These are the top 5 things I would want on the next Dashboard update but please feel free to join this discussion and give your thoughts on what MS should add to the Xbox 360.
1. First one its an obvious request and one that everyone has been wanting for ages [...]

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Rock Band and MTV2 Present One of the Hottest Rock Tours This Spring Beginning April 8th
New York, NY - April 7, 2008 - MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today that Rock Band™(www.rockband.com) and MTV2 (mtv2.com) will hit the road as the presenting co-sponsors of platinum-selling rock act, Flyleaf [...]

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A survey of 10 Australian retail chains who operate over 2,000 stores revealed that the XBox 360 is on the down low with the majority of the chains seeing their gaming growth coming from the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. This survey was conducted by ChannelNews and Smarthouse and the results [...]

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Well he is not just some random guy who has nothing to do with gaming and won this opportunity in a lottery ticket, his name is Rob Taylor from Xbox world, he is the first games writer to finish the game.
Just to wet your appetite a little more for this game here is an [...]

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With the aquisition of Mad Doc Software Rockstar New England is born. Mad Doc Software was estabilished in 1999 by Dr. Ian Lane Davis, their most recent project was in colaboration with Rockstar the Xbox 360 version of  Bully: Scholarship Edition, can’t really say the job was flawless but you can’t get them all [...]

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Sega Unleashed is official, no more speculation besides if it will be any good, it will be released for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PS2 in late 2008, meaning holiday season. Sega has revealed a little of the game’s plot, “Having been broken apart by the evil Dr Eggman, it’s down to Sonic to [...]

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A report by NPD states that 72 per cent of US residents played at least one video game in 2007, that is an 8 per cent increase from 2006, more than 20,000 people participated in this survey.
40 per cent of Americans according to this survey played  a game online last year and of those 90 [...]

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SCEA has confirmed that there will be no changes as far as regions are concerned with this new redesign, ” no changes to the store will be made as part of this revamp relating to region locking” said a Sony rep. So like before, those users with multiple master accounts corresponding to [...]

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This isn’t really a surprise, I just don’t think this Blu-ray thing will go forward just now if ever, here is a statement from Microsoft denying such a drive for the 360.“No. Lite-On is not manufacturing Blu-ray drives for Xbox 360. As we have stated, games are what are driving consumers to purchase game [...]

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Just a little something extra to hype up this already in itself hyped game, man this game is going to be huge I tell you, I can’t wait to get my hands on it, I’m betting the day this game is released there will be no gaming news whatsoever on all blogs, everyone is going [...]

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Ubisoft has signed an agreement with Valve to bring over 40 games to the Steam platform, some of these games include the Tom Clancy series, the Heroes of Might & Magic series, the IL-2 Sturmovik collection and of course Far Cry. This partnership is only for North America, so unfortunately the rest of the [...]

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This week’s arcade game for Live Arcade is Mr Driller Online, it will cost 800 MS points, so come Wednesday I’ll give it a try and report back here.
Namco’s popular Mr. Driller character comes to Xbox LIVE® Arcade in Mr. DRILLER Online. Featuring the same addictive single player drilling action from the classic arcade [...]

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Electronic Arts has announced today that Madden NFL 09 will be available in stores in across North America on August 12 including a special collector’s edition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.
Here is the press release from EA.

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So far It seems to be working flawlessly so as of today this post officially marks the counter so hopefully there won’t be a post about a RROD Xbox soon! I’m off to play Ninja Gaiden Black, just downloaded this great game!
I’m sorry for the slow news day but I’m catching up on my gaming [...]

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It’s been a while since we had any news from THQ, but the LA County based publisher put an end to that today, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 is official.
Although it won’t be formally announced until tomorrow, THQ has confirmed with IGN that the latest version of the wrestling franchise will be [...]

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According to Capcom’s Christian Svensson in a recent interview to MTV.com, “The sales life cycle of a product is shrinking,” said Svensson. If a game undersells its first month at retail, it’s finished at retail. Often, though, it’s quicker: if a game underperforms its first week, it is more than likely “dead [...]

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Video games may be forced to carry a cigarette like health warning to protect children from unsuitable digital material. So you can except a hunt on gaming the same way it has been done with cigarettes, I suppose the public health risks are similar so putting a Health Warning on a video game is the [...]

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That is just what the title suggests, BusinessWeek the all serious and financial publication is joining the gaming crowd, they have launched what is a peculiar feature for this type of publication, which is a gaming section, like the title says BusinessWeek Arcade, but hey don’t take my word for it go check it out.
There [...]

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The New Soul Calibur IV character revealed in the new manga Shonen Age magazine is named Fia Angol and she must be the next Gaming Diva to grace our imagination! If they got a real Lara Croft, I wonder who they will get for Fia Angol, somehow one of those wrestling chicks might do the [...]

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It seems that nowadays whenever something bad happens that people can’t explain they have a tendency to blame games and the gaming industry, take all those idiots that decide they should go into malls or schools to shoot as many people as they possibly can, is it me or by the time this hits the [...]

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Major UK retailer WHSmiths has priced the PS3 version of GTA IV at £44.99, while the 360 version is priced at £39.99.
Well the console itself costs more so I guess its only right that the games also cost more? I wonder why they price them differently.
Amazon.co.uk on the other hand is offering both versions for [...]

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As the dust was settling down on the whole EA buys out Take Two deal, now surfaces a rumor that EA wants to buy GTAforums.com for $3,4 million dollars.
This is the largest GTA fan forum and why EA would want to buy this is something I don’t really grasp, but if this is true 3,4 [...]

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EA DICE, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that the multiplayer beta test for Battlefield: Bad Company on the Xbox 360 video game system from Microsoft. IGN Founders’ Club and IGN Insider will offer keys to members and the public in North America and the UK to participate in the multiplayer beta test, [...]

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Has nothing to do with gaming but its worth watching.

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The British Science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka where he lived since 1956, the author became famous after his short story The Sentinel was made into the movie 2001 : A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick.
He was an enourmous influence in a [...]

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Would you like to have a gaming room like this? If you’re filthy rich you can, you can also head down to geekabout.com to check the other eight gaming pads that would suit your gaming needs, keep in mind that you have to be filthy rich to own any of these setups, but man [...]

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Come Wednesday Assault Heroes and Doom will be made available at half-price on Live Arcade, the two titles will cost 400 Points, Microsoft also included a list of its upcoming Live Arcade titles, among them is Commando 3 from Capcom, but there is also a trivia game called Wits & Wagers from Hidden Path, a [...]

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Capcom along many other gaming giants is going down the download route for some of its games,  EA already has its own download service similar to Valve’s Steam which is the most popular as far as pcs are concerned, all 3 top consoles already have a big portion of games available through download.
“We’re just excited [...]

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Taiwan based notebook PC maker ACER will start to produce and sell under their brand name desktop PCs, Acer is however considering a PC based game machine. Acer’s senior vice president James T. Wong said “”If you look at most of the other game machines that are out there right now, Nintendo’s Wii, the [...]

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And the winner is…… Army of Two!!!!
Here is the list for this weeks top ten games in the UK.

Army of Two
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Frontlines: Fuel of war
Game Party
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soul Storm
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
Lost

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