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The Xbox 360’s Video Playback “Issue” Acknowledged, Microsoft “Working on a Fix”

After a few months of people pointing the issue out, Microsoft has finally acknowledged that the 2011 dashboard update has created a problem with the console’s video playback. Xbox spokesman Larry Hryb has said the company is “aware of the colorspace issue” affecting “some Xbox video apps”, and that Microsoft is “working on a fix”.…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012

Skyrim’s Creation Kit is “Nearly Ready”

I’m done with Skyrim. I’ve seen enough and done enough of what came with it to satisfy me, so I’ve put it down. I haven’t put it away, though, because I know the game’s creation kit is coming soon. Very soon, if Bethesda are to be believed. In an update on the company’s site, we’re…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012

It’s Official! Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield Co-Star in Resident Evil 6

As teased at NoHopeLeft.com and GameStop advertising materials, Resident Evil 6 is officially coming this November, bringing the series two most popular male leads together for the first time. Taking place some ten years after the Raccoon City incident that started this whole business, Resident Evil 6 begins with the President of the United States…

By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2012

Shank 2 Sticks It To Players February 7

Shank 2, the sequel to Klei Entertainment’s stylish 2D pulp fiction beat-em up, gets the drop on the PlayStation Network and PC February 7, with the Xbox Live Arcade version lagging a day behind.

By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2012

This Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Trailer Celebrates the Folks That Waited

Did you forego picking up Fallout: New Vegas and its downloadable content in the hopes that Bethesda would release some sort of Ultimate Edition featuring everything rolled into one? Then February 7 (10 in Europe) is your day to reap your patience’s reward. As someone that only played about an hour of Fallout: New Vegas,…

By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2012

Time Travel Opens Up Worlds of Possibility in Final Fantasy XIII-2

One of my favorite features of Final Fantasy XIII-2, time travel allows the player and their party to jump back and forth between different eras in the game’s history, small self-contained ‘What If?’ scenarios filled with stories to experience and items to collect. For fans of the Final Fantasy XIII setting, XIII-2‘s different time periods…

By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2012

Come for SoulCalibur V‘s Story, Stay For the Screenshots

With 17 years separating SoulCalibur V from SoulCalibur IV, Project Soul has near two decades’ worth of explaining to do. Could this be the most story-driven SoulCalibur yet? I swear there’s more plot and dialog going on in this short video than I recall seeing in any other game in the Soul series. Not that…

By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2012

Wow, the Xbox 360 is Absolutely Killing it (in the US, Anyway)

I tend to let monthly sales charts wash over me these days because, well, I’m 31 now and don’t give a shit which console sells more than another in any given month. Sometimes, though, I like to get a little hypocritical and take a peek at annual sales. And 2011’s make for interesting reading. While…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012

Mass Effect 3 + Kinect Looks Like This, Beta On February 14

Mass Effect 3 will use Kinect. But how, you ask, will that work? How dorky will I sound yelling things at my TV set? Watch this clip to find out. It’s…well, it doesn’t look too bad! Though these commands are all rather sterile. How well it works with my eyes full of tears or my…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012

Six New Challengers Appear for Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus a Vita Version Surprise

With Street Fighter X Tekken due out in early March, now is not the time for a tight trickle of new character reveals. That’s why Capcom has dropped six new fighters on us today, three from their team and three from the opposition. Has your favorite character been confirmed? Well that all depends, now doesn’t…

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012

Xbox Live Gold Members Can Demo The Darkness II Right Now

2K Games has unleashed a playable demo for The Darkness II, aka the further adventures of Jackie Estacado, exclusively for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. PlayStation 3 and PC players will get a taste come January 24.

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012

Microsoft is Not Doing Enough to Help Xbox Live “Hack” Victims

So there’s been some kind of security problem with Xbox Live accounts for a while now. Microsoft denies there’s been any compromise of its own data, yet still, for months now users have complained of having their accounts hijacked by people making unauthorised transaction. A theory emerged last week that the cause of the issue…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 16, 2012

This Might be the Reason Behind the Xbox Live “Hacks”

Ever since the first wave of “FIFA Hacks” surfaced last year, a lot of people have been complaining that their Xbox Live accounts had been “hacked”. Microsoft has continually denied any such breach of security, but you know, there have been too many cases for too long now for this to be nothing So, uh,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2012

It’s Hard to Ignore a Franchise That Sells 25 Million Games, Even If It’s Just Dance

Go ahead, snicker and titter just like you do when you pass a display of Ubisoft’s dancing franchise games at Target or Walmart. With 25 million copies sold across six titles, odds are you secretly own a copy of Just Dance yourself. I’m probably one of the first guys to point and giggle at those…

By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012

What Compels a Person to Trade In a Perfectly Good Video Game Console?

Perhaps angered by the large amount of used Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s sitting around his local video game store, commenter Uncle Jesse can’t help but wonder why someone would part with a perfectly good console in the middle of its prime. Let’s find out in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Why the heck would…

By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2012

It’s Time to Figure Out If You Give a Damn About Neverdead

The unkillable Bryce Boltzmann comes to life on January 31 in Konami’s Neverdead. Should you care? Megadeth hopes so. Owen Good didn’t seem to think so. Perhaps a new batch of screens will help? As novel the concept of being able to reconstitute yourself after being blown apart is, I’ve never really gotten excited about…

By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2012

Microsoft Shelves Fancy TV Service for the Xbox 360

There was a lot of buzz last year that Microsoft would be introducing a new TV subscription service for the Xbox 360, one that would bring all kinds of live TV shows to the platform and let them work with motion and voice control. Nothing ultimately became of it because, well, nothing ultimately became of…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Say Hello To The Dreamcast Television Set

The Divers 2000 series CX-1 Dreamcast was the best of its class

By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012

Microsoft’s Explanation For What Caused Xbox 360 Factory Suicide Threats

Earlier this week, Kotaku told you about how a large number of employees at a Foxconn factory in China had threatened mass suicide having been “denied compensation they were promised”. Microsoft assured us at the time that it would look into the matter, and has informed Kotaku that it has now completed “an independent investigation…

Luke Plunkett & Brian Ashcraft Published January 11, 2012

How Cops Use Xbox Consoles to Catch Crooks

Did you know that in the US, police can use Xbox 360 consoles—and Xbox Live—to trace and catch criminals? And that there are often law enforcement officers posing on the service undercover in an effort to catch child porn offenders? A report on Ars Technica, using recently-leaked correspondence from a digital forensics mailing list, shows…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012