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Work and Play: A Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming's Greatest

I've had a pet project I've been working on for years, three of them if my memory is right. It started as a simple idea: You can judge a lot from a person's desk. I bet you could judge just as much from their home entertainment system. So I decided it would be fun to try and track down some pictures from the work desks and home gaming set-ups of the people who work in and cover the video game industry. Simple right? Not so much.

Turns out that many of the people are either too busy or too private to want to participate in such a project. To make matters worse, there's always fear that something sitting on someone's desk, that ends up in a photo, could actually be news worthy. Like a secret project or the next big thing. But I didn't give up and about once a year I'd harass a bunch of game developers for photos. Finally, this year, the harassment paid off.

What started as a trickle of photos turned quickly into the collection of galleries you'll find on the jump: More than 40 different photo galleries from 17 studios, seven publications, two industry movers and shakers and a couple of fun surprises.

You'll get to see the desk of such greats as Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux and Tetsuya Mizuguchi along with plenty of others. Remember you can comment both on the next page and on each individual photo if you click on them.

If I find there is interest, I will try to periodically update this gallery of galleries with more developers, journalists and industry movers and shakers. Have fun.

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Kotaku CES: Getting restless? Check out our gadget-obsessed brother site Gizmodo's coverage of the CES 2008 show. Or if you want to skip the tech and just follow the gaming announcements make sure to check out Mike McWhertor's Kotaku coverage starting Sunday evening. It will be fun, promises. [Gizmodo]

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The Kotaku PS3 Theme

Do you love Kotaku? Do you love it so much that you must customize everything you have with our pink and green color scheme and fancy lettering? Well thanks to Playstation Universe poster Shawn, you can make your PS3 Kotaku-tastic with this custom theme. So far twelve users have risked the pointing and laughing and downloaded the custom theme and are presumably showing their love to the world at this very moment. Will you be lucky number thirteen?

Thanks Shawn, we are most flattered.

Kotaku PS3 theme [PlaystationUniverse]
[Thanks, Justin]


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Crecente Plays Football

NaturalMotion is currently working on a new next-gen football game called Backbreaker for next year. One of the features of the game will be the ability to assign your own colors, logos and names to your team's players. So, to show off the feature, the folks at NM threw together a little Kotaku team featuring our signature pink and green colors and our own Crecente as Quarterback. I don't know what's funnier, the pink uniforms or the thought of anyone on the Kotaku team (with the possible exception of Fahey and Luke) playing football.

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Kotaku Vs. Gizmodo: Halo Grudge Match


Watch live video from kotaku on Justin.tv

Live casting starts now. Watch and don't mock! Game starts on the hour best of seven. Guardian, Pit, Isolation, Construct and High Ground. Hit the jump for the live-ish blog!

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Eye of Judgment's Retail Display

The Eye of Judgment set up over in the Sony booth is pretty big, there are six tables set up, two of which are set up for playing head-to-head online and the rest are designed to be played side-by-side on a single machine. At one end of the area was a large glass display case with a selection of some of the retails card packs and boxes. I hate to say this, because of all of the required equipment and space, but I'm really looking forward to this game.



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Kotaku Originals: From BioShock to Manhunt 2

It's been an AO rated week here in Kotaku Originals. Manhunt 2 gets an Adults Only Rating, banned, and kicked to the curb by Nintendo and Sony in a matter of days, McWhertor gets close up and personal with BioShock and we get a first peek at the new LEGO MMO. More »

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Kotaku Originals: From Nintendo to Ubisoft

It's another full week of Kotaku Originals. McWhertor got on board with Nintendo's press day, Crecente explored the world of Ubisoft and Halo 2 gets some ass. More »

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Kotaku Originals: From The PokeParty To The Elite 360

It was a fun filled week of Kotaku Originals. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl arrived to the delight of zillions, Crecente gets an Elite 360 in da house and the Kotaku crew of talking heads gets some airtime. More »


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Kotaku Originals: From VA Tech to GameLife

It was a dark week for Kotaku originals, gaming and the country in general. This week saw a horrific massacre falsely blamed on video games, a former GameLife host sends unfortunate messages and in a bright spot, everyone finally sees Jack Thompson for the babbling idiot he really is. More »

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Drumroll Please... Here's The TGS Contest Winner

Back in February we ran a contest that would send one lucky reader and a friend to the Tokyo Game Show in September. The contest was sponsored by the good people at Old Spice and was comprised of three easy questions: #1, #2 and #3. The winner of this contest? Jerome B. More »

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Kotaku Originals: From Blackballs To Ice Castles

It has been a dramatic week here at Kotaku Tower. But, the drama seems to have spawned a huge lot of Kotaku Originals. Denver wants to ban M rated game ads, McWhertor braves the ice and snow for SSX Blur, Sony dis-invites Kotaku , then dis-dis-invites us and yet somehow we still manage to give away a PS3. More »

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Sony and Kotaku Make-Up

What a hellish day it has been today. Both for Kotaku and I'm sure team Sony. More »

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Kotaku Originals: From the Australian PS3 Launch to Microsoft Japan

This week in Kotaku originals it was an international affair! Ashcraft shows us the way to Microsoft Japan, Luke experienced the PS3 launch down under and an Insomniac game dev hightails it to China. It really is a small world after all. More »

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Hang With Kotaku At Nintendo World Store

It's official, we will be meeting up at the Nintendo World Store at 11 a.m. Saturday morning. If you want to come and hang and can't make it tonight, here's your next best chance. More »

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Come Party With Us Tonight

Don't forget the entire Kotaku crew will be at the Barcade in Brooklyn tonight starting at 7 p.m. We'll be paying for some alcohol and giving out some stuff. Just show up and try to spot one of us for your hand stamp. More »

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