Bungie: New H3 achievements part of title update
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo 3 As part of their Weekly Update, Bungie has finally addressed the Halo 3 achievements rumor that sprung up during PAX, confirming that 10 new achievements worth an additional 250 Gamerscore will be added to Halo 3 as part of the (newly delayed) September 25th title update.

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3 months ago 

Metacritic's First Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Reviews: Ouch Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
(via Game Radar) -- Metacritic has four scores up and the verdict isn't pretty.

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3 months ago 

Warhammer 40k action game leaked
(via CVG) -- Space Marine appears in online video - and looks like Gears. Someone at THQ is getting bollocked this morning: a full, developer-commentated video of a new Gears-like Warhammer 40k action game, called Space Marine, has leaked all over the internet.

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3 months ago 

SOCOM Pre-Order Beta is Go
(via GiantBomb) - Battlefield fashion! What I am doing right now: Typing on a laptop.What I wish I was doing right now: Sitting at home with no shoes on, playing the SOCOM: Confrontation pre-order beta.Yes, that's right, people. If you pre-ordered a copy of SOCOM: Confrontation from GameStop and properly registered the pre-order code you received via e-mail on Sony's page for the beta, you should be receiving your download code sometime today via e-mail.

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3 months ago 

EA Mercenaries Hijack Petrol Station Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
(via Game Radar) - 'Mercenaries' from Electronic Arts are hijacking a London petrol station this morning and giving away £20,000 of FREE petrol to customers. The entire forecourt of Last Stop Ltd near Finsbury Park, North London will be completely transformed into that of a military style bunker, with jeeps, oil barrels, sandbag walls, and fully costumed actors on hand to pump the petrol for the customers.

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3 months ago 

Meet Owlboy. He Looks Great. Owlboy
(via Kotaku) - This is Owlboy. It's a game from D-pad Studio. This is their description of the game: Owl Boy is a 2D platforming adventure for the Xbox 360 and Windows PCs. Go with Otus on a free flying quest into the clouds and discover the secrets of the floating islands while preserving the Owls' integrity.

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3 months ago 

NBA 2K9 Video
(via Game Spy) -- NBA 2K9 (X360)Garnett at his finest.

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3 months ago 

GameStop’s National Champion for NCAA Football ’09 Tournamen
(via Squad XP) - More Than 50,000 Players Competed Throughout the Competition Esque Eady, was named the Grand Prize winner of the NCAA Football ‘09 Tournament sponsored by GameStop, Corp. (NYSE:GME), the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer. Eady received the Grand Prize of $5,000 for winning the tournament.

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3 months ago 

Fuel given away free in computer game promotion Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
(via Game Radar) - Drivers gained some respite from the recent hikes in fuel prices after a garage decided to give away free petrol. As part of a promotion for a new computer game, £20,000-worth of fuel was being given away free of charge on Friday. Electronic Arts took over the Last Stop garage in Finsbury Park, north London, to promote the game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

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3 months ago 

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Gameplay Marathon
(via Gamespot) -- We sit down to show you a bit of the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii versions of The Force Unleashed and discussed their differences.

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3 months ago 

Photos of the Mercenaries petrol giveaway Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
(via Game Radar) -- With rising petrol prices running a car is fast becoming as hard as completing Halo 3 on Legendary. Thankfully, the kind folks at EA realise your problems, and, to celebrate today's release of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, are giving away £20,000 of petrol ...

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3 months ago 

No curse, but Madden 09 has bugs
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports With the NFL regular season just barely underway, there's plenty of time for the Madden Curse to sink its hooks into Mr. Favre's vulnerable ankle, but for now, EA is busy squashing a host of bugs that have crawled out of the bowels of latest edition of Madden.

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3 months ago 

X3F Week in Review: August 29, 2008 - September 4, 2008
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360 This week pretty much rounds out our PAX 2008 coverage. We've got interviews with The lead artist and writer behind Gears of War 2 as well as an interview with the creator of Schizoid. Let's not forget our hands-on look at Pirates vs.

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3 months ago 

Second N Expansion making it's way to XBLA next week
(via XBLArcade) - In exciting news for those of you who not only made it through the "more than 400 levels" of the original as well as the 200 from the first expansion, next Wednesday will bring you even more Ninja greatness. Word out of the developers blog/site is that on September 10th, you'll be able to grab the new expansion on the Marketplace.

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3 months ago 

Dead Space Banned in Germany, Japan and China Dead Space
(via Game Radar) - In a posting on the official Dead Space Web site, EA community manager Ben Swanson announced that the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC game "will be banned in Germany, China, and Japan." Swanson did not say what indications the team has received to suggest the imminent banning of the sci-fi survival horror game.

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3 months ago 

A History of the Xbox Red Ring of Death Fiasco
(via Slashdot) - VentureBeat has a lengthy story about the situation surrounding the Xbox 360's "Red Ring of Death." It starts with the developmental phases for the 360, looks at the marketing decisions that drove Microsoft to aim for a release ahead of the PS3, and talks with sources and engineers within Microsoft about what could have been done to prevent the problems.

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3 months ago 

Gin Rummy hint video
(via XBLArcade) - The folks over at Sierra Online where kind enough to pass along the following video showing some hints on how to win at Gin Rummy: While the video will probably help out a few folks, am I the only one who learned all I needed to know about Gin Rummy from playing it with my grandparents when I

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3 months ago 

The History Of The Defective Xbox 360 Microsoft
(via Kotaku) - How, exactly, did Microsoft wind up shipping a notoriously defective Xbox 360, resulting in thousands upon thousands of gamers burning through temporarily working consoles and over a billion dollars in warranty expenses? That's largely answered in Venture Beat's massive feature on the birthing pains of the console, one designed under the gun and hastily revised with a software "ship and patch" philosophy.

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3 months ago 

Free iTunes Downloads From Blizzard
(via Squad XP) - Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that a wide selection of music from its popular games has been added to the iTunes store. Much of this music was originally available only in collector’s editions of the games, or at special events such as the company’s BlizzCon® gaming convention.

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3 months ago 

News: Mercenaries 2 gets viral achievement
(via OXM) -- Play with the developers or someone who has played with them, get the achievement. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames will contain a viral achievement called 'Everybody Wants Some!'

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3 months ago 

Microsoft Wants To Share New 'Halo' News 'Sooner Than Later'
(via N4G.com) - It's been more than a month since Microsoft slipped to us that Bungie's secret project is a new "Halo." Bungie hyped an E3 reveal, but Microsoft canceled those plans. Microsoft promised news later this year, but that hasn't materialized yet. During the 1UP Yours panel at PAX, an audience member asked Bungie writer Luke Smith about the still-unannounced game.

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3 months ago 

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Gets Steamed
(via Gaming Today) - The latest MMO to arrive on Steam is Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. It will be available for an additional 10% off for one week until Sept 11. This means that instead of paying the usual $59.99 for it, you are only paying $53.99 - and after your first month subscription fees will start applying.

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3 months ago 

Free petrol stunt Mercenaries 2 promotion causes chaos Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
(via Game Radar) - Chris Irvine of Telegraph writes: "A petrol station which gave away free fuel has been temporarily shut down after motorists flocking to its pumps caused traffic chaos. Electronic Arts were giving away £20,000 worth of fuel at the station on Stapleton Hall Road, near Finsbury Park, north London, as part of a promotion for a new video game.

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3 months ago 

'Ultimate proof' oracle regrets trading in Xbox 360
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Since CNBC analyst Jane Wells granted us poor peons a glimpse into "the ultimate proof Sony is winning" two months ago, we at Joystiq have been eagerly awaiting another chance to hear from her son, the twelve-year-old oracle who sealed Microsoft's fate by trading his Xbox 360 for a PS3.

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3 months ago 

Brothers in Arms: HH - Realism Documentary HD
(via Game Trailers) -- More real, more brutal. War isn't glorious.

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3 months ago 

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
(via Game Spy) -- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (X360)LucasArts' nearly-here 3D action romp is looking Force-tastic.

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3 months ago 

New Baddies Revealed in Gears of War 2 Screenshots
(via Gaming Today) - We’ve seen quite a bit from Epic about Gears of War 2’s new weapons, levels, story, and such, but we haven’t seen all that much in the way of really different enemies. Now that’s changed with this new batch of screenshots that show off a few of the new baddies that you’ll be chainsawing your way through in November.

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3 months ago 

King of Fighters '98 coming to XBLA
(via XBLArcade) - From Siliconera "The Tokyo Game Show 2008 game list is up and it’s leaking bits of information. One revelation is The King of Fighters ‘98 Ultimate Match will be released as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game sometime in the future. (See page seven.) SNK Playmore just packaged The King of Fighters ‘98 Ultimate Match as a retail PlayStation 2 game in Japan in June.

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3 months ago 

Review of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
(via GiantBomb) - Platform: (X360) 3 out of 5 From the Venezuela Tourism Board brochure. The original Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction was a pleasant surprise for me. It managed to take the GTA open-world format to a tongue-in-cheek, ripped-from-the-headlines military theater that was essentially an international buffet of stuff to blow up.

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3 months ago 

Magic: The Gathering DotP Hands-On
(via Ugo) -- The CCG makes a jump to XBLA, complete with obsessive collecting action!

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3 months ago