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NPD July Figures Out, Xbox 360 Tops US Charts

NPD July Figures Out, Xbox 360 Tops US Charts

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 dec... Read More

Lionhead: Fable 3 Was Inspired By Uncharted

Lionhead: Fable 3 Was Inspired By Uncharted

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 Lionhea... Read More

Activision: Infinity Ward Will Return

Activision: Infinity Ward Will Return

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 dev... Read More

Microsoft: Nyeah nyeah, Kinect won’t understand sign language, fools

Microsoft: Nyeah nyeah, Kinect won’t understand sign language, fools

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... Read More

Harvest Moon Coming To the PSP and DS in UK

Harvest Moon Coming To the PSP and DS in UK

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 eac... Read More

Itagaki: The Japanese Games Industry is ‘Dying’

Itagaki: The Japanese Games Industry is ‘Dying’

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 upco... Read More

James Bond Blood Stone Team Unconcerned by Head to Head with Goldeneye 007

James Bond Blood Stone Team Unconcerned by Head to Head with Goldeneye 007

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 Bon... Read More

Kinect will identify sign language, my middle finger is twitching real bad

Kinect will identify sign language, my middle finger is twitching real bad

Kinect will not only identify body movements, detect our faces, and identify our voices, it'll also understand sign language. It's pretty intelligent, but we may not look it when we play on it. But ma... Read More

Kinect- 250 GB Hard Drive Bundle

Kinect- 250 GB Hard Drive Bundle

The box which will be housing the 4GB Kinect bundle in Australia has apparently revealed a 250GB Hard Drive Kinect bundle as well. The only percievable difference between the two, as of now, is that t... Read More

WTH! Halo Reach running on the PlayStation 3?!

WTH! Halo Reach running on the PlayStation 3?!

This is really funny. We came across this funny image which shows Halo Reach, a Xbox 360 exclusive running on a PlayStation 3  kisok. Apparently the store used their only display unit in the Games se... Read More

7 Games That Would Be Awesome on Kinect

7 Games That Would Be Awesome on Kinect

Kinect is just around the corner, November to be precise, and people are getting excited. But what sort of games should Microsoft be looking towards making? Copying Nintendo and making people play tab... Read More

Warren Spector: Epic Mickey on the PS3 and the 360 ‘could happen’

Warren Spector: Epic Mickey on the PS3 and the 360 ‘could happen’

When asked if Epic Mickey, upcoming Disney Interactive video game exclusively for the Wii, would ever come over to the 360 and the PS3, Warren Spector, Lead Designer, in an interview with Atomicgamer ... Read More

Castlevania Harmony of Despair available from Xbox LIVE Arcade

Castlevania Harmony of Despair available from Xbox LIVE Arcade

Konami announced Castlevania Harmony of Despair is now available for download through the Xbox Summer of Arcade program exclusively for Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Renowned gam... Read More

Rare: We Want To End Wii Sports’ Dominance

Rare: We Want To End Wii Sports’ Dominance

Talk about the progeny turning its back on the progenitor. Rare, Nintendo's premiere in house developer at one time and now Microsoft's not so premiere developer, has stated that it has no qualms ... Read More

Sony: Kinect is ‘Limited’; Ubisoft: Kinect is the ‘Future’

Sony: Kinect is ‘Limited’; Ubisoft: Kinect is the ‘Future’

Hey, I always wanted to do that. Two contradictory quotes in the headline FTW! Anyway, in what should come as a surprise to no one, Sony have apparently stated that Microsoft's upcoming controller-... Read More

Crytek’s Kingdoms is no Kratos rip off

Crytek’s Kingdoms is no Kratos rip off

There have been comparisons between Crytek;ss Kingdom and Kratos's Kingdome for some time now. But Crytek has dismissed all such comparisons. Crytek boss Cervat Yerli has said that the game is nothing... Read More

Kinect Lag is the fault of the game, not the hardware

Kinect Lag is the fault of the game, not the hardware

Lag in motion sensing devices has been an issue for some time now and it was a matter of time before people actually started to find lag in Kinect as well. However according to the Chief Technology Of... Read More

Molyneux: No Kinect Support For Fable 3 at launch

Molyneux: No Kinect Support For Fable 3 at launch

Peter Molyneux has confirmed that there will be no Kinect support for Fable 3 at launch. It's kind of weird, since Peter has been a big supporter of Kinect ever since he showed that amazing demo of Mi... Read More

Halo Reach versus Halo 3: ODST: Stunning HD screenshot comparison

Halo Reach versus Halo 3: ODST: Stunning HD screenshot comparison

[drop-cap]H[/drop-cap]alo Reach’s release date is approaching like a tracer bullet. We are just about a month away and things are starting to get hotter. Halo 3: ODST was one of the finest firs... Read More

Pre-order Fable 3 And See Your Very Own NPC In-game

Pre-order Fable 3 And See Your Very Own NPC In-game

Lionhead will be offering a code to anyone who pre-orders Fable 3. "If you preorder Fable 3, you're going to get a special code," said Microsoft's Larry Hryb. "You go to Xbox.com [...] you drop ... Read More