Get a Look at the Halo Remake’s Shiny New Graphics

Sure, the Flood levels are a bit janky, but the first Halo still has some of the best campaign and multiplayer levels of the entire series. They now look a lot nicer. Halo: Combat Evolved’s 10th Anniversary Edition will be out this November. It sure will be nice playing Blood Gulch over Xbox Live.

Watch Halo 4’s Debut Trailer Right Here

Here’s the debut trailer for 343 Studio’s upcoming Halo 4, which will kick off a whole new trilogy starring the Master Chief.

Battlefield 3 Out In October, Beta Starts a Little Earlier

Electronic Arts announced today that upcoming shooter Battlefield 3 will be released on October 25. Those who can’t wait that long, know that a “multiplatform beta” will kick off a little sooner, in September.

This is Your 2011 Summer of Arcade Lineup

Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft’s From Dust and Fuelcell’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we’re in for one…

Mass Effect 3 Brings the Battle Home in March

A good or possibly bad man goes to war on March 6, 2011, when Mass Effect 3 hits North America, with Europe feeling the aftershocks three days later on March 9.

When EA and Insomniac Collide You Get Overstrike

Set to debut any minute now at EA’s E3 2011 press conference, the developer of Ratchet & Clank and the Resistance games is taking their next big thing multiplatform, and this is it. This is Overstrike What is Overstrike? Let’s not steal too much thunder from the press connference and give you the short and…

Electronic Arts’ E3 2011 Keynote Liveblog

Console makers aren’t the only ones giving presentations during the week of E3. Publishers are, too, and Electronic Arts fires first with its news conference, and RPGs should figure prominently, with Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic all coming in the next year. Oh yeah, and there’s a game called Battlefield 3…

Cloud Storage For Game Saves, ‘Beacons’ Coming to Xbox Live

Xbox Live will allow gamers to save their game saves to the cloud, so they can download them and resume playing their games on other online-connected Xboxes, Microsoft announced today. That feature will match the cloud-save option already offered on the PlayStation 3’s PlayStation Plus service. But what’s brand new are “Beacons”… a way to…

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Kinect Makes Taking Your Kids to Disneyland Much More Affordable

Frontier Developments is giving parents around the world an amazing gift this holiday season: The ability to take their children to Disneyland for the price of the Xbox 360, Kinect, and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures As a soon-to-be father, the idea of a virtual Disneyland where I do not need sunblock, wads of cash, and more…

How Forza Motorsport 4 will change car culture forever

With Forza Motorsport 3, Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios tried creating the greatest racing game. On October 11th, when Forza Motorsport 4 is released for Xbox 360, they’re setting their sights higher – creating the next generation of car enthusiasts. [Jalopnik]

Halo 4 and a Whole Lot of Kinect Headline Microsoft’s Big E3 Press Conference

There will be a new Halo trilogy, starting with late 2012’s Halo 4. That was the show-ending big news in a Microsoft E3 showcase that pushed Kinect hard. How much Kinect was there? We had Kinect Star Wars, a game that lets you control a Jedi hero with gesture and voice We had Ryse, a…

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Watch a Very Intense Man Playing Kinect Star Wars

The man demonstrating Kinect Star Wars live on stage at Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference seems to be in danger of being swayed by the dark side. I sense much fear in him.

Dance Central Returns with Two Player Dance Battles

Harmonix took the stage during Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference today to lift the curtain on Dance Central 2, detailing some of the new features coming in the follow-up to the popular Kinect-powered body mover. It’s time for a dance off! Dance Central is a lovely game, but it was obviously pushed out in rather…

Introducing Microsoft’s Kinect Fun Labs

Microsoft has shown us Kinect Fun Labs, describing it as “the place to check out the best innovations for Kinect.” The Fun Labs are set to be a permanent addition to the Xbox Dashboard, and you’ll be able to check out various indie and user generated additions to the Kinect library. Among the features scheduled…

Master Chief Returns with Halo 4 in 2012

A teaser trailer for Halo 4 concluded Microsoft’s E3 news conference today. In it, the series’ longtime hero, Master Chief, awakens from cryonic sleep to the voice of Cortana, calling him by his name. He then grabs Cortana and flees the wreckage a ship hurtling toward some sort of portal. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said Halo…

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Mass Effect 3 Gets More Tactical and Conversational with Kinect

During Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference this morning, BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzyka demonstrated how Microsoft’s Kinect could make the Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 3 the one to own. Mass Effect‘s famous branching dialog system comes to life thanks to Kinect’s voice recognition. Each decision made can be made using your natural voice, unless…

Kinect Star Wars Will Make You Say ‘Lightsaber ON!’

We showed you Kinect Star Wars last night. And today we’ve seen it played on stage. A lengthy play-through showed scenes pulled from several eras of Star Wars fiction, predominantly from the Clone Wars and prequel era. A live on-stage demo involved a player swinging their arms to swing a lightsaber, holding their hand out…