Video Game News and Reviews

Are you planning on getting the latest game in the Rock Band series, Rock Band 3, when it’s released this Friday? Well one great feature that was first introduced in Rock Band 2 is the ability to export all the songs from the previous Rock Band games to the latest release. Well with this 3rd game in the series, nothing has changed. When the game’s released this Friday, you’ll be able to import the songs from Rock Band 2 to the new game allowing you to play them in the quickplay and online modes. I should note, if you’ve already imported the songs from the original Rock Band to Rock Band 2, you don’t need to re-do the process as…

I saw this advert on the TV yesterday and just had to stick it on the site, it’s great. The advert is to promote the launch of new Currys and PC World megastores which are opening in the UK. Watch what unfolds when R2-D2 and C-3PO discover one of these brand new stores! It says on the Dixons website (owner of both PC World and Currys) that this advert is part of a brand new marketing campaign, so hopefully we’ll see more of the robotic fair soon.

To match the upcoming release of Kinect for the Xbox 360, Microsoft’s controller-less gaming, the Xbox Live website has been given a complete face lift, bringing it into the age of Kinect. The new, clean, design is a massive improvement on what they had in the past, which had been becoming increasingly clunky. I for one believe this should have happened a long time ago. The new site features Microsoft’s Silverlight, which is sort of MS’s answer to Flash or HTML 5, it allows them to create rich graphical experiences for the user. The way they’ve used in on the new site allows you to view your most recently active Xbox Live friends, along with how many are online, how…

Good news for World of Warcraft gamers today, Blizzard have released a cinematic trailer of the upcoming expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. In this latest video, we get a look at Deathwing the Destroyer, most of you will know him as Neltharion the Earth-Warder, and by the looks of the nearly-molten black dragon, WoW gamers are going to have a tough road ahead of them when the game is released on December 7th.

We all knew it was coming, the first Halo: Reach map pack has been announced today by Bungie. The map pack, named as the Noble Map Pack, will be released on November 30th and brings with it the first Xbox Live achievements update, adding an extra 250 points for all you point hores out there, bringing the grand total up to 1250. Alongside the points increase, the map pack also brings with it 3 new online multiplayer maps for gamers to enjoy: Tempest – an 8-16 player map set in around an abandoned facility situated on the shoreline. Anchor 9 – set in a UNSC controlled orbital dry-dock, this is a cosy 2-8 player map. Breakpoint – another 8-16 player…