Software developer Novell on Monday demonstrated new technology that should bring some Xbox 360 games to iPhone and Android users. MonoTouch, which recognizes the XNA 4.0 kit needed for the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, will have the ability to convert the Microsoft libraries to both the Apple and Google platforms. Microsoft itself is not making such efforts, instead only bringing its games to …

On March 30 the Xbox 360 will be receiving the first map pack for Modern Warfare 2 as a timed exclusive. Gamers will receive three new maps, as well as two reworked maps from Call of Duty 4 . The price for all this gaming? 1,200 Microsoft points, or $15. Here is the map list, as reported by Destructoid : New maps: “Bailout,” a multi-level apartment complex “Storm,” an open industrial park …

March 12 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. ’s Xbox 360 overtook Nintendo Co. ’s Wii to become the best-selling game console in the U.S. for the first time in more than two years, helped by the introduction of the “BioShock 2” shooting title.