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A Christmas YouTube Tradition: Tricking Kids With a Fake Console Gift

There’s a Christmas morning video spreading over the Internet the past two days, in which a naughty boy gets the modern lump of coal: an empty box instead of a PlayStation. It looks outrageous. Remember, though, this is on YouTube. And this kind of prank has gone on there for years. The latest one has…

Indianapolis: Home of Next-Generation Console Heists, Apparently

A month after bandits stole nine PlayStation 4s from an Indianapolis GameStop, armed robbers stormed another store in the same city, making off with 15 Xbox Ones in a pre-Christmas heist that left employees and customers tied up in a store room. The robbery happened just after 10 p.m. on Monday, Indianapolis police said. Two…

Seemingly Impossible GTA V Stunts

The following words appear at the end of an incredible new video filled with four minutes of amazing Grand Theft Auto V bike, car and plane: “No cheats or mods were used to perform the stunts”. Wow. The video features the amazing feats of the Nomad Union crew. The video was uploaded to Machinima. We…

Rockstar Support is replying to as many people as they can about the GTA Online money hackers. No news since Tuesday, but the gist remains the same. Hackers are gifting people unwanted gobs of in-game money, seemingly making recipients vulnerable for game bans. Rockstar’s position, since Tuesday, from their Support Page, is what they’ve had…

It’s Snowing In Los Santos (Tomorrow)

A beautiful sight, we’re shooting each other in the face tonight, walking through Grand Theft Auto Online‘s magical holiday snowfall. I’m sorry. I probably could have resisted if I’d tried harder. Let’s just unwrap Rockstar’s Christmas gifts. (Update: Rockstar says the snow is tomorrow only.) Gifts like special limited-time, holiday themed items available in GTA…

At Least This Xbox One Is A Little Smaller

The Xbox One is a substantial piece of hardware, especially if it’s sitting near a PS4 and/or Wii U for comparison. So it shouldn’t surprise you to see people hard at work trying to make the thing smaller. This is an Xbox One laptop. With a built-in screen and a slimmer form, it “shrinks” the…

A Very NSFW Xbox One Christmas

Reader Andy thought he was performing a pretty typical search on his Xbox One. It’s the holiday season, so he wanted to search for some Christmas music. He did not getwhat he was expecting. I’m picturing a very happy family, all gathered around the tree, some Bing Crosby playing softly in the background. Father says…

The Week in Games: PS4 Pinball and Spartan Assault

By God, we are going to wring every last new game out of this year if it’s the last thing we do. And sure enough there are a couple of digital releases worth a look this Christmas week. But the hay is in the barn for 2013, folks. That’s why the Steam Holiday Sale is…

NBA Live Gets Its First Patch, but Don’t Expect It to Change Much

NBA Live 14 showed a lot of problems at release a month ago—problems EA Sports vowed to fix through title updates. They rolled out the first patch for the game on Friday and, like everything else with this series for the past three years, it’s another promise this will be a good game at some…

Peggle 2 Marriage Proposal Level Had ‘Nope,’ Just In Case

Rob and Shireen are bigtime Peggle fans. Big enough that Rob went to PopCap and asked if they’d help him pop the question. Hell yes they would! Game studios love this kind of thing. But just in case Rob and Shireen weren’t like, an actual thing, Peggle 2 made sure to leave a way out.…

PS4, Xbox One ‘May Use 3 Times More Power’ Than the Last Generation [Corrected]

I just got my power bill for Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, and while I was ready for a big number after switching from oil to a heat pump, I’m wondering if my PS4 and Xbox One weren’t the real culprits. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, I can expect to pay $150 in…

​Max: the Curse of Brotherhood: The Kotaku Review

Playing Max: the Curse of Brotherhood with the Xbox One controller feels a bit like running through an up-scaled iPhone game on a much bigger screen. As you might imagine, that’s both a good thing and a bad thing. The Curse of Brotherhood has a lot going for it. Lead character Max must rescue his…

Mecha-Naruto. Yes. Designed by Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto, Mecha-Naruto will be transforming into mechanical Kyubi form and piloting the fearsome Mecha-Kurama in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 next year. Believe it.

The 5 Worst Moments In The New Walking Dead, With Spoilers

It’s only the first episode of the new season to Telltale’s horrifically wonderful The Walking Dead episodic series and I’m already all torn up. I gave you my non-spoilery impressions of the episode already. Now let’s have a thorough, completely spoilery discussion of the events that transpired in the recent All That Remains episode. ***…

‘Xbox, Have Interesting Original Documentaries’

Well, this is neat. Microsoft is starting a documentary series that will run on Xbox 360 and Xbox One next year and it’s got a pretty good name behind it and a good topic for the first installment. The series will be produced by Jonathan Chinn and Simon Chinn. I don’t know Jonathan’s work—30 Days,…

Killer Instinct‘s DRM Check Poses Problem for Its Use in Tournaments

This wasn’t a major event, but it was a tournament streamed yesterday by a pretty big name in the fighting game community, Team Spooky, and it’s not the kind of closeup Killer Instinct was hoping for. The tournament lost its Internet connection and, well, this console couldn’t continue. This occurred in the winners final at…

The Avengers Are Assembling in Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition [Update]

Marvel, Mojang and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver an official Avengers Skin Pack to the Xbox 360 version of the popular block builder. The pack, coming soon, will feature 35 character skins, including Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Loki, Wasp, Falcon, Vision, Maria Hill, Agent Coulson and more.…

Today’s update introduces the all-new Capture game mode to Grand Theft Auto Online Capture adds twenty new jobs across four capture the flag-esque team-based modes: Raid, Hold, GTA, and Contend. Read more over at Rockstar’s Newswire here, and check out the full update notes here

Skullgirls Changes Name, Will Be Re-Listed on Consoles Next Year

Everything’s okay, or at least, will be okay, according to Skullgirls developers Lab Zero: the game will live on. As you might recall, following Lab Zero’s and Konami’s parting of the ways, hand-drawn fighting game Skullgirls was slated for de-listing on the Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. It still is—the game will be…

The Sequel To 2012’s Amazing Walking Dead Game Is Here. It’s Depressing.

The Walking Dead Season Two—Telltale’s follow-up to their fantastic episodic adventure series—kicks off today with its first episode and it’s even more depressing with Clementine as its lead character Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this kind-of-review. In season two of Telltale’s depressing The Walking Dead episodic series, an older Clementine is without her…