feature

The Xbox One Believers

I came to E3 this year in search of good news about the Xbox One. By week’s end, I found a few men able to tell me some. I’d heard the bad things about the Xbox One — the inability to lend games discs to friends, the requirement for the console to check in online every 24 hours in order to play even a singleplayer game.


These Games Were Missing From E3

Now that we’ve had a weekend to recoup from the bright lights and pulsing music of the world’s most elaborate video game marketing circus, it’s time to take a quiet moment to reflect on the games we didn’t get to play at E3 2013. Jade, Samus, Drake — where were you guys?


The E3 That Was: The Future That’s Yet To Come

Being at E3 is a bit like walking through the doors of an overpriced superclub. The swelling, monstrous swamp of noise. The hordes of sweaty bodies jostling for space. There’s a wide-eyed joy in the beginning but by the end, as you haul your beaten, bruised, exhausted body through the exit door for the very last time, you exhale.

That’s relief you’re feeling. It’s over. It’s finally over.


I Got Thrown In Microsoft ‘Jail’ For Taking Pictures Of Nothing

There are a lot of secrets that come with a brand new console. Last night at the Forza 5 event Microsoft pulled me aside for taking a picture of a cabinet and a laptop. And, interestingly, I wasn’t even violating any rules because, conveniently, no photo rules were stated. Still, I’ll never have those 10 minutes back.



Real Answers, Or Fake Questions, In This Xbox One Document?

This past week a 100-question FAQ on the Xbox One, purportedly official communications guidance from Microsoft, landed on Pastebin. It’s not the usual laundry list of wishful thinking you get in most video game fakes. That said, there’s no way to know if this is true or total B.S.


Microsoft Can’t Tell Us If The Xbox One Is Region-Free Or Not

Microsoft has this week released some confusing statements and policies regarding how the Xbox One will work around the world. We’ve tried to get to the bottom of them, with no avail.


A Slightly More Convincing Reason For The Xbox One’s Forced Online

There’s a very good argument that Microsoft’s biggest failure this week was not its Xbox One policies, but its messaging. The way gamers were lumped with obligation, instead of opportunity.


How Xbox Achievements Are Changing

When the Xbox One launches in November, Microsoft’s achievements system will undergo its biggest overhaul since its implementation. There will be two kinds of achievements. Stuff you can earn that aren’t achievements, achievements for watching TV and more.


DayZ Fans Sent Us Questions For The Game’s Creator. We Asked Them All.

DayZ. It’s a wonderfully complicated, extremely hardcore game. Soon the online zombie survival sensation, which started as a mod, is getting a standalone version. Many questions remain about how the standalone game will work, and how it will differ from the original. Today at E3, I had a chance to ask a lot of those questions.


Kotaku Is Hiring a PHP Developer!

Take pride in writing clean code? We’re looking for an autonomous PHP developer to join our rapidly-growing team at Allure Media. Apply within.

Kotaku E3 2013 Coverage

World of Servers