Archives for the ‘Games & Electronics’ Category

The stars of ‘Mass Effect 2′: Martin Sheen, Seth Green, Shohreh Aghdashloo

By W. Andrew Powell • Dec 15th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics

Bioware’s Mass Effect 2 is a little over a month away from hitting store shelves and details are starting to emerge about what could shape up to be one of 2010 biggest games.



Lazy Sunday News: Polanski arrested, RottenTomatoes worst, and ‘Ninja Gaiden 2′ gets jiggly

By W. Andrew Powell • Sep 27th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics, Movies & DVDs

Lazy Sunday News returns this week, and it practically writes itself with news that director Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland. Other quick items this week, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 has some less than stellar innovation for the PS3, and RottenTomatoes.com names the 100 worst movies of the last decade.



New Xbox 360 prices for the holidays

By W. Andrew Powell • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics

The holidays are getting close and both Microsoft and Sony are doing their best to put one of their consoles in your living room.



Sony cuts PS3 price, debuts new slim design

By W. Andrew Powell • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics

If you’ve been holding off on buying a Playstation 3 because you heard there was going to be a price drop, I’ve got some good news for you.



Ubisoft opening Toronto game studio

By W. Andrew Powell • Jul 11th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics

The city of Toronto has played a lot of parts over the years, including some major roles in the movie business, but thanks to a recent announcement by the government of Ontario and Ubisoft, we’re about to tread some new ground.



A peek inside the ‘Halo Wars’ demo

By W. Andrew Powell • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics

Microsoft Games and Ensemble Studios released the demo of Halo Wars on Xbox Live today, with an all-too-quick sample of what we can expect when the game debuts March 3 on the Xbox 360.

Set 20 years before the events of the first Halo, Halo Wars kicks off as the UNSC forces clash with the Covenant, who start out the game looking for an artifact on the planet of Harvest.



Plan a visit to Fable 2’s Knothole Island

By W. Andrew Powell • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics, News

Fable 2 fans were teased with its presence in November, but the day has finally arrived.

Microsoft and Lionhead Studios released the Knothole Island downloadable content pack today, giving Fable 2 players three new quests, complete with new gear, weapons, and appearance-altering potions.



‘Gears of War 2′ party takes to the underground

By W. Andrew Powell • Nov 7th, 2008 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics, News

The game has only been on sale for a couple of hours, and it is already bound to be one of the biggest games of the season, if not the entire year.

Following one of the best-reviewed, and best-selling games for the Xbox 360, Microsoft’s Epic Games studio released Gears of War 2 at midnight today.



Xbox 360 outsells the competition, for now

By W. Andrew Powell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics, News

In a statement released to the media yesterday, Microsoft revealed that they have sold over 10 million units of the Xbox 360 in the United States. Considered by some to be the first benchmark of a winning console, the company suggests that this puts the Xbox in a unique position to maintain an ongoing lead in this generation of the console wars.



Microsoft’s Zune coming to Canada

By W. Andrew Powell • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Features, Games & Electronics, News

More than a few technophiles, myself included, have been waiting for this news for some time, and today at the Consumer Electronic Show, Microsoft made it official. The Zune media player, Zune Social, and all the Zune accessories will be available in Canada starting this Spring 2008.