The Noble Map Pack for Halo Reach is now available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. If you didn’t already know what it is, the Halo Reach Noble Map Pack adds three brand new maps to the games multiplayer, meaning that you can now tea-bag your buddies in all new locations. Almost everyone is currently playing that TROUT: Dark …

EA wants to make you all a deal. The Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer is, at this moment, sitting on around about 395,000 views. EA have announced that they will dish out some free DLC vehicles for NFS: Hot Pursuit if and when the trailer hits 1 million views. That seems like a fair trade to me, not to …

The South African Street Fighter IV community is alive and kicking and thanks to the efforts of Malcolm van Schalkwyk, a great meet and tournament was organised on the 20th of November. While there was a tournament organised for the day, the event’s real purpose was to get the local community together to share their passion for the game, as …

Ever wondered how close the lap times in games like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport come to the real thing? We have been wanting to run this feature for just about forever, but had to wait for Gran Turismo to be released before we could do it properly. In this test we carefully selected two car/track setups to compare lap …

At this current point in time, there have been approximately 21 Need for Speed titles released since its initial debut on the Panasonic 3DO somewhere in the early 17th Century (Okay, I really mean 1994). While Need for Speed was once the most beloved racing franchise available it slowly slipped deeper and deeper into mediocrity thanks to its descent from …

Microsoft has announced that starting from today (sometime) they are upgrading all Xbox Live silvers (standard) to gold members so that you too can go online and pwn at Black Ops. Or listen to the incredibly frustrating American Halo Reach players telling you what they did to your mother last night in their highly annoying screechy 12 year old voice. …

I realised yesterday that 2010 was nothing less than a great year for racing games. Blur, Split/Second, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Gran Turismo 5 and F1 2010 all in one year. For petrol-heads like me, its a dream come true. Test Drive Unlimited 2 will now be releasing on February 8 in the U.S and February 11 in South …

It’s been a year since Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed II and threw us into the life of Ezio Auditore di Firenze, a young Italian man who learns the secret art of stab-ology. While the original Assassin’s Creed was a bit of a disappointment to many people, the sequel finally gave everyone the game that they always wanted by adding necessary …