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Games
on June 30, 2007
IGN has a preview up of Universe at War, the upcoming real-time strategy game (and the first third party Games for Windows Live title) for PC and Xbox 360 from Sega. While the preview is of the the ...
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Marketplace
on June 30, 2007
Oops! Someone at the Xbox Live Marketplace typed '800' instead of '0' when posting the new Rainbow Six Vegas Map Pack:Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Black Pack Downloadable Content...
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News
on June 30, 2007
Microsoft, eager to "move some units" in Japan, has a special deal for new Xbox 360 owners in the land of the rising sun -- Free Games! Until the end of August anyone buying a Japanese 360 g...
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Deals
on June 30, 2007
If you're planning on buying Namco Bandai's upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Eternal Sonata you might want to head to your local ebgames/Gamestop and put down a preorder -- when you pick up the game this...
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Console Wars
on June 30, 2007
While Sony insists that the PlayStation 3 packs more horsepower than the Xbox 360 there have yet to be many games that show the PS3 with a definite edge. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz the hea...
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Reviews
on June 29, 2007
Whether or not the upcoming live-action Transformers movie will delight or disappoint is yet to be decided -- but the critics seem to be united in their opinion of the licensed game: it's just abo...
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Games
on June 29, 2007
Civilization will make its grand return to game consoles in Spring 2008 with the release of Civilization Revolution -- a new entry in the classic series with gameplay specifically tuned for console ga...
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Games
on June 29, 2007
Games for Windows Live -- Microsoft's version of Xbox Live for PCs running Windows Vista -- is about to get its first third-party release in the form of Universe at War from Sega. While Microsof...
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Hardware
on June 28, 2007
1UP.com has an eye-opening article about the Xbox-woes of one man, Justin Lowe, who has had eleven 360s die on him:Justin has not had a working system for longer than a month or two. The list of probl...
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Games
on June 28, 2007
We've finally got a US release date for Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's first post-Squaresoft RPG, Blue Dragon: August 28th. While Blue Dragon didn't exactly save the Xbox 360 i...
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Games
on June 28, 2007
Earlier this month Bethesda treated us to a short look at their first entry into the Fallout series:
Light on substance, sure, but even someone like myself with little exposure to the series can te...
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Accessories
on June 26, 2007
CNET UK reports that microsoft has sold way, way too many HD-DVD player add-ons for the Xbox 360, and that the player is Microsoft's "biggest-selling" accessory for the 360:Microsoft was...
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XBLA
on June 26, 2007
Heads up, Catan Fans -- here comes another digital port of a European board game eager to suck up your Live Arcading hours. This week's Live Arcade release is Carcassone, a tile-based game in whi...
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Hardware
on June 26, 2007
Earlier this week in their email newsletter gamestop (the last place you usually go for your game news, I know) revealed a key piece of EA's Guitar-Hero-Slayer Rock Band -- their own guitar contro...
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XBLA
on June 22, 2007
Finally, an outlet for that great crunchy-and-cheesy GAME idea that you've been mapping out in your school notebooks: Unlock Xbox from Microsoft and Doritos. How does it work?
1. Submit your Dori...
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News
on June 20, 2007
Last week the rumor that Beautiful Katamari would be a 360 exclusive started making the rounds and was shortly followed by another -- that Beautiful Katamari would be a downloadable title sold on th...
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Demo
on June 20, 2007
There just aren't as many full-range space shooters as there used to be in the DOS/Windows 3.1 era so I was excited to see that Project Sylpheed was going to be taking the genre into the next-next...
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XBLA
on June 19, 2007
And now for something different: this week's Live Arcade release, Band of Bugs, is a turn-based tactical strategy game. Think Final Fantasy Tactics or Front Mission but replace the knights and gia...
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Marketplace
on June 19, 2007
The first expansion pack for Catan made its way onto the Live Marketplace last week, but it's not what you might have been expecting:Name: Catan - Generals Expansion Pack 1
Price: 200 Points
Avai...
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XBLA
on June 19, 2007
While Hudson forgot to invite me to their big Bomberman Live party I'm not so bitter that I would take it out on the game. Which, by the way, sounds totally awesome:
IGNYou run around a map, dro...
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Accessories
on June 15, 2007
The Halo 3 beta may be over but there's still plenty of ways you can show everyone on your street that you love Halo more than they do. Do they have both of the limited edition Halo 3 360 controll...
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Rumors
on June 15, 2007
While it may be true that everyone loves Katamari, Katamari might be a little more exclusive with its own affection -- according to Newsweek's N'Gai Croal the upcoming next-gen Beautiful Kat...
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XBLA
on June 12, 2007
We're used to seeing arcade oldies retooled for the Xbox Live Arcade but this week we're getting a different kind of classic: Prince of Persia. While nowadays the Prince runs around in three ...
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News
on June 12, 2007
Keep saving those pennies -- no matter what rumors you may have heard Microsoft stands firm on their position that you should buy a 360 right now, no really, I swear they aren't going to be cheape...
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News
on June 8, 2007
Sick and tired of paying Dean, their level editor, the developers of N have decided that you could probably do just as good a job and for a lot less money. And so they have devised a level-editing con...
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Previews
on June 8, 2007
CVG has a new preview of the upcoming Beautiful Katamari for the 360. While light on the details there are some new screens for you to gawk at.
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Demo
on June 8, 2007
It's not easy to impress me with a first-person shooter. For the most part I think the genre is stagnant -- I've only got so much patience for running in circles holding down the right-trigg...
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News
on June 6, 2007
It looks like 360 gamers eager to ride a chocobo to a forest filled with moogles without ponying up a monthly fee for Final Fantasy XI are still going to go unsatisfied -- IGN reveals that in a rece...
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XBLA
on June 6, 2007
Isn't there already a Pac Man title on the Live Arcade? Maybe, but that's not going to stop Namco from selling you another one -- this "Championship Edition" of the original arcade...
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XBLA
on June 5, 2007
Bomberman is about to make his Live Arcade debut -- there's a full-page advertisement in the latest issue of EGM for one "Bomberman Live" and a little Internet prodding revealed that t...
