Tag: xbox

Play your Xbox on a cinema screen

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Yeah, so you’ve got a big screen at home. It’s nice. Is it 40″? 50″? Maybe you have a projector set up. I’m afraid to report that whatever you’ve got is now officially rubbish. How would you feel about playing your Xbox 360 on a screen that’s 50 feet wide…?

Duncan Geere Gaming

The inevitable but ultimately pointless Xbox / Dark Knight customisation

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It was only a matter of time before this happened – someone customised the Xbox 360 for nerds dedicated Batman fans. Really, it does exactly what it says in the tin – it’s an Xbox 360 with The Dark Knight logo on the front. Like many products altered to take in a band, brand or film, it looks quite good, but you’d have to be slightly too much of a fan to shell out the extra money.

This customisation, though, doesn’t really make sense. Because, for the first time in the history of the Batman series, there isn’t actually a video game in line with the new film. So to customise a games console with the name of a film seems rather pointless. It would be like customising a DVD player with a Grand Theft Auto logo…you might be a big GTA fan around, but you wouldn’t go plastering its logo over your entire personal possessions regardless of their purpose. What next, Girls Aloud logos on your cooker? Starbucks logos on your curtains? This really wasn’t thought through at all.

Michael Cox Gaming

Shiny Video Preview: Kat plays Rock Band for the first time


Yesterday, as promised, I got hands-on with Rock Band. Now, this will be old news for our US readers, but I was so excited, after waiting months and months for a chance.

It has been given a release date here in the UK of May 23rd, with the price looking set to start at £130…just for the instruments. Take a look in the video above to see me trying my hand at each of the instruments, including the microphone.

WARNING: I am extremely tone-deaf and have never done karaoke sober before. Watch at your own risk.…

Katherine Hannaford Gaming, Video Reviews

Games consoles get 5-10 years, so says Xbox-ex Sandy Duncan

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The new Nostradamus of the computing world, Sandy Duncan, has prophesied that the end is nigh for the games console.

Mr Duncan, the former boss of Xbox Europe, said: “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology. I think dedicated games devices, i.e. consoles and handhelds, will die out in the next five to ten years.”

“I don’t think you’ll have any box at all under your TV; most of this stuff will be “virtualised” as web services by your content provider.”…

Daniel Sung Gaming, Home Appliances

Darwinia confirmed for Xbox Live Arcade!

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Apparently it would be a complete dereliction of duty if we didn’t tell you about this… Darwinia has been confirmed as a forthcoming addition to Xbox Live Arcade. In its new guise, Darwinia +, it’ll come as a two game bundle, including the critically acclaimed strategy game and Multiwinia (the multiplayer version, funnily enough).

Richard Gilzene Gaming

Opinion: Manhunt 2's release will kill the current video games classifications

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Jonathan Weinberg writes…

It’s a row that’s been rolling on for far too long. It’s a row that does nothing to help the perception of gaming among wider society. And it’s a row that is going to run and run for quite some time yet.

Rockstar has now finally overturned a ban that meant it was unable to release Manhunt 2 in the UK. But while that’s good news for the firm, for gaming itself, this whole bloody saga is just another nail in the coffin of gaming.

The media is already far too focused on the negatives – the violence, the calls to ban so-called “killer games” and the conflicts over having a voluntary code to provide an age rating for the majority of titles.

Occasionally a positive story will slip through, like the OAPs playing Wii to keep in shape, but on the whole, games are treated with far more disdain than rap music and horror movies, both of which have had their fare share of criticism in the past….

Jonathan Weinberg Columns & Opinion, Gaming