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Halo Reach Defiant DLC out now

Halo Reach Defiant DLC out now

All you intrepid Halo fans need wait no longer: The Defiant map pack is now available for 800 points on Xbox Live. Created in partnership with Certain Affinity, who previously worked on Halo 2 maps... Read More

Crysis 2 vs Crysis 1: 1080P In Game Screenshot Comparison

Crysis 2 vs Crysis 1: 1080P In Game Screenshot Comparison

Please click the image to see it in a pop up and use back-next button to navigate through them. crysis-2-versus-crysis-1-screen-1 Crysis 2 is just about two weeks away from us and the h... Read More

Yoostar 2 now available

Yoostar 2 now available

Yoostar  today announced that Yoostar 2 is now available across Europe and EMEA, distributed by NAMCO BANDAI Partners S.A.S. Removing the barrier between popular online social networking sites an... Read More

Microsoft Consider Punishing Users Of MS Points Generator

Microsoft Consider Punishing Users Of MS Points Generator

A few days ago a user post appeared on The Tech Game.com featuring an algorithm which could produce working Microsoft points.  Microsoft discovered and stopped the exploit within hours but a substa... Read More

This Kinect video will blow you away

This Kinect video will blow you away

People have been doing some strange things with Kinect and this one will probably will blow your mind. In this video you will see John Boiles controlling characters in Valve's Source game engine usi... Read More

Microsoft hopes for Gears 3 to lure CoD fans

Microsoft hopes for Gears 3 to lure CoD fans

Kevin Unangst, senior producer at Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, hopes that Gears 3 will be able to convert FPS gamers who enjoy the Halo and Call of Duty games into third person sh... Read More

Gears of War 3 Beta date revealed, plans detailed

Gears of War 3 Beta date revealed, plans detailed

Microsoft's detailed the Gears of War 3 beta plan and it'll be kicking off from April 25 onwards. If you've bought the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm, you can access it from April 18. The beta wi... Read More

Fable III ‘Traitor’s Keep’ DLC Now Available on Xbox Live

Fable III ‘Traitor’s Keep’ DLC Now Available on Xbox Live

This is actually the second DLC pack for Fable 3, the first one was just rather short and did not include much content or any Achievements.  Now the 'Traitor's Keep' DLC for Fable 3 just released to... Read More

Microsoft promise increased interest in Kinect from developers

Microsoft promise increased interest in Kinect from developers

Senior producer of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, Kevin Unangst, has recently gone on record promising that the Xbox 360 motion sensing peripheral will be "nothing but exciting fr... Read More

More Fable III DLC Coming March 1st Adding Achievements & PC Date Announced For The Game

More Fable III DLC Coming March 1st Adding Achievements & PC Date Announced For The Game

Microsoft and developers Lionhead Studios have announced that there will be Fable 3 DLC entitled 'Traitor's Keep' that will be available for download on March 1st on the Xbox 360. The DLC with feat... Read More

2011 will be “incredible” for hardcore gamers on 360 says Microsoft

2011 will be “incredible” for hardcore gamers on 360 says Microsoft

Following a string of announcements made yesterday including new Halo: Reach and Fable 3 DLC, senior producer of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, Kevin Unangst, stated that this is "j... Read More

More Gears of War 3 Details, Weapons, Maps and Another Way to Play The Beta Without Bulletstorm

More Gears of War 3 Details, Weapons, Maps and Another Way to Play The Beta Without Bulletstorm

Microsoft has officially announced the release date for Gears of War 3 for September 20th, 2011 exclusively on the Xbox 360 and just recently some more new info. Some new maps have been announced li... Read More

Gears of War 3 Release Date Set For September 20th

Gears of War 3 Release Date Set For September 20th

After originally stating that Gears of War 3 would become available in April, the date was pushed back for something I presume to be a feature in the game.  Microsoft has confirmed that Gears of War... Read More

Being profitable more important than outselling Xbox 360- Sony

Being profitable more important than outselling Xbox 360- Sony

Sony's PlayStation brand manager, Scott McCarthy, said, while talking to IndustryGamers, that they were following the Nintendo approach to gaming, and looking to keep profitability as their highest ... Read More

Kinect PC SDK release confirmed for next month

Kinect PC SDK release confirmed for next month

Microsoft's confirmed that they'll be officially releasing the Kinect for PC in March. Initially, it would be released only for non-commercial usuage. A commercial release would follow suit ho... Read More

PlayStation 3 Games That Lost Their Exclusivity: A Trip Down Memory Lane [Gallery]

PlayStation 3 Games That Lost Their Exclusivity: A Trip Down Memory Lane [Gallery]

[drop-cap]W[/drop-cap]hen the PlayStation 3 was launched all those years back it boasted an unbelievable line up of exclusives. Most of the franchises that made their debut on the PlayStation 2 had a ... Read More

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 Review

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 Review

There are two things, I suppose, that all gamers can reach a universal consensus on. The first would be regarding poor sequels, hastily put together compilations of ideas that were rejected during the... Read More

Free Xbox Live gold weekend starts today

Free Xbox Live gold weekend starts today

For those who still haven't made the commitment to a gold account on Xbox Live, you can now enjoy the gold membership features this weekend starting at 5pm GMT. Now is the perfect time for you sil... Read More

Microsoft’s Kinect is the ‘fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history’

Microsoft’s Kinect is the ‘fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history’

Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft, has stated that the Kinect motion detecting camera for Xbox 360 is the "fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history". Microsoft said ... Read More

Xbox Live generated a revenue of $122 million in 2010

Xbox Live generated a revenue of $122 million in 2010

According to a report by Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment, Xbox Live generated a revenue of $122 million in 2010. That's higher than ever before. It was a 16% year-to-year growth. T... Read More