Mad Catz has been designing some pretty cool accessories for the upcoming game Call of Duty: Black Ops. continue to read »

UK Xbox boss Stephen McGill has claimed that the format will be “passed by” before it can make an impact. “I think people may have spoken about [Xbox's lack of a Blu-ray drive] originally, but that’s long gone,” he told X360A.

“I think people now recognise what a smart decision it was to keep the pricing low, and actually Blu-ray is going to be passed by as a format. People have moved through from DVDs to digital downloads and digital streaming, so we offer full HD 1080p Blu-ray quality streaming instantly, no download, no delay. So, who needs Blu-ray?”

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Game stores around the world open late to accomodate gamers looking to get their hand on the new instalment of the blockbuster Halo. Hundreds queued to the be first to get their hand on possibly the most anticipated game of the year.

The title is the fourth in the series and the last from US developer Bungie.

The last edition, Halo 3, was at one point the biggest-selling and certainly most popular game of all time. That record is now held by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 alothough this looks soon to change. The game puts players in the postition of a futuristic soldier in a war between humanity and a race of aliens hell-bent on mankind’s destruction.

Microsoft’s entertainment director, Stephen McGill, told the games industry newspaper MCV that it was the firms “biggest Halo release ever”.

Kinect will cost £129.99/€149.99, and come bundled with launch title Kinect Adventures, Microsoft has confirmed.

Microsoft also revealed a new Xbox 360 4GB model, to be launched in the UK on 20th August, priced £149.99/€199.99.

The Xbox 360 4GB plus the Kinect sensor and Kinect Adventures will be available as a bundle for £249.99/€299.99 when Kinect launches in the UK this November.

While Microsoft is yet to announce A UK release date for Kinect, retailers have this evening begun taking pre-orders for the device, the new Xbox 360 4GB and the bundle.

The new Xbox 360 4GB differs slightly from the Xbox 360 250GB unveiled during Microsoft’s E3 2010 conference last month. The 4GB is internal flash memory, and the console has a black matte finish. Otherwise it’s exactly the same as the “whisper quiet” Xbox 360 250GB, and includes built in Wi-Fi, the smaller design, and a hard drive bay.

“It will effectively replace the Arcade console,” Greenberg said. “We see it as a great value entry price point for consumers. We’re upgrading the storage to a full 4GB, which is quite a bit of storage. At £149.99 we think that’s a great price point.”

Microsoft have launched a nationwide recall of its new third person, open world game Crackdown 2, after many have discovered that they have found the original Crackdown in Crackdown 2 green cases. continue to read »

Infinity Ward have been keeping their noses down over the last few days as its game mode “Sabotage” has experienced a rather huge bug.

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The Microsoft E3 2010 press conference has just wrapped up and the company finished things with a bang, debuting a brand new slimmer and edgy all-black Xbox 360 with a 250GB hard drive and built-in Wi-Fi.

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At last we hear more from Microsoft about project Natal or, as its now known, Kinect.  The new device as we already know, replicates the features of the Wii but with no controller, essentially hands free. It comes equipped with a camera and depth sensor along with a microphone. continue to read »