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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

RUMOUR: Microsoft redesining Xbox 360 Controller

RUMOUR: Microsoft redesining Xbox 360 Controller

We all know just how... terrible, terrible the D-Pad of the Xbox 360 controller is, and while I do agree that the all new Xbox 360 S controller looks too sexy and sleek to be a controller, the D-Pad ... Read More

Halo Reach versus Call of Duty Black Ops: HD Screen shot comparison

Halo Reach versus Call of Duty Black Ops: HD Screen shot comparison

[drop-cap]W[/drop-cap]e are just a few weeks away from the launch of Microsoft’s biggest game of the year: Halo Reach. Reach, set shortly before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, will be rele... Read More

‘Go and have a go’ at Kinect, says Rare

‘Go and have a go’ at Kinect, says Rare

Rare Kinect development head, Nick Burton, wants core gamers to give Microsoft's new motion sensing camera a chance before dismissing it outright as casual and gimmicky. "All I can say to the core i... Read More

Microsoft Working On Phone-To-Console Gaming

Microsoft Working On Phone-To-Console Gaming

According to Microsoft, they are hoping to produce real-time multiplayer gameplay between Windows Phone 7 devices and Xbox 360 over wi-fi. Despite Windows Phone 7 being able to support only turn-ba... Read More

Halo: Reach- Revolution or Evolution?

Halo: Reach- Revolution or Evolution?

Halo. The most prestigious, the most loved, the most grandiose shooter franchise of all time. It is said that console shooters would be nothing if it weren't for Halo. Halo: Combat Evolved is to conso... Read More

Halo: Reach Hits The Internet

Halo: Reach Hits The Internet

Despite the fact that Halo: Reach wasn't even released yet, pirates all over the world are downloading the game right now from BitTorrent sites. This was due to Xbox.com hading out codes for review... Read More