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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4 June 2009

Molyneux becomes European creative director at MGS

Peter Molyneux, the designer between the Fable franchise, has been given a promotion: Creative Director of European studios at Microsoft Games Studios.
Previously, Molyneux founded Bullfrog Productions where he created “god games” like Populous. After leaving Bullfrog, Molyneux created Lionhead Studios, which has churned out titles like Black & White and The Movies. That studio was [...]

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29 May 2009

Wolfenstein ships in August 2009

Activision has announced the first-person shooter Wolfenstein will hit store shelves on August 4. As is customary, Wolfenstein will put players behind the gun of American soldier BJ Blazkowicz as he battles a horde of horrific monsters (also known as Nazis) as well as actual supernatural beasts.

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27 May 2009

CoD4 reaches 13 million players on Xbox Live

With the release of the recent full-length trailer for Modern Warfare 2, the gaming populous’ attention has been turned away from the original Modern Warfare (considering the game’s getting a follow-up, we think its Modern-ness could be disputed by this point, but we digress). However, Infinity Ward community commissar Robert Bowling (a.k.a. fourzerotwo) recently stopped [...]

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