Archive for August 2011

The news poured out today that Dead Island, that plucky little survival horror game with one of the greatest trailers of all time, has gone gold. The game is ready for release on September 6th, and Techland have rewarded all of us patient fans with a trailer that shows a little bit of the co-op [...]

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He’s finally here, and this time staying awake won’t protect you from him. The final DLC character for Mortal Kombat, Freddy Krueger, is now available for download. The video above gives the backstory of how Krueger fits in to the Mortal Kombat universe, and I must say Netherrealm did a fantastic job of tying Freddy’s [...]

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Activision, Infinity Ward, and fourzerotwo have just released the first glimpse at Modern Warfare 3′s Spec Op Survival Mode. In Survival, you will fight off waves of increasingly difficult enemies as you earn XP and unlock several types of armories to expand your arsenal. What can we expect: Endless waves of enemies Armor Perks Sentry turrets [...]

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This week’s Xbox LIVE demos are Madden 12 and Driver: San Francisco, and they are absolutely brimming with testosterone, adrenaline, and chest hair.  We feel comfortable making that assertion because we are the (self-proclaimed) utmost authority on all things manly.  So go ahead and give these demos a shot if you can find time to [...]

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More Rezurrection images are located here Rezurrection, the all-Zombies content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, is set to launch first on the Xbox LIVE on August 23rd.  Rezurrection hurls players into orbit with Moon, the climax of the Call of Duty Zombies saga and the first in the series to drop zombie-slaying into low-G lunar battlegrounds.  With new outrageous weapons, high-tech gear, and a bloodthirsty undead [...]

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Int. Breakroom at work – Day Steve and Bill are standing next to the watercooler Bill: Sometimes I feel like Garfield was a prophet.  Mondays are the worst. Steve: I hear you, man.  My alarm went off this morning, and I just could not pull myself out of bed. Bill: 10-4 on that.  Did you [...]

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We just got word from EA Sports that the Madden NFL 12 demo will be released this Tuesday, August 9th. The demo will allow you to play as either the Packers or the Bears in this NFC Championship rematch from last year, in which the Packers won 21-14, before winning the Super Bowl. Some interesting [...]

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This morning, Turn 10 Studios released a ViDoc (thanks for the term Bungie) about the making of the Bernese Alps track in Forza Motorsport 4. The team recounts their experiences of the multi-location European trip for research purposes (right, who believes that?!), and all the sights they experienced while they were at the Alps. They [...]

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Brink: Agents of Change is now available on Xbox LIVE. Agents of Change will be a free download for the first two weeks. After two weeks, the downloadable content will be available for purchase for 800 Microsoft Points or $9.99. Here is a brief synopsis from Bethesda: “Secrets, lies, and double agents. No one and nothing is [...]

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With today being August 4, we are exactly nine months following the launch of Kinect for the Xbox 360. The system has had 30 games ship so far, and many more on the way. With half of the Microsoft conference at E3 dedicated to Kinect, surely this is only the beginning for the device. Some [...]

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