Remember way back when we heard about the upcoming Xbox Game Room? Well it has finally been confirmed by Microsoft and here are the details. Over the next 3 years Game Room will grow to include over 1000 retro arcade titles for you to enjoy just the way they were. It’s somewhere your avatars can call Home and you will …

Hey, it’s CES 2010! Did You know? I didn’t – I’m still hungover and hardly paying attention. Hooray me! Something to come out of CES is confirmation of a general release date for Microsoft’s time-of-flight camera based motion control, currently named Project Natal. No, not because it’ll sell you Marsala pineapples and sugarcane, but because it represent a re birth…or …

This holiday season past (boo!) was expected to be a bumper one for the Playstation 3, thanks largely to the launch of the reduced cost PS3 Slim – and the stellar line-up of games the system has on offer. At CES, resident Sony space cadet Kaz Hirai confirmed just how well the PS3 had done this holiday – and it’s …

According to some UK marketing media the street date for Halo Reach has now been revealed. Halo 3 was released in Europe on the 26th of September 2007, Halo 3: ODST arrived on the 22nd of September 2009 and now Reach is following suit with an expected release date of the 24th of September 2010. You can’t blame Bungie really …

A mom in Orange County has suddenly become an online gaming celebrity after posting an entirely serious article trying to explain why she feels that videogames were invented by the devil. Some of the classic nuggets from the article are she always dreamed off all the neighbourhood kids crowding around her kitchen demanding she feeds them. Her friends kid is …

Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, has been discussing the DS’s successor with a Japanese newspaper and had the following to say "[It will have] highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing,” Firstly I would be a little worried about the next DS forcing us to wave …

Piracy is rife on just about every platform imaginable. Torrent searches will turn up illegal copies of games for PC, PSP, Xbox 360, DS, Wii and even the IPhone. The only current system that’s been impervious thus far has been Sony’s PS3 – but that may be set to change, as hackers have claimed success in playing copied games on …

One of the primary reasons I hardly play anything online anymore is that behind the veil of internet anonymity, your average guy becomes a whining loudmouthed douchebag with the general demeanour and prepubescent angst of a 12 year old tourettes sufferer. Online gaming is great; but thanks to cockbags like that I’ve rediscovered the joys of the single player experience. …