Consumer tech products are often imbued with a pristine, ornamental quality in our current design-crazed age. In spite of that, most gadgets aren't exactly things that you could imagine hanging up on your wall to impress new guests.
China and video games have a long and ridiculous history, but in the age of the internet, it's a story that's yet to be completely put together. And so, here at Kotaku, we will try to make sense of the history of consoles in China. Stay awhile, and read?
Earlier this week, China's State Council sneakily released a document about regulations in the nifty Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Due to this release, media outlets have been calling China's archaic 13-year ban on video games consoles to be over. I'm here to rain on everyone's parade.
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So you pulled out the big guns and you got your son (age 27 or otherwise) a console. You're justifiably excited about the Christmas morning surprise, but there's one thing you must absolutely remember to take care of before you wrap that gadget gift: Day one updates. Trust us.
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Let's say you have a pet and just got a new Xbox One. And let's say you wanted to celebrate both of them in picture form. What do you do?
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The PS4 has landed and it's great—but what lurks beneath its slick, slanted frame? Fortunately that's not something you need to keep wondering, because iFixit has gone and torn the console down so we can all see the guts within.
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30. Beige
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Toy retail giant Toys'R'Us has released its annual list of the hottest products for the holiday season, and while both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 made the cut this year, only Microsoft's console made it into the "Fabulous 15." Why?
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When a new generation of gaming hardware looms, it can be instructive to look to the past. At the end of July, we published a review of a new book by Zoya Street titled Dreamcast Worlds. Mr. Street has allowed us to publish an excerpt from the book, in which he details Sega's approach to the new console generation that …
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As the dust settled over the new Xbox One this summer, one point that kept coming up—maybe predictably—was size: The console is surprisingly chunky. Just chunky enough to make you wonder whether its wide berth isn’t a hint at what Microsoft's engineers were hiding in there—and what it could reveal about their…
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The 3DO and the Neo Geo are still the most expensive consoles ever—including when adjusted for inflation, but you'd be surprised how ridiculous the Intellivision's price looks now in this chart prepared by Ars Technica. The feature also examines price drops over all consoles' lifespans.
One Redditor writes an interesting—and funny—post about what it's like to develop for consoles.
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There has been a lot of news coming from the Tokyo Game Show this year. We've heard about Metal Gear and Phoenix Wright and a host of other games for and from Sony and Nintendo, as we have come to expect.
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As we learned this morning, the Wii U will launch on November 18, 2012—almost six years, to the day, after the Wii launched—and it will come in two versions, costing $299.99 and $349.99.
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Have consoles reached their peak? Can they really not please us anymore? What about the Ouya?
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Ultimately we want to own all of the game consoles, but how many do we keep hooked up at one time? Commenter Rumbrave_Remy wants to know in today's installment of Speak Up on Kotaku.
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For today's edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, we continue the discussion of future consoles with commenter Leaufai, who advises Microsoft to embrace their PC roots and give us a console that truly takes console gaming to the next level.
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In today's slightly late (sorry!) edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Gusi A. Rincon puts forth the argument for a unified console. Forget the console wars! If the big console makers would all just declare peace, everyone would benefit.
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There's this constant argument lately among gamers, over who really plays, what counts as a game, and where all the business is, anyway.
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While Konami's budget-priced remake of the failed X-Blades, was widely considered to be horrible idea by everyone forever, Kotaku commenter Tales of a Prinny thinks it's the vengeful warrior's / adventuring archaeologists'' knees. Just goes to show there's an audience for everything.
