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The Daily Show Takes a Shot at Microsoft and Xbox One

Last night’s edition of Comedy Central’s fake news program had cranky commentator Lewis Black ranting about new and upcoming technology. Along with Google Glass, Black takes aim at the Xbox One and its always-watching/listening Kinect camera. It’s pretty funny stuff. (Except that Black doesn’t mention that you’ll have a bit of control over what the…

Moneysaver One-Shot: $10 Bonus Pre-order Amazon Credit On Trade-Ins

Out with the olds. Well that title was a mouthful. Basically, you’re gonna sell Amazon some games, and in addition to the money they give you for said games, they’re going to give you an additional $10 to put toward pre-orders. We feature lots of pre-order deals on the Moneysaver, and yes, the money can…

Up Close And Oh-So-Personal With The PlayStation 4 Controller

At Sony’s E3 booth, they’ve got a PlayStation 4 on display and playable. You can’t get to the console itself, but the controller is just hanging out, waiting for people to mess around with it. So that’s just what we did. In the video above, I’ll take you on a quick tour of the controller.…

It’s A Tense, Fast-Paced Sneaking Simulation Extravaganza

On the E3 show floor, Kotaku’s Jason Schreier managed to get a hands-on with the Vita version of Curve Studios’ Stealth Bastard, re-dubbed Stealth Inc. for its console release. By the looks of it, the stealth-platformer hybrid made the jump to handhelds quite well. Stealth Inc. hits PS3 and the Vita this month

Our sister site Gizmodo loves the Xbox One’s non-gaming features, but they still think that Xbox Live Gold is still “one of the biggest rip-offs in tech.” Their argument

Yep, Cube World Still Looks Adorable

The developers of upcoming voxel-based sandbox RPG Cube World, Picroma, are posting a series of updates to their website discussing the many weapon skills each class will use in the game, starting with the Warrior. I want a plushie of that green thing. I don’t even know what it is but I want to give…

Nintendo Defends Choice To Have Retro Make a New Donkey Kong Country

Nintendo knows that the choice to have the company’s top-flight development studio in Texas make another Donkey Kong side-scroller was controversial—so controversial, in fact, that Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime actually addressed it in a video yesterday shortly before I asked him about it. The video stands out as one of the few original…

Sonic the Hedgehog leads the march of digital offerings for Nintendo hardware this week. The line-up also includes games like Mighty Switch Force! 2 and Shining Force: Sword of Haiya. Here’s the full list.

Mario’s Creator Likens Game Ownership to Toy Ownership

It’s clear what Microsoft thinks of game ownership—the Xbox One’s policies don’t communicate much of a belief in it. Sony scored a lot of points on Monday, but to be fair, it was a defense of the status quo. Where does Nintendo come down on the subject? Shigeru Miyamoto, the creative face of the company,…

The “World’s First Speed MOBA” Spawns On The App Store

Crafted by former members of A Bit Lucky and some folks from Trion Worlds, Solstice Arena is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game that Zynga is calling the “world’s first speed MOBA.” What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means 3-on-3 matches last for 5-12 minutes, making it a very mobile-friendly. They’ve gotten rid…

The Best Moments of Nintendo’s E3 Direct, Mixed With Attack on Titan

If an anime with Nintendo characters existed, the powerful opening theme of Attack on Titan series would be a perfect cover song for it. It sums up Nintendo’s E3 direct rather well. The video, by demoncry54 is similar to one made for the Sony event. I have a strange feeling we won’t see an Xbox…

That Other XCOM Game Snuck Into E3

The folks over at Twitch have been streaming live gameplay demos from E3 all week. I know this, becuase every now and then over the course of the past few days I’d completely cut-off contact with my coworkers to enjoy a particularly compelling segment, like this one for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. I’ve been intrigued…

StreetPass Has Problems In The West. Nintendo Is Fixing Them.

At their E3 analyst briefing yesterday, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed the company’s plans to revitalize sales of its handheld 3DS system in the US and Europe by fundamentally changing the way its StreetPass feature works. Currently, StreetPass operates by exchanging game data between 3DS consoles in close proximity to each other. Iwata explained that…

The LEGO PS4 Is Not $399

The amazing thing here in this video by builder Kooberz isn’t just that his LEGO PS4 looks just like the real thing, but that he got this done – and edited a video – so damn fast. The console was only shown off on Monday, and here he is good to go on Thursday! Lego…

That’s One Hell Of A Persona Statue

This Persona figure, by Vertex, will probably cost you $120-130. Which is a lot for something that’s only 1/7 scale (not much bigger than your standard action figure). Then again, your standard figure isn’t of Persona 3’s Mitsuru Kirijo. Depicted here in her combat gear from fighting game Persona 4: Arena, she comes with a…

A Very Wonderful Wii U Game

Maybe it’s because it’s a hard game to nail in a single sentence, maybe because it’s Platinum’s “other” Wii U game (after Bayonetta 2), but Wonderful 101 has sadly not gotten the attention it deserves this week. Let’s change that. I mean, what’s there not to love about a game that can channel Viewtiful Joe…

E3 Just Makes You (Well, This Guy) Want To Dance

E3 is, for many attendees, nothing but one giant party. Most of the time, those parties are in dark venues with catered food. This guy, however, managed to find his party in what looks like the…Ouya parking lot You go, man. Dance the E3 away. Video [Frag Burn]

E3 Swag Is Already All Over eBay

Most professional press attending E3 avoid going overboard on grabbing “swag”. It’s unprofessional (plus it’s usually tacky anyways!). For many fansites and retail reps, though, E3 is as much about the race to collect free t-shirts as it is to play some new games. For some of those, it’s then also a race to get…

Even Shin Megami Tensei IV Has An E3 Trailer

And it’s lovely. Atlus, keep doin’ what you’re doin’.

Mirror’s Edge 2 Is “Open World”, More Of An “Action Adventure”

I love Mirror’s Edge so much I’m not going to get into it here, but the game had its faults. All those indoor bits, mostly. I wanted to run free! Developers DICE are keeping tight-lipped on the freshly-announced sequel for the most part, but one thing they did disclose – and it’s pretty important –…