• corporate gloating

    Microsoft: Xbox 360 Outsold PS3 3-to-1 On Black Friday

    The Xbox 360 experienced "record-breaking console sales" during the post-Thanksgiving weekend, Microsoft corporately gloated today. It estimated a 25% increase in sales from Black Friday 2007 and boasted that it outsold the PlayStation 3 three-to-one.

    Don Mattrick, senior VP of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, said that his company anticipated Black Friday sales with "cautious optimism," according to a statement, but has seemingly thrown caution to the wind with a bold press release. Mattrick says sales have "laid the groundwork for continued global sales momentum in 2009." Oh no, they're takin' all the momentum!

    Microsoft also boasts European Xbox 360 sales are "up as much as 400 percent" since its September price drop. Man, they're taking Europe too? Greedy. More »

    6:20 PM on Mon Dec 1 2008
    By Michael McWhertor
    8,442 views, 281 comments

    Most discussed pelagato24: dear God Sony ! cut he price of the ps3 right now ! more »

  • clips

    The Uncharted 2 Teasing Teasered

    Gone are the sunny environs of Uncharted. Uncharted 2, from what we can guess after watching this exceptionally short teaser, will feature more snow than sun and sand. Is that some sort of Aztec sacrificial knife? We're told we will be seeing more of the game during the airing of the upcoming SpikeTV Video Game Awards.

    4:00 PM on Mon Dec 1 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    3,516 views, 136 comments

    Most discussed FP_slomo788: FCK YR! more »

  • gears of war

    Gun "Enthusiast" Makes Real Gears Lancer That Can Really Kill You

    The Gears of War Lancer replica is certainly cool to pose with and the Nerf version is definitely... cute. But neither packs the actual killing power of the real-life version with working chainsaw attachment.

    A few enterprising gun enthusiasts have gone the extra mile for their bayonets, strapping on 14 inches of chainsaw for proper eviscerating. They call it the "Firearm Mounted Anti Zombie Device" but we know it better as the standard issue Lancer from Epic Games' third-person shooter.

    Yes, it works, as proven by the video of the thing in pumpkin-slaying action. More »

    3:40 PM on Mon Dec 1 2008
    By Michael McWhertor
    13,332 views, 169 comments

  • impressions

    You’re in the Movies – Wanna Go to Ninja School?

    This is the last game you’d ever want to play while you’re sick – lot’s of running, arm-waving, and opportunities for cheek-burning humiliation.

    You’re in the Movies uses the Xbox Live camera to capture all of what you do and splice it with pre-rendered videos in its extensive library of genre-based clips to create your very own, very wacky, home movie. At the more “hardcore” level, the game works like video editing software, letting you record music and dub tracks and edit together clips to create incredibly long – and incredibly wacky – movies of you running, arm-waving and generally embarrassing yourself in the name of fun. More »

    1:00 PM on Mon Dec 1 2008
    By AJ Glasser
    4,639 views, 32 comments

  • contest

    And the Winner of Our DSi Is...

    So that was a fun contest.

    More than 900 people entered and almost all of them had the right answers, but only one of them was able to win our imported DSi.

    Who was the lucky reader? Hit the jump to find out: More »

    10:00 AM on Mon Dec 1 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    8,848 views, 67 comments

  • half-life

    Black Mesa Trailer Is Some Hot Shit

    Oh, Black Mesa. How you tease us. With your release date projections, and your shiny new engine, and your ability to make make manifest our wildest dreams. Widescreen clip's after the jump. More »

    10:30 PM on Sun Nov 30 2008
    By Luke Plunkett
    51,224 views, 339 comments

    Most discussed ColinStein: Does this not look pretty dated compared to the games of today? more »

  • podcast

    Did You Catch Our Podcasts? No, We Don't Suck at L4Dead, Cooking

    We ran two videos on Turkey day.

    One featuring my hackneyed attempts at simultaneously cooking and talking... about DS title Personal Trainer Cooking. The other featuring Fahey, McWhertor, Adam and I running through Death Toll in Left 4 Dead and talking about stuff, like the economy, the future of the Wii's Balance Board, our favorite holiday games.

    Poor Adam, who was our in-game video man for Left 4 Dead, got an awful lot of heat for sucking at the game. Actually we all did. In Adam's defense, he had never played the zombie shooter on the 360, and was trying to simultaneously handle the "camera" and make sure he was capturing the audio and video correctly. So he's not THAT bad. Sure he let a hunter pummel me into the ground. Sure, he was shooting up at the sky, sure he TOTALLY didn't have my back when I was manning the machine gun.... OK, so maybe he does suck.

    I kid because I care. More »

    3:00 PM on Fri Nov 28 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    8,322 views, 63 comments

  • win a free Dsi

    Waste Your Friday Trying to Win Our DSi

    This is it, the last day to enter our contest to win an imported DSi. What better way to waste a Black Friday, than trying to get something free without leaving your desk?

    You have untiol midnight tonight, when the clock strikes Saturday, to go through my scavenger hunt to gather up all of the clues and email them to kotakucontestATgmailDotcom with DSi in the subject line. Remember you can only enter once. We'll announce the winner Monday morning. I'm so excited!!!

    Start your quest here.

    12:00 PM on Fri Nov 28 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    2,943 views, 34 comments

    Most discussed FusionHype: What's so good about a DSi anyways? more »

  • feature

    What Game Developers Do When Their Games Launch

    The build-up is huge. The expectations high. Everything runs at fever pitch. That's right, game launches are big (and stressful) affairs. For consumers, it's a waiting game. More »
    Feature

    11:00 AM on Fri Nov 28 2008
    By Brian Ashcraft
    47,879 views, 55 comments

    Most discussed yanipheonu: Rex Crowle (???): "I have a large framed picture of a owl on my desk, I like to stare into more »

  • Mysterious Mysteries

    What The Hell Is Inside This Case?

    A mysterious letter arrived in my mailbox yesterday, containing the address of a local storage facility and the key to the lock on the door that opened to reveal this small, metal briefcase.

    What. The. Hell. Filled with creepiness, no? Not only did they have my mailing address, the storage facility was but a 2 minute drive from my house, so following my traditional Thanksgiving dinner and the accompanying nap, I drove out into the cold, dark night to an empty storage facility in a part of town that certainly wouldn't win any awards, just to see what the hell was going on here. More »

    9:40 AM on Fri Nov 28 2008
    By Mike Fahey
    60,790 views, 220 comments

    Most discussed boardstar: ITS 123 ! more »