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Japan Hated The Xbox Before It Was Even Out

The Xbox never caught on in Japan. The 360 is having problems, too. Ever wonder why? There are any number of reasons why Japan won’t embrace the console now, but let’s go back to the very beginning. “…when I went to Japan to show the console, man, they really had a problem with it. I…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2010

Steve Jobs Went Bananas When Microsoft Bought Halo’s Creators

Before Halo, Bungie had made a name for itself developing the Marathon series of shooters on the Mac. So when the studio was bought by Microsoft to make games for the Xbox, Apple boss Steve Jobs was pissed “As soon as we announced we bought Bungie, Steve Jobs called,” former Microsoft VP of game publishing…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2010

For The First Time, Rockstar Games Previews A Game With A Rhyme

We knew Rockstar Games was going to include a cooperative multiplayer gamers vs. zombies horde mode in the October 26 Red Dead Redemption expansion Undead Nightmare. Who knew they were going to make a poem about it? See/hear it here.

By Stephen Totilo Published October 21, 2010

Make a Meat Boy From Paper

Super Meat Boy and Dr. Fetus papercraft by the folks at Cubeecraft.com. Click to enlarge, print, cut, fold. It’s easier than playing Super Meat Boy, which is one tough newly-released Xbox Live Arcade game.

By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010

Oprah Audience Explodes Into Hysterics Over Free Xbox Kinects

We were kind of hoping today’s Kinect plug on Oprah would mean she’d be piloting a virtual raft with her body, but the episode’s YOU GET A KINECT! YOU GET A KINECT! YOU GET A KINECT! finale is even better. Oprah’s typical studio audience is, to put it politely, not exactly a core Xbox demographic—but…

By Sam Biddle Published October 19, 2010

Original Xbox Has A New Launch Date — Literally

Literally. YouTube user ShredRexx attempted to soft-mod an original Xbox but wound up frying it. Perhaps taking a page from this stunt, he placed it atop an airbag from an older car and, well, see for yourself. [seen via Reddit]

By Owen Good Published October 15, 2010

250GB Xbox Includes Forza, Alan Wake

A new Xbox 360 means new Xbox 360 bundles for the holiday season, and one of the first cabs off that yuletide rank for 2010 seems to be this Canadian offer, including two full games with a 250GB console. Those two games, both Microsoft exclusives, are a boxed copy of Forza 3 and a download…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2010

Xbox Avatar Editing and Gaming on Windows Phone 7 in Action

Microsoft spent Monday morning walking gathered press through the release dates and details for their Windows Phone 7 phones, due to start hitting in early November. Here’s a look at the gaming they walked us through on the phone.

By Brian Crecente Published October 11, 2010

Report: Halo Movie Might Happen With Spielberg, But In An Unexpected Way

Microsoft’s “on hold” plans for a Halo film series may be back on again, with Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Pictures “renewing its efforts to obtain the rights and revive the project,” according to a new report. NY Mag’s entertainment column, Vulture, cites “insiders” in a report that claims DreamWorks is “focusing on using novelizations of the…

By Michael McWhertor Published October 6, 2010

Hold On: $66 For A Halo: Reach Pre-Order Bonus?

Those who preordered Halo: Reach from GameStop got a code for a nifty suit of armor. This code was, technically, free. Some guy’s been selling them on eBay, for close to and even more than the game’s retail price. “People want what they can’t have,” the seller, who has auctioned off codes before, told Hot…

By Owen Good Published September 22, 2010

Resident Evil Creator’s New Horror Game Is Called…

First made public in early 2008, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda have teamed up with EA on a new game. According to Japanese game mag Famitsu, that game has a title. The Mikami/Suda project will be titled “Shadows of the Damned”, or rather “Shadows of the DAMNED” (their…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2010

Stolen Console Leads Cops To Meth Surprise

A Florida woman swiped and pawned her roommate’s console, and when the cops came over to ask questions, they noticed a “large white chemical cloud” wafting out of the house. Better living through chemistry! Today’s fun-filled crime report comes from St. Johns County, Fla. (the greater Jacksonville area). Cops say a 36-year-old woman sneaked into…

By Owen Good Published September 11, 2010

Two New Warriors Join The War For Cybertron

The second pack of downloadable content for Transformers: War for Cybertron drops today, with five new multiplayer maps and the addition of two new playable Cybertronian warriors: Zeta Prime and Dead End. While we had plenty of warning for the first downloadable content pack for Transformers: War for Cybertron, Activision springs the second pack on…

By Mike Fahey Published September 7, 2010

Look At (Almost) All The Light Guns

One of the experiences that unites gamers is that so many of us have picked up a plastic gun and pointed it at our TV. History has given us dozens of light guns. Here, a gallery of greats and not-so-greats… We’re going to deviate from chronological order with this first one but then take it…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2010

Xbox Kinect Gets Its Fight Club

You love to punch your arms through the air, like you’re beating up ghosts. You wish you could be part of a Fight Club. You have an Xbox 360 and may have a Kinect. There is a game for you. The game is called Fighters Uncaged, and it appears to be publisher Ubisoft’s answer to…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2010

The Future Is Gray In Ghost Recon Future Soldier

A bleak future is portrayed in these Ghost Recon Future Soldier screens, released for this weeks Gamescom. No hotel sign is safe.

By Aulistar Mark Published August 18, 2010

Report: China To Get Kinect Clone

Microsoft’s Kinect will not go on sale in China. The fact that video game consoles are banned (yet, still widely available through the gray market) means that Microsoft isn’t able to give the controller-free peripheral an official launch. That’s okay. According to a report on website chinagame.178.com, company Bejing eedoo is planning on revealing a…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2010

Splinter Cell’s Strange Baby Seal Saving Mission Exposed?

Click to viewSo did you hear the one about Splinter Cell secret agent Sam Fisher saving a bunch of space-dwelling baby seals and their princess? Yeah, we hadn’t heard about this Splinter Cell: Double Agent easter egg either. No one has. So claims the hidden mission’s creator, a Ubisoft Montreal level designer and his co-op…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 11, 2010

Mom Busted, Accused Of Luring Teens With Xbox-For-Sex

A married mom of three discovered the surest way into a 15-year-old’s pants is with video games. After lavishing two teens with consoles and gifts and getting sex over two years, Stacy’s mom now has it going on behind bars. Christine Shreeve Hubbs, of Livermore, Calif. faces 67 counts of sexual assault and allegedly had…

By Owen Good Published August 8, 2010

Deep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect and Why It’s the Future of Microsoft

Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it’s the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It’s the beginning of Microsoft’s plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you’re staring at right now. *** Kinect is as much a product of serendipity as anything else. When Microsoft hired…

matt buchanan & Joel Johnson Published August 5, 2010