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Kinect Gives Free Helicopters to VIPs

At first I thought this was a Marine CH-46 ferrying a extremely large, green hot dog. No, it’s actually an Army Chinook carrying a raft. Microsoft gave out this Kinect Adventures Avatar toy to everyone at last night’s Kinect event.

Tiny Wii Controllers For Your Freakishly Small Hands

Are Nintendo’s Wii remote and nunchuk controllers too big for your hands? Power A has your freakishly misshapen appendages covered with the charmingly named MiniRemote and MiniChuck. E3 isn’t just about the games. It’s also a place for companies like Power A to march out odd little accessories like this MiniRemote and MiniChuck combo. Retailing…

Hey, Maybe Eminem is Appearing for Call of Duty

Eminem tweeted he’d appear in Activision’s event at E3, and yesterday I joked “I don’t think he’s appearing on behalf of Call of Duty: Black Ops.” Maybe he is. A track from his new album will be in the game. Most would think of DJ Hero 2 first, but in a news release touting the…

A Delightful Chat With the Most Hated Man in Video Games

For Bobby Kotick, it all started with a handshake in a parking garage under an Atlantic City casino. The story of Kotick is the story of video game juggernaut Activision, a tale of chance meetings and unbelievable circumstance, of Apple founder Steve Jobs and millionaire recluse Howard Hughes. But before the story there’s the cheesecake.…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Now that we know what made this lady move, please talk here about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

Previously, On Mass Effect

BioWare is kicking off a playable demo for Mass Effect 2 tomorrow, which comes complete with a “story so far” video for players who never played the first game. This is that video. So Mass Effect newbies should be able to watch this video and be completely up to speed on Mass Effect. That way,…

4-0

To: Team Los Angeles From: Team Australia So, Australia’s World Cup campaign got off to as poor a start as you (well, I) could possibly imagine, with a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Germany. Making matters worse was the fact I got up at 4:30am to watch it. Football, as they say, can be…

What The World Needs Is A Lady Gaga Kind of First Person Shooter

Stuart Black was going to make a typically dreary first person shooter. Then he went to see a Lady Gaga concert. Out went his original shooter game play. “It had a very serious tone to it,” he told me on a visit from his native England during a recent interview in New York. “And then…

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood’s E3 Trailer

The franchise’s father may have walked out, but his baby lives on, with the latest in a long line of trailers showing an Assassin working his way through a crowd, a trail of corpses in his wake. I’d love to say no horses were harmed during the production of this trailer, but…clearly, one horse is…

Rumor: 500GB PlayStation 3 Coming, Includes New Wi-Fi, Move

According to an “industry source” speaking with games site CVG, Sony will later this year release two new PS3 bundles, both including the PlayStation Move motion controller, and one of them packing a monster hard drive. We knew Move bundles were coming, as Sony said as much earlier in the year, but releasing two bundles…

360 Avatars Get In The World Cup Spirit

The 2010 World Cup has hit Xbox Live Marketplace, with a range of official and unofficial team merchandise now available for your Xbox 360’s avatar. Finally delivering on a promise that’s gone unfulfilled ever since the avatars were first released, fans of the beautiful game can buy official jerseys, shorts, socks, boots and even supporter…

Get A Look At Kinect’s Star Wars Game

Perhaps the best “game” we saw yesterday at Microsoft’s Kinect launch event was a Star Wars title. Why? Why don’t you take a look yourself. Take all this with a sizable grain of salt, of course, as you always should with on-stage demonstrations, but anyone that watches this and isn’t at least a little excited…

Force Unleashed II’s Gameplay Shows Stormtrooper’s Aim Has Not Improved

While Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II’s cinematic trailer is very impressive, it also contains not a second of gameplay footage. That’s what this gameplay clip is for! Things look much the same as they did back in 2008 with the original, the only real noticeable upgrades being a shinier floor and some nice weather…

Kinect Will Be Out In November

As the maketing material says, Microsoft’s Kinect will be out this November. Whether that’s November for the entire world, or just the US & Europe, remains to be seen. As seen on MCV

Fake Families Put Kinect Through Its Paces

You already knew that much of Kinect’s early marketing would be targeted at a casual crowd. So when you watch this collection of game “demonstrations”, try and keep that in mind. At least, try and keep it in mind until the horrors of the dancing game’s “guitar throw”. Those who want to see what Kinect’s…

Kinect Isn’t As Big As You Think It Is

With its long, lean body, people have long assumed Micrsoft’s Kinect would be enormous. But don’t worry. It’s not. As seen on Gizmodo

Kinect’s Final Hardware Revealed

Here it is, the final, retail hardware for Microsoft’s motion-control camera, Kinect. Look familiar?

Our First Look At Natal’s Star Wars, Sports Games (And Minority Report Menus)

Following tonight’s Cirque du Soleil performance in Los Angeles, Microsoft gave us a first look at many of Kinect’s first titles, most of which we’d never seen before. Most promising may well be a Star Wars game, developed by Microsoft and Lucasarts, that features controller-free lightsaber duels, complete with force powers like “force push”. Kinect…

Cirque Performance a Pitch Not Just for Natal, but Games

In the two years he’s been the executive producer for Microsoft’s E3 appearance, Aaron Greenberg’s brought The Beatles on stage and tonight, Cirque du Soleil. He expects to be asked how he’ll outdo that, and he doesn’t have an answer. “I’m eager to not have to try to one-up this next year, that’s for sure,”…

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