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The family of a budding computer programmer have on Saturday launched a campaign to raise awareness about the health risks of playing online computer games after their son died following a marathon session on his Xbox.
A post-mortem revealed that 20-year-old Chris Staniforth — who was offered a place...
WASHINGTON – States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people’s First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can...
E3 2011 Gameplay Demo
One of the guiding principles behind BioShock is that the story and characters need to fit not just within the world of Rapture, but within the wider historical and political context of the time. As the writer of the Minerva’s Den story-based DLC for BioShock 2, this was great for me: since Minerva’s Den...
It appears that the new Xbox LIVE update, which will introduce support for the new XGD3 disk format, might prevent a very small number of Xbox 360 owners from playing retail game discs.
Kotaku were contacted by a reader who received an email from Microsoft informing him that it had detected via Xbox LIVE...
Who was there: Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine; lead artist Shawn Robertson; art director Nate Wells; and senior effects artist Stephen Alexander.
What they talked about: It took the team at Irrational Games a long time to figure out what they wanted to do next after finishing BioShock. After...
Death by Video Game…
The family of a budding computer programmer have on Saturday launched a campaign to raise awareness about the health risks of playing online computer games after their son died following a marathon session on his Xbox.
A post-mortem revealed that 20-year-old Chris Staniforth — who was offered a place...
Can’t ban violent video sales to kids, court says
WASHINGTON – States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people’s First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
E3 2011 Gameplay Demo
Behind the Scenes of BioShock 2 Part One: The History of Minerva’s Den
One of the guiding principles behind BioShock is that the story and characters need to fit not just within the world of Rapture, but within the wider historical and political context of the time. As the writer of the Minerva’s Den story-based DLC for BioShock 2, this was great for me: since Minerva’s Den...
New 360 Discs Incompatible with Some Consoles
It appears that the new Xbox LIVE update, which will introduce support for the new XGD3 disk format, might prevent a very small number of Xbox 360 owners from playing retail game discs.
Kotaku were contacted by a reader who received an email from Microsoft informing him that it had detected via Xbox LIVE...
Hacker Raids Sony Videogame Network
A hacker stole the names, birth dates and possibly credit-card numbers for 77 million people who play online videogames through Sony Corp.’s PlayStation console, in what could rank among the biggest data breaches in history.
Sony, whose gaming network has been offline for six days, disclosed Tuesday...
Bioshock Infinite Developers Go Into Detail on Crafting the City Of Columbia to Be a Major Character
Who was there: Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine; lead artist Shawn Robertson; art director Nate Wells; and senior effects artist Stephen Alexander.
What they talked about: It took the team at Irrational Games a long time to figure out what they wanted to do next after finishing BioShock. After...
