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Xbox 3’s release could ‘overlap’ with X360’s life cycle- Microsoft

Xbox 3’s release could ‘overlap’ with X360’s life cycle- Microsoft

[caption id="attachment_12223" align="aligncenter" width="505" caption="This is not an official logo, it is a prototype."][/caption] Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis says the release of Microsoft's th... Read More

Secret Xbox remake reveal coming next month; game is “one of the best games ever made”

Secret Xbox remake reveal coming next month; game is “one of the best games ever made”

OXM UK boasts of a secret Xbox reboot reveal coming in next month's issue which will be released on September 30, revealed exclusively by them. They're describing the game as "One of the best games... Read More

“If we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox”- Microsoft

“If we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox”- Microsoft

Microsoft Game Studios boss Phil Spencer thinks the Halo franchise is the most important thing to them, and that the Xbox brand would lose its way if the franchise met the same fate. “If we los... Read More

Footage of cancelled Sonic game

Footage of cancelled Sonic game

[HTML1] And there I thought Sega were trying to lower the credibility of Sonic these days. Not so, as Sega actually cancelled an Xbox game called Sonic Extreme that served as another dodgy extre... 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

Five Most Influential Gaming Systems

Five Most Influential Gaming Systems

Throughout gaming history there have been many innovations, events, and choices that ultimately lead the industry to where it is now. While it is obvious that innovations such as Nintendo Wii’s mot... Read More

5 Years of Xbox 360, Here Are Top 25 Xbox 360 Games Of All Time

5 Years of Xbox 360, Here Are Top 25 Xbox 360 Games Of All Time

Five years ago, Microsoft released the Xbox 360- a system which might have a lot of faults of its own, but is widely recognized as a great system with some really cool features. But a system's gam... Read More

Our Expectations From Xbox 3

Our Expectations From Xbox 3

We recently had a look at some interesting design possibilities for Xbox 3, which is often referred to as the Xbox 720. Of course, many people would have a lot of rumours, speculations and maybe e... Read More

Top Six Video Games Censored Because of Violent Content

Top Six Video Games Censored Because of Violent Content

Video games are forever the scapegoats of the media industry. Apparently, video games are all powerful contriving machinations that can be single handedly held responsible for all that is wrong wi... Read More

The Top 6 Western Themed Video Games Of All Time

The Top 6 Western Themed Video Games Of All Time

Come on, admit it. You know you like Westerns, with the macho protagonists wearing their cowboy hats and leather boots, and literally just walking into gunfights, pulling out their old revolvers f... Read More

The Assassin’s Creed planned for the Xbox and PS2 “was great”

The Assassin’s Creed planned for the Xbox and PS2 “was great”

Did any of you ever know there was an Assassin's Creed title in works for the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox? Well, it got canned. Unfortunately. Anyway, ex-Ubisoft art director, now working ... Read More

Xbox 360 Dashboard Beta Launched

Xbox 360 Dashboard Beta Launched

The all new Xbox 360 dashboard, which is being designed keeping in mind the capabilities of the upcoming Kinect, will be launching soon, and before that, Microsoft has launched the new program for i... Read More

Halo: Reach sells like crazy

Halo: Reach sells like crazy

Halo: Reach is truly the biggest Halo- heck, one of the biggest games- of all time. Following the footsteps of the conclusion to the grand Halo trilogy, Halo 3, Halo: Reach has become the biggest en... 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

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

Cry, cry, Xbox Live subscription prices being hiked

Cry, cry, Xbox Live subscription prices being hiked

Microsoft aren't short on funds, yet they still greedily suck their customers of all their money, being the filthy bas*ards that they are. No, no, it's not that bad this time around, but still, I'm pi... 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

Windows Phone 7 gaming will be like Xbox and Xbox Live

Windows Phone 7 gaming will be like Xbox and Xbox Live

Microsoft will soon release an Xbox Live- compatible Windows Phone 7 Operating system, which will provide a gaming experience "much more like Xbox and Xbox Live Arcade," says Microsoft exec Kevin Una... Read More

The Playstation 3 is NOT the First or Only Console That Does 3D Gaming

The Playstation 3 is NOT the First or Only Console That Does 3D Gaming

Sony's been concentrating on the 3D capabilities of its PS3 an awful lot lately, whereas the other two console manufacturers have been largely silent regarding the same. Nintendo has been giving glass... Read More

Microsoft scrapping cross-platform gaming?

Microsoft scrapping cross-platform gaming?

Many months ago, Microsoft had an idea to begin a project of cross platform gaming. Windows Live and Xbox Live players together, with games such as Gears of War available for both platforms. But what ... Read More