Xbox One Is Coming In November, Rare Says

A Rare staffer just said on Spike TV that the Xbox One is launching in November. Spoilers!

Kinect Sports Rivals, the third edition of the Kinect Sports franchise from Rare, will be coming to Xbox One this holiday season. Jet-ski races, rock climbing, bowling, target shooting, tennis and soccer were among the activities shown for the game.

Xbox One Needs to Make a Lot of People Happy Today

There’s a very long line to get into Microsoft’s Xbox E3 press conference. Here’s what the queue looked like this morning, as captured by Kotaku‘s Tina Amini.

Destiny of Spirits, a new game from the creators of Lumines, was just announced as a free-to-play title for the PlayStation Vita.

Want to die of alcohol poisoning within the next few hours? There’s an E3 drinking game for that — via David Gallant.

Hacker SuperDaE Releases 1.7TB Trove of Gaming Info [Update]

Next gen hacker SuperDaeE, who breached Sony, Microsoft, Epic, Valve, Blizzard and other gaming companies, just released a 1.7TB treasure trove FTP download. The files, however, are apparently encrypted. Previously, SuperDaE vowed he would release said files, which are believed to contain sensitive information about unreleased games, should he be arrested. SuperDaE, whose real name…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: TheUnfathomableTruth offers up his opinions on Animal Crossing: New Leaf. File2ish inquires as to the fastest completion times for you favorite games. And DamonsRhee has an emotionally raw post about weight management, cosplay and self-esteem. And you can always go join the voices talking about…

Here’s A Complete Schedule Of E3 Press Conferences

E3 is almost here, a merry time of hype and trailers and demos and of course, press conferences. From June 10—13, video game publishers from around the world will descend on Los Angeles like a swarm of eager beavers, ready to try to sell us on the next big thing. Yes, beavers. A massive swarm…

What appeared to be a glitch earlier this morning is now intentional: Fable III is completely free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers (probably to promote the original game’s HD re-release later this year). Just go to the title in the On Demand section of the Marketplace and you’ll find it there for download. The game…

Lightning Returns‘ Pink-Haired Heroine Strikes E3 Hard

You’ve read about Stephen Totilo playing the game, now see what E3 2013 visitors can expect when they go hands-on with Lightning in the third and final installment of the Final Fantasy XIII saga this week. I’m still not sure how I feel about the game — it certainly doesn’t look like what I want…

You’ll Need Cat-Like Reflexes to Win the Arrested Development Fighter

From the warped mind of the guy who brought you LEGO Breaking Bad here is a game that will not be shown today at E3: Bluthfighter—The Arrested Development Fighting Game As a not-regular watcher of the show, I get very few of the references here but I will say tag-teaming Tobias Fünke with Carl Weathers…

If you’re one of the people who grumbled after hearing that the Fantasia: Music Evolved video game would be featuring contemporary pop music, there’s some good news. Wired is reporting that “Night on Bald Mountain”—famous for being in the ending sequence from the 1940 Fantasia animated movie—will be in the game, along with other classical…

The E3 2013 Exclusive Skylanders Hot Dog MISB RARE

Say hello to Color Shift Hot Dog, the exclusive E3 2013 Skylanders toy Activision will be giving out at their Skylanders: Swap Force area when the show opens tomorrow. Shortly after that he’ll be on eBay for several hundred dollars. Not this one, mind you. While he does look quite fetching in his packaging… …I…

UPDATE: Chinese Man Forgets Wife And Child At Temple To Visit Arcade

A woman and her three-month-old child were sighted crying at the gates of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing last week. The reason why the woman was so distraught was because she had lost her husband and couldn’t find him anywhere. Reported byJiangsu China, a local printed version of the Xinhua news agency, the young mother…

Update: It’s a Hoax! Alien Invasion In China? Man Claims To Have Electrocuted an Alien

Chinese microblogs are abuzz today after pictures appeared on Sina Weibo, of a Chinese man claiming to have found an alien. That’s right, one Chinese man claims to have found an alien! First pointed to us by our good friends at the Shanghaiist, the extraterrestrial was discovered by a Mr. Li in Binzhou Shangdong province.…

E3 Begins Today

E3 (pardon Ned’s medieval spelling here), the world’s biggest video game trade show, is about to begin. Today. OK, well not technically today; the show itself doesn’t open until Tuesday. But the two biggest draws for the week, the major press conferences by platform holders Microsoft (9am PDT) and Sony (6pm PD), are being held…

My Afternoon At Beijing’s Nonexistent Game Conference

Last Thursday, the annual China New Generation Cyber Game Industries Expo was held in Beijing. The expo was meant to show off the latest in China’s ever expanding online gaming industry. The only problem was…the event didn’t happen. Last Thursday, I had met a contact for lunch in Beijing. After lunch we had planned to…

“Next Gen” Call Of Duty Has Some Old Tricks

This video for Call of Duty: Ghosts is all about hyping the next-gen visuals we’ll be getting on versions of the game for platforms like the Xbox One and PS4. While the videos you saw yesterday show actual gameplay, this pops the hood and shows you some of the tech that differentiates the next-gen editions…

Fable III Is “Free” On Xbox Live [Update]

We’re getting reports from readers that Fable III is currently available for free on Xbox Live. To start the download, head to the game’s Xbox.com listing, click on download, go to use Microsoft Points to complete the purchase then finish the transaction. The game should then start downloading to your Xbox 360 console. Seems a…

Want A New SOCOM Game? Here’s The Next Best Thing

As the SOCOM series slowly went off the rails, careening further and further away from what made the early games so good, fans were left with nowhere else to go. As anyone who liked early Rainbow Six or SWAT games will tell you, when it comes to tactical shooters, they just don’t make ’em like…