EA recently announced at the 2010 GDC that it would be releasing a new version of its Sports Active title previously seen on the Wii. The new version comes complete with leg and arm bands with motion sensors attached so you can therefore have a full body workout. Other upgrades include a heart monitor as well as an online hub from which users can track their fitness and share data with others. DLC... more.

The WiiAuto Pistol is a peripheral for the Wii similar to the WiiZapper that many of you may be familiar with. The difference is that while just about every Wii peripheral is easily distinguishable as such, the Pistol is shaped almost exactly like a real gun, has very similar textures to a real gun and is even the same colour as a real gun. Now this is fine for those players who want realism but i... more.

PlayStation's Arc might come with a Nunchuk add-on, according to someone with a few connections at Sony. The news was posted on a forum, and he said that there had been recent images of a "Wand/Nunchuk". The poster known has ichinisan said that the tool has an analog stick followed with X and O buttons. There are L1 and L2 shoulder buttons underneath the D-Pad, and it is not as long as the vers... more.

Microsoft has updated their Xbox Live Code of Conduct, or CoC -- for short. The reason behind the change in CoC was due to the 'ban' on gay, lesbos and even transgendered people. Live recently underwent a little revamp which now allows words such as lesbian, gay, bi, straight and even transgendered in your gamer tag. The big M said that you won't be able to use these words to 'harm' other playe... more.

Both Konami and Sony have filed trademarks today, where their ideas are pretty similar to each other. Sony, the PS3 creator has filed for the Arc name, which is strongly currently rumoured to be the new name for their motion control hardware. Konami on the other hand have filed for Gradius Arc, which might be something else. While the two names are really identical, we're going to focus on S... more.

Sony's PlayStation 3 has seemingly encountered a massive problem, one that renders the console practically useless, gaming wise. I first saw the issue reported on TerminalGamer (thanks seeM!), but I confirmed all of the problems myself when I sat down with my PlayStation 3 console to investigate. The first issue is that PlayStation Network is currently down, and any attempt at trying to connect to... more.

Michael Patcher -- the big mouth analyst for gaming -- has predicted Natal pricing, incorrectly. Captain obvious here was recently interviewed by Industry Gamers where he said that he might have been wrong about the motion technology's price tag. "I probably aimed too low with my $50 Natal comment, as I’m sure that consumers will come to believe that the product and software has a lot of valu... more.

EA’s CFO, Eric Brown has said that due to the lack of price cuts, followed by the high price of HD technology, consoles will not move over just yet. In turn, this means that current-gen consoles will stay as is. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Mister Eric Brown said that new consoles are not yet ready to be launched, or developed. In other wo... more.

Aaron Greenberg, this dude from Microsoft, has said that the company will be very careful when creating games for Project Natal. When speaking with Destructoid, Aaron said that MSoft doesn't plan to jump onto the game market, as they will first think about what should receive games. “We are going to be very careful in the way we think about our portfolio for Project Natal,” he said. “One ... more.

Sony's PlayStation 3 has been holding back on some performance, as the Japanese creator is currently keeping about 70 megabytes of RAM under wraps. PlayStation University has found that about 70mb of RAM has been hidden, and this could soon be unlocked for developers to use. SCEA's Patrick Seybold recently confirmed the change, to Joystiq, where he said: "Since the launch of the PS3, we have b... more.

Speaking to Joystiq recently at X10, Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Product Manager Aaron Greenberg suggested that the 250GB Xbox360 hard drive will mostly likely remain exclusive to limited edition bundles, such as with the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII bundle. "We did it with the Modern Warfare bundle, which, as people know, was a huge success, completely sold out," he told Joystiq. "We're excited to brin... more.

With the New Year being ushered in slowly, but surely, we are seeing the slow-release of Direct X 11. It is time to revise the budget PC we built last time. The PC will still last, so do not fear if you bought those parts. This time round, I thought that we could build a DX11 PC. CPU and Motherboard The brains and brawn of any PC -- if you get really bad parts, then you are doomed forever (o... more.

I've been waiting to hear when this would happen and it looks like, as of today, there will be no more waiting on my part. It seems that Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7, has already overtaken Windows Vista as hardcore PC users' preferred operating system. A very large 28.53% of Steam users report that Windows 7 is their current operating system, while former Vista users make up 27.9... more.

Modern Warfare 2's Care Package has already been released for PC and PS3, where Infinity Ward has now said that the Xbox version has been submitted to Microsoft for certification. The patch news was revealed through Twitter where Robert Bowling commented by saying that the glitch is now "a thing of the past." Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed norma... more.

If the following applies to you, you seriously need to get with the new age. Xbox Live, the original Live, will discontinue on the 15th of April 2010. Microsoft will stop the service for the original consoles and this will mean that players will have to move over to the 360. The drop of original-Xbox support will also mean that Xbox 1 games will not work on 360's Live either. Read the off... more.