Nick’s away sunning himself somewhere today so it’s been left up to me to come up with a Flamebait Friday Debate. I was thinking of asking which game is more original Halo or Killzone or which title is truly a better racing game Forza 1 or GT5 but I was worried some of us may not make it through that …

Scot Bayless knows what he is talking about when discussing peripherals and their possible failures, Scot was a senior producer at Sega America when they released their 32x drive peripheral for the Sega and was around to watch in horror as that move (along with a few others) nearly sank the entire company. So when he met with Microsoft in …

We posted the rumour yesterday that the father of the Xbox, J Allard, could be leaving Microsoft as part of a large scale shake up in the Entertainment and Devices division. Well that has now been confirmed even though he will retain an advisory role with the corporation. Another surprising announcement is that Robbie Back will also be leaving later …

Rumours sprouted out over the last few days saying that Microsoft’s technical evangelist, J Allard, was currently on a sabbatical that he was never planning to return from. J Allard was the visionary behind the Xbox and the recently canned Courier tablet PC which I was totally in love with. However it appears that it’s not only Mr Allard who …

That heading isn’t even a joke people, that’s just seriously crazy. The Halo Reach already broke records recently when 2.7 Million people participated in the beta released by Microsoft and Bungie, with 1,826 years of total combined game time already being played in only two weeks. In case you were wondering, that translates to 16 million hours, and it’s safe …

Well folks, that’s all she wrote. The Halo Reach Beta, which was already extended by one day is officially over. A message post went up on the Bungie blog confirming the end of the beta, saying: The Beta is now officially over. We mentioned it yesterday, but it bears repeating. The Beta is officially over, but our test team is …

Microsoft and Foxtel today announced an exclusive deal where come the end of this year in Australia most Xbox 360 Gold subscribers will be able to stream Foxtel directly through their Xbox 360 instead of having to purchase a Foxtel set top box. The content and prices are yet to be announced but what is good is that if you …

So you may remember a while back it was reported that Microsoft is banning all technology from it’s big E3 Project Natal event? Obviously the first thought we all had was that they wanted to avoid any videos going up showing the lag or technical failing of Project Natal and we all got a little worried about the hardware at …