Kotaku: Gamertag

Is Iron Wolf the Next Call of Duty?

Mike Fahey — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:40:00 EDT

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A pair of hackers that gained access to the Xbox account of a Treyarch employee believes they've stumbled across the next entry in the Call of Duty series, code named Iron Wolf. Are they on to something? More »

Xbox Live Deal of the Week: Lose the Stupid Gamertag

Mike Fahey — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EDT

You know that gamertag you've been sporting the past few years, the one with the letters replaced with numbers because someone else had the same name idea first? You should change it now, while it's cheap. More »

So, What Was The World's Very First Gamertag?

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EDT

While there are millions and millions (and millions!) of gamertags out there now, in the beginning, there was but one. The alpha, the creator, Xbox Live's Adam, before he lost a rib. So, who was it? More »

Expiring Email Accounts Can Eat Your Xbox Gamertag

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:00:00 EST

Microsoft is investigating a problem with expiring email addresses that is causing some Xbox Live users to abandon their Gamertags and start fresh, losing any progress they've accumulated over the past few years. More »

The Office's Dwight Reveals Gamertags Of The Stars

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:40:28 EST

Don't piss off Rainn Wilson on Xbox Live. You might live to regret it, especially if you're a anonymity-loving celebrity. "Dwight" from the The Office has, spitefully, divulged some of Xbox Live more famous gamers. More »

"My Xbox" Pages Redesigned, Made Redesignier

Mark Wilson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:20:00 EDT

In case you missed it, "My Xbox" pages on Xbox.com have gotten a pretty drastic face-lift today. Click the jump to enlarge the side-by-side, but it's immediately apparent that the entire interface has been streamlined and condensed with more emphasis placed on horizontal space. Aside from the aesthetics, the biggest functional change is probably the achievement comparison, with one friend appearing on your main page at all times. More »

Gamertags, Friend Codes, PSN and Steam IDs Hit Kotaku

Brian Crecente — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:00:42 EST

See what a little persistence will get you? Over the years we've run posts where people could put up their own gamer IDs, be they for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii or PC. But the problem has always been that that post eventually, usually quickly, moves off the page and people forget about it. So I started bugging our tech folks about maybe adding it to Kotaku's increasingly robust user profiles and sure enough they did it. More »

Clip: Major Nelson Gone Wild

Brian Crecente — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:00:16 EST

Major Nelson's brain apparently turned to slush when he walked onto the Girls Gone Wild volleyball court. It's hard to tell from this video because the blackhole like density of the two women he's interviewing could make a rock look smart. More »

Xbox Live Kidnapper

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:05:53 EST

Earlier this week Missouri sheriff's deputies found 13-year-old William Ownby, who had been allegedly kidnapped while getting off of his school bus. More »

Microsoft Wants to Buy You a Pizza

Brian Crecente — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:00:53 EDT

This is sorta weird. Microsoft is offering to help Live gamers out with a little hump-night Arcade party. Here's the deal: More »

Site Provides Gamertag Image Conversion

kourosh — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:59:15 EST

Lightdarkness sends us a tip about a site called MyGamerCard.net. You enter your Xbox Live gamertag into the site and it spits out a JPG image of your online avatar and stat sheet, presumably for use on your blog or whatnot. I don't know why you wouldn't just visit Xbox.com, log in and take a screen capture (as I did with my gamertag to the upper right) instead of using this site. But, we're here to inform. More »

Channing Hits Xbox Live

Brian Crecente — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:00:44 EST

The Knicks Channing Frye is going to be the special guest on this week's Game with Fame. Frye, the eighth pick in the 2005 NBA Draft, will be Live on Dec. 22 from 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. playing NBA Live 06 on the old school Xbox. He's going to be using gamertag ChanFryeGWF. Like a lot of up and coming Bballers, Channing is an avid video gamer and even runs his own website. More »

360 Live is Live

Brian Crecente — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:45:52 EST

Put your gamertag here too. More »