Who loves sketchy leaks? According to a French blog with a weird name (Yes, “Logic Sunrise”), Xbox 360′s Dashboard will be soon getting an upgrade in order to make it more compatible with Project Natal Kinect. However, you can obviously tell that nothing has really changed, except for a change of the background, change in how the squares are presented, a bit of circle action on the bottom-right and an additional icon for the Kinect’s microphone indicator.
Rockstar Games, the creator of many well know games such as Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club, has released information about new Downloadable Content (DLC) for their newly released game, Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar Games has announced the plans for the next four Downloadable Content, one being released in August.
THQ has recently released information about the date of the game’s release. According to THQ, the game is set to be released on 30th September this year. Hopefully this date will be the set date for the game, unlike the other dates that have been confirmed earlier from this year.
While Microsoft has not given out any sales figures for its new Xbox 360 Slim – that one that looks like a partially squashed Xbox 360 but painted in black – it has released a statement that there has been a “significant sales spike” for the console since the release of the slim and the price cuts.
While Australian gamers might rejoice over the fact that the biggest opponent, South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, is no longer, there has still not been any progress for an R18+ games rating.
Tapulous, the creators of the famous Tap Tap Revenge games on the iPhone and iPod touch, has just been bought by Disney. Basically it is a talent acquisition, as the founders – Bart Decrem and Andrew Lacy – and their development team will join its Interactive Media Group’s mobile content division.
Square Enix has unveiled the date of the newest game in the Final Fantasy series for the PC. The highly anticipated game, Final Fantasy XIV for the PC will be released on September 30, 2010. Square Enix has also revealed the standard retail price of the game, $49.99 USD, with the monthly subscription of $12.99 USD.
When we heard that there will be no red ring of deaths, we thought OMG! That was before we realised, how the hell are they going to show any errors? A green light won’t be sufficient enough. Don’t worry, Microsoft has got a solution to fix that – simply by shutting down.
Guess what! Now you can dress like Master Chief like it was 1850. Remember that? The Victorian era? Oh wait, we weren’t born yet.
Done by an artist called Christophe, he created a steampunk version of the helmet wore by the spartans on Halo using only four layers of acrylic paint to give it a brushed metal feel and PVC piping to create the, lack for any other words, pipe.
RUMOUR MILL: Other than the 3D gaming experience without wearing those hideous (and possibly unhygienic) glasses, there might be another feature that was not revealed when Nintendo showed off the 3DS. According to Nikkei, the new console may allow users to install Nintendo 3DS games right onto the onboard storage – allowing users not to carry those games with them on the go.
The pink balloon is back, well… sort of…. Kirby is back in action but not as a pink balloon that we come to know, but as a piece of yarn. Regardless on how Kirby looks now, Kirby still retains its ability to change shape.
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t Wii Music was not the last of these games. The new game is called Wii Party. Wii Party will include 14 party games and above 70 minigames (sounds like it going to compete with the Mario Party series). Like all Wii games, this game will be family based, so it would be G rated.
After the success of the first 
game, Scribblenauts, 5th Cell has decided to make a sequel. Super Scribblenauts is using the same gameplay as the first game, using varies words to obtain a ‘starites’, a star shaped object to complete a puzzle.
The mascot of Pokémon, Pikachu is g
etting its own game…. again. Even though Pikachu is the main character of the game, this game is not the sequel to Hey, Hey Pikachu and Pokémon Channel.
Once again Square Enix has reveal another Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy XIV. For you Final Fantasy fans, you do not have to wait for 3 years, unlike Final Fantasy XIII, as this game will be release this year. Like Final Fantasy XI, this too will be a MMORPG game. The game is set to be released on both PS3 and PC.