Those looking to eat up hard drive space with the Xbox Originals program have two choices this month. Yes, a whopping two games! Never mind the Live Arcade has had three games each week for two straight weeks.
The two games include the original Destroy All Humans, a solid open-world spoof that tries to mock the [...]

Though no actual numbers were provided and you’ll have to trust corporate Microsoft’s word, Xbox 360 sales have doubled since the previous weekend. Certain models of the hardware (unspecified) have increased six times their sales rates. Actual figures for September will come later down the road (mid-November) from NPD, but if this keeps up as [...]

The so called “summer of Xbox Live Arcade” may be over, but that hasn’t stopped the release of what is easily one of this writer’s all time favorite games from hitting the service. SNK’s Samurai Shodown II is a classic, pure, and beautifully refined 2-D fighter, easily one of the best you’ll ever play. It’s [...]

Last week during PAX, some photos were released of the mysterious Halo 3 “Mythic” and some new achievements. The achievements, at the least, are all real. The 10 new achievements announced is not the final list, and more are planned. You can find a full list around the interwebs, though as Bungie states, without context, [...]

Dean Takahashi, author of Opening the Xbox and The Xbox 360 Uncloaked, has written what could be the final chapter in the latter of the two books. In this six page piece for VentureBeat, Takahashi probes into what happened when the Xbox 360 launched, how defective they were, and what Microsoft wouldn’t tell us. Obviously [...]

Gas is expensive. Like, “really freakin’ expensive and you need a second job just to pay to be able to get to the first job” expensive. So, when EA decided they would promote their open-world actioner Mercenaries 2, they would do so by giving away gas. It’s amazing, but someone actually became mad because of [...]

Someone at Microsoft is feeling charitable. A select batch of downloadable content has received a discount on the Marketplace from this very moment until the end of October. At that time, they’ll apparently have to pay invisible DLC gnomes overtime to reset the prices with a digital pricing gun and will jack the price back [...]

Enjoying the addictive beat-em-up action of the near classic Castle Crashers? If not, it’s likely because you’re having trouble getting online, or you’re being booted from all of the matches you’ve attempted to get into. Never fear, as the word has made its way to developer The Behemoth and a patch is incoming. This was [...]

Epic Games Rod Fergusson believes that in 2010, you will have seen everything the 360 can do visually.
“I think we’re certainly approaching the upper end of it, as far as what developers are able to do with it, but just looking at all the demos we saw today — ours and others — it’s clear [...]

Microsoft has cut the price of the Xbox 360 in Japan, according to a report on Reuters this morning. In a move to compete with Sony and Nintendo for marketshare, prices on all models of the system will be reduced by 30 percent.
As such, the Xbox 360 Arcade unit will now sell for 19,800 yen, [...]

Someone out there apparently has acquired the ability to travel through time. Developer Blazing Lizard has discovered that the as of yet released Pirates vs. Ninja Dodgeball will be a huge seller when it’s released on the Live Arcade next week. Why else would you announce and develop a port for the Wii? What happens [...]

Denis Dyack, president of Silicon Knights, sat down with Joystiq to address a number of complaints with the  companies recent Too Human. The game has been slammed by many media outlets (including this one) for a number of obviously fixable flaws. Joystiq asks the tough questions, including why an inane 15 second death animation is [...]

Surprising approximately two people (and those are non-gamers who don’t even care), a Dynasty Warriors game is getting a sequel. In its home country, Dynasty Warriors Gundam game sold approximately 275,000 copies. No word on US sales, but the series is undoubtedly highly popular given how every game in the franchise has had a US [...]

Silicon Knights’ latest epic has a bit of a problem. The only ones who may fully end up understanding it are those that made it. In fact, Too Human seems to have been created as an in-joke that the rest of the gaming populace is simply supposed to pick up and understand. They won’t because [...]

A weekly update on the status of Bionic Commando has revealed the game is doing quite well. While Capcom expected 100,000 units across all platforms (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), Rearmed beat the odds for 130,000 units over its first week on sale. This is viewed by Capcom that buyers want four things:
We are tired of [...]

SHMUP fans are in for a challenge with Capcom’s latest contest. While fanatics will replay levels until their thumbs take on early stages of arthritis to score the highest amount of points, that’s not what Capcom’s looking for. They want the player concerned with long term hand care in mind, i.e., the player who scores [...]

Part of the Rock the Vote intiative to let younger people become involved in the voting process, you’ll soon be able to make yourself a registered voter right on the Xbox 360 (though you’ll still need to complete a mail in form later). Starting August 25th, gamers can take part in forums, vote on various [...]

Those who dropped the money to pre-order or spent the $10 to purchase Fable Pub Games off the Live Arcade have been able to exploit the Tower card game. This would allow players to earn significant amounts of money, which would then be transferred over to the Fable 2 when it releases. Those who don’t [...]

With NCAA Football 09 and Madden NFL 09 on the Wii, it seems as if EA Sports could care less about these versions. While the other current consoles are host to a variety of new exciting features, the Wii edition is decidedly last generation, and that has nothing to do with the graphics.

Anyone ever wonder if someone in the world is still holding onto a copy of FIFA ‘06 for its online play? That’s what the UK edition of the Official Xbox Magazine set out to do. They fired up older titles, waited in a lobby, and expected people to jump in. Amazingly some people did.
There actually [...]