The moon is sitting high in the evening sky as you sit in your gaming chair, peering at your television screen. You have not moved an inch in hours; you are hungry, you are tired, you are anxious; your phone is continuously going off, reminding you that your mother texted you four hours ago, but you do not care. You are on a mission. You have been looking at the same retry screen for hours. You are on the brink of quitting when you hear it. *BLING*. That, my friends, is the sound of a trophy (achievement) popping up on your screen. The platinum is your's.

Early this morning, The Verge published an article stating that Halo 4 would come out on Tuesday, November 6th. Later in the day, it was confirmed through a press release that this was indeed the correct day for the release of Halo 4.

Originally revealed at last year's E3, Halo 4 is one of the biggest exclusives coming this year to the Xbox 360. It is also interesting to point out once again that Halo 4 is not being developed by Bungie, but rather 343 Industries. There is also a new music composer, as Marty O'Donnell will not be returning. With all these new changes to the franchise, it is interesting to see what direction Halo 4 will take.

Stay tuned to GameDwellers.com and we'll keep you posted on all the new developments.

 

Did you ever think that Skyrim would need Kinect controls? Me neither! Apparently Bethesda disagrees because they announced today that there will be a title update coming later this month adding Kinect controls to the game.

More than 200 voice commands will be added that will allow a player to perform Dragon Shouts, Follower Commands, Menu Navigation, and more. So, you can look forward to the update if you want people to hear you screaming to a dragon in your living room!

Gears of War is a pretty popular series, I suppose. With the trilogy recently ending in September, rumors about the next installment of the Gears franchise started to surface with Gears of War: Exile. Well, if you were looking forward to the upcoming rumored title, too bad. It got canned.

 Many rumors have been stirring around the internet about the newest consoles coming from Sony and Microsoft.  Will the next Playstation come out next year, will the new Xbox have blu-ray and be 50% faster and more powerful than the current console?  Hmm, no one knows; and, according to marketing director, Cedric Delmas, of Microsoft France, despite all of the recent rumors of the Xbox 720, no new console will be released in 2012.

Even though this is in no way an official report from Microsoft, it does help to put to rest the rumors of a 2012 release for the next-generation Xbox console. Sources close to IGN have told them that the next Xbox will start shipping to retailers in October or November of 2013. It's also supposedly being built with a mighty fine GPU.

The sources claim that the GPU will come from the AMD 6000 series (released in 2011,) which would be roughly "six times as powerful as current gen" consoles. The AMD 6000s are similiar to the Radeon HD 6670. Based on this, we can assume that the next Xbox will support DirectX11, 1080p HD, multi-display output, and 3D.

For next-gen comparisons sake, this rumored AMD 6000 GPU will make the next-gen Xbox roughly 20% more powerful than the Wii U. So now the question is....what will Sony bring to the next-gen table?

Since the beginning of Xbox live, Microsoft points have been used as their online currency. Users could purchase 800 Microsoft points for $10 and then use those points to buy games, skins, DLC, etc. Many criticized the system since it is hard to convert 80 Microsoft points to a dollar, and many people had minuscule amounts of Microsoft points they had nothing to do with.

Surprise, Surprise, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the top selling game in 2011. The NPD released the sales charts earlier today for the top selling games of 2011, and last December. Unfortunately, NPD doesn't release the exact sales numbers, just the top selling games. Below are the top selling games for 2011, and December.

At this year's CES, Microsoft has revealed that the Kinect will in fact come to Windows. The device will hit stores February 1st. Major Nelson of Microsoft stated on his Twitter that the sensor in the Kinect for Windows will only work with computers with SDK Software. 

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 There is another camera too, as opposed to the original Kinect released back in November 2010. This explains why the base price has been speculated at $249.99, a whole $100 more than the original. 

I believe if this gadget allows full functionality to surf the web among other things it's more than worth it. Who doesn't want to talk to their computer and wave at it...for those that are in to that sort of thing I guess?

Tonight at 6:30pm PST/8:30pm CST, Microsoft is holding its last ever CES press conference. Microsoft has had a major presence at the show in Las Vegas for over the past 20 years.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the main speaker at the event as Microsoft will cover a wide range of products, including Windows, Windows Phone, and even Xbox. Even though it is highly unlikely, it is still possible that some sort of announcement regarding the Xbox 360 successor will be made (but again, still unlikely.)

You can view our live blog of Microsoft's last CES keynote below.