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Xbox One Game Changed Between Reviews And Release

Crimson Dragon, the spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon, just came out, but already the game is being altered after it received, well, let’s say mixedreviews. Saying he has “heard the feedback” on the game, director Yukio Futatsugi is ringing the changes, which include generally making the game easier. “I’m excited to have the opportunity to…

Welcome To The Next Generation, Everybody

That’s it. It’s past midnight. The Xbox One is now on sale in North America, having gradually rolled out across Australasia and parts of Europe earlier in the day. With the PS4 being released last week and – depending on your definition of “generation” – the Wii U on shelves last year, the “next generation”…

Xbox, Go To Los Angeles. Xbox? Xbox?

Spike’s Geoff Keighley uses the power of Kinect to throw the station’s coverage of the Xbox One launch event across the country. Or, tries to. I bet it sounded good on paper. If you want to follow along yourself, and haven’t already been doing so, you can catch it here

Here’s The First Human To Buy An Xbox One

The first person to buy an Xbox One in line in New York City tonight is not the first person on planet Earth to buy an Xbox One. That honour, thanks to the placement of the international date line, went to New Zealand’s Dan Livingstone. Beating out my own antipodean purchase by a mere two…

The first man in the world to buy a PS4 meets the first man in line to buy a North American Xbox One. It’s like a Christmas kick-around in the trenches. Xbox [Twitter]

​We Brought An Xbox One To The Xbox One Launch Event… Chaos Ensued

Tonight in New York, Microsoft is hosting a massive launch party for the Xbox One. In a few short hours, the people in line will have their own new consoles to take home. Ah, but Kotaku already has an Xbox One. Maybe the folks in line would like to check ours out while they wait?…

Well, Microsoft’s Xbox One Launch Event Sure Seems Interesting

I’m picturing some poor schmuck at Microsoft accounts getting a bill for the Xbox One’s launch event in NYC tonight in a few months’ time, looking at it, then jumping straight out a window The company is going to ridiculous lengths tonight, not only taking over Times Square but doing stuff like having zombies shamble…

Armored Trucks Full of Xbox Ones Rolled Through New York City Today

Nintendo once delivered me a Wii in the trunk of a police car. Today, Microsoft is delivering some of Manhattan’s first Xbox Ones in armored trucks, as seen in this image spotted via Reddit user Space_Honey. See more of those trucks here and here

​Xbox One’s Missing Audio Options Are Coming, Microsoft Says

In my review of the Xbox One, I noted that the console came with a curious audio omission. The optical audio output jack was unable to output Dolby 5.1 or 7.1 digital audio. That’s a substantial bummer for anyone who uses a Dolby-only gaming headset. Today, Microsoft’s Albert Penello addressed the missing feature and said…

What The Inside of An Xbox One Looks Like

You’ve seen what the Xbox One looks like on the outside. But that big black box holds stuff on the inside too, y’know. And thanks to the iFixit folks,we can get a glimpse of innards of an Xbox One—pictured above. Neat, eh? Interestingly, the outside of the console contains no screws. Thankfully, it seems you…

The Xbox One Is Huge Compared To Other Consoles

The original Xbox 360 may have been a bulky hunk of hardware, but the Xbox One is huge. Seriously. We did some comparisons in a video to show you exactly how huge we mean. Watch here: Be sure to stick around for my usual antics. And in case you missed it last week, we gave…

Plants Vs. Garden Warfare Could Sell A Few Xbox Ones Come February

If I hadn’t already purchased an Xbox One for work purposes, Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare‘s Team Fortress 2-meets-HGTV vibe would surely have me in line for a console come February 18. Or February 20 if I am in Europe, 21 in the UK. Look, where I am does not matter. What matters is that…

Ryse: Son of Rome: The Kotaku Review

Ryse: Son of Rome is what I want from a next-gen game. It’s something different. And it’s something impressive. Ryse is also a game I expected to not like very much, so let’s give it one more label: a pleasant surprise on day one for Xbox One. Seven years in the making by a collection…

Jimmy Fallon’s Xbox One Segment Tries Hard to Make Kinect Look Fun

What do you do if you’re trying to hawk the Xbox One on late-night talk shows? You can’t show the gory, crotch-laser killfest of Dead Rising 3 or the slice-an-arm-off combat of Ryse: Son of Rome, both of which seem to be the better games for the new console. No, no, you have to go…

The Japanese voice track and lip sync animations will be available as DLC for the English version of Lightning Returns The pack, per the latest announcement from Squeenix, will be free to download for two weeks after release, after which time it becomes paid DLC. Above is the newly-released “special effects” trailer.

Unboxing A White Xbox One Makes Me Very Jealous

Unless you paidover $12,000 for one via auction, the only way to get hold of a white Xbox One console is to have been responsible for actually building the console. So this unboxing is one hell of a tease. The “I MADE THIS” is only going to get sillier the longer time goes on, regardless…

Borderlands 2 Serves Up a Thanksgiving-Themed Episode Next Week

As only it could do, Borderlands 2 is desecrating a sacred family tradition for millions with its next wildass set of missions, “The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler.” available on Tuesday for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It sounds nuts. The pretext for all of its Thanksgiving imagery is a “hunger-themed competition,” being…

​When You Start Up The Xbox One, It Plays A Pretty Song

One of the first things I noticed when I turned on my Xbox One was that it played me a little song. It’s just three notes, which I’ve always thought of as the bare minimum number of notes required to make a melody. Two notes could be the start of a melody, but a mere…

How To Get Your Cable TV Surround Sound Working On Xbox One

There’s been some confusion about whether the Xbox One can play cable TV in surround sound. It can. There’s a catch—a presumably temporary one. As I wrote in the New York Times last week and as we mentioned in our review of the console, the Xbox One will downgrade any surround sound audio that comes…

The Guy Who Got His Xbox One Early is Unbanned

Good news, says Andre Weingarten: “I’m unbanned!” Sometime in the early afternoon while the college freshman was in class, his Xbox One—the thing Target mistakenly delivered early two weeks ago—went legit. What’s the first thing he’s going to do? “Well, I’ll be streaming,” he said. You can watch here as he plays Call of Duty:…