Halo Reach Xbox 360 bundle available September 14 for $399

Halo Reach Xbox 360 bundle available September 14 for $399

The $399 Halo: Reach Xbox 360 bundle whose existence was leaked by the Ars mole is now official. A Microsoft press release details the limited-edition silver console, which is available for pre-order starting … now. The bundle contains a silver 250 GB Xbox 360 S — which “not only captures ...

Front Mission Evolved pushed back to September 28, 2010

Front Mission Evolved pushed back to September 28, 2010

When we announced Front Mission Evolved’s September 14th launch date we joked that Square Enix had neglected to check the calendar. You know, because September 14 is also “International Halo: Reach Day,” a notable religious holiday. Also there is another video game coming out that day. Now Front Mission Evolved ...

Stick Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep into and onto your PSP

Stick Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep into and onto your PSP

Square Enix’s pre-order bonus for Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep might not be extravagant, but it is … adhesive. Putting money down at Amazon, GameStop or Best Buy will net you the system-bestickering decals shown, in light and dark variants so as to stand out on any color scheme. Stick ...

Sony patents multiplayer stereoscopic system

Sony patents multiplayer stereoscopic system

Seeing two images to create a 3D picture is so earlier this year — Sony has been working on a patent that sends two images from one video screen to two different people, allowing for two players to see different images on the same screen. Each player would need their ...

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse episode 4 released

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse episode 4 released

Just a quick heads up for all the laugh-loving adventure fans out there: The latest episode of Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is now available. Entitled “Beyond the Alley of the Dolls,” the fourth episode in the new season sees everyone’s favorite freelance police battling it out with an ...

Lara Croft still likes all kinds of guns

Lara Croft still likes all kinds of guns

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was one of our favorite games at this year’s E3 — while it’s a new taste for the franchise, it certainly seemed like one gamers will enjoy. But even if all of the puzzle-solving and coop has you worried that Lara’s gone too ...

GameStop celebrates summer with large sale

GameStop celebrates summer with large sale

GameStop has quite a sale going on, offering used and new games for up to fifty percent off both in store and online. The Power Saver sale lasts until August 8, and includes discounts on lots of popular titles. Check out some highlights after the break, and be sure to ...

SouthPeak gets $10 million loan while losing biggest moneymaker

SouthPeak gets $10 million loan while losing biggest moneymaker

Outside of looming legal battles and down year-over-year revenues, SouthPeak recently received a $10 million “asset-based line of credit” that extends until February 28, 2012, reports IndustryGamers, effectively replacing an $8 million line of credit previously secured. We’re not quite sure what debtors will have to take from SouthPeak should ...

Japanese hardware sales, July 5 – July 11: Our Hero edition

Japanese hardware sales, July 5 – July 11: Our Hero edition

Nothing quite states “I want to go to there” quite like James May’s two-story Lego house. Sure, everything inside may be actually made of Legos rather than, say, actual stuff, but it’s a house made of Legos! Isn’t that enough for you? Oh, right, you might’ve come here for the ...

Preview: Pac-Man Party

Preview: Pac-Man Party

Did you know that, before the driving force of Pac-Man was named “pellets,” the items were called “cookies?” I did not either, but that is exactly what a Namco rep told me while showing off upcoming Wii minigame collection Pac-Man Party. She did this, you see, because that is what ...

Apple’s Game Center goes green

Apple’s Game Center goes green

Apple’s multiplayer gaming platform for iEverything — Game Center — may not have arrived just yet, but it appears that it’s getting a bit of a face-lift on the back-end. As seen in the image above (care of Mobile Crunch), the color palette of GC has been lightened and varied ...

Kane and Lynch 2 demo for PS+ users on July 20

Kane and Lynch 2 demo for PS+ users on July 20

PlayStation Plus is set to bear some exclusive fruit next week, with the arrival of a demo for Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. The demo will be available exclusively to PlayStation Plus subscribers from July 20 until July 27, at which time it will be made available to all ...

Space Invaders landing on iPad today

Space Invaders landing on iPad today

So you just spent $600 on an iPad. How better to show off the abilities of your state-of-the-art gadget than with … Space Invaders? Taito released an iPad version (for $5) of its iPhone Space Invaders app worldwide — and thanks to common iPad naming conventions, Taito thought it was ...

Kinect Experience tour is coming to your town

Kinect Experience tour is coming to your town

Okay, so the “Kinect Experience” tour is coming to your town — or at least within a reasonable driving distance. That said, from July on through the end of October, the Kinect Experience mobile demo tour will stop off in major metropolitan areas across the country, giving gamers an early ...

PSA: Bad Company 2 Steam owners have access to Medal of Honor beta … right now!

PSA: Bad Company 2 Steam owners have access to Medal of Honor beta … right now!

Tired of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and yearning for a more twitchy shooter, but you only play games made by Swedes? You’ll be glad to hear that the Sweden-based DICE has opened up the multiplayer beta to Medal of Honor on Steam to folks who own the former. Get to ...

Gears of War 2 XP bonus driven by Twitter

Gears of War 2 XP bonus driven by Twitter

Epic is planning an extra XP event for Gears of War 2 that will coincide with next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, tied to producer Rod Fergusson’s Twitter account — and designed to promote it, of course. The more followers he gets, the more XP gamers can earn during the upcoming ...

Japanese devs sound off about 3DS

Japanese devs sound off about 3DS

Famitsu recently rounded up some high-profile Japanese developers to gauge their reactions to Nintendo’s 3DS hardware. According to a translation by Andriasang, the responses ran from business-minded declarations of intent to somewhat philosophical thinking-out-loud. Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono seemed to be most able to keep his excitement in ...