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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…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2011 -
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.
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2011 -
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…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2011 -
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…
By Drew Cohen Published June 6, 2011 -
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…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2011 -
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
By Joel Johnson Published June 6, 2011 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 -
Your Handy Guide to E3’s Big Press Conference Kick-Off Times
Keeping track of E3’s big press conferences-where all the important announcements are made-can be hard enough. But keeping track of them and then knowing what time that is in your particular part of the world? That’s really hard! So we figured, let’s make it a little easier on you guys, and put together this chart…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2011 -
Kotaku‘s E3 Predictions!
Today isn’t just Monday, it’s the day that gaming’s biggest show, the E3 gaming expo, kicks off in Los Angeles. There will be a flood of gaming news. There will be excitement. There will be disappointment. And there will be awkward press conferences. Before the craziness starts, Kotaku is taking a step back, surveying the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2011 -
Are These Microsoft’s E3 Games?
This week, the E3 gaming expo gets underway in Los Angeles. Gaming’s heavyweights are showing off new hardware and new games. According to one source, here’s the list of titles Microsoft will be showing: Tomb Raider Forza 4 Star Wars Kinect Gears of War 3 A Halo related title Codename Kingdoms Sesame Street: Once Upon…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 5, 2011 -
Rumor has Microsoft Announcing TV Service at E3
I love the weekends before E3. I’ve worked four. You get everything in the tips jar—yesterday we got one that said Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would be a Wii 2 launch title. It was too earnest to be a troll. Anyway, this one is in heavy circulation and Microsoft has issued a no comment, so…
By Owen Good Published June 4, 2011 -
Xbox 360 Still Selling Strong, Says Press Release That Guarantees No Xbox 3 at E3
From a Microsoft press release: Microsoft has now sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating. Xbox 360 maintains its lead in the U.S. as the top selling console in 2011, and ten of the past eleven months. In the first four months of 2011, Xbox 360 has seen a…
By Joel Johnson Published June 3, 2011 -
Jesus Explains How To Deal With Negative Forum Comments
Sometiumes people say things in internet forums we don’t agree with. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter JesusChrist tells us how to deal with these unpleasant situations. Hello my children, I am here to teach you another lesson about the interwebs. When somebody makes a comment that is directed at a company or their…
By Mike Fahey Published June 2, 2011 -
Windows 8 and Its Incredibly Cool New Touch Interface
So, this is the new Start screen for Windows 8. It’s a brand new interface for tablets. It looks a lot like Windows Phone Live Tiles. And hey, that looks like an app store. The whole point of Windows 8, which is just a codename, is to be one OS that’ll run on regular computers…
By Matt buchanan Published June 2, 2011 -
When Online Gaming Goes Wrong, You Don’t Need to Get SWAT Involved
A disagreement over an Xbox Live Indie game has resulted in what may be the ultimate grief, with one gamer sending a SWAT team to another gamer’s home after phoning in a bogus murder-suicide 911 call. It all happened over a game of FortressCraft, the Minecraft-“inspired” world-building game for the Xbox Live Indies channel, according…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 1, 2011 -
The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Team Perks, No Nukes, New Killstreaks
It’s a fair guess that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will follow in the footsteps of last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, shattering sales records and bringing even more people to video games. But it’s typically not the single player campaign, detailed here, that draws in those record-breaking numbers. While many, including myself,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 1, 2011 -
The New Age of Empires is Looking Sharp
Age of Empires Online, which is a lot more enjoyable than it sounds on paper, will be out in August. Here’s a damn fine trailer to go with that announcement. I never thought I could be sold on a war game with a trailer showing nobody being killed, and yet here we are. AoE Online…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2011 -
First Details on Crimson Alliance, An RPG from People Who Help Make Halo and Call of Duty
Last week, the official existence of Crimson Alliance, a game from developer Certain Affinity, was outed by Australia’s ratings board. We didn’t know much about the game then, but we do now—it’s definitely not a sequel to Crimson Skies According to developer Certain Affinity, a “boutique studio” that has lent its development talent to Call…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 31, 2011 -
Practice Your Marksmanship with This Gears of War 3 Target Poster
Microsoft sent out a big thank-you email to every participant in the monthlong Gears of War 3 beta, noting the outrageous stats it compiled and directing everyone to a set of desktop wallpapers and a printable target-practice poster. That might come in handy, as it took 25 rounds per kill, on average. The email went…
By Owen Good Published May 29, 2011