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    directhex: The tenties. Duh. more »
    BryanH: I like 'The Dubs'. more »
    SerenitysRequiem: The Cosplay Years. more »
    siliconAvatar2: The decade ends 31 Dec 2010, and the new decade begins 1 Jan 2011. So we still have another 10 years and 364 days to figure it out. New months, yea... more »
    (Starman) #number257: You know, we COULD just call it the early 2000s... But that would be no fun! :P more »
    PlatformJunkie: Just call 'em the O's. Way better that sorry excuse of a word "aughts." more »
    george9807: Is it just the UK that calls it 2000-2009 the noughties? more »
    Ratfuzz: Time called it the Decade from Hell. I agree. more »
    hybrid92: We here in britain called them the Noughties more »
    Wuffles: Pretty sure it's noughties, right? (Yeah, I found that out like a month ago when everyone started using it). more »
    Bialia: Well... ok, what did people call the 1900s at the time? And the 1910s? Seems like it'd be pretty simple to figure out. more »
    Imma Let You Finish, but, You Gunna Eat That?: We should call this the "No-Talent Years". In just a short span of ten years, The Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Brittany Spears, and ever... more »
    Forday: wow ten years into this decade and we haven't broken out into a world war yet, we should be porud of ourselves :D ...well except for all those other ... more »
    -MasterDex-: A decade that had no name? I thought Noughties was the accepted name for the first decade of the new millenia? I say we just call this decade the tee... more »
    jayntampa: Oh god ... do we have to go through puberty again? more »
    mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: Last decade didn't really have a name because people were more excited about the fact that we were in a new millennium. In any case, gamers are hungr... more »
    Bardock: It's 'The Ten-tacles'. more »
    Fattony12000: The only thing people who got all their lovely presents on the 25th should be doing on this day is helping out those who didn't. "Boxing Day was trad... more »
    anduin1: This is the day I especially avoid stores, I'm not afraid of a crowd but it seems anytime these mass sale events happen through malls, people devolve ... more »
    -MasterDex-: Here in Ireland, we call it plain old St. Stephen's Day. more »
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    Kotaku Originals: The Teen Age

    We've said goodbye to a decade that really had no name, but I haven't heard much consensus on what we're gonna call this one. The Tens? Tweens? Twenty-teens? We've got another 9 years and 364 days to figure it out. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Boxing Day

    That's what they call the day after Christmas in more civilized parts of the world. In my household, we call it "Distended Saturday." And while you're still digesting yesterday's feast, here's a recap of our buffet of original reporting. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: The Year We Make Contact

    With less than 17 shopping days till 2010, Kotaku oriented its eyes to the future and this week's report toward what you can expect from it. But we still had plenty of time for news of the present. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Chunk of Funk

    Bravely revisiting his childhood typecasting, Jeff B. Cohen - "Chunk" from 1985's the Goonies, and now a high powered Hollywood lawyer-mans - dispensed solid legal advice to the gaming community, going far deeper than the usual can-you-trademark-edge questions. More »
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    Kotaku Originals; I Like This Aussie's Tabasco

    Crecente went on vacation; Totilo talked with Electronic Arts' top man, but let's not forget Luke's eloquent and comprehensive breakdown of Australia's games classification, and the political climate influencing it, in the roster of this week's biggest stories. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Weekend Edition

    Some Saturdays I feel like I should start my shift with NPR's Weekend Edition theme and the dulcet vocals of its host, Mr. Scott Simon (pictured). We weekend shift guys need to stick together, you know. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Review to a Thrill

    The releases of Assassin's Creed II and Left 4 Dead 2 dominated this week's news cycle, with McWhertor and Totilo supplying immediate reviews of what both offer. The end of Pandemic, as a studio anyway, was the big headline. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: News that's Hot, Spot or Not

    Modern Warfare 2's release was the big news everyone could see coming; a bloodbath at Electronic Arts, and GameStop deliberately breaking a major street date, was not. Huge developments marked an unusually newsy week, even for this time of year. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Dog Gone

    The old dog-ate-my-controller excuse got a guy out of a 5,000 Microsoft Point purchase, plus Gamertag immortality for the scape-pooch, in the No. 1 story of a news-packed week delivered by your humble editors. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: T&A

    That would be Terrorism and Alexis. Modern Warfare 2 stirred up plenty of controversy, and then came Crecente's interview of gamer pornstar Raven Alexis. Afterwards, we still found room for more than 60 original headlines over the past week. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Straight, No Chaser

    This week, Totilo introduced the concept of a chaser, a fantastic idea. Follow an intense game with a 30 minute decompression of something light. Similarly, here's a week's news, soon to be followed by 48 hours of good times. Enjoy. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Porn

    Porn, porn porn porn. Porn porn. Porn. Porn, porn porn porn - porn porn pr0n porn porn porn? (Porn porn.) "Porn porn porn," porn porn, "porn porn porn porn porn." Porn porn porn; porn porn porn ... porn porn porn. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Post-Nuptial Agreements

    If it's Saturday morning in October here, that means, what, it's a Tuesday evening in March for Australia? I kid, I keeeeed! But it's definitely past the magic hour when Luke and his bride have said "I do." More »
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    Kotaku Originals: No Show-Stopper

    Tokyo Games Show dominated this week but it didn't account for all the news. Just like this week won't account for all our TGS coverage. We'll have plenty more when the team returns to the States. Well, except for Bash. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Bundles of Joy

    'Twas the week for console news. Modern Warfare 2 and ODST are both doing 360 bundles, MW2's with a super-size drive. The PS3's 250 gig flavor continues to tease from overseas. And the Wii might be in for a haircut. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: SafeSearch is ON

    I wanna know how long (and where) Crecente looked for the right "safe" pic to illustrate his porn/PS3 post. Yes, I know of "SFW Porn" but I don't think that fits. I'm also not linking it, because it's still NSFW. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Is a Man Not Entitled to the Sweat of His Brow?

    No, says the man in Seattle. It belongs to PAX. Labor Day might be the working person's holiday, but persons such as Fahey, Totilo and Adam will be working there this weekend. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Follow That

    Meaty news week here in Kotakopolis. Last week's PS3 Slim announcement fairly forced Microsoft to do two things: 1) Declare there's no 360 Slim following suit and 2) announce a comparable price cut is on the way. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Slim Goodbody

    No doubt about it, this was Sony's week, as the PS3 Slim's arrival dominated the news out of Gamescom - one of three expositions on two continents where we have or had writers in the past week. More »
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    Kotaku Originals: Annual Affairs

    They happen every year: QuakeCon, the Woodstock of Gaming. Totilo's in Dallas, bringing back the peace and love. Madden also dropped this week; with a splurge of coverage and controversy. And console price rumors? Oh, right, they happen every day. More »