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Xbox Live Is Freeing Up A Million Gamertags
This week, Microsoft will release close to a million Xbox Live gamertags to the public, the company said today. These handles, which Microsoft says have been inactive since the original Xbox era, will start going free on May 18 at 2pm ET. Microsoftwon’t give the full list, so you’ll have to use trial and error…
By Jason Schreier Published May 16, 2016 -
Tony Stark Was Able To Build This Xbox In A CAVE! With A Box Of SCRAPS!
Xbox France had three of these consoles made up as a promo for The Latest Comic Book Movie™. You can’t buy them, but you can look at them and wonder why we can’t at least get that controller. The console itself is…a bit much, though the arc reactor effect in the middle is nice. I’m…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 28, 2016 -
Today, the game’s dev team confirmed that Superhot, the FPS where your movement controls time, is coming to the Xbox One on May 3. The PC version, which we reviewed, is a pretty good time, so the port might be worth checking out if you prefer gaming on consoles.
By András Neltz Published April 27, 2016 -
Microsoft Ends Xbox 360 Production
After a successful ten-and-a-half-year run, the Xbox 360 is officially saying goodbye. One might even say it’s turning around 360 degrees and walking away. Announcing the news on the Xbox Wire today, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer wrote a few paragraphs about the console’s success. And it has indeed been successful, selling upwards of 78 million units…
By Jason Schreier Published April 20, 2016 -
Battleborn Beta Impressions: It’s Alright
A name similar to Battlefront, Battlecry and even Bloodborne hasn’t helped next month’s Battleborn stand out. Descriptions of the game place it in an overflowing stew of team shooters and MOBA-influenced games. This week, at last, there’s an open beta which allows us to at least judge the game on its pre-release merits. And the…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2016 -
The Gamble To Make A Video Game About Infiltrating A 1970s Cult
“You’re sort of buying a lottery ticket,” the game developer Richard Rouse recently told me while explaining the mindset of trying to make an indie game after spending many years doing big budget stuff for Microsoft, Ubisoft and others. “It might be really successful,” he said. “I certainly hope it is. But you shouldn’t go…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 8, 2016 -
ReviewsQuantum Break: The Kotaku Review
A new console generation starts, and you wait for something special. The launch games are okay, but they are really just shinier versions of last-gen releases. Eventually, though, you play a game that hadn’t been done before, couldn’t have been done before. For this generation, for me, that game is Quantum Break, which is imperfect…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 5, 2016 -
Destiny Is Getting A Bunch Of Cool New Gear In April
Bungie just showed off some really nice-looking new armor sets and some other little additions coming next month to Destiny, a sci-fi shooter video game whose biggest fan picked the wrong week to go on vacation. The star of Bungie’s sneak-peek livestream was the new Desolate armor. It was teased last week and is modeled…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2016 -
Spelunky’s Journey From Pixel Game To Console Classic
It’s rare that gamers ever get to hear the full story behind how (and why) a game was made. So it’s awesome that Derek Yu, the creator of Spelunky, has written a book that does just that. Published by Boss Fight, Spelunky is Yu’s autobiographical, full-blown account of the making of the game, going very…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2016 -
Xbox Survey Wonders If You’d Trade In Your Digital Games For Store Credit
Refunds notwithstanding, digital video game purchases are normally a one-way street, but what if they weren’t? A question from a recent Xbox survey asks gamers if they’d part with their digital acquisitions for 10 percent store credit. The image belowpopped up on Reddit yesterday, and the hypothetical it presents is interesting. Trading in a $60…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2016 -
Xbox One Gets Another ‘Limited’ Price Drop
The Xbox One will drop to $300 for a “limited time” next week, Microsoft said today. In other words, don’t ever plan to spend more than that on the console. See, Microsoft has a habit of announcing “limited” hardware discounts that transform into permanent ones, which is bad news for anyone who buys at the…
By Jason Schreier Published March 18, 2016
