Head over to our features page for the 2007 PEOWW Awards.

Thanks to everyone who took time to vote!

Yeah... good luck making sense of that screenshot.

You may have noticed that for the last few weeks nothing on Xbox Live really works. Dashboards not loading, people being kicked out of games and communications failing.

Well Microsoft are making it up to us by giving away one of the shittest XBLA titles for free next week. Oooh!

For everyone who didn't bother this is yet another twin-stick shooter but set underwater. It plays like a very hateful version of Bangai-oh and won't be knocking Omega Five off of our playlist any time soon.

Soon to be rebranded the 360: Shit or something.

Despite their ability to make a console that doesn't fall apart if a car drives past your house, Microsoft are rumoured to be working on yet another version of the 360.

The new one is apparently going to have a HD-DVD drive built in. No further details yet but we're hoping it's not too expensive and, more importantly, isn't as loud as a Tyne-Wear derby match.

Although with Warner Bros apparently backing Blu-Ray it looks like HD-DVD may need more than this to win to the new format wars. Not that Peoww will be trading in their DVD collection any time soon.

I can't believe you've bought this!

Despite being quite awful and horrifically ugly, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the best selling XBLA title of 2007 which is enough to make fans of Space Giraffe vomit bees into their own eyes.

The final standings were Worms in second followed by Castlevania, Uno (which isn't even a game) and the rather lovely Bomberman Live fifth. No place in the top ten for Space Giraffe, Assault Heroes or Double Dragon.

Still, it's not all bad with XBLA suddenly getting good again recently and the rather lovely looking Omega Five just round the corner. Keep 'em peeled for a review sharpish!

Merry Xmas!

Well Loves it's that time of year and the Peoww elves will be taking a break until after Xmas but we will be back on the 30th for some hot Peoww action.

To all the Peoww family (the contributors, the forumers, the readers and the lurkers)... Merry Christmas and avoid them lemons!

Rich and Mark

Poortech: Sendo-Returno

Unlike many other sites, we don't use the royal we. There are a few of us and the two of us who pay the bills both agree that our 'Lemon Of The Year' is Wartech: Senko No Ronde, a game that perfectly simulates a Linda Blair vomit fight on ice.

Well, despite the piss-poor critical response, G-Rev are at it again with a sequel just having been announced. Let's hope they get rid of the 'win 1000 matches' achievements and put in SOME FUCKING GAMEPLAY!

Twat icon.

Being an unmitigated prick on COD4 is nothing new, but when Americans even mention their national past-time of school shooting then the Feds take notice.

Allieu Shaw, 19, of Spacksville, Maryland rather unwisely used the semi-anonymity of Xbox Live to say he fancied a bit of extra curricular shooting and is now in the hands of the authorities. Authorities that may be just a tad paranoid.

The full, not very interesting story can be found here.

Rent eight year old unfunny shit on your 360!

So, just a few decades after the US got it us thinner, less shouty people are being treated to Xbox's Video Marketplace service.

Films will cost 250 Microsoft Points (GBP 2.13 / EUR 2.91) in standard definition and 380 MS Points (GBP 3.23 / EUR 4.42) for high definition. Which is a small price to pay to watch a film whilst your Xbox 360 adds atmospherics by simulating the noise of a small nuclear war.

Halo 3 in action.

America, the country that would sue its own babies for dribbling on them, has gone a step further into legal oblivion. They are now investigating complaints that Halo 3 was falsely marketed as being a high definition product, despite the fact that it actually isn't.

The complain is that whilst Halo 3 claims to run at 720p resolution it doesn't. It just upscales from 640p which is why the textures look, you know, a bit shit.

Upgrade time.

Another 360 dashboard update is in coming and it's looking pretty good.

Instead of the usual nonsense about wireless guitar peripherals and MSN shite, this update has some long-awaited features. Sure, there's some nonsense in there about downloading Xbox games (a tenner? and on this tiny hard-drive?), the ability to write Facebook-style bollocks about yourself and the facility to search your friend's friendlists (creepy) but there's a host of good things also.

DivX support (THANK YOU LORD), a range of XBLA 'hits' at reduced prices (Marble Blast at 400pts being the best of the first bunch) and, best of all, all those shitty XBLA trials you played will be erased from your gamercard. Excellent.