If you have been reading gaming headlines in the past few days that do not concern Modern Warfare 2’s epic launch, you might have caught that Microsoft has banned 600,000 – 1 million of its Xbox 360 owners in the past week.

The Xbox 360 gets a new accessory that will hugely boost the system’s wireless capabilities.

EA and Visceral Games announce a Dante’s Inferno demo will be released in December for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

The latest gameplay news from Modern Warfare 2 is that some modes in the game will not support chat functions.

Always trying to give you the leg up in your social circle, we are bringing a sequel to last year’s 60 Video Game Costume Ideas in Time for Halloween. In this year’s reprise, the list includes characters and costumes that were not in the previous collection. This time around we went for fresh characters and less traditional costumes. Afterall, everybody else has Mario and Link covered. In addition to having new characters, the list rates each costume on the difficulty of work and costs involved to make it as well as the materials you will need.

An mandatory system update will be hitting Xbox Live today. No Facebook or Twitter yet.

These are the obstacles that face a Grey Warden. Only the brave and strong will survive.

“Greatness is Earned” with the five new titles on Xbox 360 to receive the Platinum Hits designation. Grand Theft Auto IV, Street Fighter IV, Left 4 Dead, Saint’s Row 2, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed now fall under the Platinum Hits umbrella for being best-selling games as well as receiving critical acclaim.

One of the richest game universes ever, Mass Effect, is adding another character to its roster for the second release in the series, Mass Effect 2. Today Bioware announced and released media of the female character ‘Subject Zero’.

Microsoft just announced two new bundles for the holiday season. (Isn’t it a little early, bro? It’s not even Halloween, yet. Microsoft must love XMAS.) Check ‘em out.