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Halo 3 Launch: The Biggest Day In US Entertainment History
2007-09-28 06:42:00 As many expected, Halo 3 has managed to accomplish something mighty impressive - it has officially become the biggest entertainment launch in history, garnering an estimated $170 million in sales in the United States alone in the first 24 hours. Meaning it has beat previous records set by releases like the ?Spider-man 3? movie and ... More About: Entertainment , History , Launch , Halo 3
New vehicles for Forza 2
2007-09-21 15:47:00 Hardcore Forza Motorsport 2 fans rejoice - your favorite racing game will be getting 11 brand new downloadable racers and muscle cars this weekend. One car, the 2007 SEAT Leon Cupra (pictured, not in-game), will be a free download. For the other ten you’ll have to cough out 400 MS Points. Here’s what you’ll be ... More About: Racing , Vehicles , Forza 2
SEGA celebrating SEGA Rally?s launch with a new trailer
2007-09-19 15:50:00 SEGA has released a new SEGA Rally trailer to celebrate the launch of the game next Friday. There’s also a demo on Xbox LIVE if you haven’t checked it out yet. You get to try out two cars on two tracks. But here’s the trailer: More About: Sega , Trailer , Launch , Screenshots
Accuracy Boost for $10 ?
2007-09-19 15:38:00 A company called KontrolFreek has released a new add-on for the 360 controller that will allegedly considerably increase accuracy. The product is named SpeedFreek and is a little piece of plastic you attach to your controllers analog stick (pictured above). It seems Dan Greenawalt, Game Director at Microsoft agrees, when it comes to racing games at ... More About: Boost , Accu
Eidos loses Arcade virginity
2007-09-19 14:25:00 Eidos has launched their first Xbox Live Arca de title today - Geon: Emotions. Geon emotions includes six game modes, with single-players facing ‘Time Attacks’ and ‘Duels’ while up to four people can compete in split-screen competitions that allow them to work together or battle it out in ‘Last Man Standing’ death-matches. Each game begins with players ... More About: Virginity , Eidos , Cade
Mass Effect character spotlight
2007-09-15 12:49:00 BioWare has released Part One of the Character Spotlight videos for their upcoming sci-fi RPG Mass Effect and if this video is any indication then the voice acting in this game is seriously going to rock. The developers talked about Mass Effect having a revolutionary advanced dialogue system and everything that goes with it from ... More About: Videos , Space
Bizarre already thinking about PGR5, PGR4 demo soon
2007-09-15 12:26:00 In an interview with CVG, lead designer Ged Talbert is already pondering over where PGR5 should take the series. Talbert: “Obviously Gotham 4’s about to come out and we’re really happy with it, but behind the scenes we’ve already started ripping our game to pieces.” “I personally believe there’s a lot we can do by taking our ... More About: Racing , Bizarre , Demo , Thinking , Ready
Halo 3 street date broken
2007-09-15 12:07:00 Apparently a Norwegian game store named Expert has sold at least two copies of Halo 3. A fellow named Choi Wang sent some proof to Maxconsole in the form of a photo you see above. So if you live in Norway and there an ‘Expert’ store near by, can’t hurt to jump in ... More About: Street , Halo 3 , Shooter , Broken
Project Gotham Racing 4 gone Gold, DLC already in the works ?
2007-09-13 21:15:00 It’s a good day for the fans of the Project Gotham Racing series - PGR4 has gone gold! Only a few weeks left until we get our grubby little hands on what will most likely turn out to be (one of) the best racing games of the year. Bizarre also released the full list of vehicles ... More About: Gold , Works , Screenshots
Spidey sneaks onto Marketplace
2007-09-13 20:52:00 A little over 431MB, the Spider-Man: Friend or Foe demo has hit Marketplace . Gamers can play as Spider-Man and villains-turned-allies Green Goblin or Venom in the Tokyo Rooftops level, as well as a boss battle with Doc Ock in the Tokyo Secret Labs level. Players will be rewarded with an unlockable sidekick cheat code for ... More About: Demos
Halo 3 multiplayer screens, theme, gamerpics
2007-09-12 19:16:00 Microsoft’s pre-TGS press event brought on some mighty fine looking new Halo 3 multiplayer screenshots. Also, there’s a bunch of new gamerpics and a new theme on Marketplace as well. They won’t be there forever so go grab these quick if you want ‘em. They’re “courtesy of Best Buy” which unfortunately means they’re available in the ... More About: Halo 3 , Theme , Screenshots , Multiplayer
New Lost Odyssey trailer
2007-09-12 17:59:00 To accompany earlier news from That VideoGame Blog about Lost Odyssey being 95% completed, here’s the news(ish) trailer that was shown at Microsoft’s pre-Tokyo Game Show press event. I say newish because if you’ve seen the previous trailer, you’ll immediately recognize parts of it. But here we go: More About: Videos , Trailer , Lost Odyssey , TRAI
New Halo 3 TV advertisement
2007-09-12 14:47:00 As you can see at the very end of the video, the new Halo 3 TV ad isn’t supposed to hit until this Friday, the 14th. But the intertubes are always faster these days and here we have a little teaser for your viewing pleasure. There’s no gameplay footage or fancy CGI what-so-ever in here ... More About: Videos , Advertisement , Halo 3 , Advertise
Proving Ground demo on LIVE now
2007-09-12 14:33:00 The demo for Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground , just a little over 1 gig in size, is now available for download on Xbox LIVE. Although it’s been receiving quite a lot of praise, EA’s Skate demo felt a little weird to me personally. Maybe I just need to keep at it and suck less but I’ve been ... More About: Arcade , Live , Demos , Demo
TF2 Meet the Soldier: Engineer
2007-09-12 12:00:00 Valve released another one of their ‘Meet the Soldier ’ videos to keep pimping Team Fortress 2. This time we get to see the Engineer who’s speciality is building and fixing the wonderful weapons you see in the video below. He also carries a shotgun and a pistol. More About: Videos
Ninja Gaiden 2 now official, 360 exclusive
2007-09-12 11:33:00 During Microsoft’s pre-TGS press conference, Tomonobu Itagaki from Team NINJA took the stage and announced that they’ve been developing Ninja Gaiden 2, exclusively for the Xbox 360. The first screenshots were already making the rounds yesterday. Check them out after the break along with a rather nice CGI announcement trailer that was released today. More About: Videos , Exclusive , Fighting , Screenshots
PGR4 achievements unveiled
2007-09-11 15:50:00 The achievement list for PGR4 has been unveiled, along with two new shots from the Photo Mode (both in this post). Right off the bat, the most interesting achievements seem to be Show Jump (Have eight vehicles in the air at the same time), Buy an Achievement (Buy the K1,000,000 gamer picture to earn this ... More About: Racing , Screenshots , Veil
BioShock becomes the all-time highest rated Xbox 360 title on Metacritic
2007-09-11 11:28:00 Well, it seems BioShock was seriously just what the doctor ordered. It’s been gathering recognition left and right and is one of the most likely games to be nominated for Game of the Year. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. There’s still some other type of recognition to be gathered. To be exact - BioShock ... More About: Xbox , Time , Xbox 360 , Title
Microsoft in talks with BBC
2007-09-10 17:52:00 Ross Honey, senior director for media at Microsoft ?s content and partner strategy group, has confirmed that Microsoft is in talks with several European media companies, including the BBC, to bring video content to European Xbox 360 owners via Xbox Live . Ross Honey: ?We are working diligently on multiple fronts to make it happen. The BBC is ...
Hilarity! Halo3 trailer running on PS3 display
2007-09-10 15:46:00 This following footage was captured at a Blockbuster store by a YouTube user. The video shows the Halo 3 trailer running on a PlayStation3 store unit. The question is, was this a deliberate prank by a store employee or simply a silly mistake ? One way or the other, not unlike the guy you hear in the ... More About: Videos , Running , Trailer , Display
Madame Tussauds Master Chief statue
2007-09-10 14:00:00 The Halo 3 hype machine has been kicking into full gear recently. The latest thing Microsoft has managed to grab attention with is apparently convincing Madame Tussauds to manufacture and add a Master Chief statue to their collection. The life-size statue was manufactured in England by ten artists who worked on the thing for 892 man-hours. ... More About: Statue
3rd Kane & Lynch trailer, new screens
2007-09-07 13:05:00 Eidos has released some Kane & Lynch: Dead Men goods today - the 3rd trailer plus three new screenshots. Check them out below. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a dark and gritty tale of two men bound by circumstance as they wait on death row for their final sentence. One is a flawed ... More About: Videos , Trailer , Screenshots , Cree , TRAI
CoD4 BETA launches in the UK and Ireland today
2007-09-07 09:18:00 Activision has announced that people in the UK and Ireland will be able to participate in the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare BETA as soon as today. Grant Collier, Studio Head at Infinity Ward: ?From day one we?ve set out to make Call of Duty 4 the best multiplayer experience ever. We?re excited to bring ... More About: Beta , Today , CoD4
PGR4 going Gold any moment now
2007-09-05 13:32:00 The Community & Web Lead at Bizarre, Ben Ward, just sent over a message saying that Project Gotham Racing 4 is in certification and could be going Gold any moment now: “Things are mental at Bizarre, as you might expect about now. PGR4 is in certification as we speak, and the entire studio is waiting ... More About: Moment , Screenshots , Going
Proving Ground demo later this month
2007-09-05 11:37:00 Activision released this Tony Hawk?s Proving Ground video today which reveales that a demo is coming soon. The video gives you a sneak-peek at the demo before it releases to the Xbox Live Marketplace later this month. Check it out above. More About: Videos , Sport , Demos , Demo
Xbox Live down for maintenance on September 10th
2007-09-05 11:09:00 It’s soon that time again - gamers will be cut off from Xbox Live for four hours on September 10th (starting from 2:01PDT, 9:01GMT and 18:01GMT+9) as it undergoes some maintenance. So plan ahead. This isn’t expected to be the Fall Dashboard update but just some ‘house cleaning’. While these little downtimes aren’t cool, it’s probably ... More About: Xbox Live , Maintenance
HD-DVD price cut in Europe
2007-09-04 17:05:00 News is spreading that Xbox 360’s HD-DVD add-on will get a 20-euro price cut in Europe . The price cut was apparently announced during IFA, a consumer electronics trade fair in Germany. We haven’t received a press release from Microsoft confirming this yet but a price cut does seem likely as the same thing already happened in ... More About: Hardware , Price , Rope
Modern Warfare Beta in the UK
2007-09-03 15:01:00 Well, looks like Europe didn’t have to wait too long for the beta to spread - GAME, a UK game store, is offering a free CoD4 Beta Code with every pre-ordered copy. The store sends out weekly emails with the codes and instructions on how to get in on the beta. Customers who have already ... More About: Modern , Fare , Warfare
Let?s talk about PGR4?s bikes
2007-09-03 13:24:00 Ben Ward, Project Gotham Racing 4 Community Manager, has made an interview with CVG where he talks about PGR4’s bikes, what it took to balance the game, bike vs car collisions etc. Here’s few interesting snippets: “We also hired a few of the best players from the PGR3 community (straight off the forums no less!), and ... More About: Talk , Bikes , Eye candy
Hidden Fronts free on Monday
More articles from this author:2007-09-01 08:43:00 Microsoft sent out a press release today, reminding us that the 800 MS Point Gears of War ‘Hidden Fronts’ Map Pack that was released a few months ago will be available free as of Monday , September 3rd. ‘Hidden Fronts’ has been downloaded over 500 000 times, making it the the most popular piece of downloadable ... More About: Free , Shooter , Marketplace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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