With Halo3 getting a September release date, what will Microsoft use to counter the usual November blitz? We still have a few titles left that were originally scheduled for this year, but do we have anything worthy of November? With the eleventh month of the year harboring some big-name birthdays(Halo2, Gears of War), what scheme […]
Posted by Erick - May 16th, 2007 - 7 Comments
Can you hear that noise?
That’s the sound of millions of unhappy gamers cursing at their Crackdown options screen waiting for Master Chief to finally show up.
Microsoft have acknowledged there are problems with the Beta access which is granted via special editions of top title Crackdown. Entry to the Beta via any other means (invitations, press […]
Posted by Bleem - May 16th, 2007 - 183 Comments
Today shall be known… as Halo 3 day.
Microsoft delivered a double whammy on us this morning, leaving our Halo radar well and truly in overload. They don’t do things by halves over in Redmond do they?
**UPDATE** Looks like there is an issue with people downloading the beta via the Crackdown disc at the moment, which MS are looking into. For those on the Friends and family beta and the other methods of competition entry, your download code should be working without correctly.
More after the jump…
Posted by Bleem - May 16th, 2007 - 78 Comments
Caught a good story this morning and wanted to share. On Nov 13th of last year, a Mr. Dominic Anderson sat down for a session of Saints Row with some friends. Being a young college kid, sitting down for a session of Saints Row also involved smoking a little marijuana (the explosions look way cooler, […]
Posted by Erick - May 15th, 2007 - 1 Comment
Finally, it’s been confirmed that the 1989 smash hit title ‘Prince of Persia‘ will indeed be coming to Live! Arcade at some point over the summer months.
But that’s not all. Gameloft who are handling the conversion for Ubisoft have gone all ‘next-gen’ on us and have given the prince a bit of a facelift. I’ll […]
Posted by Bleem - May 15th, 2007 - No Comments
Yesterday as I waited for the Forza 2 demo to download, I noticed that there was another new demo up to look at. A game that had completely slipped under my Radar, namely Blacksite Area 51.
Reading the spiel at the side it told me this was another Alien hunting FPS, nothing too imaginative there, and […]
Posted by Mr-J - May 14th, 2007 - 2 Comments
Sega has announced that they are working on the sequel to the XBox 360 game Condemned. The game titled Condemned 2: Bloodshot will feature the same forensic style detective work employed in the first title.
To anyone unfamiliar with Condemned it is a survival horror game where you must use anything at hand to bludgeon drug […]
Posted by Lee - May 13th, 2007 - 1 Comment
I’m a big big fan - Conkers BFD, PGR3, Black & White, Perfect Dark, Crackdown, Fable, etc. all of em Masterpieces in my book - dont mean to offend anyone - but has Microsoft put too much focus on younger content with their European dev teams? Nov 05 watching all the dragons in […]
Posted by Erick - May 13th, 2007 - 7 Comments