Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown

Originally an arcade based game the Virtua Fighter, Sega confirmed that it will be launching Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown on platforms like PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. The game has been completely overhauled, every little thing, from game’s mechanics...

XBox Kinect Update

Because Nintendo’s Wii proved to be far and away the most wildly successful console (based on sales) in recent memory through pioneering the game form of motion control, Microsoft Xbox introduced its own expansion to their machine called the Kinect in June at...

Milo, the virtual human, presented in Oxford

Microsoft’s virtual human Milo was first presented in 2009 at L.A. E3 Expo and it was designed for use with Xbox 360’s Kinect. Milo was created by an UK games designer, Peter Molyneux, and can react to different body movements or people emotion. Although it is just a...

Ninja Gaiden Black

The Ninja Gaiden series began in 1988 as a side scrolling beat-em-up arcade game, but quickly gained popularity as a three part series on Nintendo Entertainment system from 1989 to 1991. Sonically enhanced versions of the NES games appeared on the Super NES in 1995...

xbox not just for games

Researchers have harnessed the powerful silicon chips used in the Xbox 360 console to solve scientific conundrums. Academics at the University of Warwick believe they are the first to use the processors as a cheap way to conduct “parallel processing”....

Microsoft previews new controller

Microsoft has allowed the public to get their hands on its new hands-free games controller for the first time. The US firm showed off the “Natal” technology, designed for use with its Xbox 360 console, at the European games convention gamescom in Germany....