Sean found three HD-DVD drives for the Xbox 360 at Best Buy today.  Not too interesting until you realize that just today, Microsoft dropped the price of the drives from $129 to $49.  "Okay, so why would you want a piece of now-dead technology?" I hear you ask.  Well, a few reasons come to mind.  [...]

So this company called Mova introduced a new motion-capture technology that uses several cameras without the traditional black-suit & ping pong ball trick to mimic lifelike animation on a CGI character in realtime.  I was FLOORED when I saw this video, and can’t believe what games will end up looking like when this kind of [...]

I’ve been away from my site a lot recently.  It’s inexcusable. I’m replaying Splinter Cell: Double Agent for the 360.  It’s amazing the differences in playing it a second time.  I’m taking a totally unique path this time from what I did last time. I’m also replaying Tomb Raider: Legend.  This ‘new gamertag’ thing is [...]

Earlier this week, Ubisoft announced it was releasing a new content pack for Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2.  It was called the Co-op Collection, and added, among other things, five new maps to play in, together with your friends, against a bunch of AI baddies. I got super-excited about it, because my friends Chris and [...]