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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:…

An Xbox One Plugged Into Itself Looks Like Art

We’ve seen an Xbox One playing through another Xbox One And an Xbox 360 through an Xbox One through an Xbox One. Also a Wii U through an Xbox One and, sure, a PS4throughan Xbox One. But what if you plug one Xbox One into itself? Because it’s certainly possible. And the results are kind…

NBA Live 14: The Kotaku Review

It’s hard to remember, but NBA Live was once a challenger to the formidable NBA 2K. If you care about aggregated ratings, NBA Live 10 and NBA 2K10 finished in a dead heat. Live had stolen away one of 2K’s top designers. It was fargin’ war. Then EA Sports burned down everything. We haven’t seen…

You Can Play PS4 Through Xbox One, But You Probably Wouldn’t Want To.

What happens when you plug a PlayStation 4’s HDMI cable into the back of an Xbox One? The same thing that happens to everything else. The fine folks at DigitalFoundry plugged their PlayStation 4 into the Xbox One’s HDMI input and — contrary to my fevered speculation — a singularity was not formed. Instead, they…

​The Xbox One: The Kotaku Review

The Xbox One is a testament to Microsoft’s towering ambition. It represents their desire not only to occupy a place in your home entertainment center, but to lumber straight into the center of it. It is a black plastic tank, a hard-edged chunk of corners meant to conquer everything in its path. But for all…

11 Minutes of Lightning Returns: FFXII For Your Viewing Pleasure

The fine folks over at Japanese news site 4Gamer.netmanaged to get their hands on the shortly-releasing Japanese version of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. So, of course, they immediately went and captured some footage for the rest of us. So without any further ado, above’s eleven minutes of gameplay from the next Final Fantasy. 4Gamer…

You Can Play An Xbox 360 Through An Xbox One Through An Xbox One

Ever since we heard about the Xbox One’s HDMI input feature—which is intended to route HDMI devices like a cable box through it and “snap” to that program—I’ve been excited to put it to the test. Could we play another Xbox One through an Xbox One? What about an Xbox 360 hooked into an Xbox…

If Only Microsoft Made Xbox One Controllers This Nice

When you pick up an Xbox One this week (or anytime in the near future), I hope you like black, because that’s the only colour you’ll be able to get it in. Those wanting their controllers to be a little more adventurous, though, at least have a third-party option to spice things up. Just like…

Still looking to snag an Xbox One for launch day? Amazon. Tomorrow. Several awesome readers have forwarded us emails from Amazon.com, indicating a limited amount will go on sale there at 8AM Eastern time tomorrow. That should give you enough time to read Kirk’s full review, coming up at midnight.

Lococycle: The Kotaku Review

Lococycle is a guilty pleasure. It’s a friend you hang out with, in private. You’re not comfortable introducing it to your parents and it sure as hell isn’t winning any “games as art” arguments and the like. In all aspects, Lococycle is an incredibly stupid game. In Lococycle you play as two-wheeler I.R.I.S., manufactured as…

Kirk Hamilton is writing his Xbox One review right now. You can read it here at midnight ET. You can read other outlets’ reviews then, too. We won’t be offended. We know you love us best.

​The Guys Who Designed the First Xbox Critique the PS4

It’s one thing to think about the PS4 as a black box that delivers games and services to your TV. It’s entirely another to look at it as a piece of design itself. The studio who crafted the imposing look of the first Xbox did exactly that. And hey, they think the DualShock 4 rocks,…

Heist Nabs 58 Xbox Ones More Than a Week Before Launch

The PlayStation 4 had two day-one robberies in the same city, but the clear winner in next-generation crime has to be the Xbox One. Fifty-eight of the consoles were stolen—and stolen a week ago—in Memphis, Tenn., where one unlucky customer has just been arrested. WMCT-TV reports that a 31-year-old Memphis man is facing charges of…

Xbox One Has No Built-In Livestream Option At Launch, But It’s Coming

Xbox One gamers will not be able to upload video to Twitch.tv at launch, Microsoft said this morning. The lack of support leaves Xbox One users without the ability to broadcast live gameplay natively from the console. “Our goal is to deliver it during the first part of 2014,” Microsoft said in the news story.…

​You’ll Be Able to Share Xbox One Game Clips Wherever You Want

Seems like this is the generation where game recording becomes a required feature for consoles. Both the PS4 and Xbox One have the capability to save and share gameplay clips but there’s one big difference: users will be able to share Xbox One gameplay clips all over the web, including YouTube. Microsoft’s new game console…

Why Many Launch Games Get Crummy Reviews

It’s a rare thing to find a console launch title that isn’t either “meh” or “ungh”. There are a number of reasons for this, which you or I could speculate about all day long, but why don’t we see what a guy who works for Ubisoft has to say instead. In an interview with GI.biz,…

​Well, At Least The Racing Looks Good in the New Need for Speed Movie

Look, it’s pretty clear that the Need for Speed movie is trying to draft off the success of the Fast & Furious films. But the upcoming Dreamworks feature needs, like, 1000% more crazy. Aaron Paul certainly looks wounded in the clip for the upcoming car-stravaganza—which comes just days after the debut of the latest NFS…

​The Prettiest Space Game in Years Might Never Come to Consoles

When you’re behind the game that’s broken all sorts of records for crowd-funding—$27,689,361 and counting—you can do what you want when it comes to the hardware that said title will show up on. Cloud Imperium founder Chris Roberts says that Star Citizen “will NEVER be dumbed down for a lesser platform.” And yeah, by lesser…

Dead Rising 3: The Kotaku Review

The real world can be a frustrating place. Stuck in traffic, trapped in line at the supermarket… it always feels like there’s someone in the way. Certain games—the Grand Theft Autos, the Dead Risings—show us a world where it’s okay to act on our worst, most violent impulses. Our forest of problems becomes a lawn…