Gamescom was awash with Rock Band 3 fever, with a large stage area set up for some professional musicians to show off the much anticipated title.

Most of the talk was about the latest instrument to hit the series - the keyboard (or keytar if...

It was only about fifteen years ago that the idea of a virtual pet involved a cheap Chinese-manufactured keyring and a dotted alien that required simply food, attention and sleep.

Now, we're presented with virtual feline-cubs that actually...

FIFA or Pro Evo? EA or Konami? It's the debate that won't seem to go away. Every year the rivalry intensifies and even here at Pocket-lint Towers we have argued long into the night as to what is the king of the footie sim? And, as the 2011 versions...

J.R.R Tolkein's epic fantasy gets another game re-telling as you take on the persona of a young hobbit in the shire who is being told stories of the mighty King of Men, Aragorn. That's the dull bit. You then get to re-enact these stories - which is...

EA is really trying to whip up a frenzy with this one. When the title was announced at Gamescom they managed to get James and Oliver Phelps up on stage to big it up. Whaddya mean you don't know who they are? They're Hollywood royalty - they play the...

It wasn't all about brand new gaming over in Cologne at Gamescom. 

Well, 99 per cent of it was - but there was an awesome section from the guys at Return Magazine who were displaying an incredible array of retro gaming consoles.

It...

Sonic Free Riders, from the Sonic team and O-Two, is like Mario Kart but not suitable for chubsters as this is a Kinect title - so involves some fairly robust controlling motions. But does the Kinect experience take-away from the gameplay? And can...

A Microsoft rep over at the X10 event in Toronto has spilled the beans regarding a possible real-time gaming scenario between Windows Phone 7's Xbox LIVE hub and the Xbox 360 console.

"Initially we're turn by turn-based", he said.

"We...

One of the most interesting side-attractions at Gamescom this year was the 9th Annual Case Modding Championships with its Live Modding challenge.

Over the 5 days of the expo, pairs of expert case modders - who had been invited by organisers...

Mad Catz was showing some pretty cool tech off over at Gamescom including the RAT 9 gaming mouse and a whole bunch of Call of Duty: Black Ops peripherals. 

But the one thing that really caught our eye, literally, was the amBX lighting PC additions...

One of the key themes of E3, that subsequently carried over to Gamescom, was that of 3D gaming.

And Pocket-lint was on hand at the Nvidia centre at the Koelnmesse to catch the latest 3D developments from the GPU giant.

Whilst there,...

The Kinect and Windows Phone 7 hook up rumours just got a little bit more real over in Cologne at Gamescom, where one of the fathers of Kinect, Kudo Tsunoda, strongly hinted to Pocket-lint that some form of compatibility is on the horizon.

Speaking...

Sony has had some fun as of late with its Kevin Butler videos mocking Microsoft's Kinect for its lack of "buttons" and asking: "Who wants to pretend their hand is a gun? What is this, third grade?"

But it could be that the big M has the last...

Earlier this year gaming supremo Peter Molyneux debuted what he believed was possible with Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox 360, and now, some months later, TED has released the video for all to watch.

Milo and Kate show how using...

Before any big launch in the tech world, the webiverse rumour mill kicks into top gear. There's always plenty of chatter as to what's going to be on board, what isn't, leaked specs and so on.

And Microsoft's Kinect was no exception. And, following...