Review: Fable Heroes is a boring hack-and-slasher

Patrick O'Rourke reviews Fable Heroes, a generic hack-and-slash side scrolling Castle Crashers style multiplayer game.

Apple has been sitting on kinect-like motion control technology for years

Apple has actually had motion-sensing camera technology similar to the Xbox Kinect motion controller since 2005, a source familiar with the software tells us. read more

Review: Average Bloodforge gets lost in the shuffle

There is no shortage of hack-and-slash action games on Xbox Live Arcade. And while "Bloodforge," the latest entry in the crowded genre, arrives with a few fresh ideas in tow, it ultimately gets lost in the shuffle. The best thing going for "...

'Minecraft' builds on success with Xbox release

Indie smash "Minecraft" has sold more than 5 million copies, made millions and generated even more words of ecstatic...

Valve and GameStop Sensibly Team Up to Offer Steam Codes In-Store

Starting today you can purchase Steam Wallet codes at GameStop stores. These codes, which are available in $20 and $50 denominations, can be added to a Steam account and used to purchase content through Valve's immensely popular digital distribution service. This move may come as a surprise to some as GameStop last year purchased Steam competitor Impulse, yet it actually is a very sensible move ...

The PSN hack: one year on

12 months ago, a no-doubt sweaty Sony communications chief sat down to pen a statement informing more than 70 million PlayStation Network account holders that their personal details - including credit card numbers - had just been compromised in one of the largest data hacks ever perpetrated . Months of corporate hand-wringing, righteous consumer outrage, grovelling PR and over-cooked class ...