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Everything We Know About the Halo Master Chief Collection

News of the Halo: Master Chief Collection already leaked a few weeks ago, but Microsoft and developer 343 Industries officially announced its existence today. It’ll be out on November 11 this year, in tandem with Halo 2‘s 10-year anniversary, and it’ll come with access to the beta for Halo 5: Guardians One Disc In a…

The New Fable Features Co-Op and Lets You Play as the Villain

You’re not going it alone in the next release in the Xbox first-party RPG franchise. You’ll have friends questing along with you. Unless you’re the bad guy, in which case you’ll have enemies. Fable Legends got its turn on the Xbox stage today, with a video that showcased multiplayer battles and a feature that lets…

A new arcade-style DLC pack for Dead Rising 3 is available today. Available on Xbox Live, Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix Hyper Edition EX Plus Alpha features online 4-player co-op with powerups, bonus stages, and… cosplay.

The Next Forza Horizon Hits On September 30

With Forza 5’s Drivatar tech and player-controlled clubs with up to 1000 members, along with dedicated servers for smooth multiplayer connectivity, Forza Horizon 2 is arriving to Xbox One and Xbox 360 on September 30. Playground Games’ new racer will feature “more than 200” cars to drive, and a new system for some “dramatic” weather…

Xbox One Games Might Soon Look A Little Better

Ever since launch, many multiplatform games just haven’t looked as good (or run as smoothly) on the Xbox One as they have the PlayStation 4. Going forward that gap might be closed. At least a little. From launch until now, developers had to leave some resources on the console’s GPU free for Kinect integration, which…

Hideo Kojima Says Metal Gear Solid V Is This Big

Metal Gear Solid mastermind says the map for next MGS will be big… 200 times bigger than the map from the Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes. The Ground Zeroes map is the red blotch on the bottom right of his chart. The square it’s on is MGS V Kojima showed this chart during a Metal…

The Hero Of Shadow Of Mordor Is Quite The Badass

Here he is, slaughtering orcs left and right in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor’s CG trailer. It looks like Talion will become quite infamous among the Uruk ranks for his deeds during (or before) the game’s events, turning into a legend of sorts. And, well, he’s certainly got the presence for that: Middle Earth: Shadow…

A Fresh Look At The Next Borderlands Game, Which Arrives This Fall

2K Games has released an all-new gameplay trailer for their upcoming FPS-RPG, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel The trailer has it all: new vehicles, new monsters, low gravity, and even a big moon dance number ’cause hey, why not. It’s fun! The game arrives to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 14, 2014 in North America,…

HBO Go Is Finally Coming To Xbox One

Rejoice! We can now watch all of Game of Thrones on our Xbox Ones. Provided you have an HBO Go subscription and an Xbox Live account, of course. But this is still awesome news, and something I’ve personally been waiting on. The Xbox team announced the news today, including a host of other awesome entertainment…

How To Rearrange The Xbox One’s Dashboard Pins

The June 2014 update for the Xbox One lets you rearrange the square “pin” icons that decorate the left pane of the system’s dashboard and serve as the console’s game/app shortcuts. That’s handy! So how do you do it? And why might you need a mirror? We can explain and make it easy for you.…

Watch Dogs: The Kotaku Review

My first question for Watch Dogs was, “Well, what if I don’t want to shoot Maurice?” “Sorry,” the game replied. “You are going to shoot Maurice and that’s all there is for it.” It was the very first interactive moment of the game, and I had two things: A gun, and a prompt to shoot…

Murdered: Soul Suspect: The Kotaku Review

I came across something midway through Murdered: Soul Suspect that summed up the majority of my experience playing this game. I was strolling through a police station as Ronan O’Connor, a detective so hard-boiled that his own death could not stop him from hunting down the notorious murderer as The Bell Killer. The game begins…

​I Drove Batman: Arkham Knight‘s Batmobile

And I liked it. The Batmobile is basically an extension of Batman’s repertoire of gadgets. In fact, even though Batman is of course a combat specialist, developer Rocksteady’s excitable Dax Ginn explained that the Batmobile is part of Batman’s primary toolset. The Batmobile operates in two modes. On a chase, pursuit mode is most appropriate.…

Batman: Arkham Knight Delayed To 2015

“Awesome takes time,” the ever-ebullient Dax Ginn recently told a group of reporters in explaining why his studio’s new Batman game, the first from Rocksteady since 2011, is no longer scheduled for a late-2014 release. If this news sounds a wee bit familiar, it’s because a whole bunch of games seem to be slipping to…

Mortal Kombat X Wishlist

There’s a newMortal Kombat? Cool. I’ve invited a handful of Mortal Kombat fans for a chat about what they’d like to see in the newly-announced Mortal Kombat X. They’re hashing it out below. Note: I’m using this post, in part, to test a new “invitation” system that lets us automatically feature certain people’s comments. The…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2013 Promises?

E3 is a-comin’. Next week, great gaming companies will take to the stage to show off all kinds of games and make all kinds of promises, as they did in the past. Like last year, for example. Let’s look at what Microsoft told us at their 2013 briefing. After the somewhat unfocused reveal of the…

The Next Homefront Game Is Set In A Future Philadelphia

Crytek has finally revealed what it’s doing with Homefront, THQ’s last stab at a big-budget shooter: it’s turning it into a free-roaming guerilla warfare FPS. On first impressions, it’s like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with smartphone cameras and disrupted with…

LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles

By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…

Microsoft Sure Wants Folks to Find Ryse‘s Five-Month-Old Easter Eggs

Are you still playing Ryse, the Xbox One launch game where you play as a gladiator in ancient Rome? Notice any bizarre unexplained happenings in the background, like nude dancing ladies? That might just be one of Ryse‘s weird easter eggs. Nine surprises have been embedded in the Crytek-developed combat drama. So far, Microsoft says…

Ex-PlayStation Chief Jack Tretton To Analyze All Of E3 2014’s Big Shows

Well, this should be interesting. Jack Tretton, the former boss for all of PlayStation’s business in America and the man who led numerous E3 PlayStation press conferences—including last year’s thunderous one—will be spending E3 2014 press conference day talking about Sony’s, EA’s, Ubisoft’s and even Microsoft’s grand stage shows. That news comes from Geoff Keighley,…