Industry News - Win a Kinect with a Whopper meal.

Between November 1 through November 28, all you have to do at a BK is order a Whopper Extra Value meal and you can get a chance to get a 4GB XBox 360 Kinect bundle (once every FIFTEEN minutes).The bundle contains a XBox 360 console (4gig memory), a Kinect sensor, Kinect Adventures, and Kinect sports. To enter and win you will have to order a value meal, then take the codes from the sandwich wrappers, drinks, and fries container and text them to a special number to enter.

Pretty ingenious...and a giant kick in my diet program. ÂÂFirst Monopoly McDonalds ends (with their chance to win things like game consoles) and now I'm drawn into buying

Console News - XBOX LIVE reaches 1 billion hours per month

According to one of Microsoft's latest press releases, apparently Xbox Live game network users spend over one billion hours a MONTH using Xbox Live. This averages to more than 40 hours a month a member (all 25 million Live members, that is), basically, more than an hour a day for every single player.

With Microsoft's upcoming expansion from 26 countries to 35 in the month of November, that number can only substantially increase. With the addition of ESPN to Xbox Live catering to an entirely different demographic than the average game playing movie watcher, who knows how high the number will eventually

Games - Presidential Left 4 Dead in COD

Killing Nazi zombies in Call of Duty: World at War never made a lot of sense, it was fun and it worked, but it wasn't really compelling. This time around it'll be hard to argue when you've got these 4 playable characters:

Left to Right: Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Richard Nixon

Left 4 Dead is fun because it forces players to work cooperatively, gamers can't go off on their own without an extremely high chance of becoming incapacitated and needing help from another player. While this mode definitely looks to maintain the feeling of a Left 4 Dead campaign it'll be interesting to

Games - DR2 producer shares his views on zombies

Keiji Inafune, producer of Dead Rising series, has been in the past influenced by George Romero's Dawn of the Dead movies, but it wasn't just that movie series that inspired the creation of Dead Rising.

In a recent interview with Dengeki Online (a Japanese online magazine) that Resident Evil 4's zombies (despite they weren't really zombies...more like 75% zombies with free will) made him make Dead Rising because those "zombies" run. He stated that zombies shouldn't run...and why are they running since they're zombies.

"If I made my own [zombies]....there would be zombies like this."

~Keiji Inafune, Dead Rising

EVIL CONTROLLERS IS HERE TO EDUCATE GAMERS

After the successful launch of the Evil D-Pad, it appears that the un-convinced gamers are missing some

information crucial to understanding the power of the Evil D-Pad.

Tempe, AZ. (November 2010) "€œ The launch of the Evil D-Pad happened officially on Saturday October 23^rd and the gamers demand for a reliable, fuctioning D-Pad was met.The problem however, was that some gamers didn't know it. What the Evil D-Pad did was remove the axis-design typically used on a console controller to give each direction on the controller it's own proper button. It's an original design idea fo a d-pad that hasn't been done by any other 3^rd party developer in the past.

The axis was removed to increase accuracy and reliablity. What alot of gamers don't seem to grasp is that most controllers, Microsoft's included, don't have dedicated diagonal

Gaming News - ESPN To be more interactive with its audience

Let's take video games and combine them with sports, what do you get, ESPN on Xbox LIVE! The gaming world is going to become a lot better with this release. ESPN has decided to partner up with Xbox LIVE and make the world of sports more interactive. I think this is a great step for our generation. A lot of people enjoy watching sports, but never been able to interact. ESPN and Microsoft plan to change that very soon. People will have the ability to watch 3,500 live and on demand events. They can vote on who they think will win the game. With the Kinects coming soon, gamers will not need a remote to change the channel.

I think this is a very exciting a unique combination, but it will definitely need working on after this initial launch. The problems with interactive products are the bugs that constantly occur. Over time that should become less of a problem. There are the possibilities of gaming going 3D. They are

Coming in November there will be the 2011 Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition going for around $30,625 to $33,500. The thing people are asking about its existance. Mike Manley, President and CEO of Chrysler-Jeep Brand, said that their partnership with Activision marries two things together "€œ Jeep Wranglers and popular entertainment experiences, which will open to a new group of consumers.

It also to point out that the Jeep will make an appearance in Black Ops. The 2011 Wrangler and its Unlimited Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition is primarily based on the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, it'll come only in black, feature Black Ops

Console News - PSP to be combined with Smartphone

Ever since smart phones have come out, it seems most of the apps offered through the iTunes store or Android markets are games. People have the ability to play Doom on their Droid X or Super Monkey Ball on their Iphones. Looking back, making games applications on phones was the first step to something unique and cool. There have been rumors going around about Sony coming out with a cell phone. Guess what, it's TRUE! It has been confirmed that Sony will be releasing a Playstation cell phone in the future.

The phone codename is Zeus and was last seen running Android 2.0 OS. Sony has been quite about this project and

Games News - Black Ops to pass up Modern Warfare 2?

EA marketed Medal of Honor in a way that suggested it could be the next Modern Warfare, although it was a decent attempt, it just didn't match up. Will Call of Duty: Black Ops fall flat on it's face in the same way? At this point it's a little difficult to tell. The Call of Duty games developed by Treyarch have never been given the same critical acclaim as those made by Infinity Ward, but with Infinity Ward's lead programmers, designers, and Engineers starting there own venture with Respawn Entertainment, I'm guessing Activision's paying special attention to this title.

In many ways

Gaming Review View - Zombie Farm!

Forget Farmville. This Halloween, try out Zombie Farm for your iPhone or iTouch! Instead of farming cabbage, or broccoli, or whatever new vegetable Zynga has come out with, plant, harvest, and raise your zombies to create your own evil empire.

Although visually almost identical to Farmville, Zombie Farm provides a little more humor to an already relatively addictive concept. Beginning the game, as an evil farmer you must choose between planting crops or zombies. After, just like in Farmville, you sell your zombies or crops to generate money to plant more. Is it redundant and mindless, just like FarmVille? Yes. But is it way cooler because it features zombies,