Following last month’s January Forza 4 car pack, Microsoft are releasing yet another DLC pack filled to the brim with more hot cars for players to tear up some asphalt with come next Tuesday when the pack hits the Xbox Live Marketplace. The car pack will be titled ‘February American Le Mans...

Final Fantasy XIII-2 was released this past week, mostly to a mixed reaction. Now, in an interesting and surprising announcement by Square Enix, Final Fantasy XIII-2 will have Facebook integration. With Facebook integration, players will be able to update their status with their in-game progress. The...

Stephen Toulouse will be quitting Microsoft on the 15th of February.  He was a member of Major Nelson’s podcast, and he also was the Director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement.  According to his blog, his “reasons for leaving are complex and personal, but the parting could not be more...

Capcom rarely hold events in Australia, it is a fact. So, when they announced the Ultimate Capcom Showcase, there was some surprise within the team. For fellow editor Matthew Vella and myself, we had the opportunity to sample the games that Capcom has to offer for 2012 (bar Resident Evil 6, of course). The...

Alongside a selection of Capcom games that will see release in 2012, Asura’s Wrath was available to try out at the Ultimate Capcom Showcase in Sydney on Wednesday night. Accompanying the game were two important men, Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, producer of the game, and Marco Bombasi, head of the localisation...

Although Alan Wake’s American Nightmare won’t be here until February 22, PC  gamers will be able to experience one of his adventures for the first time on February 16.  Coming to Steam (and later Origin), Alan Wake will be priced at $29.99.  This includes the game and all the DLC,...

One of the last ties that remained between Bungie and Halo will be severed on March 31.  Bungie will finish transferring all live Halo data to 343 Industries and 343 will begin managing all that data.  Already, most Halo data is available on halo.xbox.com.  But starting on the date mentioned above,...

The PC version of Microsoft’s family-fun filled device has hit store shelves, but with a rather different emphasis. With the $249 USD price-tag associated with PC Kinect, Microsoft isn’t trying to woo the mass market of everyone and their netbooks just yet. Rather, they’re hoping the...

Xbox Live is celebrating the release of yet another new multimedia app. This time it’s Sony Pictures Entertainment’s video entertainment network Crackle. The app is free to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace from today in Australia, the US, UK and Canada. So what will Crackle give you? If...

Last month Forza Motorsport 4 recieved a DLC pack called the January Jalopnik Pack, which featured several new downloadable vehicles for racing fans to hop behind the wheel of. The pack included a multitude of brand new cars for players to take for a spin. The cars included are as follows: 2012 Pagani...

Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell finally has a more cement release window for their crazy shooter Hybrid. The release of Hybrid was delayed indefinitely in the past and now is currently set for a Summer 2012 launch window. Thanks to the delay time, 5th Cell is promising a large amount of updates to the...

Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality are working on a shmup title to be released as a downloadable title on Xbox Live Arcade, called Sine Mora. Grasshopper Manufacture recently worked on the outrageous and brilliant Shadows of the Damned, and they are hoping that this title will reinvent the shmup...

It seems that there is no reason for fans to be ready to take out their wallets quite yet, because the rumors that have been circulating over the past few weeks about a new Xbox console being revealed at E3 this year are apparently false. Cedrick Delmas, marketing director of Microsoft France, shot down the...

According to many rumors, Microsoft is strongly considering dropping their virtual currency in favor of cold hard cash (or debit cards or whatever).  Transactions on the marketplace would be conducted in each countries given currency, instead of forcing people to buy Points first.  Many services on Xbox...

According to IGN and their sources, the next Xbox will be launching in October/November of 2013, with production of the GPU slated to go into ramped up production in 2012.  No pricing has been revealed, but the GPU that the next Xbox will use will reportedly cost about 80 bucks.  This GPU will come from...

  All of those people who signed up for Call of Duty Elite on Xbox 360 now have the oppurtunity to download two new maps for Modern Warfare 3.  ”Liberation” and “Piazza” are the names of the two maps that anyone can have as long as sign up for Elite.  All you need to do is...

Yes, North America and Japan have been enjoying the HD re-releases of Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker since last November. However, European and PAL territories have to wait until February until they are able to play the HD re-releases. So, to officially launch the...

I’ll fully admit that the headline applies to me.  I already have my credit card out, just waiting for those plastic replicas to become available. However, they won’t be available to buy until April or May, well after the games March 6 launch date. However, once that day in late spring arrives,...

Two newish development studios have recently sprung into view.  According to Microsoft’s job listings, they are looking for people to staff ‘LEAP’ and ‘Platform Next.’  Before you get all excited about ‘Platform Next,’ thinking its the Xbox 720 or whatever, be...

Ahh Microsoft, we always had a sneaky suspicion you were down with the sauce.  Now you don’t have to hide it anymore.  Microsoft has just announced that they are heading into a partnership with Tequila Works to publish Deadlight.  Tequila Works is headquartered in Madrid and its team of...

A week ago we learned about what titles we would expect to see in the Xbox Live House Party for 2012 and today Major Nelson has revealed when we can to expect to see what titles will be released when and how much they will cost upon release. From the list it seems like they are going to start out with Warp...

Two more characters have been revealed for Prototype 2. This time, we are introduced to Doctor Koenig, a Gentek scientist, and Colonel Rooks, the elite Blackwatch officer in charge of the NYZ operation. Both of these characters are involved with both Alex Mercer and Sgt. James Heller’s lives. First...

Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. are excited to provide a new trailer for the shoot ‘em up, Sine Mora. The provided trailer shows off the stark differences between normal and insane difficulty modes. A huge difference can be seen by the sheer quantity of enemy projectiles on the screen....

On the night of the 19th of January (which happened to be last night), the Oxford Art Factory hosted a night where gamers could re-live the days of the arcade, as well as get their mittens on 2K Games’ next release, The Darkness II, which will be released on February 10 in Australia. It was a night of...

Yesterday Tequila Works revealed a project which seems to have been in development for quite some time, Deadlight. Currently not much is known about the title other than the fact that it will be a puzzle platformer and is meant to be released sometime this Summer. Today Tequila Works revealed a teaser...

A very interesting title has appeared on our radars, and that is an upcoming XBLA title named Deadlight. However if you were to ask us much more about the title we would unfortunately be unable to give you much of a response because the title has just been announced by developers Tequila Works and...