Angry Birds, somewhat of a phenomenon of mobile gaming where you fling birds at structures that house hiding pigs, is headed out of the mobile market and toward the console market. Developer Rovio is planning on releasing Angry Birds for the PlayStation Network, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

According to Kotaku reader Ken, he got his hands on the upcoming Kinectimals before its launch, and when he loaded it into his Xbox 360, the poor console became locked out of Xbox Live through a series of silly and unfortunate events. Read past the jump for the details.

Ubisoft’s Beyond Good & Evil, one of the finest achievements in gaming history that no one bought, is getting another chance to reach the gaming masses by hopping on the recent HD remake bandwagon and getting a release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sometime next year.

Beyond Good & Evil, brainchild of Michael Ancel of Rayman fame, follows reporter Jade as she unravels an alien and semi-government conspiracy. The game, often referred to as “Zelda for adults,” essentially took everything that was good about the common gameplay amongst The Legend of Zelda francise, dispensed with everything gamers didn’t like about Zelda, painted it with a cartoony-yet-gloomy art style, and added an intricate plot with superb writing, stellar music and a hefty dose of brilliant comedy.

Despite being one of the finest achievements in gaming history, Beyond Good & Evil, like various other unfortunate critically-acclaimed games, didn’t sell well, being slashed in price by 80% shortly after it was released in 2003.

Adding fuel to the coming fire between Sony’s PlayStation Move and Microsoft’s Kinect, Sony launched an amusing satirical website, Yaybuttons.com, in support of buttons, something Kinect doesn’t have.

The site is actually quite funny, complete with an appearance by Kevin Butler, a fictional character Sony has been using as the PlayStation brand’s mascot for a while now, most notably in the “It Only Does Everything” ad campaign.

Starting on November 9th, a newly redesigned Xbox 360 controller will be available in the US for $64.99.

The controller sports a number of new features, most importantly, the controller’s much-maligned D-Pad has been replaced by a transformer. Simply turn the circular bed the D-Pad rests in, and the directional button raises from the bed, providing a button much easier to deal with. Among other prominent new features, the analog sticks have been redesigned to be concave and the face buttons have lost their color, now in differing shades of grey to match the new sleek silver matte.

The price of Microsoft’s Kinect has been officially confirmed; it’ll cost $150, as had been previously gleaned from GameStop and Amazon price leaks, Internet rumors, and the divinations foretold by the livers of sacrificed sheep. It will, however, include a bundled game, Kinect Adventures, a fact which had been in some dispute.

You’ll also be able to buy a $300 package containing the Kinect, Kinect Adventures, and the XBox 360 Arcade model, which doesn’t have a hard drive but has 4 gigs of internal memory; again, no surprises there. Kinect games will retail for $49.99 each.

The Kinect hits stores on November 4th. Too expensive?

Thus ends an era in multiplayer gaming: 1 vs. 100, the beloved XBox Live trivia game in which more than 100,000 players routinely participated at once, has been canceled by Microsoft.

The Red Ring of Death is aptly named. After all, it’s red, it’s a ring, and it signals the death of your console. But what name will be devised for the new system? It’s a red dot that appears in the center of the power button, but it does not tell of a death already suffered. It is a warning of one to come. One that, supposedly, the machine will then take measures to prevent.

When the red dot flashes, the console is just beginning to heat up a bit more than seems safe. Apparently being allegedly quiet as a whisper doesn’t mean they found a better, quieter fan. Anyway, the console will then present the below message informing you that you’d best turn off your console or else it will die forever. And by informing, I may mean mandating, because there doesn’t appear to be any alternative action.

Earlier today, Microsoft held its much-anticipated gaming press conference at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. The company titillated its audience with upcoming chapters in beloved game franchises, an all-new Xbox 360, and of course the much talked about Project Natal Kinect. So what can we expect from Microsoft in the upcoming quarter? Details below the jump.

The long-rumored potential deal between ESPN and Microsoft’s XBox 360 to stream sporting events on the console is official.

The deal will bring 3500 sporting events to the XBox (with most in HD), accessible live or on demand. The feature offers extras like instant fan polling and trivia questions during games if desired. Plus, if you’re an XBox Live gold subscriber (about $50/year), you’ll get this feature at no additional cost.

Read more at SportsGrid.