Need for Speed Undercover Review X360
(via xbox.about.com) -- Need for Speed goes back to its roots with Undercover after last yearÂ’s ProStreet experiment failed pretty miserably. Undercover brings back the police chases, open world city, and arcade-style gameplay...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2008
(via Yahoo Games) -- Whether your loved ones have been naughty or nice, our exhaustive guide will help you pick out the perfect gamer gifts.
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Tabula Rasa Lays Down Arms in 2009
(via Gaming Today) - Tabula Rasa is preparing to surrender Spring 2009. NCsoft has announced that it will be shutting down live servers February 28th. The game will go free to play January 10th, however it appears that gamers will still have to pay December’s dues. Players can look forward to special in-game events as sort of a last hurrah.
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NXE creating HDMI headaches for UK Xbox 360 owners?
(via Engadget) - The path to Netflix-enhanced glory hasn't been entirely trouble free for everyone, this time it's posters on AVForum noticing a distinct lack of audio on Xbox 360s connected to their HDTV by HDMI. So far suggested solutions for the afflicted include plugging in the hard drive while the system is on, or waiting several minutes before switching the monitor to HDMI, and repeating them every time the system is started.
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GTA IV DLC: Names, Dates and Juicy Details
(via Xboxic) - The first batch of GTA IV Downloadable Content is coming. Soon. In an interview with USA Today, Vice President in charge of Creative Development for Rockstar Games Dan Houser gave a truckload of details on the long anticipated XBOX 360 exclusive DLC. This episode (as Rockstar is calling it) is titled The [.
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Prince of Persia Goes Gold
(via Xbox Solutions) - Ubisoft sent word that Prince of Persia has gone gold and has a ship date of December 2nd. They also announced that gamers who pre-order the game will receive a free upgrade to the limited edition. Not a bad deal for the holidays the limited edition comes with the following items.
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Five things you didn't know about New Xbox Experience
(via N4G.com) - By now, most Xbox 360 owners have probably had the chance to spend time tinkering with the New Xbox Experience update. It's a radical reimagining of the console's interface and has added a load of new features, including the oft-debated Avatars. But if you've only spent time customising your new character and ripping Gears of War 2 to the hard drive, then you might have missed some of the other less well-know features.
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Far Cry 2 DLC Before November’s End
(via Loot Ninja) - If you are still rocking Far Cry 2 on your Xbox 360 or PS3 we have news for you.  Far Cry 2 will be receiving DLC titled Fortune’s Pack that will bring new weapons and vehicles to both single and multiplayer elements of the game along with new multiplayer maps.  The Fortune’s Pack should be [.
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Preview Premium NXE Themes Before You Buy Them
(via N4G.com) -- SCRAWL: "It's not like it's official or anything, but the community at NeoGAF have gathered together and posted screenshots of the currently released premium themes for the New Xbox Experience. The theme above is (obviously) the Halo Wars premium theme. It looks pretty great."
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New Xbox Experience Causing HDMI Sound Loss Issues
(via Xbox Scene) - From gizmodo.com (http://gizmodo.com/5096014/new-xbox-experience-causing-hdmi-lost-sound-problems-some-users-say ): According to a long thread at the AVForums, several Xbox 360 users are losing all sound after upgrading to the New Xbox Experience. Fortunately, there seems to be a fix: * Turn off the Xbox 360.
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Social Games Spotlight
(via Ugo) -- Friends coming over for some gaming? We've got you covered.
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First 'Paid' Avatar Items Appear on Xbox Live Marketplace
(via 1Up) - A few days ago, Xbox Live product unit manager Jerry Johnson said Microsoft would be "continually releasing and unlocking clothes for the next six months" for the new Xbox 360 Avatars and that they would be "coming out in theme packs." At the time, we didn't know what he was talking about, but were relieved we wouldn't have to pay Microsoft points for individual items.
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LIPS DLC Hits Marketplace Today
(via Xbox Solutions) - Microsoft sent word that there are new songs available to download for the game LIPS. Each song this week is 160 Microsoft points. They also sent next week’s list please keep in mind that the prices will vary from song to song. When you download a song you need to put in the game disc to see the content.
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Far Cry 2 'Fortune's Pack' adds new vehicles, weapons, maps
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters Ubisoft has revealed a new batch of downloadable content for its incredibly aggressive African safari, Far Cry 2. Due to be released "by the end of November," the Fortune's Pack bolsters the game's collection of weapons, multiplayer maps and, perhaps most importantly, fuel-guzzling transports.
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GCG's Game Design Challenge: Achievement and Insomnia
(via Gamasutra) - GameCareerGuide has recently posted its next Game Design Challenge: design a card game that incorporates the theme 'insomnia.' Will students and aspiring game designers figure out how to suggest 'insomnia' representatively through an abstract system? The site has also posted the top three submissions to a recently closed design challenge in which readers invented a new Xbox Achievement for an existing game.
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The Last Remnant Trailer
(via Game Stooge) -- GameTrailers has posted the exclusive trailer for The Last Remnant, the upcoming Japanese roleplaying game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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7-Eleven to sell video games year round
(via GamePro) -- Retailer Sets Sights to Become Most Convenient Destination for Hottest Video Titles
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Free Altair Skin to be Available for Prince of Persia
(via 1Up) - When you pick up Prince of Persia, registering with Ubisoft will unlock a free downloadable skin to make the Prince resemble Altair from Assassin's Creed, reports IGN. Users have to register at the Ubisoft Web site and then link that account to an Xbox 360 Gamertag or PSN screen name, to access the skin.
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NXE required to pay for itself already - MS reveals Premium Themes
(via Xboxer) - The controversial-but-dull issue of if your themes work on NXE has already been covered. They do. However, they look a bit rubbish due to being hidden behind half of the screen nowadays. Enter Premium Themes to save the day. A Premium Theme invades the blank front space, surrounding your little Avatar as in that Fable II example there, giving them something to stand on and near and making the screen look a bit more visually appealing.
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GTA IV: The Lost and Damned Revealed
(via Squad XP) - First details of the eagerly awaited downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV have emerged, with initial reports suggesting the Xbox 360 exclusive pack will shift the focus away from Niko Bellic. Revealed by USA Today, the downloadable content is titled 'Lost and Damned', and centres around the character of Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City's biker gang The Lost.
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Weapon of Choice Rocks
(via Ugo) -- We're pretty pumped about this extreme throwback on Xbox Live Community.
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MS Admits To Banjo Pre-Order Code Issues, Delayed Till Dec 3
(via Gamer Reports) -- One of the perks to pre-ordering the new Banjo game for the Xbox360, was that it included a code to download the original Banjo game from XBLA for free. Well, the codes were just not working, so MS has delayed the release of the title until December 3. Hopefully MS has fixed the issue by then.
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Eidos UK blocks Tomb Raider Underworld reviews below 8/10
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Reviews, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action Reps from the UK PR firm for Eidos have confirmed that they're asking publications not to release any reviews for Tomb Raider: Underworld below an 8/10 until Monday. The firm says they're doing so at the request of Eidos, which is trying to manage the scores for as long as it can.
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Need for Speed Undercover, Developer Game Night
(via Unscripted 360) - It’s time to burn some rubber and battle in some good old fashioned Cops & Robbers action with Need for Speed Undercover and the development team.  Today you’ll have your chance to pit your skills against the people who made the game in the Need for Speed Undercover Game with Developers action on Xbox LIVE from [.
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Xtival 08 - Microsoft's free XBL Gold access party, coming next weekend
(via Xboxer) - Microsoft is planning to party like it's 1997, with the once-popular Oasis and the Prodigy "headlining" some sort of virtual "gig" that will be happening on Xbox Live. The Xtivities kick off on Friday, November 28, and, as far as you're concerned, it's a good thing because it means tight-fisted Xbox Live Silver members will all be upgraded to FULL GOLD PLAYER STATUS for 72 hours.
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Far Cry 2 DLC Coming
(via Ugo) -- Silenced shotguns, crossbows and ATVs are being added to the African wilderness.
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First screens of GTA IV: The Lost and Damned DLC
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action Following yesterday's news in USA Today, Rockstar has officially announced the first of two DLC episodes for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, titled "The Lost and Damned." The first high-res screens of the episode are out, along with a bare minimum of new details.
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GameVideos Ranks the Top Five Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Weapons
(via 1Up) - Gears of War 2 'Top 5 Multiplayer Weapons' clipIf your kill-death ratios in Gears of War 2's multiplayer modes are looking a bit unfavorable, you might want to check out the video above. In it, the editors at GameVideos rank what they believe to be the top five most useful weapons, as well as detail their individual strengths and weaknesses.
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NXE Premium Theme Previews
(via LazyGamer) - Want a good idea of what the new premium themes for the NXE look like, then look no further. BenjaminBirdie has stated a thread on Neogaf, where you can find pics of pretty much every premium theme available right now. I still can’t believe though that there is no preview function in the NXE, as I pretty [.
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Hard Drive Install Ruins Halo 3 Performance
(via Squad XP) - For many Xbox 360 gamers, the most exciting thing about the dashboard overhaul that went through yesterday was not avatars or Netflix but rather the ability to install retail games to the console hard drive. In theory, this new feature should improve game performance by limiting the extent to which the software must query the system's DVD drive, thus shrinking load times and speeding things up overall.
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