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• October 31, 2009



• Quickfire Q&A: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

  Hands-on time with EA Digital Illusions CE’s second big native console Battlefield. Let the question mark bombardment commence!

• October 30, 2009



• DJ Hero Review

  More bass! MORE BASS!

• October 30, 2009



• Introducing… the Osaka Game Show 2009!

  Well, kind of.

• October 30, 2009



• Yahoo! Auctions watch

  Let the bargain hunting begin!

• October 30, 2009



• Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time Review

  VGD joins the well-armed Lombax and his mechanical sidekick for a third and final outing on PS3.

• October 29, 2009



• 1-on-1: Modern Warfare 2 vs Left 4 Dead 2

  Can Valve’s grab-bag of southern comfort and zombie goodness overturn Infinity Ward’s steamroller of an action blockbuster? Click on for our pre-release feature face-off.

• October 29, 2009



• It’s PRINCESS ROBOT BUBBLEGUM!

  We love her, obviously.

• October 29, 2009



• Arcade Adventures: Music GunGun!

  We hit the game centres to see what’s out there beyond forty million Tekken and Street Fighter cabinets, gambling and walls of Answer X Answer quiz machines populated by smoking middle-aged men.

• October 29, 2009



• Game Center CX returns to our screens!

  Season 12 of the awesome Shinwa Arino-presented “Game Center CX” programme kicked off on October 13th – tune your TV to Fuji Terebi TWO now!

• October 29, 2009



• 5 essential PlayStation games to download from J-PSN

  If you nip along to your local conbini and buy a 3,000 yen PSN ticket, what will you spend your credit on? Stuck for ideas? Here are five absolutely sublime 32-bit PlayStation games available in the Game Archives area of the Japanese PS Store for just 600 yen each…

• October 28, 2009



• GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Review

  Is the Grand Theft Auto IV series finale enough to maintain our interest in Liberty City? It’s time to come out of the closet.

• October 28, 2009



• It’s the all-new Kikizo

  We’re back with an improved look, a new name, loads of new content, as well as four ALL-NEW game sites and a new business site too! Full details…

• October 27, 2009



• GTA IV vs creepy misogynistic anime

  Japanese adult cartoon industry gets serious ribbing.

• October 27, 2009



• Brütal Legend Review

  Gleaming tempered metal or just a cheap alloy?

• October 27, 2009



• Demon’s Souls item cheat (needs two players)

  Inventory running low? Phone a friend.

• October 27, 2009



• Borderlands Review

  Gearbox’s Loony Tunes riff on Fallout 3 is bordering on greatness.

• October 27, 2009



• Ubi releases Assassin's Creed – Lineage Pt 1

  There’s stabby-killy shenanigans afoot in Renaissance Florence.

• October 27, 2009



• Forza Motorsport 3 Review

  Forza 3 gets a free holiday season as a certain Sony racer gets stuck in the pit lane. Does Turn 10′s finely tuned beast have the BHP to take first place?

• October 27, 2009



• BOOM. It’s the new site for FPS fanatics!

  This scene-setting intro is entirely skippable.

• October 26, 2009



• Weapon Drop: the sticky grenade

  Stick around.

• October 26, 2009



• Gaming Idols: Top 50 We Ever Interviewed

  Interviews have long been a strong passion for us at Kikizo. Today, in celebration of our relaunch into Video Games Daily, we name the 50 best interviewees of the site to date.

• October 26, 2009



• Feature: The History of First-Person Shooters

  As FPS Gamer clears leather, Kristan Reed turns in the ultimate retrospective: the evolution of the first-person shooter genre from Maze War to Modern Warfare 2.

• October 26, 2009



• Nanikore? – Boku No Natsuyasumi 3

  Welcome to Nanikore? – an occasional series where I pick something random that I don’t understand off the shelves and hope that it turns out to be good, funny, or both. This time…

• October 23, 2009



• How to find the Nintendo Building!

  Every Gaijin in Kyoto’s top pilgrimage is to the proud white HQ of Nintendo Co. Ltd. Here’s how you get there…

• October 23, 2009



• Gaijin Gamer’s instant guide to… the conbini!

  You’re at the conbini. That’s convenience store, to the common gaijin. You like games. WHAT DO YOU DO?

• October 22, 2009



• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Review

  Off the charts, off the scale. Naughty Dog’s latest PS3 action-adventure is one to treasure.

• October 22, 2009



• Left 4 Dead gets Tellytubby zombies

  Time for Tubby bye-bye.

• October 22, 2009



• Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review

  Is Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising worth signing up for?

• October 22, 2009



• Snazzy terebi gemu fashion at UNIQLO

  Official game t-shirts at daft prices! Bring it on, UNIQLO! (Article not sponsored by UNIQLO.)

• October 21, 2009



• Sony Australia fires PS3 at Bravia TV

  Easier than selling them, apparently.

• October 20, 2009



• GTA: Chinatown Wars PSP Review

  Having crashed out on DS, Rockstar gets back behind the wheel of Sony’s handheld.

• October 20, 2009



• New Chinatown Wars PSP trailer – ‘Out for Revenge’

  Huang Lee as you’ve never seen him before unless you bought the DS version.

• October 20, 2009



• Starcraft 2: Battle Report #4

  Tenacious Terrans vs Professional Protoss.

• October 19, 2009



• Need for Speed: SHIFT Review

  After a lengthy stay in the pits, the multi-million selling Need for Speed franchise is once again gunning for a podium spot. But is it a match for the latest models?

• October 19, 2009



• The History of First-Person Shooters: Part 5

  2006 to present. The “real” next-gen arrives, Crysis blows retinas, Bioshock goes deep, Left 4 Dead reinvents the co-op mode and Infinity Ward washes its hands of the 1940s.

• October 19, 2009



• Metroid Prime Trilogy Review

  The Wii FPS landscape is desolate to say the least, but Nintendo has given us three reasons to go exploring.

• October 19, 2009



• Dark Mod turns Doom 3 into Thief, sort of

  Out with Martian demons, in with eerie clocktowers.

• October 18, 2009



• Uncharted 2 machinima mash-up

  Three reasons Uncharted 2′s video creation features are off the charts.

• October 18, 2009



• Assassin’s Creed 2 has “Batman-like” bits

  Game director discloses 5-7 hours of linear “secret maps”.

• October 17, 2009



• Uncharted 2 gravity glitch

  Picky treasure hunters refuse to let Naughty Dogs lie.

• October 17, 2009



• Dead Space: Extraction Review

  EA’s sci-fi horror shooter infests the Wii. Is it worth a return visit to the USG Ishimura?

• October 15, 2009



• Quickfire Q&A: Modern Warfare 2

  FPS Gamer gets schizophrenic with Infinity Ward’s epic shooter follow-up. Can you hear duty calling?

• October 13, 2009



• The History of First-Person Shooters: Part 4

  2001-2005. The war between console and PC reaches its height, Valve excels itself, World War 2 becomes the setting of choice and Bungie gives birth to a big, helmeted baby.

• October 9, 2009



• Cave 360 ports to be region-free

  Cave: Bringing hundreds of thousands of purple bullets to a country near you.

• October 8, 2009



• The History of First-Person Shooters: Part 3

  1998-2000. Epic and Valve hit the scene, online multiplayer explodes and important sub-genres begin to establish themselves.

• October 7, 2009



• So, how super is Super Street Fighter IV?

  Last year Capcom made beating up your friends cooler than Tyler Durden. Will the upcoming remix woo crowds again?

• October 7, 2009



• Assassin’s Creed 2 Preview

  Ubisoft’s much-touted Assassin’s Creed was one of this generation’s greatest disappointments. Is the sequel a killer app or a stab in the dark?

• October 7, 2009



• Preview: MAG beta

  Zipper Interactive play the numbers game. You and 255 of your friends are invited.

• October 5, 2009



• Stylishly pointless Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 exploit

  The boot’s on the other foot.

• October 5, 2009



• Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 costume blow-out

  Wall-run, combo strike, ninpo, accessorise.

• October 3, 2009



• The History of First-Person Shooters: Part 2

  1996-1997. The 3D acceleration era gets underway, online gaming is born, the mod scene grows and console shooting hits gold.

• October 2, 2009



• Halo 3: the best of Forge

  Manny dips into the cream of Halo 3′s user creations.

• October 1, 2009



• Halo 3: ODST Review

  Master Chief has some big shoes to fill. That’s why it takes a whole team of grizzly, tobacco-chewing, alien-ass kicking, quick-shooting tough guys to do the job. And you, obviously.