Happy Tree Friends False Alarm Review
(via Gamespot) -- Happy Tree Friends False Alarm is clunky, unimaginative, and more like a false start than a fun game.

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6 months ago 

XBLA Wednesday: Soul Calibur
(via 1Up) -- Update of Dreamcast fighter joins Wits & Wagers add-on this week.

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6 months ago 

Samsung releasing Xbox 360 TV?
(via Xboxer) - Hmm. So, those rumours about Microsoft sanctioning 3rd Party Xbox consoles? The game changing ones? Yeah, them. Well, things just took a turn for the crudely photoshopped. Over at MAXCONSOLE, they have taken delivery of a top-quality rumour - Korean electronics giant Samsung are to release a flatscreen TV with integrated Xbox 360.

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6 months ago 

Rock Band 2 coming in September
(via Xboxer) - All right, give us a chance! Rock Band has only just hit the stage over here in the UK and already Harmonix are slinging around press releases about the sequel. This coming September will see the imaginatively titled Rock Band 2 launching in the USA. Unlike certain other music-games we could mention, the sequel wont leave newcomers to original out in the cold - Harmonix have compared that the game will compatible with both the original set of instruments and all existing DLC.

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6 months ago 

Rumor busted: My GamerPad is a big fat phony
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Xbox Live Hey, remember that rumor that Microsoft was developing a service called My GamerPad that was an awful lot like Sony's (still unfinished) Home service on the PS3? You can stick a fork in that rumor. It's done. DCEmu reports that the supposed image from My GamerPad (top left) is nothing more than a Photoshopped version of an image taken from deviantART user saffiq.

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6 months ago 

Quantum of Solace First-Look
(via IGN) -- Quantum of Solace (X360)Activision puts James Bond on the Call of Duty 4 engine.

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6 months ago 

XBLA Wednesdays Soulcalibur Wits & Wagers DLC
(via Team Xbox) -- This Wednesday, Soulcalibur returns to the next generation! Plus Wits & Wagers gets 280 new questions with new downloadable content.

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6 months ago 

Soul Calibur Slashes Arcade This Wednesday
(via Game Stooge) - Major Nelson has announced that this week’s Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday will feature just one release: the Arcade adaptation of the original Soul Calibur. Now, despite the name, it’s not the first Soul Calibur game, as any veteran will tell you. The first game in the series was Soul Edge.

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6 months ago 

My itchy trigger finger hates the R1 button
(via Sarcastic Gamer) - What is in a trigger? For us arm-chair generals, this usually means our favorite R1 or R trigger buttons on the PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers. In the so-called console war, fanboys flame each other over specs, exclusive games and media medium… But what about the controllers? Specifically, what about the buttons that [.

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6 months ago 

This week on Arcade: SOULCALIBUR and Wits & Wagers DLC
(via Major Nelson) -- SOULCALIBUR will be available for 800 points, and a DLC for Wits & Wagers (with 280 new questions) will be available for 320 points.  Both will be available on Marketplace this Wednesday, July 2nd.

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6 months ago 

FIFA Soccer 09 First Look
(via Gamespot) -- We step onto the pitch with EA's latest soccer offering.

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6 months ago 

Report: 'major retailer' confirms Xbox 360 price cut
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 With two separate retail circulars (Kmart and Radio Shack) claiming a "new low price" of $299.99 for the Xbox 360, and a major press conference scheduled for two weeks from today, there's an awful lot of smoke billowing around this rumor. Now you can add an anonymous retail report from The Hollywood Reporter to that list.

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6 months ago 

Too Human campaign over just as it starts
(via Arts Technica) -- Early reports are claiming that the story mode of the upcoming RPG epic Too Human lasts only ten hours, setting up the trilogy.

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6 months ago 

Rock Band 2 Is Set For September
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6 months ago 

T3CH XBMC 2008-06-30 SVN rev13851
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6 months ago 

Rock Band on the road
(via Xbox Users Group) -- Harmonix and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, have turned up the heat on this summer’s concert season by putting Rock Band on the road. The best-selling video game is going mobile and bringing music to the masses – hitting State Fairs across the country and some of...

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6 months ago 

This Wednesday: Soulcalibur still burns on XBLA
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting OK, so not so much a surprise on the XBLA front this week, since we brought you the rumor last week that Soulcalibur would likely be released soon on the service. (It'll be there this Wednesday for 800 points ). But hey, Schizoid wasn't released like we thought it would be, so that's kind of a surprise, right? Not like, a great one, but a surprise all the same.

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6 months ago 

How Permanent Is My Residency In Japan? Night Note
(via Kotaku) - To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Ahoy! Welcome back from you boating adventure. Today, I went to the immigration office to see if I got permanent residence. The way it works here (and other countries, too, I guess) is that you typically get a one-year or a three-year visa from your employer, who sponsors your visa.

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6 months ago 

PS3 2.40: Available July 2 ie Wednesday 2.40
(via Kotaku) - Wonder about firmware release dates no more, PS3 owners. The console's 2.40 update - which will bring trophy support, in-game XMB access and limited custom soundtracks - will be out this Wednesday, July 2. That date comes straight from Sony. We suggest you spend those two days wisely.

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6 months ago 

Walkthrough Part 1: the XMB
(via LazyGamer) - The official PlayStation blog has posted a video walk through of the upcoming 2.40 firmware update, and they have answered and demonstrated most of the questions that have been floating round. In short 2.40 will add an ingame XMB, ingame custom soundtracks, integrated messaging and universal friends list.

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6 months ago 

SOULCALIBUR and Wits and Wagers DLC on XBLA this Wednesday
(via Gamerscore Blog) - Prepare for battle as the highest rated console fighter of all time, SOULCALIBUR, comes to XBLA this Wednesday. Play as one of 19 characters including Kilik, Ivy, Siegfried, Mitsurugi, Nightmare and more. The game has been fully remastered with high definition graphics and HDTV support.

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6 months ago 

Review: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
(via Eurogamer) -- You're a malfunctioning 30-million-dollar weapon.

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6 months ago 

RockBand 2 Arriving First to 360
(via N4G.com) -- Harmonix representative has stated RockBand 2 will debut first on 360 and "other consoles" later in the year.

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6 months ago 

Report: Harmonix tunes The Who DLC
(via Gamespot) -- In lieu of Who's Next, Rock Band maestro tells the AP 12-song best-of compilation from West London legends will hit PS3, 360 July 15.

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6 months ago 

Article: X360 vs. PS3 Face-Off: Round 12
(via Eurogamer) -- Quake Wars, GRID, LEGO Indy Jones, Overlord, Euro 2008.

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6 months ago 

Reviews: The Bourne Conspiracy
(via OXM) -- Warning: may stimulate bad memories leading to homicidal thoughts. Tom Clancy's probably not an author who sweats very much, we'd imagine - hard to ruffle, like a well-tucked sheet on a submariner's bunk.

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6 months ago 

Xbox 360 price cut shows up in Radio Shack ad
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 The beans may already have been spilled by Kmart, but now another store has briefly emerged from retail obsolescence to spread the legend of the $50 Xbox 360 price cut. A Radio Shack employee recently mailed us the evidence, some scans of what they claim is an upcoming ad set to take effect on July 13 (same as the Kmart ad).

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6 months ago 

Rock Band 2 Coming To Xbox 360 In September
(via Gamasutra) - Developer Harmonix has announced that the second game in its Rock Band series will be released in September as a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360, with new features and full compatibility with all currently released downloadable content. Consumer website IGN has released the first details on the new game, with lead designer Dan Teasdale confirming to the site that the game will retain the ability to use all songs currently downloadable for the original .

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6 months ago 

MTV, EA reunite on Rock Band 2
(via Gamespot) -- Publishers getting the band back together exclusively for Xbox 360 in September, arrives on other platforms later in the year.

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6 months ago 

Major Retailer Confirms 360 Price-Cut
(via N4G.com) - Microsoft will cut the price of its most popular Xbox 360 model, the 20GB Pro, by $50 to $299 in the coming weeks, game industry sources have confirmed. Microsoft would not comment, but a major retailer, which requested anonymity, said the price move will come before the major video game trade show, E3, which runs July 15-17 in Los Angeles.

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6 months ago