Woah there folks. Put down your pitchforks and dial down the vitriol. Yes, the headline is true – but it only pertains to the original Xbox, and original Xbox games played on Live. Come April 15th, owners of the first Xbox will no longer be able to play Halo 2 and…um..whatever else it is people play. These are modern times, …
Major Nelson has posted the latest Xbox Live Activity charts, dated November 9 and – BIG SURPRISE! – Modern Warfare 2 sits firmly at the top. With Xbox Live having hit new user records on the back of the game, it really was to be expected. What has come as a surprise is that both previous COD games, the original …
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 …
Eagle-eyed users of Xbox live have spotted a familiar, ass-kicking Greek on Xbox Live – None other than God of War’s blade-wielding Kratos. In the Halloween episode of Inside Xbox a wall mounted trophy is visible, featuring the severed head of one of Sony’s most popular characters. This is surely a friendly Halloween taunt from MS to Sony – at …
Major Nelson has tweeted overnight that all three of the Call of Duty World at War map packs have received a 50% price cut until the 1st of November. Obviously the idea is to get you to splurge your last remaining points on World at War before Modern Warfare 2 comes out and that is not an entirely bad idea …
Have you turned on your internet connected Xbox 360 to be greeted by a System Update Screen? are you expecting new functionality when it reboots? Well don’t. According to Xbox Live’s Major Nelson the mandatory update brings with it absolutely no features whatsoever. The update is apparently in preparation for the Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm functionality that’s coming later this …
Shadow Complex, the Metroid-inspired 2.5D action adventure is a great game. The exploration-heavy Unreal Engine powered downloadable game has been one of my favourites this year. Pity that the leaderboards are filled with cheaters who’ve figured out a way to exploit the game’s code to their own nefarious cheating ways. Developers Chair Entertainment and Microsoft aren’t taking too kindly to …
A few tweets started popping up yesterday from folks like Major Nelson and Stephen Toulouse saying that they are already seeing illegal copies of Halo 3 ODST being played online and are ready to drop the hammer on them. Toulouse’s exact tweet goes a little something like this: “Hrm. I spy with my little eye some *illegitimate* ODST players. No …
Sharpening focus without energy drinks starts with understanding one simple truth: most players don’t …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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