As we have come to expect Germany has banned yet another shooter from market, this time it's the European version of Call of Duty: Black Ops! Germans will get their own version of the game minus the offensive content which includes a song by the Rolling Stones 'Sympathy for the Devil'. Gamers importing the uncensored copy of Black Ops will find that Steam will only activate localised copies of the …

With Nintendo pushing ahead with their 3D agenda through the 3DS and Sony doing the same via televisions, Blu-ray players, and the PlayStation 3, Microsoft has decided to step back and see what happens before jumping in. Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, has said that their goal is to do things that “millions of people can go enjoy today,” and right now the 3D technology …

Call Of Duty: Black Ops' online director Dan Bunting has told NowGamer that the exploitation of glitches to boost XP has "diminished the reputation of the franchise in a lot of people's eyes." Bunting insists, however, that anti-cheating measures in Call Of Duty: Black Ops will be the most stringent the COD series has ever seen. Cheating won't pay. It'll just bring down the ban hammer "We have a lot of anti-cheating, …

Microsoft is renaming its (free) Xbox Live Silver service to "Xbox Live Free Membership," according to a tweet from European community manager Graeme Boyd. This comes alongside the refreshed Xbox.com and, of course, the Xbox Live Gold price hike, as part of an apparent pre-Kinect relaunch of the Xbox's online presence. The new name no longer emphasizes …

# Say goodbye to the old Xbox.com design; a new one is making its debut tomorrow. The news was announced on Major Nelson’s site along with a list of new features. Most importantly the site will now feature support for new Xbox Live regions, plus there are some other cool tweaks like a browser-based Avatar editor or the ability to play web games with your XBL friends. It’s nice to see the update getting more …