Three individual Rock Band song downloads Tuesday for Xbox 360 and Thursday for PS3. All three of these are about $2 each. All three are a bit more upbeat than last week’s update: Blink 182′s “All the Small Things“ The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” (cover) Sweet’s “Action” (cover) really sweet artwork by: RatherNotSay, Creative [...]

Come get some! “Sources” report that the release of Duke Nukem 3D as an Xbox LIVE Arcade title may happen soon. From where I sit it can’t happen soon enough, but I’ll settle for a few more months. With the multiplayer upgrades it should be a blast: And best of all, it’ll feature a four-player [...]

I don’t know anything about the Highlander game, but I’m already disappointed. Unlike its main characters the game won’t last very long. All the movie fans and immortality fanboys will push this up the top-seller lists for a week or two, followed by a mercifully quick drop off. That’s to be expected when a game [...]

Major Nelson has been gagged. Along with every other Microsoft employee the official Xbox blogger can not talk about Xbox LIVE because of that class action lawsuit filed in Texas due to the outages over the holidays. In his weekly podcast Major Nelson discusses how he can’t talk about the status of Xbox LIVE – [...]

Investigator Ethan Thomas, still with the Serial Crimes Unit (SCU), is back and the gameplay has a whole new fighting style. Hand-to-hand fighting in the original Condemned game was a bit disappointing but the new combo system plus visceral sound effects and even more visceral killing methods (like breakig someone’s head on a toilet bowl) [...]

Star Wars fans are about to see either a dream fulfilled or to feel a crushing sell out. Roll the controversy. Soul Calibur fans are about to get one new character to play. It’s either Darth Vader or Yoda, and only one because 1UP reports that Darth Vader is only available on the PS3 version [...]

I can’t stop playing Mass Effect. And here’s why… While the whole Enslaved AI’s Have Gone Sentient/ Robot Uprising plot can be a bit snoozey, the budding romance between my Commander Jane Shepard and Lieutenant Kaidan is surprisingly diverting. And the Geth killing is awesome. Obvs. But mostly for me it’s the Kaidan thing. (Even [...]

Normally it’s Japan or Korea, but with the Xbox 360 underselling, well, … everything else there, it’s Great Britain getting the cool toy first. Microsoft announced at CES that the Xbox 360 is adding IPTV support. The only carrier to support it at launch is British Telecom – only in Britain of course. If you [...]

The Battlefield series is about to get a little explodier, if this video diary from the developers of Battlefield: Bad Company is any testament. The game, which is due out in late March 2008, features an innovation that most FPS lovers will find exciting: fully destructible environments. To use the lingo, the “sandbox” element of [...]

Someone put together a montage of screenshots from the upcoming Tomb Raider Underworld, which is scheduled to be released sometime in 2008 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. It looks like Tomb Raider, what can I say? Watch the video after the jump.

All that holiday downtime equals a free Xbox LIVE Arcade game to every member of the service. It’s not going to heal all the extra time spent with family for gamers with days off and new gifts to play. It’s still a whole lot better than how Microsoft handled the original Xbox 360 bricking problems [...]

Sweet games like this year’s Maxim top 10, plus those left off like Rock Band, and the always-out-of-stock Nintendo Wii have fueled a record year of game sales. New sales numbers from NPD Group put the console and game total for November at $2.63 billion. The total for 2007 is now $13.1 billion. Even without [...]