Kinect Star Wars Will Make You Say ‘Lightsaber ON!’

We showed you Kinect Star Wars last night. And today we’ve seen it played on stage. A lengthy play-through showed scenes pulled from several eras of Star Wars fiction, predominantly from the Clone Wars and prequel era. A live on-stage demo involved a player swinging their arms to swing a lightsaber, holding their hand out…

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When You’re Demoing Modern Warfare 3, It Helps to Have a Charged Controller

Check out nearly nine minutes of underwater Modern Warfare 3 action from Microsoft’s E3 2011 press conference, complete with a brief pause to reconnect.

Fable Sequel Brings Magic to Kinect

The next episode of Fable will support Kinect when it releases in 2012. A demonstration of Fable: The Journey at Microsoft’s E3 news conference showed players in a first-person mode, driving a carriage and attacking foes with magic, using different gestures for each spell. “How can we make you feel a hundred times more involved…

Minecraft Coming to Xbox with Kinect

This fall, says Microsoft, indie favorite Minecraft will be coming to Xbox, complete with Kinect motion controls.

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HD Remake of Halo: Combat Evolved Coming November

Widely expected, Microsoft will publish an HD remake of the original Halo on Nov. 15. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will feature “seven of the greatest multiplayer maps of all time,” in addition to “the campaign of the decade remade and remastered.

Crysis Creators Making Ryse, the Kinect Game for the Hardcore

Do you like gladiators? Do you want to fight through the fall of Rome? Ryse may be your game. The Kinect-controlled game from the makers of the Crysis first-person games revealed Ryse today at Microsoft’s big Xbox press conference. The trailer looked pre-rendered and was definitely not showing live gameplay. But what it did show…

What is Ghost Recon Future Soldier‘s ‘Gunsmith’?

As was rumored, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will support Kinect, as publisher Ubisoft demonstrated today at the Xbox 360’s E3 news conference. Body tracking and voice command will be features of all Ghost Recon titles going forward, beginning with Future Soldier. Ubisoft showed off a feature called “GunSmith,” through which gamers may examine…

These are the New Xbox Live Television Features

Let’s face it: the television remote is so yesterday. As anticipated, Xbox Live’s Marc Whitten has taken the stage at Microsoft’s keynote address to describe and promote some of the features we can expect from the company’s new Xbox Live TV functionality. Voice-Controlled No more buttons, no more joysticks. Users will be able to access…

New Domains Registered For Four Ubisoft Games, Including Ghost Recon: Commander

A tweet from Superannuation shows that domains have been registered For Four Ubisoft Games: Ghost Recon: Commander, Ee Erz, Furious Faculty, Raving Rabbids: Alive And Kicking

EA Sports to Offer Kinect Support with FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods

EA Sports will offer four titles with Kinect support in the coming year, EA Sports president Peter Moore announced at Microsoft’s E3 news conference just now. FIFA, Madden NFL and Tiger Woods PGA Tour will be among the first titles to implement the Xbox 360’s motion control and voice recognition. “Imagine calling audibles from the…

Resistance 3 E3 Trailer

Developer Insomniac Game’s PS3-exclusive Resistance 3 is due out this September. Courtesy of GameTrailers.com is the game’s newest trailer. Resistance 3 will launch with Move compatibility. Click to view

Check Out a Little Slice of Ninja Gaiden 3

As fast and as bloody as ever, here’s the trailer of Ninja Gaiden 3. Click to view

The 2011 Gawker Media Census Results Are In

Out of the 3,895 Kotaku readers who so kindly filled out the 2011 Gawker Media Census, 57% will completely change their schedule to keep playing games against worthy opponents in other time zones. The phrase “It’s just a game” appear to hit your ears and immediately return to whence they came. Reader/commenter extraordinaire Marquette Madness…

E3 2011 Microsoft Press Conference Live Blog

It’s the first press conference of E3 2011, but will it be the biggest? Microsoft is almost certainly showing off new Kinect games as well as Halo 4. Join us as we soak it in for play-by-play and analysis from Kotaku

Hacker Group Says It’s Snagged Sony Computer Entertainment’s Developer Code

The hacker collective Lulz Security isn’t taking a break from its attacks on Sony simply because it’s E3. This morning, via Twitter, Lulzsec bragged that it had compiled Sony Computer Entertainment’s Developer Network source code. Earlier in the week Lulzsec went after Sony BMG and Sony Pictures, and broke into Nintendo USA’s website.

A Very Special No One Cares Edition of The Nintendo Download

It’s the beginning of E3 week and the 3DS system update will launch a whole new way to purchase downloadable games from Nintendo later this evening, so here’s four puzzle games. Knock yourself out. There were to ways to handle this week’s Nintendo Download. Nintendo could have released something absolutely spectacular for WiiWare, DSiWare, or…

Spider Man: Edge of Time Swings By With New E3 Screens

Activision has delivered a new batch of screens for their upcoming super hero actioner Spider Man: Edge of Time The title is due to launch this Fall for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. For more information, check out the HeroHQ community on Facebook.

The L.A. Noire Book is Now Available Online

From now until June 12th, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories will be available for free through all major ebook retailers. [Rockstar]