Microsoft confirmed today that Kinect will only work with 3 languages when it launches in November; English, Japanese and Mexican Spanish, meaning the peripheral will turn a deaf ear should you happen to speak any other language. It’ll be a good few months until support for other languages to be supported. If you’re thinking, “Hey, I speak English..this isn’t going …

Goodbye August, it’s barely been as windy as I thought it would be. We have a link to an interesting post about sex in games 5 years after the “hot coffee” incident 5 years ago, check it out. So today we revealed the news that Microsoft is not going to supply online subscription codes until the price increase hits, which …

[Update: We are busy collecting more information regarding the news, we are already getting reports in that many of the different online stores have already bumped their prices up as a result] We have just received information from local online codes website EvoPoints.co.za Microsoft will no longer be issuing any more subscription codes until the price increase kicks in. Yes, …

At the recent SIGGRAPH 2010 – Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques – one of LucasArts’ coders, Dmitry Andreev, who’s currently working on the new Force Unleashed showcased an interesting technology he and his team devised. They’ve come up with a software frame-rate upscaler – that makes games look and feel like they’re running at 60fps, and uses …

Ok, so here’s an update that I didn’t really expect to see. To be honest, it’s more that I just never really thought about it. The voice quality over Xbox Live has never been great, heck… when I think about it, it actually took me a while to understand what people were even saying when I first got my Xbox …

Halo Reach was released to Xbox Live Marketplace, hidden and only accessible to games reviewers. a group of sneaky hacker types managed to bypass Xbox Live’s security, downloading the game for themselves. they then released it – in Games on Demand and ISO form – to the internet at large. Microsoft have not taken kindly to their biggest game of …

Recently there has been a lot of discussion around the launch titles for Kinect, mainly around the fact that there are no hardcore or core games being released and the video footage that we are seeing isn’t filling anyone with much confidence about the device. But here’s the thing, Kinect is not being designed for you. If you are reading …

More fantastic news from Microsoft out of Gamescom! In 2009, Microsoft shut down two of their game development studios – ACES and Ensemble. Today they’ve announced they’ll be bringing new version of those studios most recognised games; Age of Empires and Flight Simulator. Revealed today, Age of Empires Online will be adding a bit of Farmville-esque social interaction, levelling up, …