Microsoft has announced that the hardware requirements previously needed to run their latest flagship OS, Windows 7, in “XP Mode” will be lifted. XP Mode was designed to help ease businesses into upgrading to Windows 7 without the worry that older legacy software would not be compatible. This XP Mode however was only available in [...]
USB Storage coming to XBOX 360?

According to gaming website Joystick, the answer is yes! Previously the only external storage solution for the Xbox 360 was the Microsoft-produced Memory Unit, which was an expensive way to save demo’s and gamesaves on. However according to reports, sometime this year you will be able to use your cheap USB Pen drives of up [...]
Microsoft announce developers working with Natal

As news comes in Microsoft chimes in with the news that several large developers are seriously looking at their Natal motion sensing technology. Using a specially designed camera, Natal is designed to pick up on the players movements in a 3D space to allow full interaction with the software produced. Here is the list of [...]
Details of Halo anime emerge

Microsoft is teaming with five productions houses for a series of seven short films called Halo Legends. Similar to how the Animatrix was created, it too takes on board some of the biggest names in Japanese animation. Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation. An impressive list indeed! The creative director overseeing [...]
Fable II Collectors Edition Loses Extras
Microsoft announced yesterday that, due to ‘supply train issues’, the Collector’s Edition of Fable II will have a number of features removed. The Collectors Edition will be loosing the collectors box, a set of 5 ‘fate’ cards and the Hobbe figure (an enemy that will appear in the game). But it will still come with [...]
Review: Infinite Undiscovery

With Role Playing Games slowly on the rise on microsofts 360, it wasn’t really a surprise when Square Enix announced they would be making games themselves for the Xbox. What was surprising though, was the first of the three announced titles, Infinite Undiscovery (The others being ‘The Last Remnant’ and ‘Star Ocean – The Last Hope’) [...]
Too Human (Xbox 360) First Impressions

Summary: Step into the world of Too Human, the next-generation third-person epic action-game from famed developer Silicon Knights. As the Cybernetic God Baldur, Too Human players are thrust into the midst of an ongoing battle that threatens the existence of mankind. In Too Human, an ancient machine presence has forced the God’s hand. In the [...]
Sony and Microsoft rock together
For anyone that has followed the Guitar Hero/Rock Band fiasco about controllers not working with rival products it was announced today that Sony and Microsoft have agreed that it is in the best interests for the consumer that instruments like Guitars, Drumkits, Microphones and other peripherals will all be compatible with each other. This means [...]
Final Fantasy XIII now coming to XBOX360!

It was announced during E3 at Los Angeles that Square-Enix will indeed be releasing Final Fantasy XIII on Microsoft’s XBOX360! This is the first time that such a large franchise like this, especially from Square-Enix will be multiplatform. This move however makes perfect sense in the current climate where it becomes increasingly more difficult to [...]

