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Last night, I had the privilege of attending a party hosted by Microsoft called the “Xbox and Zune Social Party.”  Hosted at the oasi, this event was more of a social and mingling event.  Jade even said that this event was more made to bring couples to events; apparently I wasn’t aware of this part, [...]

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Yes, that’s right. We’ve just received a tip about the upcoming expansion of Halo 3 dubbed Halo 3 Recon. Well, turns out, the game will no longer be called Halo 3 Recon, but will instead be called Halo 3 ODST.  And yes, it’s true because both Major Nelson and Bungie say so.  Anyone interested in [...]

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Want more achievements? You can count on us to give you your fix. This time, we’ve got achievements for the XBLA title Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD (Remix?).  These achievements are pretty bland and seem very typical of a fighting game. All 12 achievements are viewable, which is somewhat expected.  2 of the achievements [...]

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Well, what a treat we have for you: Prince of Persia achievements!  So here’s the lowdown. Prince of Persia has 50 achievements, like almost any game comprised of 42 viewable achievements and 8 secret achievements.  The secret achievements seem like story achievements and are secret to not spoil the story. The viewable achievements seem pretty [...]

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Last night, when Major Nelson said to delete Photo Party, both SourNotHardcore and I went onto the NXE marketplace and downloaded it, just to check it out.  We knew we would have to delete it after the official update released to get a newer version of it.  We did however make our own game within [...]

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As you’ve probably seen already, I went to the Fable 2 Launch last Thursday by Microsoft, and along with having a blast, I was also given an early retail copy of Fable 2. (We even showed you an unboxing of the game!) It took me a week and a day to finish the story alone! [...]

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If you’re at all interested in the state of our industry, you should definitely read these two articles that were put up by Deejay Knight on GamingTruth.  One is a tad old, dating back to April this year, but the other one, is hot off the press.  Both however are very well written and you [...]

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From two friends on Twitter, I’ve been alerted to this problem!  Via Joystiq from the Epic Games forums, users are reporting (read: complaining) that the Canadian Gears of War 2 Limited Edition comes with a French hardcover artbook and the English artbook is a flimsy softcover book.  Gamers are obviously distraught about this and have [...]

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Last night, we were fortunate to host an absolutely massive Community Playdate in Gears of War 2, only 2 days after it’s release date.  We all had a ton of fun and we got to meet some pretty cool and awesome people in the process. We tried to switch up the game modes and get [...]

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Update: The videos are up at the bottom of the post! So here it was, Thursday, The Last Day.  Getting really excited about Gears of War 2 was one thing, but even more than that, I was excited about the bad-ass Canadian Community Launch that was going to take place in Lower Bay Station in [...]

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