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Microsoft has revealed the exact release date of the Xbox One in Japan: September 4. According to Microsoft, 48 Japanese companies have registered to develop games for the console so far, including Bandai Namco, Capcom, Konami, and Square Enix. Gematsu has the full, translated list

How Much It Costs To Mortgage An Xbox One And PS4

Video games are an expensive habit. And few things are pricier than being an early adopter for a next-gen console like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. So if you’re really itching to dive into some quality PS4 or Xbox One games, are you better off renting one system or the other and paying it…

Every Swear Counted in GTA V‘s NSFW Supercut

YouTuber TheMediocreScot spent 5 months to prove that GTA V drops the F-Bomb more times than anything else with a 12-minute-long NFSW montage. That’s a total of 1018 f*cks throughout the game’s 69 story missions. 14.75 per mission. Fantastic. GTA V: Swear Count [YouTube, via r/GrandTheftAuto] To contact the author of this post, write to:…

Ten Things You Might Have Missed in Dark Souls 2

Dark Souls II is a huge game. Even its world hub, Majula, has easter eggs in every corner that are really easy to miss. Some might be easy to discover, some need NG+10 to be unlocked (good luck). YouTuber Vaati‘s here to demonstrate his findings with a cool video. Here’s the full clip (with spoilers,…

Titanfall Was Almost Destroyed By Lawsuits

Before Titanfall was Titanfall, the mech-heavy shooter went through years of development hell. Crippled by a complicated lawsuit back in 2010, the folks behind the newly-formed studio Respawn Entertainment worried for a long time that they might never actually make a game. This afternoon, games reporter and TV host Geoff Keighley released The Final Hours…

Xbox One Update Makes The Xbox One A Little Better

Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a new Xbox One update that, among some other minor fixes, addresses one glaring oversight. That’s a notification when friends logged on or off Xbox Live. I get why heavy users wouldn’t care for this, since they’d usually have it turned off to stop them going insane,…

Titanfall Is Getting Private Matches

It’s a general rule that most constantly-connnected competitive shooters will evolve and change a whole lot in their lifetimes. Titanfall‘s the newest king of the hill in FPSland and the hit game is no exception. There’s a new patch inbound for the hit game and it’s reconfiguring a lot of stuff. Among other things, it’ll…

The Infamous Atari Landfill Dig Is Finally Happening

Come April 26, 2014, one of gaming’s greatest mysteries will finally be solved. Or maybe it will just be get even more convoluted and confusing. In either case, that is the official date Microsoft just announcedfor when someone is finally going to break ground on the infamous New Mexico landfillthat’s allegedly overflowing with discarded copies…

How True are Japan’s Latest Gaming Rumors?

The gaming industry is constantly full of rumors. More so in April where you have the gullible falling for all the crazy April Fools pranks that pop up. This week, Japanese gaming mag Weekly Famitsu went through the trouble of gathering up a bunch of rumors and seeking the validity of them a la Mythbusters…

Xbox One And The PlayStation 4: Weirdest. Console. Transition. Ever.

Is it just me or is the current transition to ‘next-generation’ consoles extremely, extremely weird? On Kotaku today: news that a new, updated version of The Last of Us, previously a PlayStation 3 exclusive, is en route to the PlayStation 4. In stores today: an Xbox 360 version of Titanfall. A video game experience that…

Three Ways to Brag About Your Gaming Prowess (Without Being a Jerk)

You know those moments when you’ve accomplished some insane gaming feat and end up hopping around in your living room doing the crazy dance as your cat quietly judges? Everybody has them from time to time, but what do you do when there’s no one else around to bask in your gaming glory with? One…

How To Eject Properly In Titanfall

By using your own custom-built Titanfall Eject Button. It’s not just one of those big red buttons you can buy everywhere, but one that was created and programmed for one purpose only: To help you leave your Titan in the coolest way possible. ‘Hideous’, the creator of this unique peripheral, even shared a detailed guide,…

Titanfall On Xbox 360 Seems To Run Pretty Darn Well

I’ll admit it: I assumed that the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall would be hot garbage, especially once we found out that Respawn—the studio behind the PC and Xbox One versions—hadn’t actually made it. And now I’m happy to admit I was wrong: Digital Foundry did one of their in-depth performance analyses on last-gen Titanfall,…

South Korea Unveils a Windows XP… Task Force

Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows XP. It’s being phased out worldwide. In China, folks are hanging on. In nearby South Korea, the government has set up a special task force. As reported by NewsY (via tipster Sang), South Korea’s Ministry of Security and Public Administration just set up a “Windows XP Response Total Situation…

“It feels like an unnecessary add-on… I’m sure they’re going to release an Xbox One without Kinect. It would be unthinkable that they wouldn’t.” Game designer and programmer Peter Molyneux, in an Edge interview with multiple industry personalitiesabout the Xbox One’s future.

Five-Year-Old Boy Exposes Xbox Security Flaw

Meet Microsoft’s newest security researcher: Kristoffer Von Hassel. He lives in San Diego. He loves video games. And he’s five years old. He’s also a better hacker than any of us. Von Hassel cracked into his dad’s Xbox One account by finding a backdoor in the password verification screen, as ABC 10 reports. He entered…

Take a Look at How Microsoft Claims the Cloud Will Change Gaming

Microsoft’s talked about how their next-gen cloud infrastructure is going to change things for video games. Today, they finally showed what that looks like. Back when Microsoft was revving up to launch the Xbox One last year, cloud computing access was one of the features they trumpeted as a big differentiator for their console. The…

​Heists Coming to GTA Online This Spring

Everyone’s been waiting for the heists—the signature criminal activities from Grand Theft Auto V‘s story mode—to come to the game’s online component. Rockstar says they’re coming this spring A post on the Rockstar Newswire lays out updates coming to the blockbuster open-world title over the next few months: Capture Creator: Coming next week, the Creator…

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer is now in charge of all things Xbox. “It’s been a remarkable year for Xbox and I am honored to lead the team at this incredible time for Microsoft and the games industry.”

Predator Confirmed for Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ Next DLC

Call of Duty: Ghosts’ developers teased quite the interesting cameo last week for the game’s second DLC, Devastation. Their new gameplay trailer now confirms that 80s intergalactic hunter Predator will indeed join the battle. The expansion will also feature a four new maps: Ruins, Behemoth, Collision and Unearthed (Predator needs its jungle environment!), a unique…