The Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set is now available in stores.

Core sets represent the ‘base cards’ for Magic: The Gathering (M:TG) for the coming year. They’re officially tournament legal but tournament players usually don’t buy many core cards.

In the coming months these cards will quickly be replaced in tournament decks by often more powerful and more interesting cards from upcoming expansions.

Perfect World Entertainment, creator of the Perfect World MMORPG, has announced the roll out of a new social networking platform called CORE Connect.

The new platform’s goal is to connect players from across the vast Perfect World gaming world together with a set of new set social networking tools.

C.O.R.E.‘s a tad delayed. Well, more than a tad. It was originally supposed to come out in 2008, but fell victim to multiple delays. Finally, NoWay Studio and Graffiti Entertainment have released this highly anticipated first person shooter. Unfortunately, it isn’t exactly what everyone expected. That isn’t to say it’s bad, but it’s the sort of game only a select group of gamers will enjoy and appreciate.

In 2028, a meteor landed on Earth in the Mojave Desert. The government built a huge facility, called C.O.R.E. around it. For 20 years, the meteor was studied in there, as its presense is doing strange things to those around it. It is now 2048, and something has gone horribly wrong at C.O.R.E. The workers and researchers stationed there aren’t responding, so an elite unit has been sent in to investigate. Unfortunately, upon reaching the station, you are separated from your fellow agents and have to fend for yourself…

The land of the stiff upper lipped has officially received its long-awaited Xbox 360 price cut. Microsoft today announced that the Xbox 360 would be cheaper, effective August 24, 2007, to coincide with the launch of the title Bioshock.

Both the Core and Premium versions will be cheaper at £179.99 and £249.99 respectively, making the Core 360′s price identical to the Wii’s. This should appease the Brit gamers who were sobbing about not getting a 360 price-cut along with the US. There is more in store for them as the Xbox Elite will also launch on Friday, August 24, 2007, at a lower than expected price point of £299.99.

Microsoft hopes to woo more mainstream and first-time gamers with…

If you have been putting-off a next-gen console purchase, then this is the right time for you to lighten your wallet. Earlier, Sony had dropped the prices of the 60 GB PS3 and now Microsoft has followed suit with lowered prices going into effect today (August 8, 2007).

A Premium Xbox 360 will now cost $349.99, which is $50 less than its previous price while the core version will be $20 cheaper and will retail at $279.99. Even the Elite Xbox 360′s price has been cut and now seems more enticing at …