"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

Now that Halo Wars is out the door and Ensemble Studios has gone the way of the dinosaur, former employees of the developer have seen fit to release some of the game's lovely concept art. There's some spectacular stuff here, worthy of desktop wallpapering, visual inspiration for many of the game's g...

That's right folks, if you add up all the individual hours people have played Halo 3, it comes out to over 64,000 years. The billionth game of Halo 3 was played last Saturday. Bungie then calculated the play time of every online match - not counting custom maps - and it reaches 2,023,153,340,764 sec...

Very interesting thought, and sure to generate some conversation around this. Sony was top in video game consoles, then the Xbox came out. The Xbox just murdered the competition and set itself apart from every other gaming system. Now the XBox is known as a "hard-core gamer" system and par...

In the wake of releasing Halo Wars , Microsoft's Frank O'Connor has shocked (no one in) the world by saying gamers probably haven't seen the last of Master Chief. Speaking with Game Hunters at USA Today, O'Connor discussed such upcoming releases as Halo 3: ODST , calling it a "detective story" of so...

This past week saw a massive resupply of ammunition for both the Sony and Microsoft fanboys on the treacherous European front of the current console war -- first of all, the highly anticipated Killzone 2 nabbed the top spot in the ELSPA GfK ChartTrack Top 40, and became the fourth fastest-selling So...

In the first of a new series of videos dealing with the expansion of the Halo universe, members of Ensemble, and the gaming press talk Halo history. The Halo universe isn't just Master Chief. I know, I know; that's a hard fact for some fans to swallow. Between the novels, the first-person shooter tr...

Our friend MDK over at 360Junkies had the privileges to get his greedy little hands on the Mythic Map Pack. With this power he decided to do us a favor and let us know how the Mythic Maps handle from gameplay to style. MDK’s x2002x blog. Check out his review after the jump: -Miguel “Sour...

Tests have shown that there are more germs on household floor surfaces than on toilet seats, kitchen counters and bathroom tiles combined. While exposure to some germs may help build children's immune systems, allergens like mold, dust mites are a leading trigger of allergy and asthma systems in bot...

What happens when you have the Halo franchise, a good one that sells a ton, which is primarily the stomping ground of 14-year-old American boys? Why, you release a more cerebral game based in the universe, obviously, leaving the world with Halo Wars. That makes sense, doesn’t it? Brash, loudmouthe...