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The Xbox One’s Reinvention Of Watching TV And Sports Will Start Slowly

The Xbox One’s reinvention of television, both hyped and heckled for months, will begin with a baby step, if a recent demonstration of the November console’s impact on live sports broadcasts is any indication. At a fancy rented loft in Manhattan last week, Microsoft reps showed me the incremental progress they are making with the…

Xbox Facebook Account Smokes Whatever James Franco’s Been Smoking

Zelda? Not a Microsoft franchise, as I’m sure you know. Not that that stops the official Xbox Facebook account from telling you all about it…and also James Franco. For some reason! This sort of thing isn’t quite an isolated incident—before, the Xbox UK account has posted about The Last of Us. That’s also not a…

Xbox One’s External Storage Not Ready For Launch

Good news reminder: the Xbox One supports external storage. Bad news update: the Xbox One won’t support that feature at launch. While announcing the capability at E3 back in June, consoles released in November won’t let you plug in an external drive, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb explaining in a podcast that “the team is working on…

Here’s A Look At A Fun Brawler That Also Features Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows has a few notable features. Fun dialogue, a name that’s way too long, and fun multiplayer beat-em-up gameplay. TMNT: Out Of The Shadows is out now on Xbox Live Arcade and personal computers via Steam for $14.99, and it’ll be on PS3 in September. Watch Us Play…

Gearbox working on two next-gen titles. At their PAX Prime panel this afternoon Gearbox announced that they are working on two brand new IPs for the next generation of consoles. No word so far on what those might look like. The news comes as a surprise to no one. It’s just a matter of time…

Borderlands 2 DLC imminent. T.K. Baha’s Bloody Harvest Headhunter Pack, the new DLC for Borderlands 2 that Gearbox announced a while back, will release in October with plans for more Headhunter packs to follow. Still no word on pricing, but we do know that it won’t be part of the season pass.

Let’s Visit Some of the Beautiful Locations in the Next Final Fantasy

Square-Enix has just released no less than five trailers showcasing the locations of Lightning Returns. For a world that’s about to be destroyed, there’s quite a lot of amazing sights to be seen—so let’s dive in! Up above you can see the bustling streets of Yusnaan, the City of Revelry. Here are the Wildlands, dotted…

The Only Reason I Still Own An Original Xbox

Every girl I date seriously must eventually pass a trial. It happens at a certain point in every relationship I have; by then she basically knows what she’s getting with me, including my tendency to get weirdly obsessed with things. The bands Titus Andronicus and Belle & Sebastian, for one thing, or Game of Thrones.…

Xbox One TV Features Might Not Require Gold Subscription After All

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s messaging surrounding the Xbox One has been convoluted, and it seems even the company’s own representatives don’t quite have a grasp on all the console’s features and policies. But some of the TV-related features that Microsoft previously said will require an Xbox Live Gold subscription might not after all. The…

Foul Play Battles its Demons in a Crowd-Pleasing Way

A daemonologist, a chimney sweep, a stage play in Victorian England. Foul Play could have taken its inspiration from any number of sources. In fact, a music video from 1996 is largely how developer Mediatonic ended up with these themes on this type of game, a sidescrolling beat-em-up coming to Xbox Live in mid-September. “We…

XCOM‘s Big Fall Expansion In Glorious, Robo-Punching Action

This November, Kotaku game-of-the-year-winner XCOM: Enemy Unknown is getting its first substantial expansion, Enemy Within. It’ll feature a bunch of new abilities, weapons, enemies, and other changes. It sounds really good With this new trailer, we can see that it looks pretty good, too. Mech soldiers, genetically enhanced soldiers, the new “Mechtoid” enemy, as well…

Xbox vs. PAX Pox: Looks like Microsoft took Fahey’s hygiene primer yesterday to heart, bundling Xbox-branded hand sanitizer with its display models to do its part in the fight against con crud. We haven’t seen any PlayStation Purell yet.

A Rare, Fascinating Look Behind The Scenes Of The Next Final Fantasy

Square Enix, in an effort to both educate and entertain fans, has released the first episode of what is going to be a web documentary series chronicling the making of Lightning Returns, the upcoming sequel to Final Fantasy XIII-2 Narrated by Lightning’s voice actress, Ali Hillis, the introductory episode of “Inside the Square” focuses on…

Assassin’s Creed IV‘s Blackbeard Is Scarier In Real Life

If you thought Blackbeard intimidating in the trailers for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, wait until you see actor Mark Bonnar doing his voice. I peed a little. I spied Bonnar once before in a two-part episode of Doctor Who (2011’s “The Almost People” and “The Rebel Flesh”), and he didn’t strike me as particularly…

Nintendo of America Chief on Xbox One and PS4: Being New Isn’t Enough

Nintendo has to compete with two more machines this fall, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, both launching in November. It’s part of Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime’s job description to be unfazed by that. Here’s his take on the pending competition: “I don’t think consumers buy hardware just because it’s sexy and new,”…

The Official Xbox One Doritos And Mountain Dew Are Here

A new flavor of Mountain Dew Game Fuel, a shiny bag of Doritos and a card explaining what these things have to do with the Xbox One arrived on my doorstep bright and early this morning, so I made a video and drank some soda. For you. As mentioned in the vid, there’s a party…

I Can’t Get Over How Pretty This Zombie Game Looks

These five new screenshots for Dying Light, Dead Island developer Techland’s upcoming free-running zombie survival game, were released by Warner Bros. accompanying an announcement about the game’s competitive “Be The Zombie” mode. This multi-player game mode, which will only be available to pre-order customers at release, will feature Night Hunters—extremely strong and agile zombies who…

Xbox One Voice Commands Won’t Work At Launch For Everyone

One of the key draws of making the new Kinect mandatory for the Xbox One is that it allows you to do stuff like turn the console on just by talking to it. For Americans, you’ll be able to do that at launch, but if you’re from Australia or Austria, you won’t. Some very, very…

Sadly, GameCube-exclusive Link will not be included in Soul Calibur II HD Online this fall, but PS2-exclusive Heihachi and Xbox-exclusive Spawn will be available in both the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network versions. Combined, they are nearly as good as the Hero of Hyrule. Almost.

Warface Coming To Xbox 360, Still Called Warface

“The face of war has changed,” begins this trailer for Warface. And yet the name of Warface has not changed. It is still Warface. And thank god, really. Crytek’s absurdly monikered free-to-play multiplayer shooter will be coming to Xbox 360 in 2014. It’s a remarkably dour, serious game, considering that it’s basically impossible to take…