An Xbox One Kinect Dictionary, For When It Just Doesn’t Understand You

The Xbox One’s voice commands, while generally excellent, have a problem. OK, two problems. The smaller one is they don’t always work. The bigger one is that you need to memorise a chart like this just to be able to use them properly. I will never understand why you say “Xbox on”, but not “Xbox…

Kinect “Inventors” Get Bought By Apple

Israeli company PrimeSense, who did a lot of the heavy liftingin the design of the original Kinect, have been bought out. Not by Microsoft, but by Apple. “Sources” tell website All Things D that the deal went through for around $360 million. While Apple isn’t commenting on why the company was bought, if iOS device…

Reports: The First, Inevitable PS4 + Vita Bundle Appears

According to a report on MCV’swebsite, the UK will be getting the world’s first PS4 + Vita hardware bundle, the two consoles to be packed into the same box and sold in time for Christmas. While the bundle has yet to be officially announced by Sony, Videogamer reports that MCV’s print edition has an advertisement…

If you haven’t bought a PlayStation 4 and you’re looking for one on Black Friday, DualShockers says they’ve spoken to Walmart employees and know the times when additional stock will be made available. They assume the same is true for Xbox One.

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

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…

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…

Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold, the latest Persona arcade fighting title, is headed to the PlayStation 4 next summer in Japan. No word yet on a Western release.