Modern Warfare 2’s release was always going to be huge, I knew it, you knew it, heck your granny probably even knew it. The question was always going to be, how big? Well here’s how big. Modern Warfare 2 broke the record by being the biggest launch in the history of any form of entertainment, pulling in roughly 2.1 Billion …

Have you had a red ring of death? Have you had to deal with Powercare lately? If so, has it gone smoothly? I received an e-mail this morning from a local Xbox 360 owner who had just gone through a major ordeal when trying to get his Xbox 360 swapped out with Powercare. From the looks of things, Powercare were …

Philosopher Bertrand Russell questioned the existence of a higher spiritual being – and attempted to remove the burden of proof on the sceptic when it came to proving or disproving religion – through the employment of a celestial teapot. Much like the invisible Pink Unicorn and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Russell’s celestial teapot is still used today in discussions about …

Undoubtedly driven by the colossal sales of a certain game involving Warfare of a Modern nature, Xbox Live has now broken its own record for concurrently online users. Major Nelson let the world know (Via Twitter, obviously) that on Thursday the service recorded the highest number of users online at the same time, a figure of over two million, or …

Remember those Halo Legends short films that you heard about earlier this year? Yeah well the first episode went up on Halo Waypoint but was apparently gone after 24 hours. Lucky for you it has been posted up on YouTube for all to see but you had better get cracking if you want to see it before the video gets …

The official NPD figures are being released later today but Sony has pre-empted the flood of news by announcing that Uncharted 2 has sold over a million copies worldwide. This is being announced as an achievement but I am honestly horrified, Uncharted 2 is possibly the best game on the platform at the moment and with an install base of …

The not so much anticipated Twitter and Facebook update is finally arriving for everyone on the 17th of November but in the end it’s become a bit of a damp squid. When it was first announced people had visions of seamless interaction between 2 of your 3 favourite websites but the reality has left us a bit short. I did …

Out our inhouse podcast is currently on a sabbatical but never fear there are still some local podcasts around to entertain you on this wonderful Friday morning. 8BitBot is a new local podcast manned by Devon and Delon from Gamerlobby and Curiousonion respectively. This week they chat to Michael James of NAG and rAge fame and offer up a years …