Welcome to the July 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.
How did Kotaku spend its summer season? By visiting the San Diego Comic-Con for one, covering all things video games, comic books, toys and pop culture from the annual nerd-a-thon. We also reflected, once again, on how games and summer mix with our annual Summer of Gaming theme week.
Of course, we also played a bunch of video games, including StarCraft II, Dead Space 2 and everything that's coming to the Wii this fall.
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Catch up on our original coverage from July with this handy guide.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
July 2010
FEATURES
- How Retro Is Affecting Our Future
The Revenge Of 2D by Stephen Totilo - The Sim News Network
How Computer Animation Is Changing The News Right Now by Brian Ashcraft - Hypercubes, Heaven & Hell
The Man Who Will Bring Us To The Fourth Dimension by Stephen Totilo - Making Corruption Fun
'I Just Don't Like Living In A Culture Focused On Meaninglessness' by Stephen Totilo - Battle of the World's Warriors
My Summer Vacation To The EVO Fighting Championships by Michael McWhertor - Gaming's Genuine Article
I Am Way More Than 8-Bit by Brian Ashcraft - Fun In The Sun
Who Killed the Solar Console? by Owen Good - Surface Escapes
Where Board Games And Video Games Come Together by Luke Plunkett - We Require More Infographics
A Visual Guide To Real-Time Strategy by Mike Fahey
REVIEWS
- Transformers: Cybertron Adventures Review: Robots In Disgrace
- Crackdown 2 Review: Shoot First, Leap Buildings Later
- Mass Effect 2: Overlord Micro-Review: Shock To The System
- Singularity Review: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey
- Risk: Factions Review: Cats Vs. Zombies
- NCAA Football 11 Review: A Big Man On Campus
- Flametail Review: Space Burn
- The Silver Lining: Episode 1 Micro-Review: Absence Makes The Heart Grow Colder
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 - 4 Review: The Best LEGO Game to Date
- DeathSpank Review: Best Game Involving A Purple Thong
- Joe Danger Review: Touch The Sky
- Art Style: light trax Review: We're Just Dots In The Stream
- DeathSmiles Review: Shmup Complex
- Inception Review: Video Games Should Be Jealous
- Limbo Review: Death Foreshadowed
- Osmos HD Review: 21st Century Pac-Man
- Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies Review: Do Good, Inc.
- Alan Wake's The Signal Review: A Short Dash
- Trauma Team Review: One Of Those Better Games
- Gunnar Phenom 3D Glasses Review: A Slick Extravagance
- Hydro Thunder Hurricane Review: I'm On A Boat & It's Going Fast
- StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Review: Upgrade Complete
- StarCraft II Heaven's Devils Book Review: Humble Beginnings
PREVIEWS & IMPRESSIONS
- Reckless Racing, A Modern Day RC Pro-Am Coming To iPad
- If Wii Fit And Madden Had A Baby...
- Dead Space 2's Miner Upgrades, Including A Solution To A Lack Of Bullets [UPDATE]
- Try Not To Care About Echochrome ii After Watching This
- Bond. James Bond. James Bond 007: Blood Stone Impressions
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Single-Player, Deadlier Than Ever
- We Played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep For 10 Minutes, In English
- Killzone 3 Looks Great, Plays Different, Sort Of Adds Yoshi
- Let's Start With FlingSmash, A Wii Game That Loves Left-Handed People
- And Yet It Moves Makes Sense On Wii
- Donkey Kong Co-Op Is Friendlier Than Mario Co-Op
- What If The Next Metroid Is A Bad Game?
- It's Like Lego Star Wars, But With Marvel Heroes And The Infinity Gauntlet
- Forget Limbo, LittleBigPlanet 2 Might Be Able To Do Shadow Complex (And More)
- The Ultimate Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Hands-On Preview
- Kirby Helps Me Measure The Distance Between Video Game Pacifism And Slaughter
- What If Wii Party Were A Great Game?
COLUMNS
- What I Discovered From Gaming Like A Girl by Leigh Alexander
- I Pitched A Monkey Island Movie to Hollywood by Lisa Foiles
Well Played by Brian Crecente
- The Inconvenient Truth Of Buying Video Games?
- The Secret Lives of Gamers Should Stay Secret
- Kmart's Peer Game Reviews Gives Power To the People
Stick Jockey by Owen Good
- If There's Only One Team on the Field, Is It Still a Winner?
- A Road to Glory, Traveled by Many
- Reconsidering Backbreaker