It seems as though there was a rumour flying around the internet yesterday that the new and improved Xbox 360 dashboard update was about to drop. As we all know by now, that rumour was a big, fat load of Buuwwll-Sheeeuuuut. Some light was shed on the situation however, as one of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Editors Daniel Maher apologised for …

Well, in a manner of speaking. Phil Spencer (VP of Microsoft Game Studios) has said that the company views Kinect being “as core as Xbox Live” for the Xbox 360. In the future, he added, core gamers can expect to see Kinect being utilised across all genres of games on the Microsoft console. The Xbox Live analogy is a useful …

It’s cooooooool, amazing..and will allow you to have more fun! That’s what this video from SEGA Japan has to say about Sonic Free Riders, the company’s inaugural game for Microsoft’s motion-sensing tech, due for release early next month. Like many of the initial games for the platform, it’s an on-rails affair; a board-racer that utilises motion-sensing to capture your jumps, …

Reggie Fils-Aime (head of Nintendo of America) was recently interviewed by Forbes during which he chatted about the opposition. Not just the other large hardware and gaming companies, but companies and services that you wouldn’t expect, with Fils-Aime admitting, “I compete with Zynga, I compete with surfing the net, I compete with the newspaper”. He means that he competes with …

Well someone’s not happy. That someone happens to actually be a group of US Marines overseas who weren’t very happy to find out that their Xbox 360 had fallen victim to the infamous Red Ring Of Death. Since getting it repaired was a bit of a tall order, they decided to do a little repairing themselves, with some very large …

In an attempt to combat secondhand sales of their games, EA introduced Project Ten Dollar which means that all EA releases have a single-use code to redeem free online goodies. It worked well with Mass Effect 2 and you ended up getting a substantial amount of free stuff. Now, Lionhead is set to follow suit as all new copies of …

We all know about this one, because it’s probably happened to us all once before. You have a buddy who can’t be classified as either a casual or hardcore gamer and one day they call you up and say “Hey, my knowledgable gaming friend, I want to buy one of them fancy looking console, which one do I buy?”. So …

All those pretty terrible ads you’ve seen on the internet for Microsoft’s controler-less motion-sensing doohickey? Those were incomplete! Unfinished advertisements! This is the first “official” one, and as expected, features all sorts of people jumping about like sillies not using controllers. Kinectimals, Dance Central and Kinect Sports seem to be the games on show, although it’s hard to tell, considering …