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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

A Look At Gaming In 2011- 360’s Best Year?

A Look At Gaming In 2011- 360’s Best Year?

We have established by now that 2010 was a great year for gaming, and even more so for the Xbox 360. Not only did Microsoft's home console get unforgettable multiplatform titles like Red Dead Redemp... Read More

Top 10 Unannounced Exclusives for the Xbox 360

Top 10 Unannounced Exclusives for the Xbox 360

If you take a long and a deep look in to Xbox 360’s line up for 2011, the only well known franchise is Gears of War 3. The rest are either Kinect games or new IP’s which we are not sure how they w... Read More

Ballmer: Xbox 360 isn’t a gaming console

Ballmer: Xbox 360 isn’t a gaming console

The Xbox 360? A Gaming Console? Hell NO! That's according to Microsoft boss, Steve Ballmer. He told USA Today that he doesn't see the Xbox 360 as merely a videogaming machine. “Xbox isn’t... Read More

Kinect Hacks: Now Control a Humanoid Robot

Kinect Hacks: Now Control a Humanoid Robot

Kinect hacks are going crazy and thats what happens when you let the community decide what they want to do. This is easily one of the best hacks we have seen where Kinect is controlling a humanoid ... Read More

EA Selling Games 50% off on Xbox Live

EA Selling Games 50% off on Xbox Live

EA are in generous mood. Apparently they are giving away some of their best-selling Xbox arcade games and add-ons on XBL at a flat 50% deal.  Check the entire list below: Dragon Age: Origins ... Read More

10 PS3, PC and X360 Games That Flopped Miserably

10 PS3, PC and X360 Games That Flopped Miserably

There have been so many games in the industry that were overhyped. In the end they went on to become such huge flops that their names will never been forgotten just due to the fact that these were a c... Read More

PES 2011 Coming To Windows Phone 7

PES 2011 Coming To Windows Phone 7

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH just announced that their recently released Soccer sim, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, more commonly called PES 2011, will be making its way to Windows Phone 7. The ver... Read More

Why MindJack Might Be The Game That Turns Square Enix’s Fortunes

Why MindJack Might Be The Game That Turns Square Enix’s Fortunes

Square Enix has been in some deep trouble this generation. Their games on the consoles and PC have all, without exception, sucked, and they have actually been able to drive once revered franchises lik... Read More

Microsoft Touts Success: Xbox 360 Sells 50 Million Worldwide, Kinect Sells 8 Million In 2 Months, There Are Now 30 Million Xbox LIVE Users

Microsoft Touts Success: Xbox 360 Sells 50 Million Worldwide, Kinect Sells 8 Million In 2 Months, There Are Now 30 Million Xbox LIVE Users

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has reached a historic landmark- it's become only the fifth console in history to have sold 50 million units worldwide. In the process, it has set several other records, with Kin... Read More