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By AJ Glasser The third time, though, I stop blaming myself and indignation sets in. Why would they make a game this hard? How could I possibly have missed whatever it is I need to get past this point? What is wrong with the developers that they make something I can't figure out? This is a dangerous line of th...

By Mike Fahey Tecmo's PlayStation 3 third-person shooter Quantum Theory isn't just for the PS3 anymore, now coming to North American Xbox 360 consoles as well this spring. So yes, Quantum Theory is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this spring. How excited are you?

By Owen Good Conan O'Brien Now Picking on 60-Metascore Games Mario Theme: One-Hand Me, Good Sir! Infinity Ward Says Javelin Cheat Fix 'In the Pipeline' for PS3 Madden NFL Arcade Micro-Review: Snacking on Football Sticks Up, Lacrosse Breaks Into the Xbox 360

By Owen Good After struggling with freezing problems during the download of its Champions Pack 2, released Thursday, EA Sports has taken the unusual step of just pulling the content back from Xbox Live Marketplace, until it can roll a fixed pack later. Here is EA Sports' full statement on the matter:

By Owen Good Madden NFL Arcade was developed by EA Sports and published by Electronic Arts for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Nov. 25. Retails for 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live Marketplace, $9.99 on PlayStation Network. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played abo...

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By Owen Good Let's be real. It would take a nuclear war for lacrosse, even though it's literally more American than football or baseball, to displace either game on TV. It would take even more to put it in a retail video game box. I said back then it would be perfect for doing a lacrosse video game, finally," h...

By Owen Good • Best Buy has its own variation on that bundle, but also pairs it with a 12-month Xbox Live sub for a grand total of $309.98. The offer takes effect tomorrow. Ship it for a buck or pick it up in store [Dealzon] • That said, Microsoft is selling Beatles: Rock Band, Band Hero (games only) and Batman:...

By Luke Plunkett Fast forward to this decade, and suddenly games are incredibly realistic. The Xbox 360, PS3 and PC can depict scenes of shocking violence, and a maturing development scene means sex and drugs now feature prominently in video games as well. Games aren't just meeting the MA15+ rating, they'...

By Owen Good The 360 patch is coming later. "Unfortunately, during the certification process for the 360, update issues were found that will prevent it's release this week," said Phil Frazier, a senior producer on Madden. "Assuming all goes well with our new submission, the title update for the 360 sh...

By Brian Crecente Where the DS, Playstation 3, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360 each have a single online services for gaming, Apple has left the creation of iPhone gaming networks to the game publishers. The result is a handful of disconnected services vying to be number one.

By Luke Plunkett No More Heroes looked good on Wii. As No More Heroes: Paradise, though, it looks better on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as you're about to see.

By Michael McWhertor While that won't mean that much to owners of the PC version—it's a two-disc install—poor Xbox 360 owners will suffer the galactic inconvenience of a disc swap at some point. Chris Priestly, community coordinator of BioWare, says it's not so bad.

By Michael McWhertor Games & Demos for PlayStation 3 Call of Duty: Classic ($14.99) Call Of Duty Classic – French Version ($14.99) PSone Classics: Command & Conquer: Red Alert Retaliation ($5.99) PSone Classics: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis ($5.99) Bayonetta demo Fairytale Fights demo

By Michael McWhertor Level 5's latest Professor Layton puzzle-adventure, Layton Kyouju to Majin no Fue, debuts at the top of Japan's video game software sales charts, another 300,000 Nintendo DS games added to the series' impressive sales. For near total Nintendo-mination, check out the full top thirty.

By Michael McWhertor The rest of Take-Two's slate, including BioShock 2, Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II appear to be sticking to their regularly scheduled dates. But Max Payne 3 is now penciled in for a fiscal Q4 2010 release, giving the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game an August to October release window.

By Mike Fahey From the initial announcement, the main difference between Games on Demand and something like Steam is the use of Microsoft points to purchase games along with actual cash money, but it's certainly a start. If they can keep prices competitive, they could be on to something.

By Stephen Totilo But the game came with a card, on which was printed a redemption code for The Midnight Show, some free downloadable content. "Enter code for in-game topless dances, a game of chance, and rewards for every risk," the card stated. The Saboteur, which is rated M, ships for PC, PlayStation 3 and X...

By Brian Ashcraft The PSP and PS2 games are priced at ¥2,800 (US$32) each, while the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii games are ¥3,800 ($43).

By Luke Plunkett Microsoft announced this week that, for a limited time, Canadian gamers will be able to grab a special bundle that includes a console and both of Bungie's Halo games for the 360. In all, you get a 360 Elite, two controllers and copies of both Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, all for CAD$400 (USD$380).

By Luke Plunkett Tropico 3 was developed by Haemimont Games, and published by Kalypso Media for the PC (version played) and Xbox 360. Released on October 20 on PC, and on February 2, 2010 on Xbox 360. Retails for $40. Played all 15 "missions", and spent considerable time in sandbox mode. Smoked two cigars, had c...

By Michael McWhertor My Grand Theft Auto IV experience saw similar protections, with an executable running from the hard drive that required a special memory unit to play. Rockstar Games reps asked us to carry the memory unit with us whenever we left the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 unattended.

By Michael McWhertor Electronic Arts has officially announced the reinvention of its first-person shooter war game Medal of Honor, bringing the franchise into the modern age and deploying it to Afghanistan, promising "the most authentic modern war experience" for fall 2010.

By Mike Fahey Lego Rock Band (Wii) - now $40 MySims: Agents (Wii) - now $40 Tekken 6 (Xbox 360 and PS3) - now $50 Madden 2010 (Xbox 360 and PS3) - now $50 WWE 2010 (Xbox 360) - now $50, WWE 2010 (Wii) - now $40 Batman Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) - now $50 Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) - now $50 Halo 3:ODST (Xbox 360) - now $50

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By Michael McWhertor The Xbox Live Marketplace offers two new ways to fill up your Xbox 360's hard drive. Crackdown and Beautiful Katamari join the list of available Games On Demand titles as of today. Crackdown & Beautiful Katamari [Xbox Marketplace]

By Michael McWhertor Steampunk fantasy RPG Edge of Twilight may never see the light of day. The Fuzzeyes Studios developed game, originally planned for release this year on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is rumored to have been canceled.

By Stephen Totilo No Loading Time Problems For DS Sequel Your Holiday Xbox 360 Propaganda Backbreaker Going For Broke Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned Micro-Review: Brains Optional Super Monkey Ball 2 iPhone Preview: Hollaback Monkeys Changing Video Game Cases Go For The Green

By AJ Glasser Back to the sales figures, EA says FIFA 10 sold 26 percent better than FIFA 09 did in the same time period last year (and said nothing regarding last year's lousy economy compared to this year's optimistic economy). EA also says that FIFA 10 is breaking franchise records with an average of "3...

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By Michael McWhertor You may remember that an internal Sega document outlined the publisher's plans for including mascot characters in Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing. That document specifically mentioned "characters from Rare or Fable universes" even though it was apparently culled from a meeting wit...

By Michael McWhertor Regardless of your feelings about Taito's arcade classic Qix, it appears that Microsoft will release the modern-day update to the game on Xbox Live Arcade next week. At least in Japan, Qix++ is scheduled for a December 9 release, priced at 800 Microsoft Points. We wouldn't be surprised to s...

By Michael McWhertor Japanese video game mag Famitsu is famous for its lack of "perfect" 40 out of 40 review scores, having only issued only 13 of them during the publication's lifespan. And Modern Warfare 2 came within spitting distance of that "perfection."

By Mike Fahey Credit card fraud prevention experts Retail Decisions have detailed the four most fraud prone products on the internet this holiday season, and wouldn't you know it, three of them are video game related. 2) Xbox 360 3) Nintendo Wii 4) The "Call of Duty" Xbox game

By Mike Fahey The DJ Hero standalone turntable controller is available in Wii Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 flavors.

By Stephen Totilo Ubisoft's announced the DLC for ACII this afternoon and provided some basic facts. One release in January, another in February. No price was announced, both will be sold for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The February one is the Bonfire of the Vanities.

By AJ Glasser I can't imagine how scary it is for a developer to pitch a football video game when their name isn't EA Sports. I imagine a room full of people going dead silent before someone says, "You mean like Madden?" Backbreaker is looking at an April 2010 release for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

By Mike Fahey The demo for Dante's Inferno is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this month, but one console is getting it two weeks ahead of the other. Who gets it first? Hint - it's not the Xbox 360. In the spirit of the holidays, I urge PlayStation 3 owners to invite an Xbox 360 owner to their home on Dece...

By Stephen Totilo A mailer showed up in the Kotaku NYC office yesterday. It contained some hype for the Xbox 360, in the form of a psychiatric examination, complete with case studies and Rorschach test. Shall we credit Microsoft for creativity? For pushing Xbox Live Gold features while promoting a $199 pric...

By Mike Fahey Gamers made noise when the sequel to last year's cooperative survival horror title was announced earlier this year, but the quick follow-up doesn't seem to have hurt Left 4 Dead 2's sales figures. More than 2 million copies of the PC and Xbox 360 versions have sold at retail, a figure that do...

By Mike Fahey There is definitely something eerie about seeing Final Fantasy box art with the Xbox 360 logo at the top. For those of you who can't handle the strangeness, I've also included the PlayStation 3 packshot. Rest assured, one of these boxes will be much lighter than the other.

By Michael McWhertor Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 24. Retails for $9.99 USD. A download code was given to us by the developer for reviewing purposes. Completed all story missions and bounties on Xb...

By Michael McWhertor Get ready to for some corporate gloating, Microsoft-style, in the coming days. According to the company's Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, the Xbox 360 just had its "biggest sales week of the year." We'll see if Microsoft can top 2008, when the Xbox 360 maker claime...

By Michael McWhertor The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 port of No More Heroes won't take advantage of new motion control schemes for those respective platforms, according to Marvelous Entertainment head honcho Yasuhiro Wada, condemning Travis Touchdown to an analog stick controlled fate.

By Michael McWhertor With the Wii doing more harm to Ubisoft's bottom line these days, the company's reaffirmed "strategy of developing bigger franchises" will probably mean good things for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owner. That, or plenty of Imagine Babyz mini-games, now in mind-blowing high-definit...

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By Mike Fahey Tony Hawk: Ride was developed by Robomodo and published by Activision for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 17th. A Wii version of the game was developed by Buzz Monkey. Retails for $119.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played through the...

By Mike Fahey Puzzle Quest is an award winning franchise with numerous accolades including an Interactive Achievement Award for "Best Downloadable Game of the Year" for Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords," said Peter Andrew, vice president of product development, D3P. "Puzzle Quest 2 return...

By Luke Plunkett A more subdued, official statement from the BBC reads "BBC iPlayer has been extremely successful on PS3 and we recently re-launched on Nintendo Wii, from which the public response has been fantastic. People clearly want the BBC iPlayer on their gaming consoles, and we don't think Xbox us...

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By Michael McWhertor So, what is this deep cover detective game, apparently set in Hong Kong? Well, it could be the "action-based game set in Hong Kong" developed by United Front Games and published by Activision, announced earlier this year. The folks at UFG—also responsible for PlayStation 3 exclusive Mod...

By Owen Good bittos+ (Wii) Copter Crisis (Wii) FishIsle (PC) GREED (PC) Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate (PC) Las Vegas Casino Party (Wii) Playmobil 2 Pack (PC) Puzzle Chronicles (PC) Reader Rabbit Kindergarten (DS, Wii) Strike Force Red Cell (PC) World of Zoo (DS, PC) Yoga for Wii (Wii)

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By Michael McWhertor After giving up pie chart real estate to Sony for the past few weeks, the ninth hardware platform on the Media Create weekly sales chart pushes Nintendo back into the leadership position in a major way. The DSi LL's closest competitor was the PlayStation 3, which commands a second place spo...

By Michael McWhertor The Xbox 360's hands-free motion controller, due to hit sometime next year, could be more than just a new way to gyrate frantically or befriend boys in front of your television screen. It could also replace your TV remote. Microsoft Sees 'Natal' as Your Next TV Remote [Yahoo! Tech]

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By Mike Fahey Amazon.com: The Black Friday video game deals are in full swing, with more game discounts being revealed all day long. Right now you can get bargain prices on Forza 3 and Halo 3: O.D.S.T. Dell Direct: Dell Direct is selling a Nintendo Wii bundled with New Super Mario Bros. Wii and an additional Wii r...

By Luke Plunkett Asked to clarify exactly which "competitor" he was talking about, House elaborates. "From data that we're starting to see, in some of the publicly-released figures, we're seeing a significant year-on-year downturn for the Wii. I think that's just a factor of this Holiday season."

By Brian Crecente The contest, which is open to North American readers, will run through Dec. 14. With the winners announced on Dec. 18 Just submit your photo and haiku here in comments. Make sure to say if you are entering for the PS3 or Xbox 360 controller in your comment.

By Mike Fahey This having been said, the PC version loses a point to the Xbox 360 as far as local multiplayer options go, with the ability to network multiple 360 consoles together via System Link. There are no LAN options for Modern Warfare 2, and of course no split-screen multiplayer either, so the cons...

By Brian Crecente My consoles are working overtime these days as I work to review games, play games for judging and sneak in a bit of relaxation gaming on the side. Today my Xbox 360 started to show signs of wear, locking up four times in about two hours. Three of those times was while I was playing LEGO Indiana Jon...

By Brian Crecente Modern Warfare 2 Combat Controller Camo was developed and produced by Mad Catz for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on Nov. 10. Retails for $14.99 USD. A camo Playstation 3 faceplate was given to us by Mad Catz for reviewing purposes. Played several games for several hours with the faceplate snapp...

By AJ Glasser Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for the Nintendo Wii on November 10. Retails for $49.99 and is compatible with the Wii Zapper. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Completed single-player campaig...

By Michael McWhertor 02. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 441,000 03. Borderlands (Xbox 360) - 418,000 04. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 314,000 05. NBA 2K10 (Xbox 360) - 311,000 06. Halo 3 ODST (Xbox 360) - 271,000 07. NBA 2K10 (PS3) - 213,000 08. Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360) - 175,000 10. FIFA Soccer 10 (Xbox 360) - 156,000

By Brian Ashcraft Last week we reported that Koyama wrote on his official blog: "Tales of Vesperia is coming out on one thing after another: Xbox 360, then PS3, and now upcoming, goes on sale even on the Wii. More shortly, the feature film anime version is also opening in theaters (But, I, I'm not in it...), and aft...

By Mike Fahey Wizards of the Coast are bringing Xbox Live card-battler Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers to the PlayStation Network and PC, with two new Xbox 360 expansions in the works. The PlayStation Network version of the game won't be hitting until fall of 2010.

By Owen Good Features I Clothe Gamers KFC Madden NFL Box Unboxing and Review s Super Huge Pumpkin Patch Using Trophies to Deliver Big Game Outreach Announcing The Return Of Kotaku's Game Club, For Modern Warfare 2 Console Arcade, DJ Hero, Rock Band Set for Colorado Child's Play Fundraiser

By Stephen Totilo I threw it together in class," Le Clair told Kotaku during a phone interview this week. His creation, Rumble Massage, is no game. It's a program that makes an Xbox controller vibrate on command. It was launched in January through the Xbox Live Indie Games program, which enables amateur devel...

By Owen Good An Xbox 360 firmware update went live overnight/early this morning. Although it lays the foundation for the 360's Facebook and Twitter capabilities, no new features are included in this download. Xbox 360 System Update Rolling Out [Major Nelson via VG247]

By Stephen Totilo At the Penny Arcade Expo, about halfway between where you could buy nachos or watch a comics artist sketch on his DS, there was a kiosk running two forthcoming Xbox Live Arcade games from Take Two Interactive's 2K Play level. Axel & Pixel, an adventure game from Czech studio Silver Wish...

By Owen Good Features Pieces of You: Rebuilding Myself On Consoles Gaming Before Chemo, A Child's Escape Sports Ads: Everything You Want in a Video Game - and Less Madden NFL 10 EA Working on Adding Vick to Madden Roster [Update] Aussie Madden Has No Free Online Franchise Codes. Here's Mine [Update]

By Stephen Totilo Through Connell and Microsoft, gamers can today buy 1930s-era cuffed trousers ($1) or a pair of Steampunk metal goggles ($1) to adorn the virtual person who represents them on their Xbox 360 — and who appears on their Xbox Live friends lists.

By Mike Fahey Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta was developed by Bethesda Softworks and distributed to the Xbox 360 and Windows for download on August 3rd. It's also announced as coming to the PS3 later. Retails for 800 Microsoft Points ($10 USD). Played PC version. Played the core quests, got a bit sidetracked,...

By Mike Fahey Droplitz was developed by Blitz Arcade and published by Atlus for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. Additional versions exist for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Retails for $9.99 USD/800 Microsoft points. Played Xbox Live Arcade version for upwards of 12 hours, unlocking multiple...

By Mike Fahey Best Action Game BioShock 2 (2K Marin/2K Games for PS3, Xbox 360, PC) Halo 3 ODST (Bungie/MGS for Xbox 360) Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve/EAP for Xbox 360, PC) Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision for PS3, Xbox 360, PC) Singularity (Raven/Activision for PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

By Mike Fahey Criterion Games continues to change the face of Burnout Paradise with the release of the Cops and Robbers downloadable content add-on for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Burnout Paradise Cops and Robbers was developed by Criterion Games. Released on April 30th for the PlayStation 3 and Xb...

By Stephen Totilo Broken Steel was developed and published by Bethesda Softworks for the Xbox 360 and PC, released on May 5th. Retails for 800 MS points ($10.00 USD) Played through the main missions and completed two of the side quests of the Xbox 360 version. Game froze twice; no other malfunctions. Character...

By Michael McWhertor Technical Problems: When the action gets heavy, Ninja Blade can suffer from some serious frame rate issues. Unfortunately, this is exactly when we need the game to behave at its technical best. Ninja Blade was developed by From Software and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox...

By Brian Ashcraft A mandatory update has just hit the Xbox 360. According to Microsoft's Larry Hryb, "This update addresses interruption issues that some Xbox LIVE users may have experienced when playing a limited number of Xbox 360 games." Xbox 360 System update now available (no new features) [Major Nel...

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By Michael McWhertor Peggle was developed and published by Popcap Games, released on Xbox Live Arcade on March 11th. Retails for 800 Microsoft Points ($10 USD). Played Adventure mode to completion, played multiple challenges and tested online and local multiplayer modes.

By AJ Glasser The latest patch for the Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3 fixes specular lighting problems, giving the game a significant graphics boost. Don't feel bad - I had to Google "specular reflection" too. Inside Digital Foundry reports that the new 360 patch slipped the fix in along with prep work for...

By Luke Plunkett They've recently turned up on Xbox.com, and appear certain to go live once the patch is released to the public. In all, there are 175 points up for grabs, with all seven achievements focused on the recent Flashback and Combustible maps. Gears of War 2 Achievements [Xbox, via X3F]

By Mike Fahey PLAYSTATION 3 has always been about streamlining the gaming and entertainment experience by giving consumers the most features and functionality out of the box, there is no immediate need to upgrade anything to get a rich entertainment experience, as the console comes standard with:

By Brian Ashcraft The Xbox 360 logo inspired by aliens? Probably not, but it does have green in it. And aliens are always green. Mark Wilson over at sister site Gizmodo spotted this sketch from 1697, which has a design that looks like the Xbox 360 logo. Coincidence?

By Michael McWhertor Not even the brightly shining star power of pseudo celebrities like Kim Kardashian could spark enough interest to make EA's Facebreaker a hit. The lousy reviews likely didn't help either, leading to a first month debut of a mere 52,000 copies across both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 vers...

By Brian Crecente Desz over on Cheap Ass Gamer recently posted a blurry snapshot of what appears to be an internal Microsoft memo dealing with an Xbox 360 name change. The memo, seen above, appears to suggest that this particular, model I suppose, of the Xbox 360 was once codenamed Xbox Xbox Lean or Xbox Grani...

By Owen Good The "Cagney" update for Burnout Paradise on the Xbox 360 will arrive via Xbox Live tomorrow. Developer Criterion posted confirmation of the release date on Friday, and commenter Sean Beanland mentioned it in yesterday's discussion of Burnout Bikes.

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By Owen Good This apparently shows the SKU for the no-hard drive Arcade model. Other cuts are said to be coming for the Pro (60GB, $299) and Elite (120GB, $399), a development first reported by Ars Technica. VGC Exclusive: Xbox 360 to Cut Arcade Prices to $199.99 on Sept. 7th [VGChartz.com, thanks Loaded St...

By Mike Fahey Those of you adding Microsoft points to your account for the upcoming releases of Braid and Castle Crashers this month might want to add a few more than the 800 a shot we're used to. According to the official Japanese Xbox 360 blog, August 6th's Braid will be setting gamers back 1200 Microsof...

By Brian Ashcraft 2K Games has confirmed what games it'll be showing at this year's E3. The tiles include: • BioShock (PS3) • Borderlands (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) • NBA 2K9 (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360) • NHL 2K9 (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) • Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization (PC)

By Mike Fahey The problem is, who – if anyone – at the publisher or developer actually played this game and decided it was a good thing to unleash on gamers? Did they not realize how horrible the game is to control or how screamingly annoying the camera is switching from third person to a fixed shot is? Did n...

By Mike Fahey Developed by 2K Sports’ Visual Concepts studio, NBA 2K9 is not yet rated by the ESRB and will be available this fall for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. For mo...

By Brian Crecente NBA 2K9, which is being developed by Visual Concepts, is not yet rated by the ESRB and will be available this fall for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. For more...

By Mark Wilson No one knows what Sony will do with the PS3's version of LIVE achievements. Whenever their service rolls out, there's a good chance that achievements could be quite different. But GameStrata, while aggregating all of your sweet online play data, could somewhat easily build their own achi...

By Brian Ashcraft With all this Halo 3 craziness in Japan (yes, those are pigs flying), thought it might be a good chance to show some Japanese-style faceplates. I wish I had close-ups of these so I could do a gallery, but from what I can see, they look, well, like typical anime stuff, but w/e! There is a definite...

By Brian Ashcraft It's what many have been waiting for. The new 65nm "Falcon" CPUs are found in the Halo 3 console. Besides being smaller, the 65nm chip is fifty percent less expensive to manufacture and apparently are more economic in heat output. Previous consoles featured a 90nm and have an abnormally high...

By Michael McWhertor Ash got a brief look at tri-Ace's Xbox 360 title Infinite Undiscovery in motion at Microsoft's pre-TGS press conference, but now, you too can enjoy the beauty of this glorious RPG with these magical stills. The recently launched official web site for the Square-Enix and Microsoft Game St...

By Mike Fahey NBA 2K8 will be available this fall for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems. More new next generation features will be detailed in the near future.

While this seems pretty straight forward, I suppose it's possible the Hollywood Arts people jumped to some conclusions when they said there was a Halo 4, but I sorta doubt it. Brian Crecente Cameo in HALO 3! Donated by Bungie for Hollywood Arts! [eBay, thanks Curtis]

By Brian Ashcraft Right after I got off the phone with Xbox Japan's Support Center, I got the infamous red ring of death, which actually is kinda pretty. In a sick way. Brian Ashcraft Eds Note: As some of our commenters pointed out, this 360 isn't dead. Freezing up, but not dead. Good to know.

By Michael McWhertor Ninety-Nine Nights (Xbox 360) The Microsoft backed story-driven hack 'n' slash from Q and Phantagram is less than the sum of its parts. Deep Labyrinth (DS) Atlus brings the action-RPG stateside, hack 'n' slash and touchscreen spell-casting in tact.