If you were playing your Xbox 360 last night you would have noticed that there was a mandatory update that  you had to install. Microsoft had officially said it was simply to reintroduce the boot to disk option on the dashboard but then why was it so big? Well it seems at least one of the extra bits included was …

Activision is recommending that the studio behind the incredibly entertaining Blur be shut down in the coming weeks due to the commercial failure of Blur and the lack of interested buyers in the developer. Blur was released last year to generally good reviews after many delays but unfortunately it never captured the heart and minds of the average game and …

Last night Nintendo held a preview event for the 3DS in Holland. It was hosted by Jonathan Ross (yeah, that talk-show host comedian guy from England) and the entire 80 minutes of awkward announcements loaded with broken English, French accents and Ross’s lisp can be seen here if you absolutely have to. If you couldn’t really give a rat’s left …

Eric Ruth Games, the fine folks who brought you pixellated 8-bit versions of Left 4 Dead and DJ Hero have created another modern retro title, this time demaking one of the most popular and influential console shooters in history – Halo. Instead of the first-person perspective, you’ll get to play the game as an 8-bit side-scrolling platform shooter, with the …

The next time you’re lying on a surgery table with your stomach sliced open and your guts hanging out, it could be Kinect telling surgeons where not to cut. All surgeons should, hopefully, know where not to cut already, but when they’re performing robotic-assisted surgeries, things get a little trickier. More after the jump. Last Updated: January 19, 2011

Shocking. A newer game on the same hardware that runs and looks better than its predecessor? NO WAY! Still, it is true. Though I enjoyed the heck out of Killzone 2, it did have a myriad of flaws. On release, the deadzone for look controls was too large, making movement a pain in the arse. That was thankfully patched up …

Which basically makes it the best multiplayer game ever made. Still, releasing a new online FPS game in today’s market takes balls of steel. Spiral Games Studios reckons they’ve got those because they’re planning on bringing their online shooter to Xbox Live Arcade, the PSN and Steam. The shooter looks like Halo, but it’s got a definite Tribes and Unreal …

Crytek, creators of Crysis and users of remarkable hyperbole are now claiming that their Xbox 360 exclusive “Codename : Kingdoms” will not only push the console "to its limits," it will also offer gamers  "a genuinely new" interactive entertainment experience. Sure, they are known for stretching the capabilities of graphics hardware, but a new interactive experience? That sounds mighty similar …