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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

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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

Hey! You Can Grab Final Fantasy XIII-2’s Playable Demo Today

If you’re wanting to see just how different Final Fantasy XIII-2 is from its predecessor, you finally be able to check out a demo today. The playable snippets of Square Enix’s epic fantasy sequel go live on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live today. If you’re not in front of a console right now, the video…

By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2012

Xbox 360 Getting Fox News, Wall Street Journal

Hope you Xbox 360 owners in the US like your News Corp and Fox, because later this year there’ll be a range of apps bringing Murdoch-owned content like Fox News, IGN, The Wall Street Journal, Family Guy, House and The Simpsons to the console, all available on demand.

By Luke Plunkett Published January 9, 2012

There are now 66 Million Xbox 360 Consoles In the Wild

Microsoft announced just ahead of its CES keynote that the Xbox 360 has sold 66 million units worldwide. Kinect has sold 18 million. And there are just under 40 million Xbox Live users. That’s…a lot of people not connected to Xbox Live!

By Luke Plunkett Published January 9, 2012

Three New Hall & Oates Tracks in Rock Band? I Can Go For That

Call me out of touch, but I can think of nothing I’d rather go for than three classics tracks from rockers Hall & Oates coming to Rock Band on January 10. Some might call them the most important band in the history of music. Then they’d sober up, take a nap, and forget they ever…

By Mike Fahey Published January 6, 2012

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo Incoming

RPG fans will get a chance to test drive Square Enix’s upcoming Final Fantasy XIII sequel weeks ahead of it’s release with a demo due January 10 for the PlayStation 3 and January 11 for the Xbox 360. [Square Enix]

By Mike Fahey Published January 6, 2012

Is the Xbox Live “Hacking” Problem Worse Than Microsoft Realises?

So late last year, people began to complain that their Xbox Live accounts were being “hacked”. Microsoft said no, they weren’t, but acknowledged there was an issue with unscrupulous types “phishing” for account info. “It’s not a hack, it’s really just a different way to monetise stolen accounts”, Microsoft’s Doug Park said at the time.…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2012

5 Reasons I’m Totally Not Nervous About Mass Effect 3

Man, what the heck is this guy on about? He is clearly just trolling for pageviews. I mean come on Kotaku, no one should be nervous about Mass Effect 3. There are so many reasons to believe that the game will, in fact, be the best Mass Effect yet. Hmm actually, let’s slow down for…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 5, 2012

5 Reasons I’m Nervous About Mass Effect 3

I, like so many other video game enthusiasts, am something of a Mass Effect fan. I love the stories, I love the characters. I love the music, I love the constantly improving gameplay, I love my many Shepards. I even love the lore, convoluted and prone to satire though it may be. But if there’s…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 5, 2012

Gotham City Impostors‘ January Release Date Was Some Kind of Joke

With the console beta test for Monolith’s downloadable dose of bat on clown violence still ramping up, Warner Bros. has gently pushed the release date for Gotham City Impostors from January into February. Someone notify Julian Day! Releasing simultaneously on Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC can’t be easy, so we’ll cut the…

By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2012

Phantom Breaker Brings a New Flavor of 3D Fighting to North America

A new contender steps into the 2D fighting ring when 7sixty brings Japanese developer 5pb. Games’ brawler Phantom Breaker to the North American Xbox 360 this spring. A mysterious organization in Japan led by someone named Phantom has organized a fighting tournament the grand prize of which is a single wish. That’s as much of…

By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2012

Behold the Awesome Power of Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s Moogle

They’re not just about floating about saying “Kupo” anymore. In Final Fantasy XIII-2, many of the game’s most important mechanics are Moogle-powered. I’m not a picky Final Fantasy fan. All I want is a lengthy adventure of some sort and an adorable little floating critter by my side at all times. So I think I’m…

By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2012

Xbox Live Couldn’t Handle a UFC Match

The Xbox 360 getting UFC matches seemed like a good idea at the time. Pity Xbox Live couldn’t actually cope with all the people trying to watch one. Last Friday, UFC 141 was slated to appear on Xbox Live’s fancy TV service. It was such a big deal that Microsoft gave away 30,000 coupons so…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2012

Salvation Army Bell Ringer Shoplifts Video Games, BB Gun, Sex Toy

I’m trying to see what the real news is here: On one hand, a Salvation Army bell-ringer stole a BB gun, two video games and a vibrator from a Kmart. On the other, Kmart sells vibrators? Lest you think this is the Hitachi Wand, a “personal massager” that has some non-masturbatory applications, cops in Sterling…

By Owen Good Published December 30, 2011