Want a good idea of what the new premium themes for the NXE look like, then look no further. BenjaminBirdie has stated a thread on Neogaf, where you can find pics of pretty much every premium theme available right now. Last Updated: November 21, 2008

I will never ever forget the first time that I saw someone get knocked off of the Pit in Mortal Kombat II. I watched in Horror as Barracka feel to his death, the camera in hot pursuit, until the final splat when the concrete cracked beneath him as he slammed into the floor. I wasn't desensitized yet, so the visuals actually caused a little bit of a sickening feeling in my stomach. I had just watched a realistic looking character fall to a gruesome and horrible death. It was disgusting, it was twisted and you know what, it was Mortal Kombat in it's purest form. These were the thoughts running through my mind when I watched this MK vs DC fatality montage. The gameplay might still be fun, the game may actually prove to be a more than worthwhile purchase but I cannot bring myself to look at it as a true relative of the Mortal Kombat series. What happened to the good old days of insane amounts of blood and guts? How could it be that the MK franchise has been stripped of the freedom to create the most gory and violent deaths imaginable, it's what made it famous. I'm not saying that videogames should always have as much violence as possible but again, this is Mortal Kombat. It's kind of like going to watch the next Tarantino movie and finding out that it has been toned down to become more accessible to teenagers. To mention it again, I am not saying that the game looks bad, it just feels like Mortal Kombat has officially lost it's identity. A sad day for me indeed.

We all knew it was going to sell well, and if anything was going to set a new record for pc game sales it was going to be Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard has announced that second of World of Warcraft expansion racked up 2.8 million sales worldwide in its first 24 hours on release. This makes it the …

You have to love marketers, these are normally the guys who come in and pretend they know everything about your business purely because they are very good at putting pictures in pamphlets and making things look cool. However marketing mishaps are normally awesome as they get it so horribly wrong even after going through levels of authorisation and checking… Such …

Mirror's Edge is the latest title to come out of DICE studios and has been hailed and nailed for being incredibly or even overly innovative. I spent quite a lot of time with the game over this last week and while the main storyline is pretty short, I found the experience to be quite breathtaking and the time trials a whole bunch of fun on their own. The game isn't perfect but it got me quite excited at the thought of how much more can be done with the concept in future. Problem is, I don't know if I am ever going to find out. As you can see from the title, the first week of sales for Mirror's Edge have been really bad. How bad, you may ask? Reports have come in showing that in it's first week in Europe, the game only managed to sell an embarrassingly low total of just on 30, 000 copies. Now, even if you aren't that clued in about game sales, it's not hard to figure out that when a game only sells 30,000 copies in the whole of Europe, it has failed miserably. With so many big titles sitting on the shelves at the moment, it's not that difficult to see why the sales are so low but it is still sitting significantly lower than what I had originally anticipated. If you are interested in the game, I highly recommend that you try the demo first. I found it to be an exhilarating experience but at the same time, I could see why many other gamers might find it frustrating and strange.

We posted a story back in September where a Capcom employee seemed to let the cat out of the bag about PS3 trophy support becoming mandatory. Well that day has now arrived… okay the day hasn’t actually arrived but it has been set in stone by Sony now. In response to a question from videogamer.com Sony had this to say …

Yesterday we announced that the new GTA IV DLC will be arriving in February and will follow the story of Johnny Klebitz, which makes me wonder why they don’t use a simple American name like Billy Ray or Bobby Bush… anyway back to the point. Today we have some screenshots for you and they are really looking awesome, I used …

Very soon, the first set of Horse Armor, I mean... let me start again. As you all know, the NXE dashboard update has brought with it a whole lot of possibilities in terms of friends list backgrounds as well as avatar clothing options. Microsoft have now announced that they will be continually releasing theme packs that include avatar clothing over the next six months. Pretty soon, a Ninja Blade them is going to be released for Xbox Live that not only comes with a background image and friends list backdrops, but 5 pieces of themed clothing to wrap around your new Xbox Live Avatar. As much as I am enjoying the new dashboard, I am sorry to say that a new era has begun in terms of paid downloadable content. While I already thought it pretty ridiculous that so many people were spending tons of money on gamerpics and dashboard themes in the old dashboard, the new dashboard brings with it an entirely new way to draw gamers' money out of their wallets. The price has gone up as well. More after the jump. While the old dashboard themes had a price tag of 150 points, the new ones are coming in at 250 points and while they are significantly more interesting than before, I can see a whole lot of people throwing their money at Xbox Live just to get some interesting clothing and backdrops to look at. At the same time, I have to wonder... if one of you are on my friends list and you download and add new items to your avatar, doesn't that mean that I will have to download them automatically when I next see you in my friends list? I think so. So tell you what, do us all a favour. Save your money by not spending it on silly outfits because at the end of the day, you will be saving all of us a bunch of bandwidth as well.