Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

  • New Live Action Halo Reach Video
    Bungie and Microsoft have released a new “Birth of a Spartan” live action short for Halo Reach.  This video is a depiction of the transformation of Carter 259, the future leader of Noble Team in “Halo: Reach,” from an ordinary young man to a superhuman Spartan warrior. The highly classified bio-augmentation procedure is a Spartan candidate’s...
    by Brandon Hofer at April 28th, 2010 at 07:04 am
  • Game Room - Review
    For a certain generation of gamers, there’s still something magical about arcades. Even the pale imitations you see dotted up and down crumbling seaside towns around the country, they still hold a fascination to me and I’ll always make a detour to check out what’s lurking at the back of an arcade amongst the toy-grabbers and pointless slot machines. Microsoft obviously...
    by pjmaybe at April 15th, 2010 at 04:04 pm
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    Gaming for the Adrenalin Junkie
    Experience the rush of reaching a final table at a major poker tournament, where the prize money reaches 6 figures and you need nerves of steel to keep your cool. Certainly not for the faint-hearted when your own money is at stake.  Poker games for all kinds of players from experienced pros to beginners starting out on a new adventure.
  • Toy Soldiers - Review
    With World War II being effectively strip-mined for game content and ideas, it’s always struck me as a bit strange that we’ve never seen a decent World War 1 game. Sure, there have been those nerdy stats-heavy “proper” war games, and a couple of completely unmemorable RTS games – but action-based WW1 titles are extremely thin on the ground. I got rather excited...
    by pjmaybe at March 5th, 2010 at 02:03 pm
  • Win A Halo Legends Prize Package
    The next installment of the Halo franchise hits store shelves on February 16th in the form of Halo Legends.  Halo Legends is a science fiction saga that delves into the Halo universe with seven stories (told in eight parts).  These stories focus on such things as Master Chief’s mysterious origins, the Spartans’ advanced combat capabilities and the tense...
    by Brandon Hofer at February 6th, 2010 at 07:02 pm
  • New Halo 3 ODST Desperate Measures Trailer
    Halo 3 ODST is set to hit store shelves on September 22, however, Microsoft has released a new trailer for everyone to enjoy until then. In this trailer the Covenant have found earth and have taken over New Mombasa. It is your job to stop them and make sure that Earth doesn’t get glassed. You play the role as one of the newest ODST members with Master Chief nowhere...
    by Brandon Hofer at August 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 am
  • 1 vs. 100 to hit Xbox Live on July 10th
    Microsoft and Endemol confirmed today that the popular TV show 1 vs. 100 will be coming to Xbox Live. The game is completely free (although it requires a Gold account to play) and gives players the chance to win all sorts of prizes. Soon available to some European Countries (The UK, France and Germany are confirmed at the moment) this could be the start of a whole new...
    by Neil Vaughan at July 6th, 2009 at 04:07 pm
  • Hands on with Microsoft’s KODU
    Build world, Populate world, Play I doubt that there are many Totally readers old enough to remember H.U.R.G. Developed by Melbourne House as a game development toy on the ZX Spectrum, H.U.R.G stood for High resolution User friendly Realtime Games development tool, though in reality it ticked none of those boxes, merely allowing errant young teenage speccy owners to...
    by pjmaybe at July 3rd, 2009 at 02:07 pm
  • Some original devs remain for Crackdown 2
    Ruffian Games creative director Billy Thompson has revealed that nearly half of the original Crackdown developers will work on the sequel, despite the fact the game is under a new developer. Thompson told Edge: “Close to half of our team worked on the original game,” said Thompson. “Weve got core members from every discipline who worked on it, the majority...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 25th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
  • Major Nelson - Marketplace fixed
    Ever since Xbox Live went down on Tuesday for maintenance, some gamers have been experiencing issues accessing Marketplace content. Major Nelson has just confirmed in his blog that the problems have now been fixed. Rocket Riot and Sam & Max (which we’ll be providing you coverage of shortly) are now available to download.
    by Neil Vaughan at June 18th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
  • My Xbox area gets a facelift
    After yesterday’s downtime of Xbox Live, you might have noticed that the My Xbox section of Xbox.com has received a bit of a makeover. There’s no new features, as such, but the layout has been re-arranged to fit in with the format of the NXE. You’ll notice from the image below that your avatar is now displayed, together with your friends Live status’...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 17th, 2009 at 06:06 pm