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Moneysaver One-Shot: Sony MDR-V6 Headphones For Cheap

Can you hear the savings now? Amazon has Sony’s MDR-V6 headphones for a low $54 today. That’s squarely in impulse buy territory, and a no-brainer if you need a new pair. We love headphones at the Moneysaver, and we’ve found that you do too. Our Audio-Technica ATH-M50’s and ATH-M30’s were some of our most popular…

The Big Xbox One Announcement, in Helpful, Hilarious Abridged Form

If you didn’t see any of the Xbox One announcement yesterday, you may be of the impression this morning that Microsoft must have gone on stage and urinated on a picture of Mister Rogers while—wait a minute, was Phil Spencer really wearing two watches? VideoGamer, which also abbreviated Sony’s PS4 announcement back in February, provides…

Microsoft Plotting a New, Friendlier Xbox Live for Xbox One

Microsoft is taking steps to elevate the reputation of its popular but notorious online service, Xbox Live, for its third console, this fall’s Xbox One. If they pull this off, the more positive gamers of the world might enjoy their online gaming sessions a little more. A chief change involves a new, improved reputation system…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Nicholas Payne thinks the Xbox One may not be so bad. And there’s not one but two Japanese animation posts for you to catch up on. And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic and in…

PC FIFA Won’t Get EA Sports’ Next-Gen Engine

Sorry, Master Race. That superduper Ignite Engine that EA Sports is bringing to its next-generation games? Yeah, it’s not going to power any upcoming PC version of FIFA. That’s per FIFA community manager Rob Hodson, who had this to say on Twitter. Naturally, PC gamers did not react well. The truth is that PC has…

Report: Indie Developers Won’t Be Able to Self-Publish on Xbox One

The solo and small-team game-makers who’ve made games like Fez, Braid and Limbo won’t be able to control their own destinies on Microsoft’s next game console, according to a Shack News report. The article quotes Matt Booty, who is Microsoft’s general manager of Redmond Game Studios and Platforms, as confirming that indie devs will still…

Wildstar‘s Path System Might Be The Coolest MMORPG Feature Of The Year

Carbine Studios has already won me over with the Ratchet and Clank-style promotional videos and animated movie feel of its upcoming massively multiplayer online sci-fi role-playing game. WildStar path system, rewarding players for playing how they want to play, is a think, creamy layer of frosting on an annoyingly distant cake. When I play an…

Barry Allen’s Greatest Enemy Gets a Creepy Upgrade in The Flash #20

You don’t need to feel sorry for the Flash. Despite what it looks like, he’s doing okay. The Flash series has been one of the quieter success stories of DC Comics’ New 52 reboot. The Fastest Man Alive hasn’t had the kind of high-profile crossovers that Batman, Superman or Green Lantern’s books have had. Hell,…

The Graphical Overhaul Of Super Mario Land Is Adorably Presumptuous

Super Mario Land, the iconic Mario game for the original Game Boy, is not the typical target for player-crafted redesigns, but here we are. Arne Niklas Jansson has taken a a 24-year-old classic portable game and made it look like an indie PC game released last week. Jansson explains the entire process of tweaking a…

EA’s Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen has recently said that they “are building titles for the Nintendo consoles, but not anywhere near as many as we are for PS or Xbox.” This seems to contradict the stance they took last week, when they stated that they are not working on any games for the Wii…

This Game Shows That Being a God is Just Like Playing a Board Game

From A Valley Without Wind creator Arcen Games comes Skyward Collapse, a turn-based god game for the PC that entices not with its looks, but with its premise. As the Creator, your job is to keep the two factions living on your floating continent alive by preventing one from overpowering the other and protecting them…

Crave Some Random Facts? This Diablo III Infographic Is Just For You

Blizzard’s hack and slash extravaganza Diablo III has been out for over a year now, and they decided to celebrate with an infographic. From the usual statistics to quirky trivia, this one has them all—though I would’ve loved to know exactly how many keyboards were broken over Error 37. Check out the graphic below.

It’s a Clock! A Radio! An Alarm! The New Xbox Is All in One.

Kotaku reader erocker414 writes, “I took a couple liberties to make it look more like my beloved radio/alarm clock. Now I don’t dislike it as much.” Wood panelling isn’t new to clock radios—or video game consoles, for that matter. And it does make everything better. Everything. More on erocker414’s Kinja site.

Mainstream Media Reacts to the Xbox One

It’s bizarre. On my Twitter feed, in the Kotaku comments and from what I’ve heard from people involved in the games industry, the reaction the Xbox One reveal has been overwhelmingly negative. But the mainstream media? They seem to have missed the memo. While we’ve been spending the last five hours complaining about the lack…

YouTube has issued a statement following recent issues like the one surrounding Nintendo and various “let’s play” video creators. It basically amounts to “hey, take it up with the publisher”.

BioSloth Infinite Sweater Is At The Top Of My Christmas List

If there really is a Santa, I’ll be rocking this come December 26. And yes, I know it’s the middle of Summer in Australia on December 26, but fuck it. The BioSloth Infinite Sweatshirt You Didn’t Know You Wanted [Fashionably Geek] BioSloth Sweater [Shelfies]

I Hope This Really Is Xbox One Game Box Art

This box art image appeared on the official Battlefield 4 site today. It may only be a mock-up, since the console was only officially unveiled today, but I hope it’s the real deal. The clean look is a welcome departure from the mess Xbox 360 boxes ended up being, especially when Kinect compatibility was involved.…

This Is Probably Your First Next-Gen Need For Speed Screenshot

As teased on the series’ Facebook page earlier today, along with the text “Have no rules, show no mercy.”

The Xbox One’s 500GB HDD is non-removable. But that’s OK. The console’s USB 3.0 ports will take external storage, reports Engadget, and you can put anything on there you would on the internal drive, including games.

That Xbox One Reveal Sure Was A Disaster, Huh?

Well, I bet this isn’t how Microsoft thought its big day would end. What could/should have been a triumphant exclamation point, the day the next-gen console wars began in earnest, instead turned into a disaster I don’t think any of us saw coming. No matter where you turned today, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, forums…