Archive for January 2010

The time is finally here to pick the winners for this massive giveaway! This has been our biggest giveaway so far, whether by number of prizes, total value of prizes and even entries!  As it stood after 2 updates, we added an extra 25 items to the pot, for a total of 39 prizes! (Yea, [...]

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In the days leading up to the release of Visceral’s Dante’s Inferno, EA is really hitting the publicity campaign hard.  However, this gameplay video is pretty insignificant in comparison to the Super Bowl ad they bought. But, let’s focus on this video for now.  As you probably expected, it’s the proper amount of epic with [...]

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Activision recently launched a community initiative that brings Dan Amrich, the former editor of OXM, to the newly established site. If anything, we can expect some great coverage from someone with plenty of experience in the gaming world. I remember it was back in 2008 at GDC where I first met Dan, and as always, [...]

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Every now and again, something happens in the gaming community that makes me very proud of the fact that I’m a gamer.  Back in September, it was revealed that alongside the release of The Beatles: Rock Band would be the first DLC track “All You Need Is Love”.  Additionally, Microsoft, MTV, and Harmonix announced that [...]

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Activision would like to invite you under the hood with a new Blur trailer. The trailer features the Bizarre Creations development team discussing Blur’s storyline, unique driving styles, impressive stunts and more. Blur is the ultimate powered-up racing experience, dropping players into heart-pumping, electrified action with multiple cars trading paint as they charge towards the [...]

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You’ve already used them to build an entire Kingdom, but this time NinjaBee has something a little more global planned for their Keflings.  Last night, NinjaBee revealed that their next project will be A World of Keflings for the Xbox Live Arcade.  In A World of Keflings there will be many kingdoms to build and [...]

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2K Sports announced today that they will give away an unprecedented cash prize in the amount of $1,000,000 to the first person who throws a verified perfect game in Major League Baseball 2K10, prior to May 2, 2010. “You don’t see too many perfect games thrown in MLB 2K, but we’ve seen it happen,” said [...]

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February’s the shortest month of the year, but Guitar Hero is going to cram as much DLC into those 28 days as they can.  Announced today, the Guitar Hero franchise is going to be getting four stellar track packs next month, including one from those guys leading a ‘Semi-Charmed Life’. Third Eye Blind.  The rest [...]

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Get ready to feel the heat of battle in the vast Port Valdez map set on the Alaskan coastline. Fight together to secure valuable crates in ‘Rush Mode’ as the action progresses seamlessly across a variety of different locations. Delivering best-in class vehicle warfare and unprecendented levels of destruction Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will deliver [...]

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Well, this is awkward.  I’ve never actually had to review a game that I wasn’t 100% sure how to pronounce the title of.  Does it sound like “Kicks” or “Quicks“?  Are the addition signs “Plus-Plus“?  For what it’s worth, I’ve been saying “Kicks Plus-Plus“.  Fittingly, QIX++ suffers from the same uncertainty that plagues it’s name. [...]

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