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by Richard on November 30, 2007
It looks like Blacksite designer Harvey Smith got that PR call after all:Today, a Midway executive told ShackNews that Smith's speech at the conference was tantamount to a "public resignati...
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by Richard on November 30, 2007
There's a new downloadable song pack for Guitar Hero 2 (Yeah, the one we all sold when Guitar Hero 3 came out.) on the Live Marketplace this week. The "Indie Label Pack 2" includes three...
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by Richard on November 30, 2007
While Microsoft's boldly claimed that the Xbox 360 outsold the PlayStation 3 2-to-1 the week of the dreaded Black Friday, Sony says that it's just not true:"It's (Sony Computer Entert...
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by Richard on November 30, 2007
Microsoft revealed the full extent of the upcoming Fall Dashboard update today. In addition to previously announced features like downloadable Xbox games and light social networking functionality are ...
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by Richard on November 30, 2007
To entice you to play Bioshock one more time developer 2k Games will be putting up some free downloadable content next week. Shacknews reports:2K community manager Elizabeth Tobey tells Shacknews that...
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by Richard on November 30, 2007
There's a short blurb on the the Gamerscore blog today about the upcoming live video store for Canada and Europe:I'm also told that while the European and Canadian Video Stores announced at E3...
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Games
by Richard on November 29, 2007
Harvey Smith, a designer who worked on Blacksite: Area 51 spoke candidly with GameLife about some of the issues that led to the game's middling reviews:"This project was so fucked up,"...
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by Richard on November 29, 2007
Not content with just being a Dance Dance Revolution ripoff that you play with your fingers the developers of Boom Boom Rocket have released a patch to make BBR exactly like DDR, adding support danc...
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by Richard on November 28, 2007
Ubisoft recently announced that they're bringing a version of their classic Chessmaster series to the Live Arcade. It will include the usual Live port graphical enhancements and a few cool new fea...
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by Richard on November 28, 2007
I felt a little bad about pre-judging the new Live Arcade port of asteroids earlier this week so I decided to download the demo and give shooting space rocks The Old College Try. I can now say, with...
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by Richard on November 28, 2007
Microsoft has released a new backwards compatibility update for the Xbox 360 that adds support for 84 of your favorite old Xbox games. Games like: Greg hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd! And who...
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by Richard on November 28, 2007
Old people everywhere will be excited to hear that david bowie gets his very own song pack this week as downloadable content for Rock Band. The rest of us will be, uh, not as excited. Here's the t...
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by Richard on November 26, 2007
If you've got "Extra Guitar Hero wireless controllers" on your xxx-mas list, prepare to be disappointed:SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov 26, 2007: Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATVI) today announced...
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by Richard on November 26, 2007
Microsoft let a few more details slip about the upcoming Fall Dashboard update today. Soon you'll be able to see and compare your friend's friend lists from the dash:Microsoft is making it eve...
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by Richard on November 26, 2007
They're really digging deep now - this week's Live Arcade release is asteroids. Yes, that Asteroids:Save the earth from a deadly deluge of asteroids and re-experience the beloved arcade clas...
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Demo
by Richard on November 24, 2007
The first Blacksite demo was about six minutes long, so you'd hope they'd wise up and give us something a little meatier for the second take, right? Not so. The Blacksite Demo 2 only appears...
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by Richard on November 24, 2007
If you're that special kind of nerd that only watches subtitled anime (either because of your strange Japanophilia or because you're just tired of hearing the same four voice actors in every d...
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by Richard on November 23, 2007
There's a new demo up on the Live Marketplace today for one of The Orange Box's tasty gaming morsels, half-life 2: Episode 2. Now, I know what you're thinking - The Orange Box? That'...
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Marketplace
by Richard on November 23, 2007
Harmonix has promised new downloadable content on a weekly basis for their just-released Rock Band and apparently they included launch week in that timetable. Oh yes, there's plenty for you to s...
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by Richard on November 21, 2007
So Larry, the new guy Best Buy hired to handle videogame distribution amongst its stores, said that he totally made sure to order a bunch of copies of that rock band thing. They asked him last week, a...
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by Richard on November 21, 2007
This week's Live Arcade release is Undertow, an underwater Geometry Wars in which you control a member of a team of scuba-diving pirates and battle for control of (aptly named) control points. Wh...
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by Richard on November 19, 2007
If you're into weird, Japanese RPGs with kids who shoot themselves in the head to summon monsters or fourth-wall-breaking pixelated professors you've probably caught yourself playing a game or...
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by Richard on November 18, 2007
Sick of playing Halo 2 with the other Xbox 360-less losers? Planning on upgrading to a 360 and Halo 3 sometime in the next month? Well, you can skip the "buying Halo 3" part, sucka! Microso...
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by Richard on November 18, 2007
Gamespot scored some choice details regarding the downloadable content for the upcoming Rock Band - details like price and release dates. Details you'll find in a blockquote right here:Rock Band...
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XBLA
by Richard on November 15, 2007
This week's Live Arcade releases are completely forgettable and Microsoft feels so bad about that that they're giving away a good (dare I say, great?) game for free: Carcassone. Okay, so may...
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by Richard on November 13, 2007
Gamasutra reports that the Fall Dashboard update will land December 4th and bring a surprise or two with it:
More interestingly, the company has announced that with its latest Xbox Live update launchi...
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by Richard on November 12, 2007
November 22 is the date on which the Live Arcade enters into the Terrible Twos and what better way to celebrate than with some cake and a Geometry Wars sequel?An inside source whom I hold very highly ...
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by Richard on November 10, 2007
So, you're a 57 year old woman working in the electronics section at the local k-mart. A big box of videogames comes in the mail. You're going to put them on the shelf, right? "Do Not Sel...
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by Richard on November 8, 2007
Microsoft recently announced that a parental timer will be part of the Fall Dashboard update. Finally, parents will be able to avoid directly "parenting" their children and be able to limit ...
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XBLA
by Richard on November 8, 2007
Switchball:
In Switchball you take control of a heroic marble, rolling your way across floating stages, battling that ever-present menace: the wooden box. Think Monkey Ball without the monkeys. Or th...
