We may not be getting any more price cuts anytime soon, however we received a press release from Microsoft notifying us that a new Xbox 360 bundle will be available from April 1st. The new bundle will contain an Xbox 360 Pro 60GB, as well as both Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box as well as Trivial Pursuit. The estimated retail …
Our recently posted February NPD sales figures showed that Wii Fit was still selling pretty gosh-darned well. How well exactly? 6 million units well, to be precise. As of February, sales of Nintendo’s balance-board exercise simulator have exceeded that of Microsoft’s genre-defining Xbox 360 shooter Halo 3. What makes this all the more impressive for Nintendo is that Wii Fit …
Halo Wars, the last game from the recently closed Ensemble Studios has sold over a million copies, making it the best selling RTS on current gen consoles. Of course, being the most successful RTS on current consoles doesn’t really count for much – there are only a handful at the moment. According to Microsoft stats more than 2.6 million multiplayer …
Gamer.tm has posted up their first impressions of the upcoming Halo 3: ODST and it sounds interesting… not sure if it sounds good but it sounds interesting none the less. First lets get the bad out of the way, apparently everyone already knows that Halo 3: ODST is only going to be between 3-5 hours long in the multiplayer section …
Bungie were very proud to announce this week that on Saturday evening, Halo 3 dished up it’s one billionth online game. That’s really insane if you think about it, and while checking the statistics that Bungie had posted up I found a few more disturbing ones as well. The total amount of time that players have spent playing Halo 3 …
So after the long wait, Halo Wars has finally arrived to take a stab at the console RTS genre. Ensemble Studios (Who have now been closed down) are responsible for some of the most popular PC real time strategy games of the last couple of years or so with their “Age of” series. This time around they were given a …
I saw the rumours going around about the red Xbox 360 and initially just browsed over them as they really couldn’t be releasing a red version of the RROD box? Could they? Well apparently they could and will be doing so… They haven’t actually announced that they will be doing so but in a monumental glitch of life Microsoft New …
Last week I posted an article about the current lack of official Xbox Live support in South Africa and asked the question of Microsoft when we would be getting Live locally. Well the answers have arrived and they are not good. In short we are not getting Live anytime soon. Last Updated: February 17, 2009
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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