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Halo : Combat Evolved HD Remake Coming in November?

By Geoffrey Tim
February 7, 2011
in :  Gaming
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Those rumours of a HD remake of revolutionary console FPS Halo : Combat Evolved are beginning to gain some credence. According to Joystiq, the game will be smacking retail upside the head with a plasma sword on November 15 this year, 10 years to the day after the legendary shooter graced the original Xbox. It’s believed to be under development …

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These were the top Xbox Live Games of 2010

By Geoffrey Tim
February 4, 2011
in :  Gaming
0

Xbox’s Major Nelson has released lists of the most popular games on Xbox Live – boxed retail, XBLA and Indie titles. Their place in the charts is calculated using some sort of odd numerical alchemy based on their first week of availability, so it doesn’t take slow burning hits in to account. It also only considers games released in 2010, …

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Microsoft smashes its expectations-sells over 8 million Kinects in 60 days

By Gavin Mannion
January 28, 2011
in :  Gaming
0

Remember back when everyone was snorting at Microsoft’s predicted Kinect sales of 3 million? Then when they revised that to 5 million people started to think the Xbox bosses were on crack or something. Well the official financial results are now out and Microsoft is announcing that is actually sold over 8 million Kinect devices in it’s first 60 days …

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Comic: GT5 vs Forza 3

By Gavin Mannion
January 25, 2011
in :  Gaming
5

For the new people here don’t bother claiming bias or any such nonsense against me over this comic, I don’t enjoy any racing games which are any more realistic than Burnout Paradise City or Carmageddon. But having said that I found this new comic to be hilarious and the GT5 pretty much sums up my limited experience with GT5. Last …

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New Gears Of War 3 Multiplayer Footage Spotted In US News Report

By Nick De Bruyne
January 24, 2011
in :  Gaming
2

Gears of War 3 was set to release this April, but got pushed to the end of the year because, and I quote: “People can like to like money and hate on dey fans who be suckers, yo.” – Epic. B. Lovenmoney. In another completely made up quotation by no-one real, we found out that: “Microsoft crapped their pants when …

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Microsoft’s WP7 Team welcomes Geohot and friends on their platform

By Gavin Mannion
January 20, 2011
in :  Uncategorised
12

Geohot, the guy who hacked the iPhone and most recently the PS3 has found an unlikely ally in their fight to hack anything they can find. Just moments after Geohot mentioned that they are planning on going out to get a Windows Phone 7 to try and hack they received a tweet from Brandon Watson, Director of the Windows Phone …

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Kinect is coming to Windows

By Miklós Szecsei
January 11, 2011
in :  Gaming
5

Alright so technically it’s already usable in Windows thanks to hacks and third-party drivers, but the application is fairly limited, especially for Average Joe who has patience or desire to fiddle with settings. That will all change in the future however, as the motion sensor is coming to Windows PCs on an official level. One could argue that the move …

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Is the Kinect causing a new round of RROD?

By Gavin Mannion
January 6, 2011
in :  Gaming
9

In what can only be described as a PR disaster in the making the BBC website is reporting that the massively successful Kinect is causing older Xbox 360 models to Red Ring. Microsoft has been very quick to deny any link between the Kinect and the latest spate of RROD’s but you will recall they used to deny the RROD …

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