Xbox

Kinect Gives Life To This Humanoid Robot

Using Microsoft’s Kinect to control a modified Roomba is impressive. Using it to get a kit-built humanoid robot to mimic your actions is pretty damn amazing.


December 3, 2010
News

Chastened Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox 360 Modding Case

A day after a judge chewed them out in open court, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles dropped their case against a man accused of running a modding business that allowed Xbox 360s to run pirated or unauthorised games.


July 23, 2010
In Real Life

Behold The Chipophone, The Amazing Chiptune Organ

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When a friend asked Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson to take an old electric organ off his hands, Linus agreed, as long as he could do anything he wanted to it, and what he did is incredibly impressive.


June 1, 2010
In Real Life

Boombox Modded Into Dreamcast

Why? Oh why?


May 22, 2010
In Real Life

Street Fighter IV Played With A Guitar Sounds Horrible

Street Fighter IV? Great game. Guitar? Cool instrument. The sound of SFIV being played with a guitar?


April 8, 2010
News

Do Not Modify Computers Or Consoles In Canada, Don’t!

Late month, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched residence in Roberval, Quebec, which culminated in one arrest of one suspect who advertised selling pirated games through the internet and the seizure of hundreds of counterfeit games. But wait, there’s more.


March 11, 2010
In Real Life

Wii Remote-Controlled Laser Pew-Pew!

Inventor-by-day, DJ-by-night Henry Strange’s latest creation is a laser beam that is controlled by a Nintendo Wii Remote mounted in a white, plastic gun casing.


March 5, 2010
News

Bad Company 2 Devs Have Nothing But Love For The Modding Community

The PC version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 might not support mods, but developer DICE has nothing but love for the modding community. Producer Gordon Van Dyke talked modding and modders in yesterday’s Kotaku Talk Radio podcast.


November 7, 2009
In Real Life

To Catch A Modern Warfare 2 Cyber-Thief

Modern Warfare 2 is already making an appearance at torrent sites all over the internet, but it could have been worse. Dean Takahashi reports on how IPCybercrime stopped one pirate from making his big score.


October 22, 2009
In Real Life

PC Arkham Asylum Players Play Dress-Up

Console Batman: Arkham Asylum players may have gotten the game first, but they’ll never be able to dress Batman up like Captain America.