The Leipzig Games Convention, the consumer showing of Europe's finest forthcoming video games (read: whatever SingStar version is planned for the Holidays), hits the Leipziger Messe from August 20 to August 24. And Kotaku was there! No, they're not there anymore, and yet they keep writing. Seriously, we can't stop. If… » 8/25/08 6:40pm 8/25/08 6:40pm

Quantic Dream's David Cage walked us through a playable version of the developer's shrouded in mystery PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain » 8/22/08 2:30pm 8/22/08 2:30pm at Games Convention. The roughly twenty minute demo featured scenes shown in the teaser trailer from SCEE's keynote. But before we actually got to take a look at the game, Cage prepped…

The Quantic Dream developed Heavy Rain » 8/20/08 11:50am 8/20/08 11:50am, described by president David Cage as dark and emotionally driven, made its public debut at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's press conference today. Little details were divulged on the PlayStation 3 horror game during its brief cinematic showing, but David Reeves of SCEE…

Activision is adding another famous name to Call of Duty: World At War » 8/20/08 11:20am 8/20/08 11:20am. Joining accomplished shouter Kiefer "Damn It!" Sutherland, who plays Sgt. Roebuck in the Treyarch developed World War II game, will be Gary Oldman. The co-star of and will voice one of the characters in the Russian portion of the World at War…

Midway announced, in a roundabout way, four more additions to the cast of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe » 8/20/08 11:00am 8/20/08 11:00am at the Leipzig Games Convention today. After Ed Boon left the stage, having been properly grilled by German personality Oliver Pocher, four images flashed on screen, quickly confirming more of the line up. On the…

Click to view » 8/20/08 9:00am 8/20/08 9:00am Black and white mayhem galore! Instruments of death include: airplane engines, moving trains, chainsaws, oil drums and tornadoes. If that wasn't enough, the has the best character name in recent memory: Herr Frederick Von Twirlenkiller.

Peter Moore announced that EA Sports would be adding tennis to its line-up of games in 2009, with rights for the Wimbledon tennis tournament exclusively going to EA. Although Moore didn't provide a name for the EA created tennis game — unless it's simply EA Sports Tennis » 8/20/08 6:00am 8/20/08 6:00am — he did say that development on the EA Sports…

Developer Codemasters is unveiling multi-plat title FUEL » 8/19/08 9:00am 8/19/08 9:00am at the Leipzig GC. What's ? It's a racing game, so big that it deserves ALL CAPS. It's hailed to have the "largest racing environment to appear in gaming — ever." The game supposedly has a 5,000 square-mile playing area with "no boundaries". Up to 16-players…

EA has just announced which of its titles will be on display at the Leipzig GC. According to Jens Uwe Intat, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA European Publishing, "Never before has EA had such a diverse and powerful slate of offerings, and it's been great to see consumer and critical response to our… » 8/19/08 7:00am 8/19/08 7:00am

Electronics Arts is going to represent big at the Leipzig Games Convention this year. It's bringing something like three zillion titles to the event by our count, titles like Dragon Age » 8/08/08 8:20pm 8/08/08 8:20pm, and to name but a few. While we've seen a good portion of these titles at and pre-E3 events, we're going to see two unannounced…

Well, this sucks. Atari says the company plans to "turn up the summer heat" at the Leipzig Games Convention this year. Unfortunate, because the Leipziger Messe can get pretty sweaty, something Fahey and I aren't going to appreciate when we're perspiring pure Pilsner. How's Atari affecting climate change in Leipzig… » 8/08/08 6:40pm 8/08/08 6:40pm