On February 1, Microsoft will be kicking off the "13 Days of Gears" promotion on Xbox LIVE, where players playing "Gears of War 2" can win prizes each day for 13 days straight. In total, the prizes are worth more than $25,000. To enter the contest, players will need to head on over to the sweepstakes's [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
With Bethesda releasing the first of its Fallout 3 DLC packs, "Operation Anchorage," via the Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow, news of the achievements associated with the pack has already leaked to Kotaku.
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive "Halo Wars" has gone gold, which means the version that gets on retail shelves is complete and ready for mass production. The game will ship in two editions, one standard and one special which will include bonuses like the last "Halo 3" map pack, a new vehicle, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
This week, you can read quite a few impressions of "Resident Evil 5" around the web, including a co-op gameplay preview by our own Jesse Henning -- but assuming you own an Xbox 360, you won't have to fight African zombies villagers vicariously much longer. For one week starting January 26th, Capcom is opening up two [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
Update: According to those who have downloaded the latest issue of "Qore," it states that the "F.E.A.R. 2" demo should be "expected" on January 15th, which would be this Thursday's PSN update. I've also heard back from a source at Sony, who said that a subscription will be required to download the early demo--but a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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 [...]
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Monday, January 26, 2009
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