Ending a month of speculation, Microsoft announced pricing Tuesday for Kinect, its innovative gamepad-less motion control system for the Xbox 360, and it’ll go on sale this fall for — are you ready? — $149.99. The news might have come as more of a surprise if the price hadn’t been widely advertised on a number of retail websites over the last few months. Including Microsoft’s. Oops. Nevertheless,... 

Some of the most intense moments of BioShock 2 had the Proto-Daddy defending a Little Sister as she sucked precious ADAM from one of Rapture’s many corpses. They were great fun, especially when integrated organically into the story. Never one to pass up exploiting something that’s working well, 2K has announced that it’ll turn those moments into “Protector Trials” DLC,... 

When Kinect was unveiled as Project Natal during last year’s E3 and Tokyo Game Show it looked like the sort of controller that would be used for a wider variety of games. Up on stage, Microsoft showed off not only a bunch of casual games for the motion-controller, but also innovative titles like Milo, which has you interacting with a human child. Later that year, at the Tokyo Game Show, a panel... 

Want more Bad Company 2? Today’s your day to get more Battlefield-style action with the four-player “Onslaught” cooperative mode, which is shipping on time for at least one of the console’s it was promised for today. EA and DICE have deployed the new update to PlayStation 3 owners in North America, with owners of that version in Europe getting the update on the 23rd. In Xbox... 

Even though things have changed for Capcom’s sequel, Dead Rising 2 — new developer in Blue Castle Games, new protagonist in Chuck Greene and a new venue that swaps out the tried-and-true mall setting for the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas — it felt very familiar. From the largely unchanged controls to the helpful security guard passing you updates on your walkie talkie (thankfully,... 

With the announcement of new hardware, there are always the subsequent cries of, “Dude, when can I has?” Well, you can has soon (like, tomorrow), as Amazon has opened a pre-order page for Microsoft’s shiny, slimmed down Xbox 360 console. As previously stated, the console refresh will set consumers back $299 and comes packed with a 250GB HDD and built-in Wi-Fi.  Read More →

Microsoft unveiled its smaller, sleeker Xbox 360 design, packing a 250GB hard drive and built-in wireless-n. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said it will be in stores by the end of the week, and will still cost $299.  Read More →

From May 14 to May 17, even those putrid, free-loading Silver Xbox Live subscribers will be able to get in on the Halo: Reach beta, Bungie throwing open the gates to both classes for a weekend of jetpack festivities. There is a catch, of course: you still need to have a copy of Halo: ODST on-hand. But so long as you can scrounge up one of those, you’ll be good to go, even if you’re an... 

Not that you’d want to remember the atrocities of war, but when you’re left to the whims of a scientist in a suspicious lab … what choice do you have? The new teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops — coming on November 9th from developer Treyarch — delivers a fragmented sequence of action scenes, taken from several wildly different environments. If Vietnam is in there... 

The RPG smiths at BioWare have La Forge’d a new set of DLC items for Mass Effect 2, including the fashionably next-gen Archon Visor seen above. As it’s being delivered outside of the in-game Cerberus Network tomorrow, the “Equalizer Pack” will cost 160 MS Points (or 160 BioWare points if you’re on PC). Aside from the Visor add (it reduces the recharge time of Shepard’s...