Today Microsoft will be starting the first of their twelve daily deals on Xbox Live, offering great games at fantastic prices. The first great game is Bastion, which is available for $7.50 (600 Microsoft Points). Apart from the daily deals, there are also a handful of games available until January 2 at a reduced price. This includes Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Renegade Ops, and BloodRayn... more.

Microsoft, like the loving company they are, often give members of their rewards program free bonus Microsoft points to say "Hey, thanks for being awesome". However one customer must've been a very loyal customer as Microsoft sent him a total of 4284867136 Microsoft points which totals up to just over $53 million. Enough to clean out the Marketplace? Obviously this was a glitch and was sorted a... more.

This weeks Gears of War 3 event,  titled "Can You Dig It?" will see changes implemented in to the Team Deathmatch game mode. All weapon pickups will be Digger Launchers, and your basic weapon loadout will consist of a Digger, a Gnasher, and a Boltok. If you've played in all the events so far, then you'll find yourself 20% (5/5) of the way toward earning the Socialite achievement. "Can You... more.

It's almost time to blow out Kinect's first candle on the cake. Kinect was originally launched November 4th last year and Microsoft are marking the occasion by dropping the price of multiple related Marketplace items for a short time. The items on sale are as follows: Game Add-ons Your Shape: Fitness Evolved: Toned Body - 160 MSP Carnival Games: Monkey Dancin' Pack - 200 MSP Kinec... more.

It's been 6 years already since Microsoft's XBox 360 launched, and the last couple of years have seen a lot of discussion and speculation about console lifecycles. Now, Develop have suggested that we can expect a new XBox console to be unveiled and released in 2013. They claim that sources in processor manufacture and middleware production expect the new console to be officially announced at E3... more.

The final instalment of the Gears of War trilogy brings us a poetic tale of bloodshed and bromance. Epic games attempts to wrap up their story with emotional closure while giving you some outstanding third person gameplay that will leave you breathless. Concerning the latter, Gears pulls of a successful campaign that uses good pacing and visuals to draw you into the game. The gameplay is not fu... more.

It appears Epic Games have something big in the mix. They announced when Gears of War 3 launched last month that they will test the waters for a month, build stats, and alter the game accordingly. A month has passed and it appears the first big addition to the game has been announced - excluding DLC. According to the in-game calender Epic have officially announced that between 25th Nov - 25th ... more.

An awkwardly adorable trailer has been released showing a Build-a -Bear in the new Kinectimals: Now With Bears game. If you buy one of four bears, each with a special scan-tag, you can bring the bear into the game and play with it. Kinectimals: Now With Bears is available through download or you can buy a physical retail copy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFi4OF_BwE[/youtube]... more.

Orcs are bad. I know it, you know it. Lord of the Rings proved it (despite a fantastic counter argument from World of Warcraft) and to settle the argument once and for all, we have Orcs Must Die! OmD (henceforth) is the first game to land on the Xbox 360 from Robot Entertainment, and what a debut it is. The studio (mainly consisting of former members of Ensemble) responsible for Age of Empires Onl... more.

The developers behind the 'Splosion Man and Comic Jumper XBLA titles Twisted Pixel have become a part of Microsoft Studios. The announcement was made via a blog post on Twisted Pixel's website as well as a press release with the additional details. The announcement read: "Twisted Pixel is pleased to announce today that our studio has officially become a part of Microsoft Studios." "This ... more.

The new redesigned dashboard may launch on November 25 GigaOM was told of this by sources who have also claimed the code of the new update is based on a modified version of Microsoft Silverlight. If you haven't seen the trailer for the new Xbox TV experience you can check it out below. ... more.

When X-Men Destiny (XmD henceforth) was announced, it sounded like a dream for most comic book and RPG fans. Long have we awaited the game that features characters we know and love, in an RPG format that was actually any good. Sure, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 came close, and despite being a valiant attempt, it fell just short of expectations. Could this latest venture from Silicon Knights be the ... more.

OnLive made it's debut last month in the UK - and if you were fortunate enough to be at EuroGamer Expo 2011 chances are you walked away with a free OnLive system to commemorate it's UK launch. If you're unfamiliar with what OnLive, in short it is a cloud gaming platform where the games are synchronized, rendered, and stored on servers and delivered to your screen via the internet. So worryin... more.

A patent filed by Microsoft in 2010 has been made public. The patent itself suggests that the Kinect system could be used to estimate a user's age and make unsuitable content inaccessible. Or so reports Geek Wire. Details proposes using a 3D depth camera (example: the one Kinect uses) to measure body proportions of the players body such as head width to shoulder width and so on. You can se... more.

Street Fighter III is notorious in the fighting game scene for being a pretty divisive game. On one hand you have those who believe that it's not a "real" Street Fighter game, and that it's something else entirely that just so happens to have Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li from Street Fighter II featured amongst its cast of completely foreign characters. Then you have the people who believe that Street Figh... more.

Sun, sea and zombies may not sound like the greatest way to end your summer but Dead Island could be the blood splattered vacation you’ve needed all year. Dead Island’s take on the zombie apocalypse scenario is a mixture of influences from various zombie related media while bringing the chaos to a new environment. Set in a holiday resorted that resembles everyone’s idea of paradise, Dead Isl... more.