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It’s Monday! It’s NXE Update time! Wait, that sounds a little weird. It’s time for your weekly NXE News Update!  This update was short on text, but had a video included which was worth more than a 1000 pixels!  Remember when Microsoft promised the community that we’d have games that people, who were actually playing [...]

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Originally posted on Joystiq, this Fable 2 splash site will let you play some games and score some sweet items for your playthrough. Hobbess253 reposted a link to it in the Xbox Canada forums, which was a great help!  You can score a total of 5 items and 1000 gold even before you play the [...]

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If you live in Toronto you must have heard about this already. If not, listen up. The Best Buy at Yonge and Dundas is holding the third annual Gaming Invasion 08. This year the feature games are Gears of War 2, Little Big Planet (for the PS3), and Guitar Hero World Tour amongst a sea [...]

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A select few community members, along with mostly press, were invite last night to celebrate the launch of Fable 2 with Microsoft.  In attendance were Jaken Bear and Jade Live (from Xbox Canada) as well as two (and probably more) well known Canadian community members Kowz and Keadin.   Starting at 7pm and going to [...]

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For our curious ones, I’ve received an early retail copy of Fable 2, the regular edition, at the Microsoft Fable 2 Launch Party last night for Fable 2.  (The write-up will be going up later today.)  Similar to our unboxings of GTA IV Special Edition that I did in April, I bring you the unboxing [...]

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We just got word this morning that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is hitting store shelves on November 16th in North America! Europeans will have to wait a couple days however, as their copies will be in stores on the 21st.  I’ve personally never understood this delay for Europeans; why does this happen?  Either way, [...]

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A friendly reminder to enter our X’08 T-shirt Giveaway!  Just go to this thread, and reply as to what you preference of shirts is.  Later today, we’ll be closing up the contest and picking 3 winners! Good luck!

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Update 1: Added Blitz: The League II screenshots and corrected the date. Update 2: Major Nelson posted that Crazy Mouse is also available so that has been added to this list too. Unfortunately, we don’t have any decent screenshots we can post here. If we find some, we’ll be sure to add them. Obviously, being [...]

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Microsoft has posted a list of all the festivities going on for the launch of Gears of War 2! Here’s a short list with the whole press release later in the post: 20,000 stores are holding midnight launch events on the night of the 6th, and Gears of War 2 will go on sale at [...]

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Another Monday, another NXE update!  Have you ever been at work or school, sitting, reading your favorite site, which just notified you that there’s a new free set of gamerpics, or a new demo up on Xbox Live Marketplace?  Then you get strangely annoyed at the fact that you don’t have access to your 360 [...]

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