Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Battlefield 1943, Battlestations: Pacific, BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Castle Crashers, Fallout 3, Forza Motorsport, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Geometry Wars, Grand Theft Auto IV, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Left 4 Dead, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, Madden NFL, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Peggle, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV, Xbox Live | No Comments »
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| “We want to thank all of you who submitted entries for our Excel challenge. We had great entries that were well designed using Excel 2010 features, VBA and the user interface. Many of you are as passionate about Excel as we are and we thank you for…” |
| “Some people think football is a matter of life and death…I can assure them it is much more serious than that. Bill Shankley, ‘The Sunday Times’ (London) , October 4, 1981 + = + There is just over a month to the…” |
| “ Content: Castlevania Harmony of Despair Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: (ONLINE INTERACTIONS NOT RATED BY THE ESRB) Step into the shadows of the hell house:…” |
| “ Here is a look at LIVE activity for the last week: Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s ) 1 Modern Warfare 2 2 Halo 3 …” |
| “ Here is a list of upcoming content scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace * Please see the blog post I’ll make for each of these for pricing and/or regional availability. Summer of Arcade continues this week…” |
| “ Xbox LIVE Gold members can now save 40% on Forza 3 Car and track packs: AutoWeek Car Show Pack , 240 Microsoft Points Hot Holidays Car Pack , 240 Microsoft Points Jalopnik Car Pack , 240…” |
| “ Host: Larry Hryb , Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson ( Xbox LIVE ) ( Twitter ) Co-host : e ( Xbox LIVE ) ( Twitter ) Co-host : lollip0p ( Xbox LIVE ) ( Twitter ) Co-Host: Stepto ( Xbox LIVE ) (…” |
| “ Content: Summer Challenge Price: Free Availability: Xbox LIVE regions in Europe Dash Text: Summer Challenge – Athletics Tournament offers fun for all sports enthusiasts and the entire family. Immerse…” |
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“ As announced last week , you now have a chance to decide the fate of Gears of War 3 character Clayton Carmine. Head over to the Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace and register your vote by purchasing your choice of shirts: …” |
| “ Content: Hydro Thunder Hurricane Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: (ONLINE INTERACTIONS NOT RATED BY THE ESRB) This all-new sequel to the legendary arcade hit…” |
| “ Content: Madden NFL 11 demo Price: Free Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: Madden NFL 11 is SIMPLER. QUICKER. DEEPER. Experience an all-new streamlined playcall system, FULL games in HALF…” |
| “ Content: LOTR: Conquest Price: Check pricing in your region Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions except Japan Dash Text: This game supports English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Download the…” |
| “ Content: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Demo Price: Free Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions except Japan Dash Text: Play Kane & Lynch 2, a raw and brutal crime shooter that redefines the way you experience…” |
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“ Today at Comic Con in San Diego, we announced the Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo: Reach bundle which will be available September 14th when Halo: Reach launches . Designed by Bungie, the Xbox 360 Limited Edition…” |
| “ Content: LIMBO Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: Uncertain of his Sister's Fate, a Boy enters LIMBO. There are no refunds for this item. For more…” |
Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Battlefield 1943, Battlestations: Pacific, Blue Dragon, Burnout 3: Takedown, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Castle Crashers, Counter-Strike, Doom, Doom 3, Fable, Fable II, Fallout 3, FIFA 09, Gauntlet, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero World Tour, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Juiced, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Left 4 Dead, Lost Odyssey, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, MechAssault, Ninety-Nine Nights, Ninety-Nine Nights II, Peggle, Resident Evil 5, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter IV, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Xbox Live | No Comments »
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“While the Xbox 360 isn’t exactly setting Japanese retail on fire, Microsoft Game Studios has made a valiant effort to release Japanese-style role playing games like Blue Dragon. That doesn’t look to be stopping. In a classified listing on Japanese…” |
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“Chiaki Kuriyama, best known for her role as Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill and Takako Chigusa in Battle Royale is appearing in ads for a disc-based download movie rental service for the PS3. This isn’t her first game-related ad. Back in early 2009,…” |
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“While the news has been coming for some time now, you always need to break out a confirmation to make everything official. And it’s now official: Xbox Live is on its way to mobile phones. The service will be known as “Xbox LIVE Games” (catchy!), and…” |
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“You’ve seen the most popular Xbox Live titles of 2009 in Japan. Now see the most popular Xbox Live titles worldwide. Major releases, Arcade titles, Indie games, the works. Microsoft’s Larry Hryb released this list late yesterday, showing the top 20…” |
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“Macbook Air knowledge, a late Christmas party and British Merlin magic. These are just some of the topics gaming’s Twitterati touched on. Oh yes. Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg needs a plumber. May we recommend Mario? The BBC series Merlin has…” |
Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Battlefield 1943, Battlestations: Pacific, Burnout 3: Takedown, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Castle Crashers, Commando, Counter-Strike, Doom, Doom 3, Fable, Fable II, Fallout 3, FIFA 09, Gauntlet, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Juiced, Left 4 Dead, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, MechAssault, Peggle, Resident Evil 5, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter IV, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 | No Comments »
Xbox 360 news from around the web:
| “ After a few days of number crunching, here are the most popular games on the LIVE Service for 2009 based on connectivity. Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s) 1 Halo 3 2 …” |
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, Blue Dragon, Call of Duty: World at War, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Crash: Mind over Mutant, Dynasty Warriors, F.E.A.R., F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Fable, Fable II, Far Cry 2, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Golden Axe, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Left 4 Dead, Major League Baseball 2K9, NBA 2K, NBA Live 09, NBA Live series, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Resident Evil 5, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Street Fighter IV, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Tomb Raider: Underworld, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 | No Comments »
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| “Rating: 25 Posted By: Yuyak Views: 6276 Replies: 18 Credit goes to CheapyD on CAG. I’m just copy+pasting (and edited for FW format) for the benefit of gamers on FW. All these games are used, but in my experience they’re generally in fairly good…” |
Posted: December 3rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Resident Evil 5 | No Comments »
Xbox 360 news from around the web:
| “Hi, Internet. How are you doing on this Friday? Apparently Austin is due for some snow today which may or may not cause widespread panic and terror in the city. So, okay. I know this is the game industry and we tend to be kind of bizarre, but…” |
Posted: December 3rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Resident Evil 5 | No Comments »
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“I’ve played a lot of games over the past 29 years. I’ve been wizards, warriors, soldiers, pilots, businessmen, cops, athletes and actors. One thing I’ve never been, until now, is the despotic ruler of a tinpot Caribbean island. Tropico 3 is the third…” |
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“Microsoft has announced that on December 15th, Games on Demand comes to Games for Windows Live, which is a very fancy way of saying it’s going to start digitally distributing PC games. It’s really the next natural step in Games for Windows Live…” |
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“Such are the vagaries of clean living. EA’s upcoming game, The Saboteur offers free in-game nudity via downloadable add-on — even interrupts the opening of the game to point that out — but… not in my house, not today. I have played the…” |
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“To mark the 30th anniversary of Gundam, a series of 11 titles at budget pricing will be released in Japan on December 17. Look at all those Gundam games. The games are: PSP Mobile Suit Gundam: Giren no Yabou Axis no Kyoui Gundam Battle Universe…” |
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“Is that experimental flight technology evaluation squadron Falco in your pocket, or have you not yet downloaded Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion, available today on the iTunes App Store? The People’s Republic of Leasath has launched a sneak attack…” |
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“Microsoft announced this week that, for a limited time, Canadian gamers will be able to grab a special bundle that includes a console and both of Bungie’s Halo games for the 360. In all, you get a 360 Elite, two controllers and copies of both Halo 3…” |
Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, Left 4 Dead, Microsoft XNA, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden II, The Orange Box, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade | No Comments »
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“My favorite WWII RTS is getting another round of DLC starting with the Mustan Pack today for 800 MS points. The Carrier Battles Map pack drops on the 23rd of this month for both Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live. Featuring six new units and 18 new…” |
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“Valve isn’t quite as against the idea of developing games for the PS3 as we previously thought. Speaking to Valve’s Doug Lombardi at the Left 4 Dead 2 event in London today (look out for the full interview soon), we discovered that the company is…” |
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“With just the simple image you see above, developer Polytron announced that its dimensional-shifting platformer Fez would arrive on the Xbox Live Arcade platform at some point next year. Though we’ve seen a date of 2009 in a previous trailer, the…” |
| “The PlayStation 3 version of Ninja Gaiden II, now with extra Sigma, will feature more than just a playable Ryu Hayabusa. You’ll also play as the anatomically impressive Rachel, a trashier looking Ayane, and the expectedly stacked Momiji. This is…” |
| “Nerd Herder (Dean Johnson) has a new tutorial online showing how to load a signed-in gamer’s Avatar with XNA 3.1. Dean talks about the common problems people have when loading Avatars and provides solutions to get you on your way to creating the next…” |
| “Cooking With Code is back with a new article focusing on Video Playback in XNA 3.1. Ashtat discusses video encoding with Windows Media Encoder, DRM media and common pitfalls with playing Video in XNA.” |
| “Cooking With Code is a new website dedicated to XNA. This website is run by one of the XNA developers at Microsoft so you know it is chalked full of useful information. In this article, ashtat covers the SoundEffect API changes in Game Studio 3.1 to…” |
| “Sam Stokes has a new article online focusing on rendering text in XNA 3.1. This is a very short but to the point article and shows just how easy it is to render text using a given font in XNA 3.1.” |
Posted: May 18th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, FIFA 09, Madden NFL | No Comments »
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“Wii Fit has been selling extremely well, taking the top spot for the seventh week in a row, Chart-Track data shows. In fact, a record of nine weeks in a row was set by Who Wants to be a Millionaire (no platforms mentioned), and Nintendo’s Balance…” |
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“Wii owners looking for this year’s Madden title to return to the roots of the franchise might be a bit disappointed. Though the team at EA Sports has promised that the game will “stay true to our core,” the game itself will be an…” |
| “Rating: 0 Posted By: FoxMcCloud85 Views: 1446 Replies: 2 So I was just in Best Buy today (New York) and saw a rack of 50% off titles like turok ($10) Genji Days of the Blade ($25) and others. Definitely not as hot as the $10 game deal a few weeks…” |
Posted: May 18th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Xbox Live | No Comments »
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“Get psyched for the new week with a ton of awesome deals, such as cheap games, mid-sized HDTVs, laptops, and of course, hobomodos—including 10,000 frequent flier miles from United Airlines. Computer and Peripherals: • Dell Core 2 Quad…” |
| “Downloading this gamer picture registers US residents in the Battlestations: Pacific Xbox LIVE Play & Win Sweepstakes. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States or DC 18+. Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 AM ET on May 22…” |
| “Following rumors, Grand Theft Auto publisher uses Twitter to tease looming news about the 360-exclusive sequel to The Lost and Damned.” |
Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: Battlestations: Pacific, Bejeweled, Geometry Wars, Peggle, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade, Zuma | No Comments »
Xbox 360 news from around the web:
| “Just one day from the release of Battlestations: Pacific, the game’s publisher Eidos has released the sea battle-infused launch trailer. We’re not sure how much of the trailer is actual gameplay versus the game playing out, but rest assured you can…” |
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“The former general manager of Xbox Live Arcade and v.p. at Peggle studio PopCap is going to Blizzard. Let the development speculation begin. Kotaku has learned that Greg Canessa, the man who ran Xbox Live Arcade at the Xbox 360’s launch for Microsoft…” |
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“Fanboys and girls, thanks to an unfortunate (and very annoying) audio glitch, the Xbox 360 Fancast will be delayed a bit this week. The show will actually have to be re-recorded, so expect it to be up by Wednesday. Apologies all around. We promise to…” |
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