Microsoft’s Major Nelson has informed us of a major overhaul for the Xbox.com website, and it should be happening this very instant as we have scheduled this post to go up at exactly the same time that the upgrades begin. The Xbox.com site as well as the forums will be down for a short amount of time, and when it …

There’s no longer need to cry in to your cornflakes every morning, jaded Xbox gamers. Xbox Live is finally launching in South Africa after 4 very, very long years. We knew, after E3 this year that the service would finally be available, but now we even have an official launch date! Hooray! According to the official Xbox360SA twitter account, you’ll …

Ah, the Halo movie… it’s like Hollywood’s own Duke Nukem Forever. Well, it’s quite possible that DreamWorks just might pull a Gearbox on us as they’re actively re-pursuing attempts to obtain the rights to produce the Halo movie. The Halo movie was shelved back in 2006 when the initial partnership between Fox and Universal went south. Lots of money was …

When Kinect hits our stores in November, you’re going to want to make sure you have enough room to use it before you drop wads of cash. Kotaku has been given scans from what looks like the peripheral’s initial setup guide or Quickstart Sheet (you know, those bits of paper they stuff into new hardware packaging for the really impatient …

If you recall, our commander in chief reported that Gears of War 3 was delayed by five months. The reason given was for marketing. The worst possible reason for a delay in a game, since its so intangible. At the recent Eurogamer expo, the Gears of War 3 campaign wasn’t on show to the public. According to a Microsoft spokesman, …

Shares of Microsoft fell slightly after an analyst, Sarah Friar at the global investment banking and securities firm, Goldman Sachs downgraded the software giant on Monday (October 4, 2010). It appears that Microsoft’s shares has been downgraded from “Buy” to a “Neutral” rating, with an accompanying drop in the share price from $32 to $28. I’m sure a number of …

Remember a while back, when a little bit of a controversy got kicked up because Microsoft decided to drop the processor from their Kinect hardware? The internet went wild and started to blame the lack of a dedicated processor for the input lag seen on early units of the then Project Natal demos that were doing the rounds. So why …

Either this DLC announcement is being extra sneaky, or we’re into speculating way too much. Somebody whose mutant ability is a keen eye for detail spotted the above screenshot on Bungie’s website and promptly told gaming news sites (he didn’t tell us though so I think we feel offended… Geoff? Gavin? We’re offended, right?) Can you see it? It’s staring …