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Shadow Complex (Xbox 360) Review
Summary [9.5 out of 10] Set in the world of Empire by Orson Scott Card, Shadow Complex is a 2D side-scrolling adventure game in the vein of Metroid. You play Jason, a fish out of water who finds himself embroiled in high tech action and espionage when a hiking trip turns into a rescue mission which [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live’s “Deal of the Week” Making A Comeback
Monday, February 23, 2009
This past December Microsoft introduced the “Deal of the Week” by putting the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack on sale. Throughout December they also had Bomberman Live and Foo Fighters songs for Rock Band and Guitar Hero were also on sale. Apparently, the sales went over well because starting this week their making a [...]
Continue reading...Resident Evil 5 Demo Premiering on Xbox 360
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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, [...]
Continue reading...Make Your Own Game with Game Kodu
Thursday, January 8, 2009
At CES yesterday during the Microsoft Keynote Robbie Bach showed off the new game building engine that will be released for The XNA Community Games later in 2009. It’s called Kodu and it allows anyone to pick up a 360 controller and make their own game. It reminds me how the described LittleBigPlanet before it [...]
Continue reading...Fre XBLA Game if You Sign Up for Xbox Live Gold
Monday, December 29, 2008
Microsoft is running a promotion between now and January 5th, 2009. Sign up for an Xbox Live Gold account and they’ll give you a free Xbox Live Arcade game. Sound to good to be true? Well, there are a few stipulations. First, you can’t use a prepaid card to sign up. To qualify you must sign [...]
Continue reading...New Xbox Live Marketplace Releases
Saturday, December 13, 2008
This week brought quite a few new games to the Xbox Live Marketplace. On Xbox Live Arcade PowerUp Forever and Meteos Wars both released Wednesday for $10 (800 Microsoft Points). Bomber Boing and Retro One released on Xbox Live’s Community Games for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) and Couples Sudoku released for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points). Additionally, [...]
Continue reading...Friendship is Free Program Announced for Xbox Live
Friday, December 5, 2008
Someone at Microsoft must really be feeling the holiday spirit because they are continuing to announce more promotional programs. Earlier this week they announced the Deal of the Week Program that is running through December. Today they announced the ‘Friendship is Free’ program. This new program lets Xbox Live Silver Members play 8 Xbox Live [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Marketplace Holiday Deal of the Week
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Major Nelson announced today that due to the popularity of the Black Friday deals on Live they are going to have additional deals for weekly for the moth of December. First up is the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack. Originally priced at 600 points, it will go on sale tomorrow for 400 points for Gold Members [...]
Continue reading...Black Friday Sales on the Xbox Live Marketplace
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Microsoft’s Major Nelson just posted to his blog giving everyone a heads up that some of the Xbox Live Marketplace content will be on sale this coming Friday, November 28th. The items will be on sale starting Friday morning through Sunday evening. These sales are only available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members in the US. Here [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 Music Game DLC For The Last Week
Monday, November 24, 2008
The stream of downloadable songs for the music games available on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 seems to be unending. Last Thursday Guitar Hero: World Tour added a Raconteurs Track Pack that has features “Consoler of the Lonely”, “Hold Up”, and “Salute Your Solution” by The Raconteurs. This pack will set you back $5.50 (440 [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Having Issues
Sunday, November 16, 2008
For the last couple days you may have noticed that Xbox Live is having issues. Oh sure, everything seems to be working form for a while then all the sudden you and half of your friends all just randomly disconnect from Live. Frankly, I was expecting there to be issues with Xbox Live on Wednesday, [...]
Continue reading...How to Get the New Xbox Experience Early
Friday, October 24, 2008
For those of you who have not heard the “New Xbox Experience” is the upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox 360. It is scheduled for release on November 19th and includes a large number of changes including: Netflix Streaming XNA Community Games Avatars Xbox Live Marketplace on the Web Updated Games Marketplace Plus a complete redesign of the Dashboard Layout For those [...]
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
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