Starting tomorrow (April 29th), gamers will have the opportunity to use the new TV service, Hulu Plus. Aside from featuring Kinect support; it will also be free to all members of Xbox Live with both Gold and Silver accounts for the first week thanks to a partnership with Jack Link’s Beef Jerky. In essence if you wanted to subscribe to Hulu Plus it will out you of $7.99 each month. Read More ...
It’s not even been a year since the Kinect has been launched and already the unit has reached 10 million shipped worldwide to date. In a nod to this announcement as well, the Guinness World Records has named the Kinect sensor the fastest selling consumer electronics device. The unit apparently sold around over 133,000 per day which made that number go to 8 million units in its first 60 days Read More ...
Microsoft has cancelled the free Xbox Live Gold weekend for most of Europe that was due to take place this weekend. The promotion was announced earlier this week. A few countries will still be able to jump in though, including: Russia, Poland, Greece, South Africa, Czech Republic and Hungary. For everyone else, there will be a free Xbox Live weekend at a later date to make up for the cancellation Read More ...
The strangely sizeable Xbox 360 dashboard update we all got yesterday that re-enabled the “boot to disc” option also introduced some new anti-piracy measures. Essentially, the update blocks certain backups/pirate copies from booting at all on certain drives. Specifically, the games protected by this include Halo Reach, Call of Duty Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2. What’s more, when users try to load these backups on the new dash it Read More ...
Major Nelson has confirmed that the Xbox 360 dashboard will be getting an update today (Wednesday 19th January). The update is obviously mandatory, and re-enables the “Boot to Disc” option in the dashboard’s settings. The last update in-avertedly nullified the feature that allowed 360 consoles to boot to the game in their tray when they were turned on. Furthermore, there will be an update for Xbox.com on Thursday 20th Read More ...
Epic Games has announced a Gears of War Triple Pack that brings together all of the major releases for the series so far in one package. It will be released on 15th February in the US. The pack contains Gears of War 1, Gears of War 2 and Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection (with the Road to Run campaign and 19 extra multiplayer maps). You will also get Read More ...
Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb (Major Nelson), has today announced that all Homefront downloadable content will appear first on the Xbox 360. Moreover, the 360 version of the game will include an exclusive map called Suburbs. He was speaking at THQ’s Gamers’ Day event in New York, where the publisher is giving folk some hands-on time with their upcoming titles.
Ilomilo is a weird game. It comes across as this odd cutesy thing with bizarre-looking characters an odd gameworld and nothing more. The presentation is muddled up in its own rubbish and it doesn’t offer the best of first impressions. Despite this, what lurks beneath the ridiculous aesthetics and the “plot” (one dude wants to meet another for some afternoon tea) is a cheeky little puzzler.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the Xbox 360 has sold over 50 million units worldwide. The Microsoft head honcho was speaking at the company’s keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In other news, I am depressed to say that Microsoft announced they had sold over 8 million Kinects worldwide since it launched. We are not going to stop the motion invasion and conventional gaming websites Read More ...
Microsoft has announced that the 2011 Xbox Live Arcade House Party promotion will be starting on February 16th. It will include the new Beyond Good & Evil HD revamp, Hard Corps Rising, Bejewelled Blitz, Full House Poker and Torchlight.
Hi guys, we’re a bit tired to report the individual pieces of news from Microsoft’s 2011 CES Keynote that’s just about to start so we’ve decided to just embed the livestream here. We hope the keynote is entertaining and Microsoft drops some Vegas-Tons but we’re not overly optimistic. Regardless, we’ll report any important announcements tomorrow. Admittedly, we did save you from the boredom of the Sony keynote earlier not because Read More ...
Microsoft announced Forza Motorsport 4 at the Spike VGAs last night. There was a live action teaser with lots of cool cars driving really fast, which is what we like. Interestingly, there seems to be more Top Gear branding about too. Forza 4 will be released in Fall 2011 on the Xbox 360.
Turn 10 has finally announced a Forza 3 DLC pack that we might actually buy. It’s called the Community Choice Classics Car Pack and it includes 10 iconic cars decided by a vote from Forza fans and Jalopnik readers (if there are any). The list of cars includes some cult classics from movies such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Ferrari 250 California) and Back to the Future (DeLorean DMC-12). The Read More ...
Microsoft has stopped plans to wipe away Halo Wars’ online stats after gamers campaigned against their removal. “After seeing the reaction and passion from Halo Wars fans as well as Halo FPS fans who were concerned about the future of other Halo titles, we determined that the previously stated plan of action was not in line with our intended plan of loyal support for Halo’ games,’ said Microsoft in a Read More ...
Microsoft has confirmed that just about half of their 25 million Xbox Live members are Gold subscribers. That figure is from their internal statistics, revealed by Dennis Durkin (Microsoft head of Interactive Entertainment Business) at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference last night. “Of our 25 million members, about half of them are subscribers to the business and pay us about $60 a year for that,” Durkin said. “So it’s Read More ...
