K Monthly - July 2010
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Welcome to the July 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of [[link]] 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 [[link]] 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.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); 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. Catch up on our original coverage from July with this handy guide. —- 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 [[link]] 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 The Future Is The Past, But Not For Long An MVP Hangs In There, With Los Muchachos Del Verano
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