Halo: Reach Beta Trailer

Early this morning a Taiwanese site leaked a trailer for the upcoming Halo: Reach beta. While we can’t yet confirm the videos authenticity, it certainly looks real. And by real we mean really promising! Check out the full trailer after the break! Read More »

X10: A Left 4 Dead Recap

There was a ton of information flowing from X10 and we’re just now catching up on everything, putting it into perspective and marking our calendars. One of the biggest announcements was the surplus of Left 4 Dead (the original and Left 4 Dead 2) content that is on the way. Let’s break everything down and try and get a feel for what Valve has in store for the future. Read More »

Original Xbox Live Service Discontinued in April

Major Nelson has revealed that as of April 15, 2010 Microsoft will be discontinuing the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox 1 games playable on Xbox 360. Read More »

Give Your Dashboard Its Very Own Christmas

OMG! Christmas tree’s are like, so 2008! Get with it this holiday season and decorate your Dashboard instead. With a week to go until Christmas, the team at Rare have prepared this lovely Holiday Theme to get us in the festive spirit. For only 240 Microsoft Points you can let it snow all year round and unlike that tree, it won’t be shedding needles and dying out anytime soon.

The Rare Holiday Theme is available now on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 240 Microsoft Points.

Lost Planet 2 Multiplayer Gameplay

Despite our terrible performance in other games that day we did manage to get our own back in Lost Planet 2‘s Online Multiplayer, even if it meant spamming the Vital Suit Machine to do just that. You’ll sense some familiarity if you ever played Bionic Commando earlier in the year, the online multiplayer mode will feature up to 16-player versus, 4 player cooperative mode, and will contain game modes from the previous game.

New Record: Over 2 Million on Xbox LIVE

Xbox’s own Major Nelson has just tweeted that Xbox LIVE has set a new record! Over two million users are currently connected to the service at once. Well done Xbox though I’m sure a certain game helped towards that number.