The “Break it Down” Blog

Resident Evil 5 Demo Premiering on Xbox 360

Microsoft announced today that while Resident Evil 5 does not release until Friday, March 13th there will be a playable demo coming to Xbox Live on January 26th, 2008.  The demo will have 2 levels that can played through in co-op mode either by yourself with AI support, two-player split-screen on a single Xbox 360, [...]

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Lord of the Rings: Conquest Demo Impressions

A multiplayer demo for  Lord of the Rings: Conquest released on Xbox Live today.  I spent the better part of the morning playing it and I’m surprised with how much I enjoyed it. The game’s style is very much like Star Wars: Battlefront but set in Middle Earth.  The demo has a tutorial to teach [...]

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Left 4 Dead Demo Impressions

I got an early copy of the Left 4 Dead demo from GameStop today.  The demo is slated to hit the Xbox Live Marketplace sometime next week, but with a pre-oprder at GameStop you can get it now. I was expecting a horror game, but really it is an action game with a horror/zombie setting. [...]

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Communicating with Pirates – What the Community Thinks About Piracy

Over the last couple weeks, there has been some interesting developments on the computer game pirating front.  As reported by arstechnica.com, Cliff Harris, an independent game developer with Positech Games, put out an invitation to the average gamer to explain why they pirated games.  Simply wanting to learn from the pirates, Harris agreed to not [...]

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Far Cry 2 is Looking Awesome

We have been covering Far Cry 2 quite a bit recently, not because we were that much of fans of the original or even that big of Crysis fans, but because Far Cry 2 is actually surprising us with how good it’s looking. Following a recent Far Cry 2 media blitz, the Ubisoft team working on [...]

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo This Week

  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, LucasArts announced that a demo of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed would be released sometime in August. Well, they’ve made good on that announcement. The demo, will be unleashed this Thursday onto the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace. The level in the demo [...]

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NVIDIA Released PhysX-Enabled Drivers and Demos

Right after we got done covering the news that the upcoming 177.79 Forceware drivers from NVIDIA would add the PhysX physics engine support, NVIDIA made liars out of us and released that PhysX engine support in their new 177.83 drivers… so burn… on us I guess… Either way, getting tasty physics in games via your existing [...]

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Red Faction: Guerrilla Impressions

As Red Faction: Guerrilla get’s alittle closer to release, THQ has opened up their multiplayer beta test to anyone lucky enough to get a key. Thankfully we were one of the chosen few to score one of these keys, here are our impressions on how the multiplayer component is shaping up. First off, the action is [...]

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