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Microsoft are adopting an all or nothing angle on their consoles starting tomorrow. The Pro is being phased out while the Elite will see a £30 price drop to £199.99. Meanwhile the Arcade will rise by £30 to £159.99.
This begs the question why would anyone want to buy an Arcade? For only £40 more you [...]

2K Games could be working on one of the most pretentious sounding, and terrifically so because of it, games in years. According to an ESRB rating 2K Games will be publishing Axel & Pixel. A point and click adventure where players guide an artist and his dog through surreal and abstract environments. Players must solve [...]

Battlestations Pacific tries to succeed in combining strategy and action within one game. Does it get away with it?

We’ve seen Sony’s horrible attempt of greatest hits art with giant yellow stickers, we’ve seen Sold Out’s vile orange and white mess and we saw the old 360 platinum, but more like grey, artwork. Now copies of Gears of War are starting to surface with tasteful design being a delightful bullet point.
The old grey ones [...]

The relaunch of the Xbox is finally upon us and is definitely one worth booting up your console for. Stuff looks slicker and your information loads a hell of a lot faster. It makes the clunky blades look really dated and does a great job of refreshing the system. Although there are a lot of [...]

We’ve had a lot of leaks and rumours surrounding this years E3 as per usual but it is believed that a large majority of Microsoft’s big announcements have already been leaked. News of a new motion sensitive Wii-esque controller, a rival to Sony’s Singstar entitled Lips & Forza Motorsport 3. I really can’t remember the [...]

From the producers who bought you Gears of War comes… Unreal Tournament 3. It still sounds very weird that Epic Games are now known more for their Locust killing simulator than the original Unreal series. Now Epic are adding the finishing touches to the Unreal Tournament 3 port for the Xbox 360. Originally released on [...]

It appears that a new Xbox 360 rumor has surfaced across the internet. This time is for a Xbox 360 with a built in Blu-Ray player. Now the rumors back in February were that Microsoft were set to release a Xbox 360 with a built in HD DVD Drive. That was until the format went [...]

Last year you’ll have no arguments that Microsoft’s better games line up prevailed over Sony’s. You could forgiven Sony and its developers for not having enough time to get used to the new hardware or it could have been that Microsoft just crammed all their five star quality titles into a few months. Whatever the [...]

In a world… With two high definition formats… Only one can survive…. Ok forget that but buts true only one can survive and because Blu-ray is built into the Playstation 3 its obviously winning that with all the exclusives its getting but HD DVD isn’t dead yet. Today Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360’s HD-DVD [...]