Microsoft has revealed the line up for the upcoming Tokyo Games Show. Judging by the line up its a no brainer that the much of the emphasis will be on Kinect as Microsoft will be displaying four Kinect games. Below is the entire list:Fable III Halo: Reach Kinect Adventures Kinect Animals Kinect Joy Ride Kinect Sports ... more.

We all know just how... terrible, terrible the D-Pad of the Xbox 360 controller is, and while I do agree that the all new Xbox 360 S controller looks too sexy and sleek to be a controller, the D-Pad still needs work. You know why? Because clicky buttons FTW, not squishy buttons, and squishy buttons is what the 360 Controller has.Anyway, Joystiq has revealed via 'trusted sources'  that Micros... more.

We are just a few weeks away from the launch of Microsoft’s biggest game of the year: Halo Reach. Reach, set shortly before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, will be releasing this September, and with just a month between us and its release, our impatience grows. The next game in the revered Call of Duty series, Black Ops, is being developed by Treyarch, the creators of Call of Duty 3 and Call... more.

Rare Kinect development head, Nick Burton, wants core gamers to give Microsoft's new motion sensing camera a chance before dismissing it outright as casual and gimmicky. "All I can say to the core is go and have a go. It doesn't even have to be necessarily Kinect Sports. Go and have a go on Kinect, period," Burton told Eurogamer.He says negative impact against the announcement of Kinect seem... more.

According to Microsoft, they are hoping to produce real-time multiplayer gameplay between Windows Phone 7 devices and Xbox 360 over wi-fi.Despite Windows Phone 7 being able to support only turn-based multiplayer between phones, Greg Milligan revealed that a real-time synchronous multiplayer is being worked on."So initially, we're turn by turn-based, we are working on real-time phone-to-con... more.

Halo. The most prestigious, the most loved, the most grandiose shooter franchise of all time. It is said that console shooters would be nothing if it weren't for Halo. Halo: Combat Evolved is to console shooters what Half Life is to PC shooters. Often placed amongst the likes of Goldeneye 007 and Half Life 2, all Halo games are, definitely, some of the most influential and qualitative titles out t... more.

Despite the fact that Halo: Reach wasn't even released yet, pirates all over the world are downloading the game right now from BitTorrent sites.This was due to Xbox.com hading out codes for reviewers, and a group of pirates managed to get those codes and put the game for download.Videos are now popping up all over youtube, showing gameplay and many story related (with spoilers) videos, so ... more.

This is a huge surprise. A character very similar to Master Chief features in the Sprint Samsung 4G TV Commercial. The interesting point here is that the commercial does not explicitly states Master Chief or Halo. Considering that neither Microsoft nor Bungie were mentioned in this commercial, lawsuits have the potential to occur. Maybe it's more complicated than that...Anyways we have th... more.

Klei Entertainment have just released the Launch trailer for their upcoming side scrolling action game Shank. The game is just a few hours away from launch. Stay tuned with GamingBolt for a full review of the game.... more.

4 new minutes of EA's upcoming survival horror game, and sequel to the best-selling Dead Space, Dead Space 2, were shown off at EA's GamesCom conference in Germany. It shows Isaac jumping around through space, as he tries to restore power to some kind of an outpost. It looks mind-blowing. I can't wait to get my hands on it.Check out the video:[HTML1]Dead Space 2 will be released in 201... more.

Microsoft will soon release an Xbox Live- compatible Windows Phone 7 Operating system, which will provide a gaming experience "much more like Xbox and Xbox Live Arcade," says Microsoft exec Kevin Unangst (not Butler).The aim is to make the Windows Phone 7 gaming "much more like the Xbox and Xbox Live Arcade portfolio." All games released for the Windows Phone 7 will first pass through a rigi... more.

Ruffian Games has confirmed via their official Twitter account that downlodable content is imminent for Crackdown. The tweet says, "Crackdown2 DLC news will be coming soon. Release date yet to be confirmed by MS but the test guys are loving it. We're close..."Stay tuned for more news and update on GamingBolt.com.... more.

Molyneux has great hair, we want to know what shampoo he uses.With that aside, let's move on to the news, which is insignificant when compared to the secret of Molyneux's great hair.Fable III, Microsoft's choice based Role Playing games, which will be releasing this October for the Xbox 360, will be move 'further towards action,' confirms developer Lionhead.In an interview with Compute... more.

The NPD figures for July '10 are out, and this month seems to have been really good for the developers and publishers. With the combined US sales of non-PC game software, hardware, and accessories decreasing by just 1 % to $846.5 million, the analysts, who were predicting sales in the US to be on an all time low this year, were surprised.The hardware sales saw a 12 % increase in sales, when co... more.

Boy, Molyneux sure loves Uncharted, huh?In an attempt to perhaps subtly hype up his upcoming RPG, the third game in the bestselling Fable series, Fable III, famed designer Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios has stated that Fable 3 was influenced by Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.However, Lionhead exec Josh Atkins is quick to add that Uncharted isn't the only thing that played a role in the de... more.

That sounds ominous.Evil publisher Activision, best known for milking the crap out of any half decent money spinning game they get on their hands, and for curbing the creative process at their developers, believes that Infinity Ward may have been down and out lately, but that the developer of two of the biggest shooters of all time will return.Activision VP Dave Stohl had this to say about... more.

Ok, no, Microsoft didn't REALLY say that. But do you remember how we told you Kinect will understand sign language? Yeah, well, it won't.The patent which revealed the said information on Microsoft's motion sensing camera, Kinect, was not supposed to be "brought to the market right away." So for the time being, Kinect won't be able to understand sign languagem according to MS.They told Kota... more.

Here's something that all you niche gamers might enjoy- Harvest Moon, the games that made farming cool before Farmville burst onto the scene, is making its way onto the DS and the PSP, with a game each in the venerable farming sim series due for each handheld.Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming hits the DS this fall. As per the developers, "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming for the DS brings a new dimen... more.

I'm guessing you could have figured out who said that even if I hadn;t specified in the headline.Itagaki, creator of games such as Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, and currently working on his upcoming game, Devil's Third, which he states will be the best game ever, has bluntly said that the Japanese games industry is dying. However, that's not all. Apparently, all of Japan's rapid industrial g... more.

With James Bond Blood Stone all set for a November release, there are many who have pointed out that Activision is spamming the market with their first person shooters that month. Two of those are Bond branded shooters. One of them is the Wii remake of Goldeneye 007.Naturally, then, you would expect the developers of the other Bond project, the Xbox 360/PS3 James Bond Blood Stone, to be slight... more.