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Robbers Settle for PS4 When GameStop is All Out of the Xbox One
In the new console generation, the PlayStation 4 appears to be the second best choice—for robbers in Indianapolis that is. Tuesday evening, two suspsects stormed a GameStop on the south side of the city and demanded—by name—all of the Xbox Ones in stock. The GameStop employees replied, more or less, “Uh, we don’t got any.”…
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Modder Shows Xbox One Can Boot From a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive
Despite the lack of support to swap in different hard drives (especially ones of a larger capacity) in the Xbox One, this guy says he’s gotten the two pieces of hardware to cooperate. Not only that, the console runs faster with a non-stock hard drive installed. Booting to the main screen goes about 10 percent…
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He Thought He Was Buying a PS4; He Got a Box of Towels Instead
A man in Colorado Springs got (sunglasses) fleeced when he met a dude to buy a PlayStation 4 and ended up with a box of towels. That said, they do dry you off a lot better than the Xbox One. Cops in the Springs say the man answered a Craigslist ad, hoping to buy the…
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The Sun‘s Page 3 Girl was The Playstation 4
Friday saw the launch of the PlayStation 4 in the U.K., and The Sun’s notorious Page 3 treated blokes there to a new model—one much less curvy than usual. Sony took over Page Three (and two) for a day, apologizing (sigh, apologising) to “Rosie, 22, from Middlesex,” for displacing her. That couldn’t have been a…
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‘School Shooting’ Video Game Also Found at Sandy Hook Killer’s Home
Yesterday, we sought to list all of the video games investigators found in the home of Adam Lanza, the shooter who killed 26 people—20 of them children—at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 last year. We missed one and, as its title suggests, it’s kind of important: “School Shooting.” But we’ve never heard of…
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Sandy Hook Killer’s Video Gaming Obsession: Not What You’d Expect
If Adam Lanza—the shooter responsible for last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre—had a video gaming obsession, it appears to be Dance Dance Revolution, according to a comprehensive final report the state of Connecticut released today about the mass killing. From data recovered from a GPS device his mother had given him, which recorded his…
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The Average Price of a PS4 Sold on eBay is $425. So Far.
Though major retailers have been cleaned out of their launch-day stock, and supply is expected to be tightly manipulated through the holiday shopping season, the gray market has seen brisk business for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and unlike past console launches, prices have not been alarmingly out-of-hand. While there are numerous eBay listings for…
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EA Sports Sacks FIFA Manager After 13-Year Run
EA Sports will cancel FIFA Manager, its football management sim for the PC, ending a 13-year run for the series that lately saw it finishing a distant second to Sega’s better regarded Football Manager In an open letter to fans, Gerald Köhler, the founder of the game (known as Fussball Manager and then Total Club…
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Modder Solders His Own Xbox One Headset Adapter
Third party headsets are unusable on the Xbox One until Microsoft releases an adapter, which won’t be until next year. Your Trittons, your Turtle Beaches, your Astros and Afterglows, forget it. Except one audiophile, a guy with a soldering gun and a purpose, wouldn’t let it go. Reader alsybub says he made his Xbox One…
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Twitch Taking a Harder Look at PS4’s Playroom After Livestream Mayhem
In light of the recent livestream antics on Playroom, the PlayStation 4 augmented-reality game set in players’ living rooms, Twitch.tv has felt compelled to restate its terms of use, which in effect forbids “non-gaming content.” For those who use Playroom (shown above), it sounds like a crackdown. To recap, the PlayStation 4 allows livestreaming to…
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‘Xbox: Where’s My Free Game?’
When I hooked up my PlayStation 4, it already offered me two great games for me to play, three, if you count DC Universe Online. Had I not traded in a bunch of games for store credit the day my Xbox One arrived, I would have been able to, what? Play a fighting game with…
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The Week in Games: The Hay’s in the Barn
It is axiomatic that just about nothing in video games happens—in the West, anyway—the week the United States celebrates its most important holiday: Black Friday. However, I do tip my cap to Professional Farmer 2014 for its timely release on Thursday—Thanksgiving day itself. Tuesday, Nov. 26 Air Conflicts: Vietnam (360, PS3) Ys: Memories of Celceta…
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Designer Apologizes for Reply to Question About Oversexed Characters
The game director for Blizzard Entertainment’s upcoming Heroes of the Storm has apologized for his treatment of a question about how characters are designed—specifically how multiplayer online battle arena games, of which Heroes is one, tend to hyper-sexualize female avatars. Dustin Browder took to Heroes of the Storm‘s official blog to offer his regrets for…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Sportsbros
Kirk, I’m not upset with you, I’m just a little disappointed. You took a great concept—the Sportsbros, EA Sports’ trio of next-gen pitchmen—and you only gave them word balloons? An entire legion of my best Photoshoppers awaits, to make the Sportsbros even funnier than you could possibly imagine, in the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. So here…
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LEGO The Hobbit Game Rumored for 2014 Release
A user in the Brickset LEGO enthusiast forum has posted what appears to be promotional materials for a LEGO The Hobbit adaptation, launching some time next year. The image is said to come from the instruction booklet to 2014 The Hobbit sets. Xbox 360, PS3, 3DS, PC and Wii U are listed as platforms for…
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Sunday Comics: What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Life in Aggro by Fei Hsiao and Casey Vasquez. Published Nov. 23. Read more of Life in Aggro Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mister First: The Winners
As we mentioned an hour ago, Joey Chiu, the first customer to buy a PlayStation 4 on launch day, is our celebrity guest judge of this week’s ‘Shop Contest. We had a swarm of fantastic entries—more than 30 in all—plus overall No. 1 SupremeEvan! Following are the Top Five, as selected by Joey himself, with…
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