10) Marcus Fenix – Gears Of War Despite being an absolute brute of a man, Delta Squad's leader has the last name Fenix. Not Phoenix, but Fenix. Man, that’s cool… 9) Joanna Dark – Perfect Dark This is supposed to sound like Jeanne D'Arc, but... that doesn't really work, now, does it? At last! A silly name for a Rare character that isn't ironic. 8.) Edge ...

Just stick your fingers in your ears... It's something everyone has to deal with online; opinion taken to the extreme and voiced with bitter, angry and often racist language. If you're going engage in conversation with anyone on any website, theirs always a danger you'll come across people with no regard to how they voice their opinions. This has come to ahead recently with the release of Rebellion's Alien vs Predator. A quick look at Metacritic will reveal that its received 'mixed to ...

The worst 360 games of all time... ever... so far Someone had to do it, we take a look back at some of the lowest scoring 360 games we've ever had the misfortune of putting in our disc drives. Together with our sister site Nowgamer.com, we bring you some of the worst games we've ever played... Fusion Frenzy 2 "Even with online play, we really can’t recommend Fuzion Frenzy 2 on any level. The mini-games are poor, the AI is medically insane ...

We're good thanks, don't trouble yourselves... In case you didn't already hear, Tony Hawk's Ride was a massive disappointment and a total mess of a game. Taking what should have been an excellent idea and forming the most bare bones of a game around it, and then developing a peripheral that doesn't work the way it should and you end with an experience that boarders on that really wasn't worthy for shop shelves. That's why developer Robomodo are currently hard at work on ...

Awwww man! If you were looking forward to Ubisoft's upcoming titles, Splinter Cell: Conviction and R.U.S.E you may want to reschedule your calendar as both have been pushed back until April. Ubisoft revealed the details in this press release: "The postponed release dates for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™ and R.U.S.E™, which were previously scheduled for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009-10, and will now be released in fiscal year 2010-11. Splinter Cell Conviction™ is now expected to hit the stores in ...

Which came first Halo, or Aliens? Well, duh! In what has to be slightly ridiculous news, James Cameron has approached the topic that has clearly been grinding his gears for some time. All those Internet fanboys that claim his latest billion dollar movie, Avatar, ripped off Halo in its visual style and motifs. If you know anything about film you'll know that's all kinds of wrong but here's Cameron's own response to G4's X-Play: "The funniest thing is when some of the so-called ...

Well, you don't get to write that headline very often in this line of work…

Hot off the press... not really Two stories caught my eye today so I thought I'd double them up and give a sort of rundown to the news. First to catch my eye was the news that Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 has managed to shift around 2 million units, surpassing what the original game sold. That's pretty impressive considering so many people had their hearts set on boycotting Valve... Oh wait, that's right, they were wrong. Where are the naysayers now? ...

So, the midnight launches have happened, and the country is now full of some incredibly tired people failing to do some work…

Yes, I know it's old, but the re-appearance of one of gaming's greatest ever heroes can't happen without even a word…

You remember the Avatar Marketplace, right? A location for various companies to lend out their intellectual properties in exchange for making money off the backs of idiots? Yeah, this week it got even worse.

Bringing games to life... the geeky way Playing a lot of videogames is all well and good, but taking the ‘hobby’ out of the virtual world and into the real can sometimes be a very risky proposition. Someone might see for a start. But, that’s not likely to stop me and if you’re anything like me, small plastic models of videogame characters will be irresistible. I’ve got a few characters adorning my desk, but with each new game that’s released there seems ...

An unusual argument occured among team X360 this morning. You know how football teams desperate for a large injection of cash might sign a famous, rubbish or possibly both of the above player to join their ranks, so legions of their countrymen would flock to buy a piece of polyester sportswear with their name on it?

Dave Shaw, man of Stoke and writer on our magazine, is one of the greatest living men of our time. He'll hate me for posting this picture in a rather self-indulgent blog entry, especially as he took a picture of me wearing 3D glasses with a paunch, which I took down from the blog, but I don't mind. This is rather good. To those out there, I pray you will once meet the man who has a figure of every Monkey Ball character on his desk. Dave is currently playing FIFA.

I've been having some adventures with everyone's favourite turncoat, Sam Fisher, recently. As luck would have it, news has come today that the game is to feature on Microsoft's Games On Demand service, as of now. To celebrate this special occasion we've three interesting nuggets of information our first unsure steps into espionage have tought us. 1) Windows are only see-through for people who really concentrate on that being the case. Anyone in the middle of, say, a high-power criminal arms deal, ...