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CultureAsk Us Anything About Xbox Series X And S [Update: All Done]
It’s Thursday, November 5, our Xbox Series X and S review is up, and the embargo has fallen. It’s time to ask us anything you want to know about the new Xboxen, and we’ll answer as best we can. Three of us here at Kotaku have spent the past couple of weeks playing with Microsoft’s…
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CultureAnother Microsoft Game, Everwild, Loses Its Director
Everwild creative director Simon Woodroffe has resigned from his position at Rare, VGC reports In a statement to VGC, Rare studio head Craig Duncan confirmed these details, thanking Woodroffe and wishing him luck on future endeavors. Information on Everwild is still scarce. In previous teasers, Rare presented an open-world adventure game focused on the flora…
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CultureEverything We Know About The Xbox Series X And Series S
Over the summer, information about Microsoft’s next-gen console came out slower than self-serve frozen yogurt. We knew the name (Xbox Series X), broad release date (“Holiday 2020”), and some specs. Then Labor Day weekend happened, and the floodgates opened. Now, we have a release date, a price tag, some detailed information about the long-unconfirmed disc-less…
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CultureDevil May Cry 5 Won’t Have Ray Tracing On Xbox Series S
Capcom has announced that the next-gen version of Devil May Cry 5 won’t support ray tracing on Xbox Series S despite previous announcements to the contrary. “While ray tracing will be available as a downloadable title update on Xbox Series X, Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition will not support ray tracing on Xbox Series…
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CultureXbox Brazil Host Says She Was Let Go In Part Due To Fan Harassment, Though Microsoft Denies
Last Friday, Xbox Brazil video host Isadora Basile announced that Microsoft had severed ties with her. In a tweet, she said she’d been regularly harassed by members of the local Xbox community since being hired in early September, and that that mistreatment was part of the decision to end her contract. Kotaku has been in…
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CultureMaster Chief Collection Is Getting Upgraded To Play At 120 FPS On Xbox Series X/S
Halo fans on console will finally get to see Master Chief at double the frames per second when Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets upgraded for Xbox Series X and S on November 17. Microsoft announced the news on Twitter today, stating that the next-gen optimized version of the collection would play at 120 FPS…
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CultureOdds and EndsOh No Steve
Minecraft’s Steve went live in Smash Bros. Ultimate overnight, and yup, no problems there. None whatsoever. Enough beating around the block: Steve looks like he’s got a massive boner every time he wins a match. He’s actually just holding a hunk of, well, meat at a weird angle, but the way the camera zooms in…
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CultureXbox 360 Users Are Getting Free Cloud Saves To Help Upgrade To Series X/S
As Microsoft gears up for the release of the fourth generation of Xbox game consoles, it throws a bone to the likely few and probably quite proud gamers who’ve stood by the second generation for 15 years. Xbox 360 users will soon be getting free cloud saves, to make upgrading to Xbox Series X/S easier.…
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CultureOdds and EndsXbox Deletes Tweet Dunking On PS5 For Having A Removable Stand
The UK Twitter account for Xbox fired some shots at PS5 yesterday in one of the silliest ways possible because it’s 2020 and these are the console wars we deserve. It all began after Sony released a tear-down video of the PS5 highlighting all of the next-gen console’s internal components. The first step in that…
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CultureMicrosoft Is Beating Sony At Cross-Generation Save Transfers
As is often the case between video game generations, several high-profile PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X games will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But when it comes to the ability to start a game on a last-gen console and pick right up where you left off in the game’s next-gen…
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CultureFallout 76 Will Let Players Create Their Own Vaults, For A Price
New underground building spaces are coming to Fallout 76 sometime later this year, but the best and biggest will be gated behind its premium currency. Bethesda went into more detail about how shelters will work in Fallout 76 over on its website, ahead of when they’re slated to go live on the game’s PC testing…
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CultureOdds and EndsThat’s Not Right…
Flight Simulator pilots discovered a trippy glitch over the weekend that causes the earth to open up and warp space-time like a black hole. The glitch is located in Brazil, around the coordinates 6°02’19.9″S 36°27’17.1″W. Things look normal at first as players pull off the rugged, country airstrip, but immediately ahead is a vortex of…
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CultureToday’s Xbox Series X Previews Revealed Mostly Good News
Over the past week or so, Xbox Series X preview units were made available to select members of the media. Microsoft did not send us one of these units. I’m not sad, but, earlier today, I was cutting onions and peppers while listening to Phoebe Bridgers, and then, without thinking, I rubbed my eyes. True…
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CultureMorning MusicViva Piñata‘s Soundtrack Makes Me Happy To Be Alive
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we look back at a game that is the exact opposite of 2020: the nice, soft, fun, and colorful world of Viva Piñata and its fantastic soundtrack. Before Rare was making a game about pirates,…
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Games On Xbox One External Drives Will Be Instantly Playable On Xbox Series X / S
Yesterday I wrote about downloading the entire Xbox Game Pass library to one external Xbox One hard drive. According to today’s storage-centric Xbox Wire post, I’ll be able to plug that drive into an Xbox Series X / S come November and instantly access all of those games. Additional super-speedy SSD storage for the Xbox…
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CultureXbox Series X Expandable Storage Costs $219.99
The price for 1TB of expandable storage on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles has finally been revealed and it’s a whopping $219.99. That’s based on a listing that recently went up over at Best Buy and was first spotted by The Verge. (Update – 11:34 a.m., 9/24/20: Microsoft confirmed the price over on…
By Ethan Gach
