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Cortana is Dying, Multiplayer Sounds Very Interesting, and Other Pieces of Halo 4 News

Game Informer’s Halo 4 issue is now out, and inside are details not just on the game’s singleplayer campaign, but what new developers 343 studios are doing with the series’ multiplayer as well. Which is blah blah bullet points whatever. More interesting, to me at least, is that a big part of the fourth main…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 10, 2012

I Can’t Read Stories About Gaming Parents Shaking Their Children to Death Anymore

Chicago. Arizona. Tennesee. New Zealand. England. Now a man in Polk County, Florida is accused of murdering his three-month-old son after admittedly shaking the infant for interrupting his Xbox session. I can’t read this crap anymore. 20-year-old Jacob David Hartley, a stock boy at Sam’s Club, was playing on his Xbox on Thursday morning last…

By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2012

Skyrim 1.5 Patch Live for Xbox 360, Due Later Today for PS3

The patch Bethesda’s hit RPG that PS3 players have been waiting for—y’know, the one that should get the game working the way it’s supposed to—will be coming later today, according a tweet by VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines. You’ll also get those upgraded kill cams and a slew of other features in the…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 5, 2012

Kinect Star Wars Lures Game Critics to the Dark Side

What a ridiculous, attention-grabbing headline! Everybody knows game reviewers have already succumbed to the dark side; it’s a job requirement. Looking at the scores Kinect Star Wars is pulling in I’m beginning to wonder if there’s an even darker side. The fun thing about Kinect Star Wars (at least from a review perspective) is that…

By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2012

Hollywood Director James Gunn Chokes Up Because of Lollipop Chainsaw’s Zombie-Killing Cheerleader

Gory grindhouse horror movies. Bubblegum pop. The mish-mash of these elements makes it impossible to look away from upcoming action game Lollipop Chainsaw. It’s a balance that the title’s creators need to get just right but James Gunn and Goichi Suda think they’re on the right track I had a chance to sit down with…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012

$20 Minecraft, New Fable Hit Xbox Live This May [UPDATE]

Indie smash hit Minecraft will mine its way to Xbox 360 on May 9, Microsoft’s Major Nelson said today on his blog. It will be 1600 Microsoft Points, or a whopping $20. You’ll be able to play the sandbox game using Microsoft’s controller-free Kinect interface—in other words, you’ll finally be able to dig things with…

By Jason Schreier Published March 22, 2012

Far Cry 3’s Drug-Crazed Pharmacist Will Make Sure You Do Lots of ‘Shrooms

We already know that there’s going to be guns and violence and binge-drinking in Far Cry 3. In this new trailer for Ubisoft’s open-island shooter, you meet Dr. Earnhardt, who’ll be supplying you with a variety of nature’s finest mood enhancers. Appropriately creepy, no?

By Evan Narcisse Published March 21, 2012

Reviews

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City: The Kotaku Review

Last week, I spoke to a room full of teenagers at the Brooklyn Public Library about video games and technology. When they asked me what unreleased games I was playing as a perk of my job, I answered that I was getting up to my elbows in an upcoming Resident Evil game. “Resident Evil 6?!,”…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 20, 2012

Microsoft Working on a Gaming Helmet, Glasses

Since 2010, Microsoft has been working on a gaming display system so small that it wouldn’t need to be sitting on an entertainment unit or even held in your hands. You could wear it in a pair of glasses. Or in a stupid helmet. The company sees two avenues for such technology: the glasses are…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012

Former PlayStation Exec Taking Over Microsoft Studios Europe

The man who helped usher in the PS3 for Sony will now be the Xbox 360’s chief evangelist in Europe. Microsoft’s announced that Phil Harrison—formerly president of Worldwide Studios for Sony’s PlayStation division—has joined the tech giant’s leadership team. Harrison assumes some of the duties left open by the exit of respected game designer Peter…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012

The Next Xbox Won’t Have a Disc Drive? [Update]

As Kotaku revealed last month, work has begun on the next Xbox. It’s codenamed “Durango”. Today, website MCVUK reported a source revealed that the next Xbox apparently won’t have a disc drive. Instead, according to MCVUK, the next Xbox “will offer compatibility with some sort of interchangeable solid-state card storage, although it is not known…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012

Imagining a Future Without Xbox Live Arcade

It’s an established part of the current gaming landscape, for some perhaps even their favourite, but in a recent interview Microsoft’s Michael Wolf reminds us it won’t always be here. Asked by nefarious pirate Brian Crecente whether the service was eventually “going to go away”, Wolf replies “Personally, I’d say absolutely, yes.” “I think digital…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2012

Watch a Mean Ol’ Reaper Blot A Little Girl’s Sunshine in This Mass Effect 3 Teaser

This teaser is only a small part of a larger clip that EA’s going to roll out during this Sunday’s Walking Dead Stephen and I got to see it during EA’s Spring Showcase event and it’s got us even more pumped for a game that we were already excited about. Even if you hate the…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 14, 2012

These Mass Effect 3 Videos Make the Wait Until March 6 Feel Like Forever

Mass Effect 3’s less than a month away, but that span of time feels like an eternity. The relaunch of the website for BioWare’s sci-fi epic isn’t helping either. It’s sporting videos that tease out elements of the upcoming threequel from multiplayer to narrative. It seems like they’re there to help along people new to…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 10, 2012

Kinect-Enabled Shouts and Dragon Mounts: Will Skyrim‘s ‘Game Jam’ Experiments Ever See the Light of Day? [Updated with Video]

At D.I.C.E. 2012, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard just showed an amazing highlight reel of mods the studio built into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during a week-long “game jam” after the game’s release. Features like mounted combat, a lycanthropy skill tree, and one enormous mudcrab, the width of the horizon, were all shown. And…

By Owen Good Published February 8, 2012

2K Sports Caters to the Baseball / Basketball Crossover Crowd

2K Sports pulls a Jordan on March 6, combining its stellar basketball game with its so-so baseball franchise in the Xbox 360 exclusive $69.99 MLB 2K12/NBA 2K12 Combo Pack

By Mike Fahey Published February 8, 2012

The Xbox That Goes Ever On and On…

Artist Mads Peitersen combines an Xbox 360 with…Bilbo Baggins’ house. Don’t click away without at least looking at the shadow. Unexpected Journey [DeviantArt, via Rampaged Reality]

By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012

Microsoft “Cares Deeply” About Hijacked Accounts, Asks For “Trust in Us”

Offering the company’s first detailed and dare I say it human response to a recent flood of hijacked Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft’s Alex Garden, General Manager of Xbox LIVE, has issued the following statement: (I’ve bolded what I think are the important bits!) Your Security is Important to Me Since today is Safer Internet Day,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2012

The Darkness II Weathers the Hellish Attentions of Game Reviewers

There are plenty of things you can do with a tentacle besides porn, and The Darkness II has them all covered. Jackie Estacado has gone through hell; now he faces an even greater challenge: Critics. There’s something living inside mobster Jackie Estacado, born of the blackest corners of the psyche, eons of human suffering and…

By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2012

Reviews

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: The Kotaku Review

The lead designer of The Elder Scrolls III and IV, a New York Times bestselling fantasy author, and one of comics’ most notable creators walk into a development studio to create an action role-playing game based on an entirely original fantasy world. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Former major league baseball pitcher Curt…

By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2012