We had a chance to sit down with Robin Burrowes and a have a play around with the upcoming Kinect dashboard update heading towards Xbox’s sometime towards the release of Kinect on November 10th.

He showed us the new avatar marketplace, movies, how you can control everything from your couch and the new video chat feature which will become cross-platform with Windows Messenger on the PC in the new year. These aren’t all the features you can expect out of the update, we were informed that there will be more to be announced.

“I’m better than you, in every single way. I’ll kill you from any angle in COD”. Well it is truly time to put your money where your mouth is and in some cases it, eat it.

The brand new ‘Wager Mode’ came out of yesterday’s Black Ops Multiplayer Bonanza and it set the world on fire, twitter crashed as well as the call of duty website. We lived on to tell the tale and give you the corresponding trailer!

• 3 Kills – Spy Plane
• 3 – RC-XD (RC bomb)
• 4 – Counter Spy Plane
• 4 – SAM Turret
• 5 – Care Package
• 5 – Napalm Strike
• 6 – Sentry Gun
• 6 – Mortar Team
• 7 – Attack Helicopter
• 7 – Valkyrie Rockets
• 8 – Blackbird
• 8 – ‘Rolling Thunder’
• 9 – Chopper Gunner
• 11 – Attack Dogs
• 11 – Gunship

Expect an interview with Josh Olin to go up later today

We start in Rome; the biggest construction that the Assassin’s Creed dev team has ever created. Rome consists of Vatican City, large sprawling markets and a playground of rooftops for your entertainment as well as being a populated world of people, shops and assassins. Whilst you have been away those crafty Borga folk have come in and taken over the place, boarding up shops, harassing the women and saying nasty names to your mum. Borga towers petrude the skyline and it is your job to remove their presence from different ‘territories’ in Rome.

You have 2 different ways of taking on the towers: Either go for the ‘no holds barred’ approach and kill everything as loud and as frantic as possible, or sneak in like a moth through a darkened room, prepping to bite the non-suspecting sleeping victims. We were shown the latter. Each borga tower consists of its own puzzle of winding pillars to climb so you can access the entrance point of each tower. Once infiltrated it is now your job to take out the guards as quickly (and in this case quietly) as possible. If the ‘leader guard’ is alerted then you will encounter an on going wave of enemies and you inclined to attack the tower another day. If you do have the skills to take the tower, once you have dealt with the ‘leader guard’ then you must climb the tower (each tower has a unique climbing puzzle) and fly your flag by setting fire to the tower. Once completed, areas in the previously controlled territory will be accessible to your brotherhood and you’ll be able to setup shops in the area, this goes on to add to your city management (like the villa mini-game in AC2).

A brand new feature to come out of Cologne was a take on a task based RTS mode for your brotherhood of Assassins. You can equip your assassins with a vast amount of weapons and attire, making your own unique look for your brotherhood. We were shown a world map with cities plotted across it for you to send your assassins off to go and do specific missions. Places included: London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Portugal, Munich, Rome, and even Moscow! “In Russia, Assassin’s kill you”. These missions will improve your Brotherhood’s skills and give your assassins XP in which you can spend it on better weapons, more health or even the option to become even more elusive. They level up as they improve in skill and will be able to take on bigger tasks and will become 10x more helpful on the battlefield, but if they get overwhelmed and die, then they are dead forever. Gone. Kaput. Like Kaiser Soze.

This Management mini-game does look rather interesting and we can’t wait to see more of it as well as more AC: Brotherhood action!

Incase you have been living in a bunker for the past year worrying about the possibillity of the dead walking the earth, well stay in there because the dead are now walking the earth, ONLINE.

Well downloadable from the internet to be precise. How about some zombie killing before Dead Rising 2 hits stores in the next couple of weeks? Well Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is an exlusive download for you lucky Xbox360 owners, for 400MSP you can jump in an kill some zombies before those biters on the PS3.

Xbox.com’s bio:

Get a taste of what Dead Rising 2 has to offer in this full-featured prologue! Chuck Greene and his daughter Katey have barely escaped the Las Vegas zombie outbreak with their lives. They arrive in the lonely desert town of Still Creek looking for some rest, but unfortunately there is no rest to be had as this sleepy town has become overrun with zombies. Chuck must kill zombies, rescue survivors and escape from the zombie nightmare that is Still Creek before time runs out. Any PP, clothing, and Combo Cards gained in CASE ZERO will carry over into your Dead Rising 2 game!

So what are you waiting for? BUY IT!

For those of you who have been complaining about the “bloody d-pad on the xbox”, your dreams are about to come true in November (Only for the US, February for the UK – damn it!)

Sir Major Nelson announced that those wizz kids in the labs have worked out how to fix your problems, by simply spinning the d-pad to a different setup whenever you need to! With a simple twist, the controller switches form.

Also they have given the standard controller a black and grey look, they’ve even desaturated the X,Y,B and A buttons (not to our liking). Take a look at what Larry has to offer above.

Our good friends at Codemasters gave us the chance to check out the latest build of the game. We got a chance to look at the new career mode and how it will progress over years of play (not real time) as well as the overall improvements to the game since we last got a chance to look at it.

It’s truly worth a look!

It seems that Medal of Honor have held their cards close to their chest when It comes to awesome multiplayer experiences. In a series of videos, EA are planning to show you how much fun you’ll be having online by the end of the year, yards worth!

We got CAM footage of most of the conference, so do enjoy some Bulletstorm goodness on us!

With many already playing in the closed beta that hit us around March, many of us were on the bench and awaiting a taste of the pie. Now SquareEnix or ‘Squeenix’ have unleashed a Open Beta release date primed for August 31st in North America. As some may now this title will be available for Playstation 3 owners around 6 months after the PC version hits which is slated to be the September 22nd mark.

So feel free to check this one out for yourselves and sign up here.

As already announced in the title this is an exclusive preorder opportunity for all you lovely gamers. With every standard copy of the game preordered you will receive a T-shirt, wisely colored in white to soak up all those blood stains and other mishaps.

So get your Preorders in now as stocks are limited and lets face it it’s just some great bling you can show off to your friends, and maybe in an actual zombie apocalypse you will look damn dead.. I mean cool

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It’s always nice to sit down with the face of a product, Kudo Tsunoda being the face and Creative Director for Kinect.

We, like many others, have concerns about how Kinect will fit into the average gamer’s bedroom. Most gamers don’t have the space to be jumping around upstairs, some may not even have strong enough floor boards, causing rather big problems. We got our word across to Kudo and found that he was happy to answer the questions that mattered the most.

One of the biggest announcement’s of the year from EA has to be next year’s release of Dragon Age II from those guys at Bioware! Well the game got a brand new trailer from Gamescom called ‘Destiny’ – this also then got picket up by the trailer’s director and the cut to his standards! You now to get a handful of more seconds for you to enjoy.

Dragon Age II coming early next year.

They are tagging Crysis 2 with having one of the best multiplayer experiences you will get this side of the internet and from what we have played of it, we believe them! We got hands on with the game for just 2 10 min rounds and was left craving more. If you purchase the Limited Edition you will get more.