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New Xbox Has Extra Storage For Starfield And More On Game Pass

Image: Microsoft / Kotaku It’s not an all out hardware refresh, but the Xbox Series X/S family is growing. Microsoft announced a new Carbon Black Xbox Series S with 1TB of SSD storage for $350. It arrives September 1, just in time for Starfield and the beginning of a steady stream of big new Game

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Everything At Xbox’s Big 2023 Summer Game Fest Showcase

Today, June 11, Xbox took the stage during Geoff Keighley’s big, not-E3 Summer Game Fest 2023 extravaganza to show off the future of Xbox and Game Pass. Microsoft has struggled in recent years to release big hits and this year’s Redfall flop didn’t help right the ship. So today was a big deal for the

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Overwatch 2’s Story Trailer Is A Sign Of Hope After Bad News

Image: Blizzard Entertainment / Kotaku Overwatch 2 has been in a bit of a bad spot after Blizzard recently announced it was gutting the game’s promised PvE modes. But for those who were wondering about the story missions the company showed off when it revealed the game in 2019, they can rest somewhat easy: Overwatch

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Persona 3 Reload, Persona 5 Spin-off Shown At Xbox Showcase

The quintessential role-playing game Persona 3 is getting a remake, and later sequel Persona 5 is getting another spin-off game, developer Atlus revealed at Xbox Games Showcase. Fans were already braced for this news—leakers predicted it earlier this week, and if that weren’t enough, Atlus accidentally posted it on Instagram June 8. Oops! The Week

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Ubisoft’s Open-World Star Wars Game Looks Incredible In Trailer

Is Ubisoft making a massive new blockbuster that actually has a great story and interesting characters? Star Wars Outlaws certainly makes it look that way. The open-world sci-fi game from the publisher’s Division 2 studio revealed itself to the world at Microsoft’s Xbox Showcase, and it looks incredible so far. A Foe From The Next

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Payday 3, Gaming’s Best Heist Series, Shows Off Gameplay

Image: Starbreeze Studios / Kotaku As previously leaked, Payday 3 is coming out on September 21. News of this came during the Xbox Summer Game Fest showcase alongside a new trailer that coupled some cinematic elements with actual gameplay (a rarity at the Xbox show thus far). Why The Hot New Redfall Gameplay Trailer Left

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Fable, Xbox’s Big Fantasy RPG, Gets New Teaser After Being MIA

Today, during Summer Game Fest 2023, we got a very brief look at the next big Fable game via newly released CG, featuring The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade, plus a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it glimpse of in-game footage. The latest reveal of this much-delayed upcoming RPG happened during today’s Xbox and Bethesda Not-E3 video game showcase. This New

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Awesome Shooter Goes For Max Payne With A Supernatural Twist

When the original Max Payne was ported to consoles in late 2001, I couldn’t get a copy fast enough. I wasn’t a PC gamer at the time, and so for a while I could only enjoy Max Payne through the internet and TechTV at the time. I was transfixed by the graphics and luscious time-slowing

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Three Gorgeous, Unreleased Games We Just Played That Should Have Your Attention

Image: Moonloop Games Hauntii is an upcoming twin-stick adventure game from Moonloop Games in which you play an adorable little ghost capable of haunting objects and using them to traverse the game’s version of eternity. Eternity features beautiful, bespoke graphics (almost all of which the four-person team illustrated on an iPad using Procreate), that are

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Square Enix’s Splatoon Clone Isn’t A Complete Fraud

When Foamstars, Square Enix’s Splatoon-esque party game where two teams of four face off in a giant foam-spewing battle, was announced at the PlayStation games showcase, it wasn’t clear what to expect. Was this just Splatoon in PlayStation-exclusive form? What was the gameplay like? Would it be any fun? Stylish Cel-Shaded Skating Shooter Rollerdrome Looks

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