This Kinect Patent is Terrifying, Wants to Charge You For License Violation

A patent filed by Microsoft last year, but only made public last week, wants to turn your Xbox 360’s Kinect into an instrument via which large companies can monitor your media usage and, if you’re found to be in violation of something, charge you for it. And no, I am not making that up. The…

The Critically-Panned Movies That Everyone Loves Now

Whew! It’s been a long and dramatic day, at least here in the U.S. of A. Let’s kick back with an off-topic that has nothing to do with politics. It’s great fun looking back at movies that everyone hated at the time, but which critics have come to embrace. And that’s just what Calum Marsh…

What Could Work, And Fail Miserably, on an Xbox Tablet

According to reports, Microsoft is thinking about releasing a 7-inch, Xbox-branded version of its new Surface tablet device. For a company that for over a decade has avoided the temptation of releasing a portable Xbox device, that would be quite the thing. So, let’s say this actually happens. And next year sometime Microsoft takes the…

Borderlands 2 Patch For Xbox 360 Fixes Potential Save-Erasing Bug

A potential game-save erasing bug affecting Xbox 360 players of Borderlands 2 has officially been patched today, according to developer Gearbox. The bug originated from players who hacked their own games and then played multiplayer games online with others. It only affected players on Xbox 360; players on PC and PS3 did not face an…

Show Us Your Favorite Terrible Quicktime Events

This past weekend, the video up top made the Twitter-rounds. It’s of a failed quicktime event from 2007’s Spiderman 3, and it is hilarious Watching it over and over, while laughing, got me thinking: There are so many terrible quicktime events in gaming, it’d be fun to put together a huge list of them. And…

Epic Mickey 2 Demo Now Available on Xbox 360 and PS3

If Wreck-It Ralph isn’t enough Disney for you this week, there is now a playable demo available of Epic Mickey: The Power Of Two The demo is available on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network. It’s keeping up with the musical trend we’ve seen so far with the game, taking players through…

From Wind Waker To Sonic, The London Philharmonic’s Got Ya Covered

The London Philharmonic’s latest foray into video game music launched today, and it’s pretty good stuff. I haven’t found any tracks that quite rival the Tetris theme from the first album, but there are some standouts. I like track three, the Dragon Roost Island theme from Wind Waker, in particular. You can hear above. Excellent.…

Looks like we’re getting a new Shantae game, called Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse. GoNintendo’s got the details

Yep, The PSP Is Still Getting Games. This One Is A Strategy-RPG.

It’s called Ragnarok Tactics, and it’s a tactical role-playing game set in the world of Ragnarok Online. Trailer’s above. Out today on disc for $30 and on the PlayStation Network for $25, the game actually looks pretty interesting. I’ve never played Ragnarok Online, but I’m always a sucker for a good strategy-RPG. (Although nothing has…

Microsoft’s SmartGlass Xbox Companion App Now on iOS

Microsoft’s SmartGlass app is now available for iOS devices. SmartGlass lets Xbox 360 users interact with synced game content on their phone or tablet while they play a game—for example, as in a separate map view in Forza Horizon The app has been available on Android devices since last week.

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Wreck-It Ralph Rules the Roost

When we last left our intrepid iPhone gaming app charts, Tumblr had stolen my powers of tracking, leaving me to resort to an image-based solution. This week the rankings are back, which is why it took me so long to get them up. How about that Wreck-It Ralph? The computer animated sensation that’s sweeping the…

Kotaku‘s Election Night Open Thread

Whether you’re just back from the voting station or you’ve been playing Halo 4 all day, tonight you’ll find out who will be president for the next four years. We thought we’d give you all a place to come together and watch the returns come in, talk, argue, fret, hold hands, and stress out together.…

Four Years Ago.

If you’re like me, you play a lot of video games and just might have a game or two baked into your memory of major historical events. I will always associate election night in 2008, for example, not just with Barack Obama’s historic election as America’s first black president but as the night I had…

Too Many Curious Cats Seem To Be Killing the Curiosity Cube

It seems the world is indeed curious about what’s inside the cube. 22 Cans, the new experimental studio headed by Peter Molyneux (Fable, Black & White, Populous), launched their much-discussed new mobile app Curiosity today. By 9:30 this morning, yours truly was already the 32,277th person to download the app and “embark on this unique…

You can listen to the entire Halo 4 soundtrack on Spotify right now. Check it out, it’s really good.

You’ve Never Heard A Master Chief This Creepy

On November 21, close to seven years after it launched in America, the Xbox 360 will come to Israel for the first time. To celebrate the occasion, Master Chief came out to greet Israelis and introduce the system. Check out this video, shot by YNet reporter Shahar Shushan, for what might be the best Master…

The new Donkey Kong world record is 1,138,600 points! Set by Hank Chien, who was breaking his own record.

Watch Halo 4‘s Promethean Weapons Assemble In Mesmerizing Slow Motion

One of the coolest features of 343’s first Halo title that released today is the disassembling and reassembling Promethean weapons. Not only are these weapons incredibly satisfying to shoot and kill with, but they’re also pretty to look at. Reloading will take the weapon apart momentarily, but the best disassembling/reassembling animations occur when you pick…

You Have to Play The Wizard of Oz, If Only to Experience the Joy of MunchkinCam

Spooky Cool Labs’ Facebook game based on movie classic The Wizard of Oz is in beta now, and you should definitely give it a try, if not for the ability to see through the eyes of Munchkins in first-person, then for the most dramatic wood chopping and ore mining in video game history. Riddled with…

PlayStation: The Official Magazine Is Shutting Down

Magazine publisher Future US will end circulation of PlayStation: The Official Magazine this year. As first reported by Game Informer, P:TOM will shut its doors alongside Nintendo Power this holiday “Future US can confirm it will end production of PlayStation: The Official Magazine with the last issue slated for the Holiday 2012 issue,” a Future…