16 September 2009

Modern Warfare 2-Xbox 360 with 250 GB coming soon

Microsoft and Infinity Ward just announced the availability of a Modern Warfare 2-themed Xbox 360 console at a press event in Los Angeles. Included in this “limited edition” $399 package is: a 250GB Xbox 360 console, with the requisite Modern Warfare 2 markings (the so-called “Super Elite”); two wireless controllers and, a “standard edition” copy [...]

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15 September 2009

The Non-White Gamer’s Experience

A very-well writted, must-read article without rascism or stereotypes over at Kotaku about non-white gamers:
Kotaku sought out several non-white gamers, some of whom also write about their experiences, to discuss what being an African-American or Hispanic gamer means. In an American games industry dominated, marketed to and consumed mostly by white males, discussions of race [...]

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27 August 2009

Red Faction Guerrilla Multiplayer DLC coming September, 17

The second of three planned DLC packs for Red Faction: Guerrilla will add more multiplayer mayhem on September 17. The pack adds eight new maps and two new modes (Bagman, Team Bagman). Volition is aiming to release the Multiplayer Pack for PS3 and Xbox 360 at $7 (560).

A bunch of screenshot can be found [...]

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5 August 2009

New Left 4 Dead Campaign in September

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the next major downloadable content (DLC) update for its co-operative zombie thriller, Left 4 Dead (L4D), the #1 new game title on Xbox 360 and PC in 2008
Entitled “Crash Course,” [...]

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26 July 2009

More Avatars in upcoming games?

Earlier this year, production company Roger were brought in by Microsoft to create an animated short for the company’s E3 press conference, focusing on avatars. It was, apparently due to “time restraints”, never shown.
The clip shows avatars freed from their dashboard confines, and parading around doing all kinds of things, from hanging out to playing [...]

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25 July 2009

The Force Unleashed expands with new DLC

LucasArts announced at today’s Star Wars Spectacular panel new downloadable content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed that will take players to Tattooine, meeting characters like Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi. It also revealed a new Ultimate Sith Edition re-release.

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5 July 2009

Red Faction: Guerrilla getting three DLC packs

If your revolutionary Martian escapades are drawing to a close, don’t fret — it looks like there’s plenty more Red Faction: Guerrilla content coming out in the next few months. THQ just announced three new DLC packs for the game — the first of which, titled Demons of the Badlands, will land on XBLM and [...]

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25 June 2009

Serious Sam HD coming to Xbox Live this summer

Eurogamer states that Serious Sam HD will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in Summer 2009. Price will be 1200 Microsoft Points. Fuck Yeah!

Get out your mothballed Santa Claus costume and prepare for some serious multiplayer-fragging! Sam has always been the inofficial successor of the Duke. :)

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23 June 2009

What Xbox 360 Avatars can’t do

The Xbox 360’s avatars are a pretty stoic bunch, they just stand around all day doing very little. But game developers can put them into games as long as they follow Microsoft’s laundry list of what not to do.
Among the acts that avatars can’t commit are dismemberment, decapitation, excreting obscene bodily fluids and drug use. [...]

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22 June 2009

Boost your Gamerscore: The List

In the early years of gaming, playing was all about getting that high score on the arcade machine that everyone else would see and revere. Making it through 574 identical levels of Pac Man meant that your score would hang out in infamy for quite some time, giving you bragging rights and a sense of [...]

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