Apple’s [[link]] unveiling of a tablet PC threatened to crowd out the rest of the games and devices news this week, but we didn’t let that stop us from delivering our usual slate of reports, reviews and rumors. iPad Hands On With Apple’s iPad, Everything But The Games iPad Doubts: A Gamer’s Problems With Apple’s Wonder Machine Hands On With Apple’s iPad, Just The Games This Is Kotaku’s First Post Written On An iPad Apple’s iPad, aka TouchXL, Detailed Sizing Up The Apple iPad EA Plays Need For Speed On The iPad The iPad Blows Up iPhone Apps Real Good Apple Introduces The iPad Apple Liveblog: Revenge Of The Tablet Could Apple’s Tablet Use Natal-Like Technology? https://kotaku.com/hands-on-with-apples-ipad-everything-but-the-games-5458395 Reviews, Previews, Hands-On and Impressions Split Second Preview: Happy With Second Place Another Impossible Preview Assassin’s Creed II: The Battle of Forli Micro-Review: An Un-Macchiavelian Plan Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond Micro-Review: A Bloody Fun Hazard-Time Frankenreview: Mass Effect 2 Muscle March Micro-Review: Flex Crimes MAG: First-Day Impressions of a Burgeoning War Mass Effect 2 Review: Once More Unto The Breach Alienware Area-51 m15x Laptop Review: It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Laptop https://kotaku.com/split-second-preview-happy-with-second-place-5459700 News WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert Star Trek Online Boldly Goes Live A Million Copies of Dragon Quest VI Shipped In Japan Final Fantasy Creator Working On Wii [[link]] Game Ready For Some More Nintendo Software Lifetime Sales? Where Is Metal Gear Arcade? Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Delayed in Japan Here Are Your Commander Shepards Introducing “Vanquish”, A New Game From The Creator Of Resident Evil Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City Announced for PS3 and PC Rumor: SOCOM Devs Working On “Star Wars: Battlefront Online” There’s More To Record Of Agarest War Than Sex Appeal Why A Man Plays Mario Six PADDs I Would Actually Buy The Battle Of Forli Was A Costly Battle Indeed Rumor: DJ Hero Goes Mobile Nintendo Game Sales: Mario, Pokemon, Zelda Selling Millions (Millions!) Nintendo Reveals Lifetime Hardware Shipment Figures Show Us Your Commander Shepard Strange Things Are Afoot At Red Five Studios The Resonance of Fate Fashion Parade Bleszinski Explains How Gears of War Ended Up In Lost Planet 2 PS3 Version of Bayonetta Getting Update Glory of Heracles Creators Explain Their New Nintendo DS RPG Rumor: Red 5 Studios Goes Down, Hit By Layoffs Bayonetta Is Not Too Sexy, But Maybe Too Serious Latest Forza 3 Pack Lets You Choose the Cars Monster Hunter Frontier Not Confirmed For The West Dead Rising, The Movie What Are Gears of War Characters Doing In My Lost Planet 2? X10 Sees Microsoft Return To Hosting Its Own Game Show What Is Xbox Japan’s Big Capcom Announcement? Rumor: LA Noire’s Development More Of A Mess Than We’d Imagined Sixteen Games That Make iPhone Gaming Worthwhile Few Of History’s Top Books Made Into Games, Good Or Bad One Of These Games Is The New Duke Nukem Forever Are Game Companies Spoiling Their Own Games? The Secret World: Postcards From The Edge Of Madness iPhone Chart Toppers: Wars… in Chinatown Monster Hunter Tri Controller Bundle Bound For America Get Mass Effect 2’s DLC For Free (Free!) [Update] Dead Or Alive Paradise, A Trailer Comparison Who Can Capcom Fight Next? Reaching Level 80 In World of Warcraft Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: iSlate Edition https://kotaku.com/warioware-d-i-y-has-made-me-a-user-generated-content-c-5457497 Columns Well [[link]] Played: Game Developers See Potential, Not Gold Rush in Apple’s iPad Speak-Up On Kotaku: Sequel Limits, Disc Swapping, Forklifts, And Haggis Well Played: Gaming: The Fifth Network Stick Jockey: The Problem(s) with Olympic Video Games https://kotaku.com/game-developers-see-potential-not-gold-rush-in-apples-5459202