Archive for August 2009

No, not the one giving us avatar items but another update from the guys at Twisted Pixel will be going live at 2am PDT tomorrow. This update will permanently fix an exploit that was allowing people to post impossibly good times to the leaderboards. In addition to fixing the exploit it will also purge the [...]

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Earlier today the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo officially sold out. With the 3-day passes selling out a while ago there were only daily passes left, the last of which were purchased today. “After the crazy crowds last year, the convention center cited fire code regulations and imposed a hard cap on the number of badges [...]

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As some of you may have noticed in the Sunday Ads, the Xbox 360 has dropped in price. The News came only hours after Sony announced it’s new, 120 GB, PS3 Slim.  The Xbox 360 Elite is now $299, the Xbox 360 Pro is now $250, and the Xbox 360 Arcade version is $199. The [...]

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Sneaking out to the marketplace yesterday without much fanfare was the demo for the upcoming over the top game Wet. I personally haven’t seen to much about this game before, but first impressions have me thinking it’s fun, but I worry that the craziness of the gameplay will get dull and repetitive over time. If [...]

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Remember, we have a contest going on where you could win a year’s supply of Dr. Pepper.  Check it out! We’ve just discovered the achievements for ‘Borderlands‘ from Gearbox Software. The game boasts 50 total achievements, 8 of which are secret, totaling the retail usual of 1000 Gamerscore points.  Get ready to grab three of [...]

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Update:Sedington86: Added captured gameplay video of match played earlier today. Check out bottom of post. On Wednesday, when the Lost Planet 2 Co-op Demo and the Mini Ninjas Demos popped up on Xbox Live, there was some part of you saying, okay, we’re probably not going to get demos for another month just because these [...]

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The NFS Shift achievements have just been unveiled, and the list looks rather, plain. You’ll get achievements for getting bronze, silver and gold medals, and for leveling up. Other than that, the game has 29 achievements, with none of them are secret. But for people who care about Gamerscore, you can get 450 points in [...]

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Update 1:  The guitar price was apparently INCREASED since I wrote the post. New price reflected below. I don’t think it can be placed in the category it’s in anymore either. As of earlier this morning, Guitar Hero 5 joined the ranks of games like Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, Monkey Island, and Fable II [...]

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As if yesterday’s set of two demos and Shadow Complex weren’t enough to keep you busy for the next while, someone decided that we need another 2 demos for you to try out.  Not to mention too, these two games are greatly anticipated titles, NHL 10 for us Canucks (aka Canadians) especially and DiRT 2 [...]

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With a new Top Tens list, comes a new story. This week, that story would be Call of Duty: World at War, which has clawed back the top spot from Halo 3, most likely related to the third map pack that hit the Xbox Live Marketplace. I guess the couple days the game had the [...]

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