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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?