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Thousands Line Up To Make Your Hardware

Even though heavy rains have been hitting China’s Chengdu, that didn’t stop thousands from lining up for work at the city’s Foxconn plant. As website MIC points out, Foxconn seems to be hiring up for this summer. Those who apply need to fork over 150 yuan (US$24) and have good eyesight. Just goes to show…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 18, 2012

Now You Can Use Your iPad To Control Your Xbox 360, If You Really Want To

I know what you’re thinking. “Boy, I wish I could use my iPad to control my Xbox 360.” What’s that? You’re not thinking that at all? You just want to play video games? You don’t care about ridiculous control schemes or hardware gimmicks? Well okay then. At least this one’s free: Microsoft released a new…

By Jason Schreier Published July 17, 2012

NASA Made A Game That Lets You Land On Mars. Sounds Cool. Now What?

Hop on Xbox Live and search for Mars Rover Landing. You’ll find a Kinect game made by NASA and Microsoft that’s meant to simulate the tense experience of landing Curiosity, NASA’s rover that will land on Mars on August 5 after eight and a half months of travel. It’s “seven minutes of terror,” is how…

By Tina Amini Published July 16, 2012

“Legendary Edition” Halo 4 Hardware Also Offers Controller Sold Separately

The “Legendary Edition” Halo 4 console bundle, outed on Thursday, was officially revealed yesterday at Comic-Con. What we didn’t know is that it’ll have some Halo 4-themed controllers sold separately. For those who want a piece of Halo themed hardware but can’t take the $400 the full console package costs, a custom gamepad will run…

By Owen Good Published July 15, 2012

Custom Halo 4 Xbox 360 Bundle Leaks Ahead of Microsoft’s Official Announcement

A Microsoft store listing, since removed, said a limited edition Halo 4 console bundle will be released, delivering the game and a specially designed case on a 320 GB Xbox 360 configuration for $400. IGN spotted the listing earlier this evening. The Halo 4 360 will play custom Halo sounds whenever the device’s capacitive eject…

By Owen Good Published July 12, 2012

The Next Xbox Should Embrace Microsoft’s PC Roots

For today’s edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, we continue the discussion of future consoles with commenter Leaufai, who advises Microsoft to embrace their PC roots and give us a console that truly takes console gaming to the next level. Things have changed since the last generation of consoles were launched. PC gaming has changed.…

Featuring Leaufai Published July 12, 2012

One Console To Rule Them All

In today’s slightly late (sorry!) edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Gusi A. Rincon puts forth the argument for a unified console. Forget the console wars! If the big console makers would all just declare peace, everyone would benefit. Right now the best that could happen to the Game industry (just hypothetically speaking) would…

Featuring Gusi A. Rincon Published July 11, 2012

Halo 4 Will Work, Somehow, With Microsoft’s Fancy New Tablet

Microsoft’s Don Mattrick has quietly announced today that Halo 4 will, in some way, work with the company’s upcoming Surface tablets How, exactly? No idea, he wouldn’t elaborate. But it’s the first time Microsoft has really bothered to talk games in any way when it comes to Surface, so at least that’s interesting. In the…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2012

New Xbox Application Gives You Achievements For Burning Calories

Microsoft has launched an application called Kinect PlayFit as a free download for all Xbox Live members, the publisher said today. Kinect PlayFit is a “new fitness dashboard that aggregates and tracks the calories you burn as you play a variety of Kinect games,” Microsoft says. You’ll be able to compare your stats to other…

By Jason Schreier Published July 10, 2012

Halo 2 High-Definition Remake Said to be In Development

The latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK says that 343 Industries, maker of last year’s Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (and, of course, this year’s all-new Halo 4), has similar plans for Halo 2 “Following the success of remake Halo Anniversary, 343 Industries has now started development of Halo 2 Anniversary,” the magazine says in…

By Owen Good Published July 8, 2012

Microsoft Thinks the Wii U is Pretty Much an Xbox 360

It’s not only that Pro Controller that reminds Microsoft of its Xbox 360. The graphics do, too. “I think their Pro Controller makes a lot of sense with the platform they’ve built,” Microsoft’s Phil Spencer told website Games Industry. “They are building a platform that is effectively a 360 when you think of graphical capability.”…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 4, 2012

Microsoft Snags Domain Name For ‘Xbox 8’ [UPDATE]

Microsoft has secured the web domain for “xbox8.us” and “xbox8.org,” according to a new report. The Internet sleuths at Fusible uncovered that Microsoft won the domains back from a Chinese citizen in a case filed with the National Arbitration Forum. Other domains won in the dispute include XboxPhone.com, XboxTablet.com, XboxLiveTV.com, XboxCompanion.com. Interestingly enough, the Xbox…

By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012

Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Requires At Least 8 GBs of Space

Halo 4 is going to be huge. I’m not talking about critical success or sales or anything like that. No, I’m talking about memory storage. In order to play the online multiplayer portion of Master Chief’s next outing, players will have to free up at least 8 GB of space. There are whole games taht…

By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012

This Game Will Take Cross-Platform To A Whole New Level

It was only recently that I learned how cool it can be to have a game work on multiple platforms. Playing Metal Gear HD Collection on both Vita and PS3 is remarkably cool, and points to a future where we can fit games more easily into our everyday lives. So I’m happy to hear that…

By Kirk Hamilton Published June 28, 2012

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Korea’s Silly “Shutdown Law” Might Be Unconstitutional

While the U.S. Supreme Court susses out the constitutionality of health care legislation, South Korea is navigating the legality of its Shutdown Law. As previously mentioned, the Shutdown Law was created to prevent gamers under sixteen from gaming during a six hour block at night so apparently they would sleep (or study?). The law has…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 27, 2012

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Microsoft Already Has a Computer Called “Surface”, and it Makes Board Games Look Awesome

The unveiling earlier today of Microsoft’s new “Surface” tablets was a strange one for me. Not because of the nature of the product, but for its name. It’s one Microsoft has been using for years, only, for an entirely different device. One that, for a while there, we thought could change the way we played…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2012

Microsoft Announces New ‘Surface’ Tablet PC

At a press event today, Microsoft announced a new Tablet PC called ‘Surface.’ As you can see from the images in this post, it’s got a nifty keyboard built into its screen-cover. Also, pretty colors! Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky introduced it thusly: “It’s a tablet that works and plays the way you want to. A tablet…

By Kirk Hamilton Published June 18, 2012

Leak or Hoax, a 56-Page Manifesto Does Get Some Things Right About the Next Xbox [Update]

An apparently two-year-old document, purporting to be an internal overview of Microsoft’s plans for the Xbox 360’s successor, surfaced overnight, and while many rightly cast doubt on its authenticity, the claims it makes are not too farfetched. Some have even been reported before. The document, evidently a PowerPoint slide presentation, is at best an official…

By Owen Good Published June 16, 2012

Microsoft Not Attending Tokyo Game Show or Gamescom

Today, Microsoft announced that it will not be appearing at either Gamescom or the Tokyo Game Show. Instead, it will rely on its partners and, in Japan’s case, its own events. In an interview with Famitsu, Microsoft stated that it was not abandoning Japan and is planning end of the year promotions. Microsoft did say…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012

You Can Now Control (Some of) Your Xbox 360 From a Phone

Microsoft released an update to its Xbox Live iPhone app yesterday that adds some basic remote functionality, letting you launch games and navigate menus from your iPhone. For some reason that good stuff is iPhone-only; the iPad version didn’t get it, and the new Android edition doesn’t have it either. [Microsoft]

By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012