Category: "Xbox 360"

Turok Demo with Preorder at Best Buy

Want to get your teeth into a Turok demo? You can if you preorder the game from Best Buy, but hold off on the nashers.

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XBLA Review: Sensible Soccer

It’s the elegant, immediate control system of Sensible Soccer that makes it so enduring and influential. To play soccer, you need to kick, so give them a “kick” button. Oh, and we should let them run too. Finished.

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PSP Doubles Japanese Sales; Still Not Close to DS Sales

For the week ending December 9th, the Sony PSP sold 91,481 units in Japan. The next week, ending on the 16th, it managed to more than double that number with 184, 610 units sold. Surely it’s catching to the Nintendo DS in sales, right?

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Microsoft Banning 360 Consoles with Modded Fans

Too bad. This is getting a little ridiculous. It seems that Microsoft will ban you from Xbox Live for just about anything these days, including fan modifications.

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New Rock Band DLC

Five new Rockband songs hit Xbox Live today but won’t be hitting the Playstation Network until next week. It looks like Christmas is going to be a little merrier for Xbox fans.

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Microsoft Gift Points Are Now Available

Just in time for Christmas, the Xbox Live team has launched their new gift points system. Now you have something to give that special someone who won’t pry his lazy butt out of his gaming chair.

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Nintendo Dominates Amazon’s Videogames Top Sellers

This man has a hold on you. Merry Christmas, Nintendo! For the second year in a row, the Nintendo Wii is one of the must-have holiday items. And although I’m completely aware of the console’s success, I was still pleasantly surprised to see just how well the company was doing on Amazon.

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Manhunt 2 Once Again a No-Go in Britain

Following up on a story that our own Patrick Steen reported on earlier in the week, the British Board of Film Classification has successfully halted – yet again – the release of Manhunt 2 in the UK.

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First Ever Silverlight Gamercards Emerge

An official Xbox Community Developer on Xbox Live Nation has released some very interesting new Gamercards using new Microsoft software.

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Ken Levine Talks About VGAs: It’s all Gravy

When Gamecock stormed the stage at the Video Game Awards earlier this month, they prevented Ken Levine, lead designer of BioShock, from giving his acceptance speech after winning the award for Game of the Year. For the first time since the event, Levine has given a short interview on the matter.

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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements Demo Impressions

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements (DMMM) is best described as a first-person action RPG, fusing the combat style of your typical FPS and together with character customization more commonly found in an RPG.

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Aperture Science Bring Gifts of Joy

Feeling guilty this Christmas for what you did to your Weighted Companion Cube? Don’t worry, Aperture Science is here with a heartwarming Christmas video.

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Mass Effect: Ascension Coming Spring 2008

Captain Your-Name-Here Shepherd Returns in Mass Effect: Ascension. Fans of Mass Effect are probably aware of the game’s prequel novel, Mass Effect: Revelation. The book revolves around Saren, the main antagonist in the game, and it leaves off right around where the game picks up.

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Xbox 360 Cheaper than Wii in UK? At a Cost

Can you get an Xbox 360 Cheaper than a Wii in the United Kingdom? Yes sir, and it can even be an Xbox 360 Arcade with a wireless controller, HDMI connection and five arcade games; PAC-MAN Championship Edition, Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket, and Feeding Frenzy.

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This Papercraft Halo Dropship Couldn’t Withstand a Slight Breeze

In the future, wars will be fought not with plasma cannons and energy swords, but with tiny spaceships made out of paper and glue. So what if humankind ultimately loses the war? Our cute paper armadas will charm every alien life form in the galaxy.

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