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Giving up smoking, cutting back on the sauce and getting in shape ain't easy. Ask Joel. Right now, he's sweating his bollocks off in some dingy Brooklyn basement, training for some serious DDR-ing. We fear a headband is somehow involved. More »
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The press conferences are done and dusted, and now it's time to look back with twenty-twenty hindsight. So did Sony amaze, Microsoft impress and Nintendo knock your socks off? Or was it Joel and Crecente's live blogging that was doing the wowing? More »
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Forget bees, Joel loves beer. And just for Joel, Bungie's online shop has a Spartan keychain that opens bottles of brewski. Drink up, space cowboy. More »
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It's people. Xbox 360 is made out of people. They're making our console logos out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them! Oh wait. This isn't so bad. This is just a cool snap from the Xbox 360 Water Balloon Challenge that Joel "Mr. Executive" Johnson attended in Australia. More »
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To promote the upcoming water balloon fight (check Joel's liver's coverage), Microsoft Australia has done-up their site. One glaring problem, MSoft: sucky grammar. We're not ones to point and snicker, but even Crecente knows the difference between "your" and "you're." We're still working on teaching him "its" and "it's." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168750&view=rss&microfeed=true 9:30AM Sydney Time, Friday - There was some 'bottom fermenting' going on last night, because my ass put a stank out on that dance floor, if you know what I mean. And what I mean is I stood motionlessly on the periphery in bars drinking far too many lagers and pilsners, of which the Australians are overly fond. (I did get a hold of some Cooper's Sparkling Ale, though, which was not without molecules I found a pleasing match to my nubs. Thanks, James!) More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168694&view=rss&microfeed=true 5:08PM EST Wednesday / 7:10AM Sydney Time Thursday - Twenty-four hours later, I am in Sydney. The first three people I have spoken to—a woman standing in line at the currency exchange, the girl working the exchange counter, and my taxi driver—have all been supreme twats. It's like I'm back home in New York. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168380&view=rss&microfeed=true This is the first in a series of entries by Joel Johnson, who is currently in Australia on Microsoft's dime to write about the Water Balloon Challenge. Hence, 'WBC 360.' More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168379&view=rss&microfeed=true Joel here. I'm off to Australia on Microsoft's dime to cover the Xbox 360-sponsored World's Largest Water Balloon Fight. They'll be putting me up in a hotel and paying for my flight. We thought you should know, in case you worried our coverage of a water balloon fight might be compromised by the junket. (We joke, but we really do think disclosure should rule the day.) More »
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And he isn't chowing down on a plate of scrambled eggs! Amazing! Brian Crecente, his facial hair and Executive Editor supreme Joel Johnson hit the Blogger's Breakfast with Peter Moore this morning. As soon as Crecente decompresses from the PS3 press conference, expect a full report on Moore, the Xbox 360 and doughnuts. More »
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Joel from sexy sister site The Consumerist chucked a Flickr link our way. Apparently, the rusted pile of metal is an Xbox that washed up on the beach or was buried in the sand for shits and giggles. I'm not sure, but blame Halo and cheap tequila. More head-scratching pics after the jump. More »
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Joel, former Gizmodo head-honcho, is throwing a little PAR-TE to raise money for Penny Arcade's Child's Play. CP, which gives toys to childrens' hospitals, is my personal favorite charity of the holidays. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=141304&view=rss&microfeed=true You've done the worst thing you could possibly have done: You told yourself you didn't need an Xbox 360, resisted the lure of the pre-order schemes, only to wake this morning in a ring of sweat smelling of Mountain Dew and fear. Tonight other people would be playing a new videogame system without you. More »
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