This past week delivered major Microsoft news: The Kinect Beta began with updated dashboard software and new hardware shipping. Pirated versions of Halo: Reach leaked, with attendant banhammer threats, but Stephen Totilo spent a full day with it, legitimately.
That, plus the rest of the week in Kotaku’s original reporting:
Kotaku’s Gamescom 2010 Coverage
Top Stories
Microsoft Is Ready To Ban Halo: Reach Pirates
A Day With The Finished Halo Reach
A Closer Look At The Kinect Beta’s Avatars and Dashboards
Sony Gets Federal Court to Temporarily Block Sale Of PS3 Modchips
Reminder: Beta Test Kinect, You Will Be Silenced
Kinect Hardware Prepped And Shipping To Beta Testers
Columns
Stick Jockey: Finding a T, E, A and M, in “Multiplayer”
Reviews, Previews, Hands-On and Impressions
Mafia II Review: Smelling The Roses In A Life Lived Too Fast
Nothing Bad To Say About The New Castlevania’s First Chapter
Features
News
Microsoft: Eerily Familiar “Space Marine” Ad Not Connected to Halo
Halo Reach’s Spartan Voice Isn’t Too Chatty
Nintendo’s Fantastic, Familiar Airstream Tour Bus
Why GameStop’s “Store Of The Future” Is Anything But
Sega Offers Larger Robot Chest Code
Zynga Sued Over Mafia Wars Name
Slot Machines Beat Nintendo To Glasses-Free 3D Gaming
It’s Not 2001, It’s Halo: Reach
No Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep For PSP Go Owners
Tampa Sheriff Calls Out Columbine Video Game
But Does The Yakuza Spin-Off Manga Look Any Better?
A Truly Logical Nintendo DS Charger
Some New Club Nintendo Prizes For Japan
Super Columbine Massacre Pops Up in School Shooting Scare?
Layoffs At Tom Clancy-Founded Red Storm Entertainment
We Get A Surprise DeathSpank Sequel Next Month
Tokyo Game Show To Have Metal Gear Cosplay Contest
Numbers
iTunes Chart Topper: Dysentery Returns
Sports
Perspectives
Reactions
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