I am not good at racing games. I can’t steer, I use walls and other objects to guide my vehicle, and I generally hit in to things a lot. In short, I’m good at crashing – which is probably why Burnout: Paradise is my favourite racer. Well, the hard-working lads at Criterion are about to make it even better; The …

The hopefully game-fixing update Epic Vice President Mark Rein promised would be arriving this month seems to be getting close to release : Xbox.com has details of some new achievements that’ll likely be added with the update – a whole 175 G’s worth. Before you achievement “ladies of the night” get excited, us South Africans are about to be shafted …

Those of you looking to play dress-up with your digital doppelgangers will be delighted to know that new apparel is available. No downloads necessary, this stuff’ll appear in the avatar editor automatically. I have all the fashion sense of a jar of orange marmalade, so I’m not entirely sure if any of this is worth getting excited about. Thankfully, it’s …

So the big NXE update arrived and went down pretty well overall but obviously we are all now looking to the future to see what Microsoft are going to offer us next. Well according to Aaron Greenberg we mustn’t get to excited about the Spring update (our Autumn) because it just isn’t coming, in fact it looks like Microsoft has …

Despite previous utterances to the contrary, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has confirmed that there are indeed plans to increase Xbox live’s friends limit. "It’s definitely something we’re looking at expanding and, as this social network grows, we’ve absolutely heard the please for that. It’s on the list," he told Joystiq at this year’s CES. According to Greenberg – Director of Product …

An interesting article from Gamezine.co.uk popped up that states that according to the numbers released by both Sony and Microsoft about the number of active accounts on their online platforms, the PS3 actually has a higher percentage of users online than the Xbox 360 and it got me thinking about Microsoft’s decision to keep charging for gold memberships. The percentages …

Major Nelson announced on his blog last night that the Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Demo has gone live on Xbox Live. So what does the demo hold in store? It’s strictly a SP demo which is unfortunate, but does feature the game’s cinematic opening (oh I’m so excited), 1 campaign mission from both the Soviet and Allied campaigns …

Eurogamer has put together a quick review of the new community games that arrived with the NXE. I have to be honest here and say that I actually haven’t looked at any of them myself but after reading through the brief reviews I am going to go and download some tonight. The ones that really appealed to me were Weapon …