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PS3: Its Offical - Netflixs comes to PS3 Next Month!

PS3: Its Offical – Netflixs comes to PS3 Next Month!

After we’ve been hearing all along that Xbox 360 had a game console exclusivity to Netflix streaming, Sony just announced it, too, will be joining in on the fun. Timeframe? Sometime next month. Press Release Via Playstation Blog COMING SOON: NETFLIX MEMBERS CAN INSTANTLY WATCH MOVIES AND TV EPISODES STREAMED TO TVs VIA THE PLAYSTATION®3 [...]

Mad Catz announces "Round Two" Of Street Fighter FightSticks

Mad Catz announces “Round Two” Of Street Fighter FightSticks

It’s not doing anything crazy like lowering the price, but it looks like Mad Catz is at least set to give fighting game fans a few more options when it comes to choosing their peripheral of choice. As usual, the headliner is the company’s Tournament Edition fightstick, which dials things back after the explosion of [...]

XBOX 360: Coming Soon? XBOX 360 Super Elite. 250gig Storage? Africa Says so.

XBOX 360: Coming Soon? XBOX 360 Super Elite. 250gig Storage? Africa Says so.

So much for secrecy. South African Xbox 360 distributor Comztek has told local gaming news site XboxGaming.co.za that the a 250GB “Super Elite” model is due there in October. Additionally, the Forza 3 bundle we saw heading to Germany is also en route to SA, retailing for R4,999 (US $646), or around the same price [...]

XBOX 360: Facebook and Twitter Will Not Be Free.

XBOX 360: Facebook and Twitter Will Not Be Free.

This shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise, but anyone wanting to enjoy Twitter and Facebook on Xbox Live will have to pony up for Gold member subscription, the same premium prerequisite currently needed for Netflix Instant Watch and pretty much all online gaming. Silver membership will be given a “free trial,” but [...]

Xbox 360 Elite Slim Showing its Face for $299 At Wal-Mart

Xbox 360 Elite Slim Showing its Face for $299 At Wal-Mart

Yep you see it right here folks.  299 for the Xbox 360Elite. It was all but inevitable that Microsoft was going to hit back at the PS3 Slim with its own $299 120GB console, and while we’re still waiting on official confirmation Microsoft, this purported Walmart ad clipping sure seems to know where the Xbox [...]

Xbox 360 Update Offers "No New Features"

Xbox 360 Update Offers “No New Features”

A mandatory update has just hit the Xbox 360. According to Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, "This update addresses interruption issues that some Xbox LIVE users may have experienced when playing a limited number of Xbox 360 games." Meaning? "There are no other changes or enhancements in this update…in other words no new features." Xbox 360 System [...]

There Will Be More Halo 3 Content From Bungie

There Will Be More Halo 3 Content From Bungie

Last month, Bungie said a teary farewell to Halo 3. Or so we thought. Instead, it was just a teary…something else, because Bungie have no intentions of leaving the best-selling game behind. Speaking with IGN at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Bungie’s Allen Murray has said "Halo 3 took two and a half [...]

Rock Band to add 10 More Pearl Jam Songs

Rock Band to add 10 More Pearl Jam Songs

The debut album from Seattle grunge-fathers Pearl Jam is coming to Rock Band owners next week, Harmonix and MTV Games confirmed today. Ten adds eleven new tracks, all of which make me feel positively ancient. I mean, we’re eighteen years on from the original release of Pearl Jam’s Ten, a tape that I had on [...]

NBA Dallas Mavericks Guitar Hero World Challenge

NBA Dallas Mavericks Guitar Hero World Challenge

What: Mavs Host “Guitar Hero World Tour” Mavs Band Challenge When: Sunday, March 8th & 22nd at 2 p.m. (Registration begins at 1 p.m.)  Where: NorthPark Mall, Level Two (The common area outside the GameStop and Mavs Ultimate Fan Shop) Player Info: On March 8th, JJ Barea will sign autographs for all participating contestants from [...]

XBOX 360 Elite to be Phased out

XBOX 360 Elite to be Phased out

This one’s still a long ways from actually panning out, but Fudzilla is reporting that  Microsoft could be about to phase out its standard Xbox 360 Elite console and instead fill out the top end of the scale with limited edition models like the recent Resident Evil 5 bundle. According to the site’s unnamed sources, [...]

Microsoft Says Red Ring of Death Nightmares are Over

Microsoft Says Red Ring of Death Nightmares are Over

Are the Xbox 360-killing problems that cause the infamous Red Ring of Death gone? And will people who send in their consoles for repairs have to cycle through the process multiple times to get a real fix? Over at Edge, Kris Graft put those questions to Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, who said the console’s biggest technical [...]

Red Xbox 360 Mentioned Officially By Microsoft

Red Xbox 360 Mentioned Officially By Microsoft

Whoops! In an official Halo Wars email sent to retailers and games press in New Zealand today, Microsoft make official mention of the rumored red Xbox 360 Elite console. The email was to announce a deal whereby anyone buying a 360 console in NZ would, for a limited time, receive a free copy of Halo [...]

XBOX Avatars Get New Duds “In Time”

XBOX Avatars Get New Duds “In Time”

Well aware that most all Avatar supporters, and non-supporters alike, demand clothing individuality, Rare art lead Lee Musgrave and producer Stacey Law recently hinted to VG247 that fashionable Avatar apparel may be treated like unlockable achievements … sometime in the future. "Games will be able to give away clothes and accessories just like Achievements," Musgrave [...]

Netflix: 1 million subscribers streaming via Xbox 360

Netflix: 1 million subscribers streaming via Xbox 360

According to Netflix this morning, more than 1 million US Xbox Live subscribers are using the film service through their consoles. More than 1.5 billion minutes of Netflix movies and TV shows have been streamed on 360 in the past three months. Netflix was launched on Xbox 360 as part of New Xbox Experience last [...]

Xbox 360 dash update to bring HDMI audio fix

Xbox 360 dash update to bring HDMI audio fix

Those not experiencing audio from their Xbox 360 HDMI connections may soon find their complaints silenced. Major Nelson just informed us that a mandatory 360 dashboard update will be released this Tuesday morning at 2:00AM pacific, and will fix the HDMI audio problems some have been experiencing. As always, dashboard updates will only begin rolling [...]