Rumours do come true sometimes, and the people have spoken - the Xbox 360 was to have external USB storage, and it arrives in the form of a 250 GB hard drive, straight from Microsoft Corp, ready to ship in the United States today, for $129.99. Seen on the Xbox 360 Dashboard The 250 GB Xbox 360 Hard Drive has been retailing in Japan for some time, at a similarly high price, more than twice that of a normal USB 250 GB HDD. This is the same HDD that also came in the Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 bundle. Whatever the price, users will be happy they have more than just a max of 250 GB to play with (Elite model), double in fact. The Xbox 260 250 GB HDD ...

Quantic Dream has been in the game development business for over a decade and is a game developer with an uncanny fixation for serial killers. All three games that the studio has produced so far have been about investigations into serial killings, and in a sense these games can be considered as parts of a trilogy. While the three games have maintained a common theme, the game mechanics have been radically different each time. With Heavy Rain, the end result is far more drastic and to consider this product a game in the conventional sense would be a stretch. Heavy Rain follows the investigation of multiple homicides in which the victims — all of them children — are found drowned in rain water and the killer leaves an origami figure as a calling card. The story unfolds...

Playing CounterStrike was never very friendly, what with the cutthroat competition from across the world for the #1 multiplayer FPS ever. But things in a small town in the Jilin province of China seem to have gone too far, like many things in that country. Imagine a cyber cafe in a small Chinese town, filled with young gamers and people simply checking their e-mail, where a game of CounterStrike is being played. Some youths, possibly from the same clan, noticed another young dude (17-year old) cheating, using a “wallhack” to see through walls. Ironically, this ability to “see through walls” in the game led to the opposite coming true in the real world, where the young cheater did not realise he was being watched while he was doing his dirty work.I feel kinda...