Earlier this year at E3, Microsoft announced some great new features that would be coming to the Xbox 360 later this year. The first few features were released earlier this year back in August, of which included the games on demand service plus the addition of the avatar marketplace. Well now, about two months after that update, the next one has finally been announced, and it’s the one I’ve been looking forward to. The upcoming update will bring both Facebook and Twitter to the Xbox 360 dashboard, allowing you to tweet, update your statuses, plus, some new features that will allow you to share your gaming profile with your friends via the social networking sites. Although this latest dashboard hasn’t…

This week has seen the release of the latest Halo game, Halo 3: ODST. This new game is like no others before unlike all the other games, you don’t play as Master Chief. So this introduces something new into the Halo universe, but does it really stand up to the previous games? I would say no. The game starts off with your team of ODST’s (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers), they have just been given new orders to go down to New Mombasa, a super city, and begin attack on Regret’s cruiser. The way your team gets down to the city is via individual pods called HEVs, however, during flight the newly appointed mission leader redirects the pods, but before they…

If you thought Activision had finished announcing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 bundles, you were wrong. Today, Activision and Microsoft have announced a special edition Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 Elite bundle, available all around the world. This means that Modern Warfare 2 will join the small list of games that have their very own styled console. Some already on the list include Halo 3 and Resident Evil 5. However, this latest limited edition console seems to be better than all the others. The entire bundle will come with a limited edition, Modern Warfare 2 styled, black Xbox 360 console, a 250GB hard drive, two black wireless Xbox 360 controllers, an official black headset, and finally,…

During an interview with The Times, the president of everything Playstation, Kaz Kirai, has given an expected release date for the Playstation 3 motion sensing controller that was announced at E3 this year. During the interview with The Times, he said that gamers should expect the new controller to be released some time in Spring 2010. He also said: “One of the things is that we just don’t want to put out the controller. We need great software that supports the controller at launch”. No doubt when the controller is released, a series of games will be released that are designed specifically for the controller, something very similar to the Wii Play or Wii Sports. Also, because third party developers…

Some more news has popped up regarding the console price cuts. Back in July, it was reported that Microsoft and Sony were both planning price cuts for their consoles. Ever since then, not much has been done, although many rumours have been flying around. The biggest and most expected change to happen is that Microsoft would remove their Premium bundle from the market while also cutting some costs for the Elite bundle, and that Sony would be cutting the PS3 cost, and possible announcing a PS3 slim console. I’ts now appeared that on Microsoft’s part, they have started to make way for the changes. Microsoft have said to gaming retailers that they will be raising the price of the current…