Xbox One Slim Announced, Out This August [UPDATE]

UPDATE (6/13): And now it’s official. Today at their press conference, Microsoft announced the Xbox One S, which will be 40% smaller than the Xbox One. It’ll start at $300 and be out this August. Pricing will vary based on the hard-drive size, Microsoft said. The 500GB version will be $300; a 1TB version will…

Watch Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

It’s time to see what Microsoft’s got up their neon green sleeves. Will today be the day we see the Xbox Scorpio? We’re also expecting an Xbox Slim, some new Dead Rising, some Gears of War 4, and hopefully a lot of other surprises. The big E3 Xbox press conference starts at 12:30pm Eastern. You…

Guy Trolls Overwatch Players With ‘It’s High Noon’

Overwatch players are practically conditioned to react to McCree’s ultimate: if you hear “IT’S HIGH NOON” mid-match, you either quickly survey the area and run for your life, or you die. The sound cue is supposed to be useful and informative. …unless of course someone starts abusing it. Nigma’s Vidya Channel took McCree’s sound clip…

Kanye West’s game, Only One—which commemorates his late mother, Donda West—is being developed by Encyclopedia Pictura. You might know them as the folks who helped Bjork develop a game. Earlier this year, Kanye said that making Only One has been surprisingly difficult, thanks to companies/developers who allegedly didn’t believe in his vision for a video…

New OSVR Headset Delivers Rift And Vive Specs For $399

Coming in July from the Open Source Virtual Reality Consortium, the Hacker Development Kit 2 virtual reality headset matches the stats of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for only $399. Co-founded and organized by hardware makers Razer and Sensics, OSVR is an open source virtual reality software platform that aims to set an open…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2016 Decorating Committee: Winners! 

The weekend before last I asked our readers, as I do every year, to give us their vision of what E3 2016 might look like. Many of their entries were eerily accurate, and by that I mean not at all accurate, but highly amusing. This week’s winner, Ginger Snap, combined the growing trend of virtual…

Right Now, From Software Doesn’t Want To Make Dark Souls Sequels

With Dark Souls III out, From Software is hard at work at upcoming DLC. But what about a sequel? Don’t hold your breath just yet. Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio has three projects in development, and none of them are Dark Souls sequels. In an interview with 4Gamer, Miyazaki mentioned how From Software will release…

The Most Recent Dragon Ball Super Episode Is Oh My Goodness

The Future Trunks Arc has begun on Dragon Ball Super, and holy crap, it is not messing around. [Note: This article contains spoilers.] So, yes, spoilers. Do not read past here if you didn’t see the episode when it aired on Japanese television. Everyone else, continue onward! Episode 47 hits the ground running, and things…

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Podcast: E3 Day Zero

The theaters are empty; the subwoofers have all gone still. How did EA and Bethesda do? Time to discuss, on a special E3 bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen You can listen to the podcast on iTunes here, and we’re also on Google Play. Or, just find the new episode on Simplecast right here. (Download the…

Fallout 4, Oculus Rift And Some Bad Blood

Earlier today, Bethesda announced that a special virtual reality version of Fallout 4 was coming to the HTC Vive. Which seemed a weird thing to say, since not many games are ever announced just for that particular VR platform. Only, this is Bethesda and Oculus Rift we’re talking about here. And in case you forgot,…

It wasn’t actually mentioned on stage, but the intro to Bethesda’s E3 show contained a little hint at a new Wolfenstein game/thing called New Colossus