We’re a little bit later than other sites and publications with our review of Halo: Reach. Why are we a little bit late? Because that’s all we’ve been doing for the past week-and-change. The Halo franchise, despite its phenomenal success and brilliant drive has always been maligned by people who are typically described by Halo [...]
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The Coming Month With Xbox Live Marketplace
Here’s your monthly fix of what to expect on Xbox Live in September/October. This month sees Microsoft’s “Game Feast” season running from September 29 to October 20. Games worth checking out are the long awaited watery adventure Hydrophobia (the concept of water as a weapon is still intriguing), Super Meat Boy and downloadable content wise the Liars & Cheats pack for Red Dead Redemption [...]
Halo: Reach Beta Aftermath and Thoughts
Halo: Reach‘s beta has ended. The combat is finally over and the dust is beginning to settle. Spartans versus Elites, Spartans versus Spartans and Elites versus Elites. It’s all a massive explosion of carnage and combat. That said, the planet has yet to fall. This fall the game proper will be released but until then, [...]
Halo “Believe,” Playstation “Mountain” Ads Make AdFreaks Top 25 List
AdFeak has today put out a list off “The 25 most epic ads that aren’t [Apple's] ’1984.’” The Halo 3 “Believe” campaign made it all the way to the eighth spot, while the significantly lesser known Playstation “Mountain” commercial made it to 17th. The PS2 commercial with a staggering 1,500 extras (most movies have less) just [...]
Fare thee well, XBL Original
Tomorrow marks the end of an era; the servers for the original Xbox Live and original Xbox titles will have their power switches flipped to the ‘off’ setting. First made available for the Xbox in Nov. 2002, the service allowed users to play with other users across the world using a unified username and database. [...]
Currently on Xbox Live
Hitting the Xbox Live marketplace this week is a sense of deal ja vu. Yes, this week’s deal is the Call of Duty: World at War map pack bundle, now 1600 Microsoft points instead of 2000 MSP. So if you still haven’t picked them up yet you’ve got until 15 March before this deal disappears [...]
Massive Just Cause 2 Demo This March For PSN and XBL
Coming soon to PSN and Xbox Live is the Just Cause 2 demo, which will be released on March 4th, 2010. It promises “a massive 35 square miles of the Lautan Lama Desert, a vast expanse of stunning, sun-scorched scenery taking up just one of the many islands in the 400 square miles of the [...]
Old XBL Servers to be shut down April 15
The servers maintaining online play for original Xbox games over Xbox LIVE will be shut down April 15 this year, said Microsoft spokesman Major Nelson in a blog post today. “I wanted to let you know that on April 15, 2010 Microsoft will discontinue Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox 1 [...]
Under 18s allowed access to Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM on Live
Microsoft have released a patch allowing Xbox Live users with child accounts access to the popular social networking applications so long as they have parental permission. Up until now the Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM update was a strictly over 18 affair, preventing angst ridden teens from revealing all on the popular social networking sites. All non-US accounts have access to the [...]
Xbox Live Dashboard Update Released To The Masses
Previously, the latest Xbox Live update for its dashboard was only available to the media, who in turn voiced their opinions and uploaded videos for the public to drool over. Then Microsoft sent out preview invites to lucky gamers who got a chance to see what was coming their way first-hand. Those who didn’t get [...]
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