A Blur Coming Your Way
This week, Bizarre Creations announced that its upcoming action packed race game, Blur, will be released to the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on May 25 in North America and in Europe on May 28.
The game was set for a November release last year, but was delayed till 2010 for improvements on the multiplayer portion of the game.
Up to 20 players can play online at once as part of the multiplayer feature in the game. Blur has over 50 licensed vehicles and several cities from all over the world ...
Xbox Live Ending For Original Xbox
No matter how you are playing them, if you're playing an original Xbox game online, you'll no longer be able to as of April 15th, 2010. A letter from Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten, as well as one from Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb, made it official.
"On April 15 we will discontinue the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals," said Marc Whitten.
Even if you're playing an Xbox original game on Xbox 360,...
Two for Two
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Cameron M.
Posted January 31st, 2010 at 12:20 am
Electronic Arts announced that its sci-fi thriller Mass Effect 2 has sold 2 million copies since its release on Tuesday of this week. It looks like this is the first big hit of the year and shows signs that even with our economic down turn video games sales are still holding through strong.
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E10+ Rating for MS Game Room
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Cameron M.
Posted January 30th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Microsoft annonced that rather than having game ratings for each individual game in its upcoming virtual video game aracade Game Room, the Game Room itself will be rated, at a rating of E10+.
This allows Microsoft to freely flow games into the arcade quicker to its users since they won't have to wait for the ESRB to approve each game. The bad side though, some of your favorite games that include such things as strong violence and language will not be showing up in the Game Room....
Assassin’s Creed II DLC Tomorrow
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Cameron M.
Posted January 27th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Tomorrow, Assassin's Creed II Battle of Forli, the first of two announced DLCs, will be available on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. It is set at a price of 320 MSP ($3.99).
Expect the second DLC sometime next month.
Editor Update: The launch trailer for Battle of Forli has been released, and it can be viewed after the break:
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Halo: Reach Screens and Concept Art
Even though we don't have any image gallery on this site yet, we were still pretty sure that you would want to see the several new images on the upcoming Halo game, Halo: Reach, that were posted by Bungie today. But the new media doesn't stop there.
New concept art was also posted on Bungie's Halo: Reach site. But wait, there's more! The fun just keeps on coming. Character bios also appeared on the site, just in case you want to get to know your team of Spartans before the game appears ...
Halo Map Pack 2 Coming Your Way
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Cameron M.
Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Yesterday Microsoft announced that on February 2nd, a new map pack titled Mythic Map Pack 2 will be available for Halo 3 users on February 2nd. This new addition to your game will cost MSP800 ($10)
Expect three new multiplayer maps including a revamped take on Halo 2's Midship arena....
Project Natal Due Out This Holiday Season
The still nameless "controller-free gaming experience", code named "Project Natal", has been announced for a "holiday season 2010" launch. The announcement came during the Microsoft's 2010 CES Keynote earlier today. A press release has also been posted on Microsoft's site that has details on the entire keynote.
"Scheduled to be available in holiday season 2010, “Project Natal” is only the most recent example of Microsoft’s work creating natural user interfaces," according to the pre...
EA Shutting Down Several Sport Game Servers
It's the first working day of the new year, and EA is already announcing their plans to shutdown more online gaming servers for some of their "not new" games, as I like to put it. The majority of the twenty-five titles scheduled to lose their servers will lose service on February 2nd, while the remaining will lose service on February 9th. As EA put it on their post:
"Servers for the games listed below will be shut down on the indicated dates. You may continue to play the games online up un...
Rock Band Gone Country
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Cameron M.
Posted December 24th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Today Harmonix and MTV Games announced that a new song pack of seven songs will be added to the Rock Band Music Store for the 360, PS3 and Wii.
"Going Country Pack 02" features songs from Country singer giants such as Alan Jackson, Keith Urban, Kenny Rogers, Shania Twain and Martina McBride.
The songs will be available for the 360 and Wii on December 29th and for the PS3 January 7th:
Alan Jackson - "Good Time"
Cross Canadian Ragweed - "Cry Lonely"
Jason Aldean - "She's Country"
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