If you were one of the many pissed-off Non-US Xbox Live Gold members who felt slighted by your exclusion from Microsoft’s Black Friday sale, Major Nelson has great news for you. Throughout the month of December, the Xbox Live Marketplace will be celebrating the holidays with special “Holiday Deal[s] of the Week.” The deals will be [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Less than two weeks after its release, Square Enix’s latest RPG, The Last Remnant, will already be getting its first batch of DLC. Really, guys? Last Remnant is by no means a casual beat-and-play-in-a-few-hours game; releasing DLC for an RPG less than two weeks after release just seems like a bad move, and I can’t help [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
With Thanksgiving upon us, many avid shoppers in these United States are already psychologically and physically preparing themselves for the madness that is Black Friday. Frequently (albeit inaccurately) purported to be the busiest shopping day of the year, this Friday, millions of Americans will flock, lemming-like, to their local malls and shopping centers to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Today, Bethesda Softworks announced that they have plans to distribute a game editor and DLC for their super-popular-and-ultra-awesome game, Fallout 3, “in the coming weeks.” (Or, if you’re a stickler for more accurate timetables, the editor will be out in December and the DLC will hit the tubes in January.) The official editor will be called [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
On Facebook, Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson changed his status to “Halo 3 Recon is no more…” Curious (and a little confused), I followed the link he posted to accompany it which led to his very brief new blog post. Looks like it is no more -– because it’s now Halo 3: ODST. According to Bungie’s post [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
Hours ago, Microsoft revealed (via Reuters) that they have signed an exclusivity deal with the popular online sitcom, The Guild. An episodic Internet comedy, The Guild is the entertaining (and often hilarious) tale of WoW guildmates, focusing mainly on their healer Codex (played by Guild creator and writer -– and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog female [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
Yesterday, some of Kotaku’s readers noticed that you could download Banjo Kazooie early by accessing its Marketplace page on the Internet, and then buying it after logging in to your Live account. Shortly after, people began to notice a host of exclusive pre-order and limited edition content also available for purchase online: the Gears of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 15, 2008
Microsoft will be giving away one million Microsoft Points in their Download & Win Sweepstakes, a promotion for the New Xbox Experience.
Continue reading...Monday, November 10, 2008
In my eyes, Dead Space is a superb survival horror game — and that’s thanks, in part, to its collection of exotic mining tools turned deadly weaponry. There’s just something about wielding a high-powered mining laser as an improvised pistol that adds tremendously to the immersive joy of the experience. Unfortunately, Dead Space kills a lot [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 22, 2008
We’ve known about Microsoft’s XNA and the Creators Club for a while now: Microsoft previewed the XNA suite of development tools and middleware back in 2006, and the game studio tools were released at the end of 2007. Today, however, at Microsoft’s Gamefest 2008 conference, the company detailed what it is now calling “Xbox Live [...]
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