Review: Kinect Sports

The Xbox 360 finally has its motion-based sports game. Packed with six sports, ten if you include all of the events of track and field, Kinect Sports drops you controller-free into an eclectic mix of athleticism.


Review: Kinectimals

Don’t mistake Kinectimals for a Nintendogs clone. This is the closest the Kinect launch has to a traditional video game, one that eight year old girls are going to coo at.


Review: Kinect Adventures

Kinect Adventures is the game that every Kinect owner will soon be playing. That’s because it’s the one that comes with the hardware. So it should give players a taste of what they can expect from Xbox 360 motion gaming.


October 12, 2010

Age Of Empires Online Explained For You In Video

Back in August we learned that the popular strategy series Age of Empires would return as, oddly, a colourful online game. Odd? Let’s look at 2011′s Age Of Empires Online in action, shot today in Manhattan.


October 8, 2010

Halo Waypoint Spawns ‘Apt. 117,’ A Cartoon About Bores & Idiots

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/tCdz0db9Y9M&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); The current home of all things Halo, 343 Industries, is working with Powerhouse Animation Studios—responsible for the animation in Risk: Factions—on a new, ongoing Halo-themed animated series dubbed Apt. 117. Maybe you’ll think it’s funny?


September 14, 2010
News

Remember The Halo: Reach Launch Parties

People were already starting to line-up this morning in New York’s Times Square for the official launch of Bungie’s Halo: Reach.


July 8, 2010
News

Microsoft Seeks Testers For Secret ‘Project S’ Strategy Game

The people who publish Age of Empires and Halo Wars have a secret real-time strategy title in the works for Games For Windows Live, which Microsoft Games Studios is calling “Project S”. Other people are alpha testing it now.


June 19, 2010

Kinect Adventures Is Surprisingly Fun

While my favourite Kinect game of the show was most certainly Dance Center, the game that had me jumping up and down on an imaginary river raft was my number two choice.


May 6, 2010

Alan Wake Review: Transcending Its Medium

Alan Wake promises to deliver a new style of storytelling to the Xbox 360: A “psychological thriller”, “riveting plot”, “multilayered character interactions”, all bullet points that scream: This game could be really bad.


March 27, 2010
News

Hydro Thunder Returns With All-New Xbox Live Arcade Sequel

Midway’s classic arcade speedboat racer Hydro Thunder is getting a full-fledged sequel with Hydro Thunder Hurricane, exclusively for Xbox Live Arcade, promising all-new, over-the-top rocket powered speedboat action. (Which you can witness in the game’s first trailer!)