Welcome to the February 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, previews, features, weekly columns and more, from Kotaku.
Don’t miss our reporting from this year’s DICE summit, where video game industry vets reveal secrets about their games and speak frankly about the industry. For some of February’s biggest announcements, make sure to read our X10 coverage for everything new on the Xbox 360 and the latest details from Nintendo’s Q1 media summit, packed with new games and new releases. Plus, we took a pile of pictures for our posts from Toy Fair 2010. And we’ve been playing each of the 31 games nominated for the Independent Games Festival as we travel down the Road to the IGF.
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-summit-news-round-up-5479289
Finally, don’t forget about our twin theme weeks. First came a week dedicated to Star Trek, and then came Love Week, our special Valentine’s Day-themed week long look at the romantic side of video games.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 2010
FEATURES
Judging The Covers Of Games, And How To Make Them Better
The Search For The Video Game Auteurs
REVIEWS
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Review: Repetitious Rebel
MAG Review: World of Shadow Warcraft
Glory of Heracles Review: A Forgetful Adventure
Blood Bowl Review: No Fun League
Starship Defense Micro-Review: The Most HD DS Game
BioShock 2 Review: In Case Of Rapture
White Knight Chronicles Review: Workin’ On Our Knight Moves
Dante’s Inferno Review: Big Ideas, Small Problems
Heavy Rain Review: No Wrong Conclusion
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Review: FanFic Comes to Life
SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo 3 Review: Fire In The Hole!
Chime Review: Tune In, Drop Out
STALKER: Call Of Pripyat Review: Third Time’s A Charm?
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Review: A Muddled Mess
Aliens Vs. Predator Review: Too Human
Endless Ocean: Blue World Review: The Wii Game You’re Wrong About
Plants Vs. Zombies iPhone Micro-Review: Touch The Dead
Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares Micro-Review: Less Fighting, More Frightening
Assassin’s Creed II: Bonfire Of The Vanities Micro-Review: Once More, With Fleeing
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Micro-review: Snack Of The Clones
Star Trek Online Review: A Piece Of The Action
PREVIEWS & IMPRESSIONS
An Eyes-On Sneak Peek At Tron Legacy… In 3D!!!
Transformers: War For Cybertron DS Preview: Grimlock Goes Portable
Transformers: War For Cybertron Preview: A World Without Michael Bay’s Robots
FlingSmash: It’s All In the Elbow
Disney’s Guilty Party: Family-Friendly and Fun…Really.
The Wii’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Is Not a Ported Prince
Super Mario Galaxy 2: Yoshi’s Back…and He Brought a Drill!
Metroid: Other M: A Change of Perspective
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight Hands On: A Less Cheesy Three-way Dip
Just Cause 2: The Difference Between A Pinata Kill And A Hang Kill
Hands-On, Sword Out With Red Steel 2
Alan Wake Preview: The First Full Episode
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Impressions: The Tougher Battle
Alpha Protocol Impressions: Looks Deceive
Infinite Space Preview: Seems Vast And Charty
Tournament of Legends Preview: Two-Fisted Combat
Op-Ed
Ron Jeremy: Sex, Not Violence, Is Beautiful and Natural
https://kotaku.com/ron-jeremy-sex-not-violence-is-beautiful-and-natural-5466746
COLUMNS
WELL PLAYED by Brian Crecente
Love In Hell: Dante’s Inferno’s Take on Romance
Motion Control in Gaming: Rationalizing a New Dissonance
STICK JOCKEY by Owen Good
Olbermann, Ripping Me Softly For This Column
Stick Jockey’s Super Sim Spectacular
Plenty of Contractions, and a Lower Birth Rate in Sports Gaming
Imaginary Triumphs: Sports As A Role-Playing Game
More Than Money, Licenses Give a League Control
TIM ROGERS
LEIGH ALEXANDER
Why We Play Games, And Why We Grumble About Them
Romance With Disabled Girls: How (And Maybe Why) An Unusual Video Game Came To Be
