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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 -
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 -
Ubisoft and DC Team Up for Driver Comic
Ubisoft and DC Comics’ WildStorm Productions are teaming up to produce a comic set in the Driver video game series universe, with a preview comic to be given away at Comic-Con this week. The comic itself, illustrated by Greg Scott and written by David Lapham, takes place after the events of Driv3r and ends just…
By Amber Nichols Published July 21, 2010 -
Killer Gets Two Life Sentences in Xbox-Motivated Murder
A Colorado Springs teen who killed a developmentally disabled man – investigators said he wanted the guy’s Xbox – will spend the rest of his life in prison for it. Kyle Sebastian Stott, 19, killed Jason Holley 22, in January 2009, hiding his body in a ravine near a hiking trail west of Colorado Springs.…
By Owen Good Published July 17, 2010 -
Who Is Going To Go Next Gen First?
The Xbox 360 launched in 2005. The Wii and the PS3 hit in 2006. It’s the middle of 2010. Shouldn’t we be getting ready for new consoles? Sony has stated repeatedly that the PS3 will have a ten year lifespan. We don’t doubt that at all. The PS2 has gotten lengthy and steady support from…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2010 -
When Britney Spears Meets Japanese Hack-And-Slash
After nearly a decade of trying, Microsoft still hasn’t cracked the Japanese market with its Xbox consoles. We’re not quite sure why, what with savvy cross-promotions like this! This disc was a prize offered by Japanese magazine Famitsu back in 2002. It’s a DVD combo, including a demo of From Software’s hack-and-slash title Otogi, some…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2010 -
Steampunk Halo
Master Chief…all Victorian like. Over the course of two months, artist Christophe worked on this steampunk version of the helmet worn by the Halo Spartan. After a series of misses, Christophe was able to use four layers of acrylic paint and PCV pipe to create the effect. Oh, forgot one last material used — the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2010 -
Fable III Rises To Power In October
Peter Molyneux took the stage today at Microsoft’s E3 2010 press conference to nail down an October release date for the third entry in Microsoft Game Studios’ flagship action role-playing game series000 “It’s everything you love about Fable and more,” Molyneux promised regarding Fable III, which could be one of the most reasonable promises he’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 14, 2010 -
Prepare Your Questions About Autobots and Decepticons
Start rehearsing your nerdiest Transformer questions, because we’ve got a bona fide Transformers game developer sitting in the guest chair live on Wednesday’s Kotaku Talk Radio. Call in and ask them. I’ll have mine ready, for sure. Matt Tieger, High Moon Studio’s game director on this month’s Transformers: War For Cybertron game, just might be…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2010 -
Lost Planet 2’s Second Map Pack Has Something Old And Something New
If we’re going to complain about Modern Warfare 2 DLC including older maps, should we also complain about the return of the original Lost Planet’s Frozen Wasteland as one of two maps in Lost Planet 2’s second map pack? There are a couple of major differences between Lost Planet 2’s second map pack, due out…
By Mike Fahey Published May 27, 2010 -
J Allard’s Parting Advice To Microsoft
J Allard may have left Microsoft, leaving us heartbroken in his wake, but he leaves with some solid advice for the lumbering giant of the electronics world. “Find a college student that claims we don’t get it and blogs tirelessly about our lack of agility”, he wrote in his farewell memo to the company. “Track…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2010 -
A Brief History Of Xbox Quitters
Microsoft has a storied history of losing some of its biggest and most recognizable Xbox executives, the suits who manned the company’s E3 and CES keynotes. Today, two more names joined that growing list, Robbie Bach and J Allard. They’re not the only ones to move on from the Xbox division over the past eight…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 25, 2010 -
She’s Gonna Grow Up And Kick Your Ass
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By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2010 -
J Allard, We Will Miss You
It’s official. Our most beloved Microsoft exec, James “J” Allard, is leaving Microsoft after 19 years. The Boston University grad tasked with injecting cool into the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Zune is moving on, leaving us with fond, hoodie-filled memories The man who once described himself and the original Xbox division as the “Eminem of…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 25, 2010