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Microsoft To Delay Xbox One Launch In China
The first mainstream video game console to launch in China in over 13 years has just been delayed. The Xbox One won’t be sold in China starting tomorrow—instead, it’ll be released sometime before the end of 2014. In a statement put out on Microsoft China’s official Sina Blog on Saturday, Microsoft China says that the…
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Oculus CEO On Microsoft’s Minecraft Acquisition: “How Ironic”
When Oculus was purchased by Facebook for $2 billion earlier this year, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson famously cut ties with the VR company. Now that Notch has sold his company to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe has a little something to say. The comment came during the keynote of Oculus Connect…
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The Dukes of Hazzard Meets GTA V
The members the GTA Online clan “The Aging Infidels” have a weird but awesome hobby in-game: remaking the opening scenes of old TV-shows where cars played an important role. So here’s their GTA V version of The Dukes of Hazzard: And here’s a bonus, Magnum P.I.: I guess we can expect similar treatment for Knight…
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Diablo III’s Endgame Dungeons Can Be Disappointingly Empty
Greater Rifts in Diablo III are unforgiving sometimes—not because they’re hard, but because you have 15 minutes to kill a huge amount of monsters, even if the dungeon doesn’t actually have that many of them. YouTuber avtorouc entered one of these dungeons where the monster density was, well, quite low. He was lucky it wasn’t…
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Microsoft Buys Minecraft Maker Mojang for $2.5 Billion
Microsoft just announced in a press release that it has acquired Mojang, creators of Minecraft, in a $2.5 billion deal. Furthermore, all three of Mojang’s original founders, including Markus “Notch” Persson, will be leaving Mojang following the acquisition. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer talks about the acquisition in an Xbox Wire blog post, where he…
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Five Things You Might Have Missed In Dark Souls II’s Second DLC
Bosses that act differently if you wear certain items, hidden areas, secret alternative death animations: Dark Souls II‘s second DLC, Crown of the Old Iron King, has a few cool things even veteran Souls players could miss. Vaati‘s here with his latest guide (including minor spoilers!) to show us all the cool stuff hidden in…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Destiny Nonvertising: The Winners!
Last week I asked Kotaku‘s image manipulation army to, whatever they did,not advertise the gameDestiny, just like Microsoft didn’t. I have never seen a group of people not advertise this much in my entire life. Thanks to a combination of factors too complicated for mere mortals to comprehend (how do people feel about corpse ass?),…
By Mike Fahey
