To compliment their CES keynote , Microsoft’s beautiful Steve Ballmer (pictured above) has supplied lifetime sales figures and statistics regarding their current-gen console, and its flagship service, Xbox Live. As of now, roughly 39 million Xbox 360’s have been sold worldwide, with just over half of those consoles being connected to Xbox live. There’s no mention of what percentage of …

One of the primary reasons I hardly play anything online anymore is that behind the veil of internet anonymity, your average guy becomes a whining loudmouthed douchebag with the general demeanour and prepubescent angst of a 12 year old tourettes sufferer. Online gaming is great; but thanks to cockbags like that I’ve rediscovered the joys of the single player experience. …

Masayuki Chatani, Sony’s technology platform boss has told Nikkei that the company will “face difficulties” if it continues to rely on the “sell-and forget model” that they currently employ. “Servers and the like have running costs… after we sell the hardware, though, we continue to sell products such as content and services,” he said, before continuing “In addition to single-payment …

It’s Friday the 11th of December which means it’s my brothers birthday today, happy birthday Shaun, and we get to see what the local Xbox 360 gaming community has been up to this week. There have obviously been quite a few people waiting for the Forza 3 DLC as it has climbed the rankings this week with Assassin’s Creed 2 …

You all know about the MW2 Javelin glitch that has been plaguing gamers over the last week in their nightly sessions of Modern Warfare 2, you also all know that Infinity Ward is working on getting a patch out ASAP. Microsoft have decided to take matters into their own hands for now and have warned that anyone caught using the …

I received a note from X3G this week letting me know that the statistics for the local Xbox 360 players was once again being collated correctly and that the charts were accurate again. So now that we are past most of the major releases for this silly season let’s take a look and see how the new games are fairing …

You know how we told you recently that Call of duty Classic was coming to Xbox Live and PSN soon, and that Xbox live users needn’t fear it being blocked on account of its Teen rating? Well we were bloody wrong. Because the game isn’t available in Germany – likely because of that whole Nazi thing, it won’t be available …

The world is changing and jee-golly-whiz would you believe that there are some people who are actually willing to change with it. A new initiative/program from New York State’s government is realising that they have to keep with the times and start looking at the world a little differently. They have begun using Twitter to spread information, they try and …