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One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2011 Promises?

For the fourth year in a row, we’re comparing E3 hype to gaming reality. On Tuesday, we looked at Sony. Yesterday, we investigated Nintendo. Today, we wrap up with a look at Microsoft’s E3 2011 promises. Last year, Microsoft may as well have called their press presentation the Kinect Hour. While the Xbox 360 itself…

By Kate Cox Published May 31, 2012

What’s Your Dream E3 2012 Announcement?

With the kickoff of E3 2012 less than a week away, commenter (and E3 attendee) GiantBoyDetective wants to know what single announcement would make the entire show worth your while in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Also he pees. I leave for E3 in one week! (pees pants throughly) So, if you could have ANY…

Speak Up Published May 30, 2012

Xbox Bundle Includes 250GB Console, Forza 4, Terrible Wheel

Microsoft announced a new hardware budle yesterday that includes a 250GB Xbox 360, a copy of Forza 4 and one wireless racing wheel. Which you can use as, I don’t know, a doorstop or something. [Microsoft]

By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012

New Satellite Will Begin the Kinect Space Program

A pair of satellites, both based on cheap, consumer electronics components, will be launched in the coming year, part of a project run by a British university and tech firm. One has parts from a Google Nexus phone, and will be launched later this year, but the second satellite is more up our alley. It’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012

Is This a Leak of Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Beta, a Parody, or Both? [Update]

We’re in the red zone for pre-E3 bullshit. A week before the show is usually when we get a dumptruck full of fakes, bogus retailer listings and LinkedIn resumes confirming everything but the return of the Dreamcast. This, however, is so bizarre I’m compelled to share it. Because someone may be having a little fun…

By Owen Good Published May 27, 2012

Report: How Scammers Are Stealing Xbox Live Accounts, and the Few Things You Can Do to Protect Yourself [Update]

For months now, Xbox 360 owners have been complaining of a surge in account thefts, incidents when people wake up one day to find themselves no longer with access (or even possession) of their own Xbox Live accounts anymore. At first believed to be the result of hacks in relation to EA’s FIFA series, it’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2012

“Hacker” May Have Asked for Microsoft’s Help Breaking Into Call of Duty Creator’s Emails

According to a report from Robert Schwartz, the lawyer currently representing Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella in their big case against Activision, the notorious “Project Icebreaker” sounds even crazier than we first thought. Schwartz tells Game Informer that Thomas Fenady, the Activision IT expert approached to hack into Infinity Ward’s email…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2012

Microsoft Could Totally Pull Off Its Own Super Smash Bros. Clone

With Sony doing it’s own Super Smash Bros. type game with PlayStation All-Stars, Xbox-loving commenter rbranyan3to wonders if it wouldn’t be impossible for Microsoft to do the same. How would it work? Let’s brainstorm in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I was reading online about the Playstation All-Stars game and in the comments people were…

Speak Up Published May 24, 2012

Relax, The Xbox 360 Probably Isn’t Going to be Banned

International Trade Commission judge David Shaw has recommended that the import and sale of Xbox 360 consoles in the US be halted immediately. Sounds drastic, I know, but maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds. Speaking with GI.biz, patent expert Florian Mueller says “I’ve never seen an ITC judge make any other recommendation than…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2012

This Man Wants to See the Xbox 360 Banned From Sale (And he Might Actually Succeed)

The Microsoft v Motorola court case that’s been bubbling away since 2010 seems to be heating up in all the wrong ways for the Xbox 360 manufacturer, with a judge involved recommending that the console’s US imports and sales be halted immediately. International Trade Commission judge David Shaw, pictured, has said he believes that the…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 23, 2012

Microsoft Does the Right Thing, Offers Full Refunds to Select Minecraft Gamers

Slammed with complaints over how it failed to warn gamers that the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft won’t run in splitscreen for all customers, Microsoft is revising its listing for the game and offering a refund to customers who paid for a game that didn’t work the way they expected it to. “We updated our…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 21, 2012

I Despise You, Xbox 360 Eject Button

Today I had to move my Xbox 360 console out of the way while I fooled with cables going through the back of my entertainment center. This happens frequently because of how I have to do video capture. As I grabbed the 360 and shifted it, I guess my thumb got within 5 millimeters of…

By Owen Good Published May 18, 2012

Halo 4 Will Have Weekly Multiplayer Episodes

Upcoming first-person shooter Halo 4 will have a whole bunch of multiplayer options, including a weekly episodic mode called “Spartan Ops,” publisher Microsoft said today. Spartan Ops is a series of episodes that will be released weekly and tell the story of the UNSC Infinity spaceship and its crew, Microsoft says. You’ll get weekly cinematics…

By Jason Schreier Published May 16, 2012

Halo 4 Action Figure Package Reveals New Enemy Types

Now that it’s being made by 343 Industries, we’ve been told to expect a lot of new stuff. And we’ve seen new multiplayer models and new looks for Cortana and Master Chief. So, Halo 4‘s not going to be the same old sci-fi first-person-shooter. Info about the new enemies has been tightly guarded but two…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 15, 2012

Which Microsoft Creation is More Despised: Clippy? Or Games For Windows Live?

Maybe I’m the only one keeping score every time this is noted, but Max Payne 3 is the latest game to say fuck no, we’re not using Games For Windows Live. A tweet Wednesday from Rockstar, as noticed by PC Gamer, says it straight up. Being not a PC gamer or a Windows user, I…

By Owen Good Published May 12, 2012

Rumor: Kinect-Controlled Web-Browsing Coming to the Xbox 360 with Internet Explorer

In yet another evolution of Xbox rumor, The Verge reports today that Microsoft’s game console will be adding full web-browsing functionality with a special version of their Internet Explorer software. The article claims that users won’t need to have the Kinect motion-sensing accessory to use the modified browser, but the software’s been tuned to work…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 10, 2012

Some Misled Xbox Minecraft Buyers Can’t Get Refunds

It appears that Microsoft will not give full refunds to people who purchased the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, even when they can’t use the game’s biggest new feature. Yesterday, Kotaku reported that in order to use Minecraft‘s local multi-player mode, you need to have a high-definition television. In response to Kotaku‘s request for comment,…

By Jason Schreier Published May 10, 2012

Avengers: Battle for Earth Video Game Assembling on Xbox 360 and Wii U This Fall

Marvel’s just announced that their premiere superhero team will be hitting game consoles later this year, confirming recent rumors about such a game’s existence. Designed for use with Xbox 360’s Kinect camera and Wii U’s gestural inputs, Avengers: Battle for Earth will be a motion control game developed by the Ubisoft Quebec studio. Marvel says…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 10, 2012

Here’s Hoping The Next Xbox Really Does Feature Squeeze-Controls

A report over at Engadget shows a patent filed by Microsoft for a device that uses “personalization using a hand-pressure signature.” The image in their patent filing is a chunky, lovable Xbox 360 controller that, going by the title, will be able to detect your identity based on your hand-pressure via a “presure sensitive surface.”…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 9, 2012

Xbox Minecraft Locks Some Players Out Of Its Biggest New Feature

Some people who bought the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft have found themselves unable to use one of its most important features. Unless they feel like buying new televisions. The console version of Minecraft, which launched today on Xbox Live Arcade, offers a unique mechanic that isn’t available on the computer: split-screen multiplayer. You can…

By Jason Schreier Published May 9, 2012