlier today, Sony welcomed a new batch of value priced Greatest Hits games for the PlayStation 3. Turns out MAG, Demon's Souls and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift aren't the only PS3 exclusives having their prices slashed.

Activision did its part to thin the typically obese Christmas release schedule today, delaying True Crime: Hong Kong to next year. Originally planned for release in November, the PS3, PC and Xbox 360 game will hit in 2011. Why?

In late May, ModNations Racers producer Dan Sochan told Kotaku a patch was in the works that would shorten the game's lengthy load times. Today, IGN reports that such a patch will be out next week.

United Front Games will make playing its DIY kart racer ModNation Racers a little easier with its next update. The PS3 game is getting a less-challenging career mode option, according to the PlayStation.blog.

One of Activision's big spring games is a revival of its open-world True Crime series, the closest thing the publisher has to a Grand Theft Auto.

Find out how cake and beer helped one studio produce the massive creative racing engine that is ModNation Racers in this week's Kotaku Talk Radio Podcast, now available for download.

What's the point of a beta test for a video game these days, other than to drum up publicity? The makers of upcoming PlayStation 3 game ModNation Racers say it got them to add a feature.

I care little for kart-racing games and seldom generate any user-generated content. So, to be honest, I did not rush at the chance I was given last week to play ModNation Racers at Game Developer's Conference 2010. My mistake.

Activision's True Crime series goes back to the drawing board with a Hong Kong action-adventure reboot, a game that puts the player in the role of an undercover cop, one who knows how to use a freezer door in a fight.

United Front Games and Activision are giving the gamers who asked for it a third taste of True Crime, officially unveiling the game at this weekend's Spike TV VGAs, further detailing the Hong Kong crime drama today.

United Front Games is kicking off the beta test for the PlayStation 3's urban vinyl kart game ModNation Racers next week, opening up a whole new level of play-create-share goodness to a select few. How can you get in?

Spike TV's annual Video Game Awards show promises a handful of brand new video game announcements, including (but not limited to) the previously teased Spec Ops revival and whatever this newly revealed title is.