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]

Kill Your Magicka Buddies on June 21

Up until now, Magicka has been a pretty friendly game, but that’s all about to change. On June 21, everybody dies when player-versus-player comes to town. PVP comes to Magicka by way of a free update on June 21, with Arena and Training Ground maps for everyone that’s ever spent money on a copy of…

This Dead Island Trailer Has More Rewinding and Rap

How did things go so wrong on the Dead Island island? The game’s new E3 trailer explains… just a little bit more.

Spider-Man: Edge of Time Screens

Spyro’s Back in This Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure Trailer

Bringing toys and games together, Skylanders uses a platform to sync action figures to your game.

Kinect Fun Labs Delivers Object Scanning, Life-Like Avatars, Personalized Bobbleheads, and More

Going live on the Xbox 360’s Kinect hub later this morning, Kinect Fun Labs is a series of gadgets that deliver enhanced functionality to Microsoft’s magical camera peripheral, including scanning in your face to create realistic avatars and unrealistic bobbleheads. While the official reveal isn’t happening for another hour and a half, the Xbox.com website…

All the Metal, Mechs and Bullets You Could Ever Want

Out this year in Japan (next year elsewhere), Armored Core V is the latest mech combat title from From Software. This is the game’s latest trailer. More at the game’s official site

Microsoft’s E3 2011 Website Outs Halo 4 and More

Microsoft’s E3 2011 briefing isn’t until 9:30 AM Pacific. Someone forgot to tell the Xbox.com guys that, because for a brief moment around 9:30AM Eastern, fans caught a glimpse of Halo 4 Dance Central 2, Halo 4, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Kinect Star Wars, and more appeared in name only this morning, the links attached…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves! This is a forum for talking about any and all video game-related topics, so feel free to talk about whatever games are on your mind today. Let’s all give Incursor a hand for his nifty Red Dead Redemption-themed image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics…

3DS System Update to Strike Tonight

It looks as though the 3DS is scheduled to update to version 2.0.0-2U sometime this evening. Keep an eye out for it.