Xbox Live Fall Update Arrives November 1

The Xbox 360’s dashboard will get an overhaul for the second time on Monday, November 1. That’s when the big Xbox Live fall 2010 update, complete with Kinect support, will come to Microsoft’s console. Microsoft confirmed the release date today via e-mail, telling Xbox Live members the mandatory update will “enhance the interface, navigation, and…

Is Steve Jobs Trying To Protect Our Children From Cavities Too?

Handed out at the local Apple store during a night of mall trick or treating in lieu of candy. Shouldn’t Apple be handing out King Sized Snickers bars, not patches, by now?

Minecraft’s Halloween Update is ALIVE!!!

Packed with pumpkins. A new Hell to explore. Watches! Yes, Watches!!! That’s one heck of a treat, Notch! The Halloween Update is out!

Treat Yourself To New NeverDead Screens For Halloween

Halloween weekend can only mean one thing—publishers remind us of the horror games on their slate, this time Konami and its mystical horror shooter NeverDead, starring the immortal, limb-tossing Bryce. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game is still a ways off, but given the previews we’ve seen of Shinta Nojiri’s action game, NeverDead’s currently…

Show Us Your PC Gaming Chair

You’ve shown us your gaming laptops. You’ve shown us your computer gaming rigs. Show us your gaming chairs. Here’s mine, the comfy bungee-cord office chair my wife and I bought from CB2 What are you sitting in when you play?

Neverdead Screens

Modern Warfare 2 Nuke In About 33 Seconds?

Can you actually activate a nuke in Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer in about half a minute? There’s been debate about that and admissions of fakery. But this video, newly re-posted to YouTube shows a purportedly legit half-minute nuke. Look legit? MW2: World’s Fastest Nuke, 32 Seconds!!! [YouTube]

10 Minutes Of Retro City Rampage Is The Best Nostalgia Trip Of The Day

Grand Theft Auto. Zelda. Mario. Metal Gear??? Which old games don’t you see references to in this “soundtrack mixtape” trailer for Retro City Rampage? Retro City Rampage is a love letter to many, many old-school games, which you can see for yourself in this newly released 10 minute trailer. (We’d already shown you that the…

Vote In Our Sunday Comics Deathmatches!

Have you voted for your favorite Sunday Comics strips? Polls close in less than three hours! Head over and tell us which of the existing Sunday Comics features, and which new ones should go in our redesigned page!

Win Your Own LEGO Wii Remote, Build Your Own LEGO Wii Remote

Remember that cool LEGO Play & Build Wii Remote we showed you earlier this month? We’ve got three of them to give away this weekend and we’re throwing in three ProPack Mini Wii MotionPlus controllers as well. Both come from Power A and both go to three different winners. We’ll be drawing the three names…

Looking For Deals And Coupons?

Hey folks! This the voice of Owen, on vacation. Neat trick, huh? Just reminding you that though there’s no Moneysaver today, you can still check these hashtags, where our deals partners are posting their links directly: #techdealdigger, #dealzon, #logicbuy, #deals4downloads and #slickdeals. Also check #dealtaku!

The Very Real Secret Compartments, Bags and Controllers of Fable III

Maybe you’ve already read our Fable III review and seen an unboxing of the nifty secret-compartment Fable III. But have you seen the Fable III bag and controller up close? In this relatively short video we take a look at everything but the review. You can check out the review for yourself here

Evil Dead Gets… Cute?… In Upcoming iPhone Game

Initially I hated the big-headed graphics of this Evil Dead game, but once you start to see the gore, the chainsaws, the evil dead, it comes together nicely.

Gamings’ Greatest Pumpkins

Happy Saturday everyone and happy Halloween eve as well. By now some of you have probably gutted and carved up a helpless pumpkin to celebrate dressing up and begging for candy. Take a moment to check out this neat collection of game-themed pumpkin carvings here and then drop your pumpkin favorites in comments below. Happpppppy…

Want A Signed Copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition?

We’ve got two copies of the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition signed by Treyarch and we’d like to give them away to you. We’ll be drawing the two lucky winners on Monday, November 1. To enter you just need to sign up for our newsletter. Sure, you can unsign…

The Week In Review: > Take Job, Shove It

This week? It was enough to make anyone consider throwing in the towel, packed to the gills with even more BlizzCon 2010 coverage, a week’s worth of love for PC gaming and a flood of reviews and previews. Turns out some folks did just up and quit. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune, Take-Two Interactive’s Ben Feder and…

Rush Limbaugh Defends Video Game Free Speech, “This is Where the Battle Is”

As the U. S. Supreme Court battle for free speech in video games closes in, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is adding his support for video games as art. A Friday caller to Limbaugh’s show quickly explained the details to the host, walking him through the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of Schwarzenegger vs.…

Please, Somebody, Turn This Into A Cartoon

Mass Effect 2 goes animated. By chikinrise, via Herochan

Pro Tennis Ace Injured Playing Video Games

Star British tennis player Andy Murray has injured a tendon in his hand after playing a game with doubles partner Dani Vallverdu. A game of Pro Evo, that is. “boselllliiiiiii hahaa I just lost 1 match to dani at the new pro evolution and I think I broke my hand! The new one is so…

Nintendo Says No Thank You To Building A Smartphone

Combining a phone and a games machine! Everybody’s doin’ it, right? Not Nintendo. “Certainly we are adding more and more elements to fill out the experience and take away more and more time from competing devices,” Nintendo of America boss Fils-Aime told Forbes. “But our handhelds will always lead with games.” “3DS content will be…