It’s been a busy news week for Tim Schafer’s DoubleFine Studios.  After spearheading a record-breaking million-dollar Kickstarter campaign, he sat down with Hookshot to discuss the success of the campaign, his past bouts with Activision over his RTS/Action metal hybrid Brutal Legend, and also...

A lot of the Atlus faithful are getting a bit hot and bothered about the Persona team’s first game for HD consoles: the intriguing, mysterious and sexy Catherine. So far details on the game have been relatively hard to come by. Past preview videos have done little more than tease, leaving those who...

Announced at the Microsoft CES press event, Netflix and Hulu Plus with Kinect support will be coming soon to the Xbox 360. The new features were stated as rolling out sometime during this coming spring. Although Hulu Plus, the premium service of the web based film and television content provider, has...

Need to renew that Xbox LIVE subscription? You could do far worse than getting it through Walmart. The chain is offering one year of Xbox LIVE membership and a “select” game for $79, with shipping costing just $1.97. With this sort of deal, “select game” typically means “lump...

The unfortunate demise of Xbox Primetime’s excellent 1 Vs. 100 was a blow to fans of casual multiplayer quizzing everywhere. The game provided a TV-like experience that viewers could take part in along with their friends. And it was excellent fun. Offering a wide variety of regularly-updated...

When I told my brother I would be getting this game for review he quickly told me it was similar to the Gears of War series and I was elated. What could be better after hearing that Gears would be delayed until next fall? I slowly started listening to the hype and how this game would be horrible, based only...

Fall marks the return of apple cider, Halloween and, of course, the annual Xbox Dashboard Update. It’s a time when gamers all gather in the pumpkin patch, waiting for Major Nelson to appear and bestow upon them gifts of streamlined interfaces, new features and a few nifty surprises. This year...

In a tweet to his followers, Major Nelson (Microsoft’s Defacto Xbox Community Manager) announced changes to the pricing model for Gold Xbox Live subscriptions in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Canada. Oddly enough the cost of online play and other gold exclusive content has now been...

For the Xbox 360 fans out there, some new options for your avatars will be on the way throughout the month of July: On July 7th (7/7 baby!) gear from Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge On the very next day Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands gear will be available On July 14th...

When Microsoft debuted the New Xbox Experience a couple of years back at E3, the internet was abuzz with the potential for services that could be added that would further enhance the value of being an Xbox LIVE Gold subscriber. First debuted was the ever-popular Netflix, followed soon thereafter by Twitter,...