And in climbing to that lofty spot above the plethora of Xbox Live Arcade titles over the last few months, the game also weaselled its way deeper into my heart. Well, to be fair, it had done that three seconds into my initial playthrough, but still, this is great news for Playdead Studios. Microsoft’s Phil Spencer (vice-president of Microsoft Games …

[Update: I muddled up the figures between copies sold and money generated – I mentioned that the game generated sales of around $120,000,000.00 from pre-orders alone, but the information given now shows that they made a further $80,000,000.00 or so on the first day. Thanks Ewie for pointing it out.] In my editorial regarding the my experience buying Halo Reach, …

Aaron Greenberg, product director at Microsoft, is very confident that Kinect will be a huge success this holiday season. Speaking with Gamasutra, Greenberg is expect strong sales of the Kinect hardware, somewhere in the 3 million units region. “Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3 million units this holiday.” Last Updated: September 16, 2010

“Hey Fa**ot, I totally f****ed your g*y mom last night while I was PWZORRORIZNG your ugly face with my my sniper rifle and tea-bagging your girlfriend with my huge ba**s. Sound familiar? Well if you’ve ever played Halo then you would know exactly where foul-mouthed creativity like that comes from. Even though it’s the words of a 40 year old …

Yesterday saw the release of Microsoft’s biggest title of 2010 by far, which as you all know, was the latest entry of their flagship series, Halo Reach. What is Halo Reach to the gaming industry? It’s money, and lots of it. The game had already surpassed 2 million pre-orders worldwide, and at an average price of around $60 globally, that …

Halo Waypoint, the Xbox Live hub that is all thing’s Halo has received some updates to coincide with the release of Halo Reach. Some of the changes to Waypoint include being able to read latest articles, view related articles as well as recommend them to your buddies on your friends list. Also included is a new way to compare your …

Last week we posted up the phenomenal looking live action promo short for Halo Reach called ‘Deliver Hope”. This week we have been treated to an extended version, that runs just on about two and a half minutes long, and as you can expect, adds more to the original. I don’t know what more to say really, you have already …

Our beloved videogames analyst, Michael Pachter reckons that Xbox Live will very likely see a new “Platinum” subscription in the not too distant future. This after correctly predicting the $10 price increase to Xbox Live Gold that was announced this week. Pachter had the following to say: “The extra $10 translates to around $100 – 150 million per year in …