Gears of War 2 fans have a lot to look forward to, if one Mark Rein is to be believed. Of course, considering he is Epic Games’ beloved vice president, I think we can all more or less trust the guy when he creates a forum thread announcing the contents of a patch for one [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 5, 2009
It’s official, folks: Halo 3 was the top Xbox LIVE game of 2008. Major Nelson’s final year-end tally is now up on his blog, and it lists the top 20 360 games based on LIVE activity, and the top 20 XBLA titles. Following Halo 3 are Call of Duty 4, GTA IV, Gears of War [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 3, 2009
No matter how often I play Halo 3, at least once a session I forget that you have to push the d-pad to talk to your team, and end up blabbing to myself while my teammates ask if I’m still there. In this week’s Bungie update, that shouldn’t be a problem any longer as they’re upping [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 24, 2008
If you don’t believe in Christmas miracles, now may be the time to start, because Behemoth has announced that Wednesday, December 24, at 2AM PST, the long-awaited Castle Crashers patch will go live.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
When the Resident Evil 5 demo unleashed on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace, American fans were thrilled to discover that they could download it to their 360s with only a minimal amount of work. But, even though the Japanese RE5 demo was already perfectly playable by American gamers (and available in 100% English), Microsoft and/or [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In 1887, when the historian Lord Acton reportedly made this statement, not a soul in the world could imagine such a thing as a modern computer hard drive, and the idea of corrupted data was far away. But if a recent report involving the new Japan-only [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
Microsoft are all ready and set to go with their Friendship is Free program, which will allow you to use an Xbox Live Silver account, and yet experience the multiplayer gaming you have been deprived of, thanks to being stingy as Scrooge. Seriously, it’s a mere $49.99 USD for over a full year. Anyway, with Friendship [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 28, 2008
Live in Europe? Own an Xbox 360? If you answered yes to both, then this weekend (November 28-November 30) Xbox LIVE is on the house! Xbox LIVE Xtival ’08 kicks off today, granting European Xbox 360 owners 72 hours of Gold enabled LIVE, as well as exclusive content, competitions, and promotions. Last year’s Xtival ’07 was [...]
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...Friday, November 21, 2008
So, you’re pretty good at Gears of War 2, huh? Like, one of the best? Care to put some money on that? OMG, BRING IT. Your crazy gaming skills are about to be rewarded. Billing itself as “the next generation of competitive video gaming,” BringIt.com is a new site “where video gamers can put up money [...]
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