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Rise of Nightmares announced for the Xbox 360

Rise of Nightmares announced for the Xbox 360

SEGA today announced that Rise of Nightmares will be released globally in 2011 exclusively on Kinect for Xbox 360. Rise of Nightmares offers a spine-tingling horror experience which uses the in... Read More

Capcom announces Kinect title: Steel Battalion Heavy Armor

Capcom announces Kinect title: Steel Battalion Heavy Armor

Capcom today confirmed that Steel BattalionTM Heavy Armor is in development exclusively for the Xbox 360. Steel Battalion Heavy Armor will utilise Kinect, controller free games and entertainment o... Read More

Halo: Reach Review

Halo: Reach Review

This is the first time I've given a game a perfect score in my reviewing career, and I do not give this honour lightly. Halo: Reach has a few flaws here and there but, whether you're in the campaign o... Read More

Leaked new Xbox 360 Kinect dashboard Video Preview

Leaked new Xbox 360 Kinect dashboard Video Preview

Youtube user, ModernPrestige has posted a leaked video of the upcoming Xbox 360 Kinect dashboard update. The dashboard definitely seems more slick and crisp compared to the current dashboard. Mic... Read More

Why Fable III Might Be The Game The First One Should Have Been

Why Fable III Might Be The Game The First One Should Have Been

The story of the Fable series is incredibly interesting- it is a tale of crushing disappointment, bitter resentment, and unfulfilled promise on the one hand, and a charm that appeals to everybody,... Read More

Halo: Reach ‘is Halo 4 in all but name’

Halo: Reach ‘is Halo 4 in all but name’

Halo: Reach is nearly here. With less than two days to go for the game's official release (indie UK retailers are already selling it), hype for the game is sky high, and look like the game is meetin... Read More

Can Halo: Reach Outsell Call of Duty: Black Ops? Microsoft Thinks So

Can Halo: Reach Outsell Call of Duty: Black Ops? Microsoft Thinks So

With two megaton First Person Shooters, Microsoft's Halo: Reach and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, looming large on the horizon, comparisions are bound to be drawn between them. Both of them ... Read More

First Halo: Reach Review Out- GameInformer Gives It 95/100

First Halo: Reach Review Out- GameInformer Gives It 95/100

Gaming magezine, GameInformer has reviewed Halo: Reach, becoming the first ever source to review the game. They have given the game a mind-blowing 95/100, saying Halo: Reach "is the true follow up... Read More

UK Retailers Selling Halo: Reach Early

UK Retailers Selling Halo: Reach Early

Many of those who had pre-ordered their copies for Microsoft's upcoming title, Halo: Reach, have already recieved their copies, three days before the game's official launch. Ricflair (ad several ot... Read More

Halo Reach: 7 minutes of campaign gameplay

Halo Reach: 7 minutes of campaign gameplay

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Halo: Reach’s ‘Deliver Hope’ Trailer Gets Extended Footage

Halo: Reach’s ‘Deliver Hope’ Trailer Gets Extended Footage

[HTML1] An extended version of Microsoft's upcoming Bungie deveoped First Person Shooter, Halo: Reach's trailer has been released. At first, I though- whoa, this game has some spectacular visuals, ev... Read More

Red Dead Redemption Sequel Headed Our Way?

Red Dead Redemption Sequel Headed Our Way?

Red Dead Redemption has certainly changed the game for Take Two. Earning near unanimous critical acclaim, and selling in excess of seven million copies worldwide since the game's release earlier t... Read More

Resident Evil 6: Can it Redeem the Franchise?

Resident Evil 6: Can it Redeem the Franchise?

Capcom's famous Resident Evil franchise finds itself in familiar territory- almost a decade ago, the series was growing stagnant after three quick releases, the old formula growing thin, the dated... Read More

15 cancelled Xbox 360 games that should have never been cancelled

15 cancelled Xbox 360 games that should have never been cancelled

Last week we bought you 15 PlayStation 3 games that should have never been cancelled, this week we bring you 15 games on the Xbox 360 that should have never been cancelled. Some of these games looked ... Read More

Rare Thinks Kameo Should Have Been ‘scrapped’

Rare Thinks Kameo Should Have Been ‘scrapped’

Rare said that it wished it "scrapped everything and started again" during their development on Kameo: Elements Of Power. The title was originally slated for a GameCube release, until Microsoft... Read More

Halo Reach Pre-orders for £32

Halo Reach Pre-orders for £32

Newly opened online retailers Gametail.com have recently stocked the upcoming Halo: Reach for pre-orders, for £32. That's £7 less than Amazon and Game Group, HMV and Play. Pre-order the game,... Read More

Microsoft: ‘We’re still interested in making an excellent Halo movie’

Microsoft: ‘We’re still interested in making an excellent Halo movie’

Microsoft are still very much interested in developing a movie based on Halo. 343 Industries' Frank O'Connor O'Connor said, "We're still interested in making an excellent 'Halo' movie." "We've ... Read More

New Crackdown 2 DLC Is Buggy

New Crackdown 2 DLC Is Buggy

Crackdown 2's newly released DLC, Toy Box (seriously, Toy Box) is riddled with bugs and glitches. Shacknews spotted players complaining of said glitches in the forums of the Ruffian Games website.... Read More

Why Vanquish Might or Might Not Be The Game It Is Being Hyped To Be

Why Vanquish Might or Might Not Be The Game It Is Being Hyped To Be

Platinum Games sure finds itself in an enviable position. The newly formed company, which is comprised of some of the best talent in the gaming industry- including the masterminds behind several games... Read More

TGS 2010: Microsoft reveals line up

TGS 2010: Microsoft reveals line up

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 K... Read More