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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

Fable III Delayed on PC

Fable III Delayed on PC

Well, looks like Fable III will be an exclusive after all. Or a timed exclusive, at any rate. I jest. Microsoft has confirmed that the third instalment in the popular Lionhead developed RPG seri... Read More

Move Will Outsell Kinect In the UK, Claims Survey

Move Will Outsell Kinect In the UK, Claims Survey

Microsoft have left no stone unturned in their attempt to hype their upcoming motion sensing peripheral, Kinect. They have, of course, also been aided by retailers, who claim that Kinect will be amass... Read More

Kinect doesn’t tax the Xbox 360 all that much; uses ‘less than 1%’ of the 360’s Processor

Kinect doesn’t tax the Xbox 360 all that much; uses ‘less than 1%’ of the 360’s Processor

The initial reveal of Kinect's launch lineup certainly wasn't very impressive. While the games themselves were all but party games and minigames compilations, all very clearly Wii titles knock offs, t... Read More

PS3 outsells 360 by 28% last year

PS3 outsells 360 by 28% last year

In the last 12 months, the Playstation 3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 by over a quarter. Microsoft reported last week that total console sales were at 10.3 million in the last financial year, w... Read More

Confirmed: Microsoft Will Be Selling 250GB HDDs Seperately

Confirmed: Microsoft Will Be Selling 250GB HDDs Seperately

You get no prizes for having guessed this. Predictably, Microsoft will be selling 250 GB hard drives seperately for its new Xbox 360 Slim models at retail. An ad for the 4GB 'arcade' version of the s... Read More