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Microsoft Responds To Reports Of Xbox Live Account 'Jacking' Allegedly enraged over her five-year-old son’s playing of a video game he received as a Christmas gift, Jutrina Tillman of Phoenix, Arizona, dragged the young boy into his bedroom and began to strangle him before threatening to kill him and his 13-year-old sister with a butcher knife.
Kotaku reader Mike didn’t have any old Christmas. He had a Zelda Christmas, complete with a box, rupees and a Master Sword that Mike purchased from his sisters.
Here’s further proof that basically everything goes better with Portal. Redditor Tyamykal has posted a photo of his Portal-fied Christmas tree, which certainly beats the hell out of the 20 years’ worth of musty tinsel I festooned all over my folks’ tree this year.
If you got or you gave a mobile device yesterday — iPhone, Android phone, iPad or tablet — chances are there’s a “what now?” factor in the discussion. Chances are you or someone else may also have given or been given a little money to put some apps on the thing, too. What do you do? What are the first games to download? Calm down, we’ve got you covered here.
In 1966, TV station WPIX filmed a a fireplace at New York’s Gracie Mansion, cancelled $US4,000 worth of advertising and broadcast it for two hours on Christmas Day as a gift to viewers who had no fireplaces in their apartments. Its spirit lives on screens large and small to this day.
Treyarch’s 2011 Christmas card is also a neat little Call of Duty: Black Ops ornament, all ready to be hung on a tree. If you’re a big fan, feel free to print these out, trim the excess, tape them together and hang it in your own tree.
Today we received a delivery. No, a courier didn’t come to the office, nor did the pizza guy. Rather, a group of Kotaku readers exploded into our head quarters, massive boxes in arms, yelling “MERRY CHRISTMAS!”. We were absolutely blown away by the thoughtfulness of the gifts, especially some of the art and cards we received. Here’s the organiser of the Kotaku Christmas Project, long-time reader and all-the-time wonderful person, Chuloopa, to talk about the cards.
Over the weekend you might find yourself without your consoles or beefed-up PC. You might be staying at a relative’s house or keeping your grandmother company. She might have a computer that runs Vista. Just as you’re ready to claw your eyes out after your second cousin suggests for the sixtieth time that you join in on a game of Jeopardy!, you decide that unless you play a video game immediately, you might actually explode. This is where Kotaku steps in.
First DC Universe Online introduced the Green, Yellow, and Red Lanterns. Now, just in time for Christmas, they’re getting all greedy. The one and only Orange Lantern Larfleeze has appeared in game update seven, spreading Season’s Greedings to Gotham and Metropolis.
