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by Richard on November 08, 2007
Microsoft recently announced that a parental timer will be part of the Fall Dashboard update. Finally, parents will be able to avoid directly "parenting" their children and be able to limit...
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by Richard on October 31, 2007
The final song list for Rock Band is in and there's something for everyone:1960s Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" 1970s aerosmith "Train Kept a Rollin'"* The Who...
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by Richard on October 30, 2007
This blurry letter obtained by GamersReports spells the end for the Xbox 360 Product Replacement Plan at Gamestop and ebgames: The situation must be pretty grim if Gamestop is giving up on these plans...
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by Richard on October 30, 2007
While it was announced back in April that the new phantasy star universe expansion - Ambition of the Illuminus - would be download-only on the Xbox 360 cynics like myself assumed that Sega would...
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by Richard on October 30, 2007
With just two months of development time the finalists in the Unlock Xbox contest are now in playable form. At long last that eternal question will be answered: Just how bad can a game where your main...
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by Richard on October 29, 2007
1UP reports that the patch waiting for you when you put guitar hero 3 into your 360 yesterday was a last-minute gameplay addition: offline co-op for the quickplay mode. Kudos to the devs for...
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by Richard on October 28, 2007
Kotaku reports that there's a new patch on Live for The Orange Box that addresses some issues in team fortress 2:• Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer. • Improved overall game...
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by Richard on October 26, 2007
The classic Mac game Airburst will be coming to the Xbox Live Arcade soon courtesy of developer Freeverse:Freeverse and Strange Flavour today announced that Airburst is well into development for Xbox...
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by Richard on October 25, 2007
A quick heads-up for everybody looking forward to nabbing a copy of guitar hero 3 this Sunday - if you're going to be up late Saturday night anyway you might want to head to your local Gamestop...
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by Richard on October 24, 2007
The latest issue of Game Informer just landed in my mailbox and it just happens to contain the first public review of the upcoming Bioware sci-fi epic mass effect. The first raving review, that...
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by Richard on October 24, 2007
Microsoft finally announced (for real, with a press release and everything) the Xbox 360 Arcade, the new replacement for the Core unit, and there's some interesting marketing at work here -...
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by Richard on October 18, 2007
Microsoft's Robbie Bach recently revealed some first details about Microsoft's latest worst-kept-secret, the Xbox 360 Arcade system bundle:The Arcade model will retail for USD 279, and will...
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by Richard on October 13, 2007
The pack-in game. Remember that concept? You'd buy a console and it would come with a game - in the box! - for you to play. Nowadays we're lucky if there's a controller in there. But chin...
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by Richard on September 30, 2007
A demo for the new mini-game-tastic Viva Pinata spin-off, Viva Pinata: Party Animals landed on Xbox Live last week:Content: Viva Piñata Party Animals Demo Price: Free Availability: All Xbox LIVE...
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by Richard on September 30, 2007
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz Microsoft's Neil Thompson says that the Halo 3 Elite edition of the Xbox 360 is selling more units to new console owners rather than previous 360-devotees...
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by Richard on September 30, 2007
Certain segments of the Internet population are in an uproar that Halo 3 doesn't run at the resolution it should. What does that even mean? I don't know either, man. My TV is square. It's...
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by Richard on September 30, 2007
Wonder why the Sony-centric Ace Combat series made the jump to Xbox 360 instead of the PlayStation 3? In this short interview with Siliconera a Namco Bandai rep explains:Why didn't you choose to...
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by Richard on September 29, 2007
In Major Nelson's weekly Xbox Live activity report for this week we learn the rather unsurprising news that Halo 3 has knocked longtime king Gears of War out of the #1 most played game spot:Xbox...
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by Richard on September 29, 2007
Halo 3's launch was heard by jedi throughout the galaxy - it was as if a million voices cried out in unison, then suddenly silenced. Oh, and Xbox Live also was affected a bit:Microsoft has told...
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by Richard on September 29, 2007
According to MaxConsole.net some of the new limited edition Halo 3 Xbox 360s are equipped with the long-awaited 65nm CPUs and GPUs:News has come to light that some of the Halo 3 limited edition Xbox...
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by Richard on September 29, 2007
Here at XboxSpace we don't have the budget to give away anything other than my dirty laundry but over at Joystiq they have enough of the big bucks to offer this mountain of Halo merchandise to one...
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by Richard on September 29, 2007
While retailers like Gamestop and Amazon have been using $200 US as a placeholder price for Rock Band's big bundle for months now, yesterday the official price was announced - $170 US:Harmonix,...
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