<![CDATA[Kotaku: Daily Mail]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Daily Mail]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/daily mail http://kotaku.com/tag/daily mail <![CDATA[ Daily Mail: Elite RRODs Have Cost Microsoft "£500 Million" ]]> eliterrod.jpgIt's coming from the Daily Mail, so make what you will of that, but the British tabloid is claiming that Microsoft is setting aside £500 million - which is just shy of USD$1 billion - to help cover the costs of an increasing number of faulty Xbox 360 Elite units. They'll also apparently be offering a three-year extended warranty for Elite owners. Both the value and warranty are the same as those offered last year, when Microsoft was forced to pay up and extend the warranties for owners of original 360s. The Elites, however, were meant to be improved consoles, nowhere near as susceptible to the red rings of death as their off-white cousins. We'll update when we hear something a little more...official, because really, we find it hard to believe they've sold that many Elites.

£500m bill for Xbox red ring of death [Daily Mail]

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:30:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397956&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Even Game-Hating Daily Mail Likes GTA IV ]]> British tabloid Daily Mail isn't know for it's love of video games. In fact, most think that the paper totally hates them! So reviewing Grand Theft Auto IV is a primo opportunity to vilify gaming. Sure, it gets its digs in and calls the game a "sickening glorification of gangland savagery" and falsely says someone was stabbed at the midnight launch. Then the tone of the piece totally changes! Giving the game a five out of five, Daily Mail writes:


In fairness, though, the makers have for the first time utilised something that resembles a moral compass.

Killing is occasionally optional, dialogue and cut scenes are devoted to Nikos's inner turmoil and while criminality and violence are certainly glorified, its perpetrators are somehow not.


This doesn't mean that everyone at Daily Mail doesn't think GTA IV is a killing trainer, just this one review. But, still.
So Slick [Daily Mail via CVG] ]]> Fri, 09 May 2008 07:20:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388883&view=rss&microfeed=true