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China, There Will Be No Kinect For You

Sorry, China! When Kinect is released later this year, you won’t be allowed to buy the motion control peripheral. At least, not officially. Why? Chinese readers will know this, but for everyone else, there are laws in place in the country that forbid the legal, official sale of just about every video game console currently…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 13, 2010

Destination Arcade Slips A Week

Microsoft’s third stab at presenting Xbox Live Arcade titles to the masses, Destination Arcade, has been pushed back a week, launching on July 21 with the first Summer of Arcade title, Limbo

By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2010

Rumble Might Be Rudimentary, But I Still Like It

When the PS3 launched in 2006, the SIXAXIS controller did not have rumble support. It had motion control, but like I just said, no rumble. And I found myself playing more Xbox 360 games. It wasn’t because Xbox 360 games were better. No, it was because Xbox 360 games could be played on a controller…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2010

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The Flags Of Master Chief’s Fathers

As seen on Wonderland via Hawty McBloggy

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2010

Ex-Age Of Empires Devs Working On Microsoft Strategy Game [Update]

Microsoft’s “Project S”, a secret strategy game that we uncovered earlier today, isn’t a Halo title. It is, however, being worked on by former Age of Empires developers. Robot Entertainment, a studio that was formed by ex-Ensemble staffers following the closure of the venerable PC developers, appears to be the team responsible for “Project S”,…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2010

Xbox Live Is Microsoft’s New Billion Dollar Business (And Activision Wants A Piece)

Microsoft’s Xbox Live service has pulled in an estimated $1.2 billion for the Xbox 360 maker, with annual Gold subscription fees and sales of digital content combined, according to Bloomberg. Good news for… Bobby Kotick? According to Microsoft’s Dennis Durkin, the Xbox’s chief operating officer, sales of Live content like movies, TV shows, Avatar items…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2010

How To Score A Beer Belly In Halo: Reach

If you want to look like a battle-hardened, Covenant-crushing space marine type, yet don’t want people to forget how much you love to party, then GameStop has the Halo: Reach preorder incentive for you. The UA Multi-Threat Mjolnir Mark V(B) Armor is a special bonus suit customers will score by preordering Halo: Reach in any…

By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2010

The Whole World Looks Silly Playing Kinect

There’s nothing in the world quite like lifestyle photography, the practice of making models look like they’re having fun with a product when they are in fact not having fun. These new shots for Microsoft’s Kinect, though, are especially great, because not only do they feature people trying to look silly flailing around their living…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2010

Is Now A Good Time to Buy a New Game Console? Let’s See

If the DSi were stock it would be down today. Why? Because we’ve updated the Buyer’s Guide to the DS Our guides to what to buy, when to buy a gaming platform are packed with information, but the most important thing about them is that they are living documents. No, they won’t bleed when you…

By Brian Crecente Published July 6, 2010

Kinect Looks Like This In A Japanese Living Room

There has been concern that the Microsoft’s motion controller Kinect could require a significant amount of space — more space than the average Japanese living room has. Microsoft, however, has refuted these claims. “We know that living rooms come in all shapes and sizes,” Microsoft told Kotaku back in March, “and have conducted numerous play…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 6, 2010

You Can Get The New 360 In Colors Other Than Black

If you’re willing to pay a little extra, that is. Sensing correctly that there are some prospective purchasers of the Xbox 360 S not happy with its glossy black colour scheme, custom electronics firm Colorware are reminding the world that you can get a new 360 in its “classic” shade of white. Or blue. Or…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010

Activision Wants “More Value” For Call Of Duty Xbox Live Players

The Call of Duty games have a massive multiplayer following on Xbox 360. But is the series going to make the leap to a massively multiplayer online game? Nothing is confirmed yet. “We’ve heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft’s] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty,” Activision Blizzard honcho Robert Kotick…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010

Kinect’s Simple, Purple Box Art

Some Xbox marketing material we got hold of over the weekend shows what looks like the box art for the Xbox 360’s upcoming motion-sensing camera, Kinect. It’s no game, sure, but box art is both an art and for some a fetish (especially with novel stuff like this), so here it is (along with that…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2010

Indiana Jones Disneyland Attraction Recreated in Left 4 Dead 2

Disneyland attraction “Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye” has been recreated by a modder in zombie first-person-shooter Left 4 Dead 2. The name? You guessed it, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Zombies. It does feature zombies, but the walk through in the video does not. It’s part of a modded map pack…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2010

Shooting (Among the) Stars in Halo: Reach

Teased in Microsoft’s E3 keynote, seen by yours truly and played by Totilo, here’s a solid minute of gameplay in Halo: Reach‘s space combat sequence that GameTrailers just threw up on its site. Wait, that didn’t come out right. Eh, what I meant to say is, GT, got its hands on something you’ll probably want…

By Owen Good Published July 3, 2010

The Inconvenient Truth Of Buying Video Games?

What do you consider when shopping for a new video game console? The games available for the console? How much it will cost you? What about the ethical impact of your choices? Do you weigh what the creation of that console does to the environment, whether it was built in sweat shops or contains supplies…

By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010

Microsoft Solves Backwards Battery Problem

The mad scientists at Microsoft have conjured a technology called InstaLoad that will allow you to put batteries into a device — in either direction. Look at the batteries in this official Microsoft image here. Madness! The technology, announced yesterday by Microsoft, works with AA, AAA, C and D batteries. This is one of those…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2010

Apple Engineers “Totally Wrong”, Nintendo Misjudged Excitement and Other Great Corporate Excuses

This morning iPhone owners woke to a very unusual thing: An apology letter from Apple. Everything about the letter, from its opening line of “Dear iPhone 4 Users”, to its unusual use of phrases like “totally wrong”, is cringe-inducing, but Apple isn’t the only company that doesn’t know how to come clean when they screw…

By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2010

Crackdown 2 Meets Perfect Dark

You know, I was playing Perfect Dark the other day, and thought to myself, “Man, you know what this game needs? More Crackdown cameos”. And whaddya know. Here we are. With a Crackdown unlockable now available within Perfect Dark XBLA. Now if only I’d actually thought that, instead of using it to set the scene!…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2010

How The Xbox Helps John Deere Supply Vehicles To The US Army

Well, there’s a headline I never thought I’d have to write. But behold! John Deere, masters of agricultural vehicles, have made the R-Gator, a small “utility” vehicle for the US Army that looks like a golf cart in olive green. It’s like a regular Gator, only this time the “R” stands for “Remote”, as it…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2010