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Watch an Early Xbox One Owner Set Up His Console
Even if it’s a “small number”—we’ve heard 150—you can see why Target sending out Xbox Ones early is such a screwup. Here are a series of videos showing the console as it is set up by a user, apparently in Texas, who also got an early delivery. Yesterday, Stephen Totilo got a tweet from a…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make ‘Shop, Not Warcraft
‘Shop Contest all-star uscg_pa and I were chewing over ideas on Friday morning—I thought his suggestion might be a little too open-ended; he said he had awesome ideas ready to go. Then at the last minute someone at Blizzcon went and cosplayed the Warcraft-playing troll from South Park, and now we have this week’s exploitable.…
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Let’s Watch The Avengers: Age of Ultron—in Skyrim
When I think of awesome video game voice actors who play multiple characters—sometimes in the same game—I first think of Mark Cripps, whose fatally smug Throthgar in Skyrim at the Movies has entertained generations of fans. What, you thought I was gonna say Nolan North? Cripps and his Tyrannicon gang (Chris Hardwick and Anthony Ingruber,…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: One Big-Ass Xbox: the Winners
This week’s challenge: take an enormous stunt Xbox One laying in a Vancouver parking lot and turn it into something profound. A dirty dozen answered the call—they’re all inside, alongside overall No. 1 arniejolt! AboboInSloMo arniejolt docherty (a callback to this contest) Eight-Bit Generation Imp JBrr JDonneR93 r1ggs Ryan89_19 sciteach uscg_pa VaughnWhiskey Velduanga To contact…
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Meet The Guy Who Got The Xbox One Early
Before Monday, André Weingarten figured he was out of luck. A devoted Xbox user from day one—he replaced two red-ringed 360s—Weingarten didn’t have a preorder down for the newest console. Then, lo and behold, Target had them in stock online. And then, incredibly, Weingarten had an Xbox One on his doorstep four days later. “I…
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We Know Much More About The Warcraft Movie Now
The Warcraft movie is coming in 2015, yet we barely know anything about it outside of the setting and who’s directing. At the Warcraft movie presentation at BlizzCon 2013, we learned a whole lot more, from setting to story and more. Who’s Working on the movie? When director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) first read…
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No, Call of Duty: Ghosts Did Not Make $1 Billion on Its First Day
Call of Duty: Ghosts didn’t get the usual triumphal announcement from Activision that it was the biggest entertainment launch of the year. Because, one assumes, it was not. Activision did say that $1 billion worth of Call of Duty was on retailers’ shelves. Why is that worth bragging about? Well, this video is why. Here…
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If You Get an Xbox One Early, You Can’t Connect it to Xbox Live
Microsoft has acknowledged Target’s screwup, which sent out some preordered Xbox Ones two weeks before the console’s launch, and said that anyone who does get one early will be unable to connect it to Xbox Live. This is the full statement sent to Kotaku by a Microsoft spokesperson: Due to a retail partner’s system issue,…
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Wild Offer of Free Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed Floods Canada Stores
So, let’s get this straight. In Canada this weekend, take any Xbox 360 or PS3 game—good, bad or ugly; GOTY or shovelware—trade it in, and get a free copy of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts or Battlefield 4. Is that right? Is someone smoking crack up there? Not you, mayor ……
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A Jumbo Jet Crashes the City in Dead Rising 3
Dead Rising has always had a kind of joie de mort about it, but Capcom made it clear this summer that comes to an end with the Xbox One-only Dead Rising 3. Unless the pilot and everyone on board is a zombie, there’s not much dark comedy to be found in a 757 disaster. Capcom…
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The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of November 4
November already? That’s crazy talk. We’re just upon next-gen season and things are going to get crazy around Kotaku town. In the meantime, catch up on the not-s0-crazy times over on Kotaku Selects On another note…who else is hungry? For pizza maybe? Thanks, Pedro Miranda Filho. Now we’re all gonna get fat on pizza. To…
By Tina Amini
