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Halo 4 ‘Going Back To What Made Halo 1 Amazing’

Halo 4 ‘Going Back To What Made Halo 1 Amazing’

Microsoft UK's Xbox entertainment director Stephen McGill, in a recent interview, shed some light on the philosophy behind 343's first Halo outing, and it seems to be about returning to roots: "... Read More

Gears of War 3 Wallpapers in full 1080P HD

Gears of War 3 Wallpapers in full 1080P HD

[drop-cap]C[/drop-cap]heck out these Gears of War 3 Wallpapers in full 1080P HD. gears-of-war-3-wallpapers-1080p Read More

Top 10 Franchises We Would Like To See On The Xbox 720

Top 10 Franchises We Would Like To See On The Xbox 720

If the developers and publishers are to be believed, we still have a fair few years left in our current generation of consoles. Nothing lasts forever though, so it's never too early to start thinking ... Read More

Gears of War 2 – 21x Experience For 4th of July Weekend

Gears of War 2 – 21x Experience For 4th of July Weekend

This weekend all the way until July 5th you will have the opportunity to gain 21x the normal experience in Gears of War 2.   This is once again an obvious event where Epic is trying to tell it's... Read More

Games for Windows Merging With Xbox.com July 11th

Games for Windows Merging With Xbox.com July 11th

Games for Windows Marketplace will be integrated into Xbox.com. Microsoft states "Now you can get all of your gaming needs in one place. It’s convenient, it’s concentrated, and it’s a whole... Read More

Gears of War 3 – Early Beta Version Leaked

Gears of War 3 – Early Beta Version Leaked

Well apparently Gears of War 3 has been leaked through torrent sites and then obviously only playable on modded Xbox 360 JTAG Consoles.  It is not the complete version of the game but the whole cam... Read More

Mind Blowing Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect

Mind Blowing Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect

[HTML1] Talk about real innovation. The peeps at Flying Machine Arena have developed a video in which they show how they control a quadrotor vehicle. They are looking for ways to make interaction w... Read More

Halo: Glasslands – New Halo Novel That Takes Place After Halo 3

Halo: Glasslands – New Halo Novel That Takes Place After Halo 3

Tor Books have announced a new novel on Halo named Glasslands. The novel will be set after Halo 3. The official press release is below: Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC-the... Read More

Forza 4 – Collector’s Edition Contents Announced and BMW Partnership Contest

Forza 4 – Collector’s Edition Contents Announced and BMW Partnership Contest

Forza and BMW's have made a nice fitting partnership for Forza Motorosport 4, and will feature the new 2012 BMW M5 as well as the BMW design challenge.  In celebration of this new partnership, Th... Read More

XBLA Summer of Arcade 2011 dates confirmed

XBLA Summer of Arcade 2011 dates confirmed

Those looking forward to the Xbox Live Aracde's usual games blow out this summer may be interested in the confirmed dates for the five games: "Bastion" (Supergiant Games/Warner Bros. Interactive ... Read More

Gears of War 3: 10 Facts that everyone should know

Gears of War 3: 10 Facts that everyone should know

Few things get hardcore gamers as riled up as the Gears of War series. Whether it's heated online skirmishes, battles of wits about the game world or deflecting the uneducated rants of haters, the fan... Read More

Gears of War 3 – EVERYTHING CARRIES OVER

Gears of War 3 – EVERYTHING CARRIES OVER

Good news and maybe bad news for some, everything will be carrying over from Gears of War 2 to Gears of War 3.  If you have a golden hammerburst, you will have it in Gears 3.  Everything from the ... Read More

UFC Personal Trainer – NASM Feature

UFC Personal Trainer – NASM Feature

[HTML1] Check out this brand new video for UFC Personal Trainer. The game releases on Kinect for Xbox 360, Move for PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii on 1 July in the UK.Read More

Anya Stroud Explains Horde 2.0 in Gears of War 3 UPDATED

Anya Stroud Explains Horde 2.0 in Gears of War 3 UPDATED

Here is Anya Stroud, once behind a desk and now saving your ass on the front lines of Gears of War 3.  She explains Horde Mode 2.0 in Gears 3 as there has been some significant changes since the la... Read More

Skullgirls: Introducing Peacock Video

Skullgirls: Introducing Peacock Video

[HTML1] Meet Peacock, a murderous cybernetic weapon designed with one function: to destroy the Skullgirl. Skullgirls is a downloadable 2D fighting game coming to PSN and XBLA, currently due out in 2... Read More

The Gunstringer Gets A Pretty Awesome Box Art

The Gunstringer Gets A Pretty Awesome Box Art

Check out this awesome box art revealed for The Gunstringer. The Gunstringer is a unique and innovative Kinect-based platformer/shooter by Twisted Pixel. The twist: you puppeteer an awesome gun... Read More

Backbreaker Vengeance Releases 29th June 2011 on XBLA

Backbreaker Vengeance Releases 29th June 2011 on XBLA

505 Games and NaturalMotion Games announced today that Backbreaker Vengeance  will be available on Xbox Lives from 29 June, 2011.The game will also be released on PSN later this summer. “B... Read More

Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK beta is now available

Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK beta is now available

Microsoft Research has released Kinect for Windows SDK Beta, to encourage academic researchers and enthusiasts to visit http://research.microsoft.com to download the free SDK and access community ... Read More

Halo: Incredible Illustrations/Artworks That Are Worth Your Time

Halo: Incredible Illustrations/Artworks That Are Worth Your Time

Please use the back-next buttons to navigate through the images and open them in a new window to see in full screen. We apologize for our ancient gallery system, the new one will be better. halo_3_... Read More

Halo: Combat Evolved To Have Kinect Capabilities

Halo: Combat Evolved To Have Kinect Capabilities

Who would have though that the original Halo: Combat Evolved being re-released would have Kinect capabilities, with it being one of the first games (not to mention the first Halo game) to start th... Read More