Over at Waypoint, Patrick Klepek (formerly of Kotaku) takes a look inside the big plans for the never-to-be Sleeping Dogs 2. There’s a lot of great insights and excerpts of documents exploring United Front Games’ hopes for a responsive open-world game, as well as some speculation why we never got to play it. Worth a…

The next game from the makers of Sleeping Dogs is not Sleeping Dogs 2. It’s Smash + Grab, an online multiplayer game and “dystopic take on gang warfare” that will enter Steam Early Access in September. Trailer above.

Sleeping Dogs is coming out next week. It's an open-world game set in Hong Kong. You're an undercover cop. You can use martial arts. You can play it a little like an RPG. And you can even hit people with fish. Really!

The open-world action game Sleeping Dogs was one of the surprise hits of a recent pre-E3 tour of major upcoming video games by a gaggle of video game reporters.

Take a look at the first trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting the PlayStation 3 game whose very existence is something of en eye-roller, except... that trailer actually looks pretty good.

The True Crime game canned by publisher Activision earlier this year has been revived. It just won't bear the True Crime name at its new home, Final Fantasy, Deus Ex and Hitman publisher Square Enix.

Earlier today, Sony welcomed a new batch of value priced Greatest Hits games for the PlayStation 3. Turns out MAG, Demon's Souls and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift aren't the only PS3 exclusives having their prices slashed.

Activision did its part to thin the typically obese late year release schedule today, delaying True Crime: Hong Kong to next year. Originally planned for release this fall, the PS3, PC and Xbox 360 game will hit in 2011. Why?

In late May, ModNations Racers producer Dan Sochan told Kotaku a patch was in the works that would shorten the game's lengthy load times. Today, IGN reports that such a patch will be out next week.

One of Activision's big fall games is a revival of its open-world True Crime series, the closest thing the publisher has to a Grand Theft Auto.

Find out how cake and beer helped one studio produce the massive creative racing engine that is ModNation Racers in this week's Kotaku Talk Radio Podcast, now available for download.

Our review of the Playstation 3's ModNation Racers won't be hitting for another hour or so, so why not take the time to talk to the folks behind the game on Kotaku Talk Radio?

One of the creators of ModNation Racers, the next big PlayStation 3 exclusive, joins us for Kotaku Talk Radio this week. I invited him, so I guess he won't technically be crashing.

post What's the point of a beta test for a video game these days, other than to drum up publicity? The makers of upcoming PlayStation 3 game ModNation Racers say it got them to add a feature.

I care little for kart-racing games and seldom generate any user-generated content. So, to be honest, I did not rush at the chance I was given last week to play ModNation Racers at Game Developer's Conference 2010. My mistake.

Activision's True Crime series goes back to the drawing board with a Hong Kong action-adventure reboot, a game that puts the player in the role of an undercover cop, one who knows how to use a freezer door in a fight.