Xbox One Game Boxes Look Sharp

Xbox One Game Boxes Look Sharp

What Luke Plunkett wants, Luke Plunkett gets. This is what the official box for an Xbox One game looks like. You like? This is via official Xbox One hype man Major Nelson. … [Read more...]

Your Xbox One Games Can Be Suspended (Or Terminated)

The Five Possible States of Xbox One Games Are Strangely Exciting

Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One will bring console gaming to the present this year by allowing users to suspend the games they're playing. Save points can be a thing of the past on these consoles. Games don't really have to be turned "off". We reported as much about the Xbox One a few months ago. Sony then promised these kind of features for the PS4 during their reveal event in February. This week's Xbox One event made things even more … [Read more...]

Great Moments in Tweeting With Jonny Moseley

Great Moments in Tweeting With Jonny Moseley

Skiing great Jonny Moseley types his Tweets one letter at a time, just like the rest of us. And here he is chiming in on an exchange between Kotaku gossip Superannuation, Giant Bomb's Ryan Davis and me. This, folks, is what Twitter was made for. Just no one tell Jonny that Ryan Davis reviewed Jonny's PS2 game back in '02. Harshly. May time mend such wounds. … [Read more...]

Surprise! Dying Light Is A New Free-Running First-Person Zombie Game

Surprise! Dying Light Is A New Free-Running First-Person Zombie Game

Here's the first big-budget big game surprise of the E3 season: Dying Light, a first-person free-running zombie survival game from Techland, the makers of Dead Island, slated for current and next-gen consoles (and PC) for 2014. Think: Mirror's Edge with the undead. The game was featured last week at a special pre-E3 showcase for select gaming press held by Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, publishers of the Batman: Arkham and … [Read more...]

Microsoft Plotting a New, Friendlier Xbox Live for Xbox One

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 that will influence who plays together on the Xbox One's online service. "There is a new system in what we call Live 3.0 … [Read more...]

The Tiny, Cool Details of the New Xbox One Controller

The Xbox One controller looks a lot like the Xbox 360 controller, but the new pad actually sports some subtle but relevant differences. Let's take a video tour, shall we? The video above shows you the goods and also includes an attempt at a joke by me. Very regrettable, sorry. But...details! For those of you without the time or bandwidth to watch! A clickier d-padSmaller control sticks with a tighter dead zoneControl sticks that take less effort … [Read more...]