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Top 10 Xbox LIVE games for week of December 1st: Community Games debut!

peachey @ December 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Halo 3 stays atop as champion of all of Xbox LIVE despite all odds being against it.  Colour us surprised.  Gears of War 2 which debuted last week at number two slips to the third position this week in what can only be described as a major disappointment for Epic’s blockbuster title.  However, we have an […]

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No Doubt debuts on Rock Band this week

peachey @ December 8, 2008 # 2 Comments

Tomorrow, December 9th, Rock Band will release 13 - count em: thirteen - tracks from No Doubt.  All tracks are from No Doubt’s album “The Singles 1992-2003″, basically a greatest hits collection.  In our opinion, this is one awesome party mix worth the download.

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Fable 2: Knothole Island screenshots

peachey @ December 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Lionhead Studios announced not so long ago that just several weeks after the release of Fable II, it would get its first downloadable content on December 12th.  The content in question is a region known as Knothole Island, and will feature a big chunk of real estate and gameplay to boot. 

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Original Banjo Kazooie available today

peachey @ December 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Xbox LIVE Arcade keeps churning out the hits.  Today, the original Nintendo 64 game Banjo Kazooie is available for download.  An unabashed cut and paste of Super Mario 64’s formula, Banjo Kazooie is its own kind of bizarre whimsical, comprised mostly of massive collection and fetch quests.  But it is fun.  If you’re willing to […]

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Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack discount

peachey @ December 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet

If you’re sick of waiting on the sidelines while all of the double XP Halo 3 multiplayer weekends requiring the legendary map pack played out, you may be enticed to bone-up some cash to get in on fun now: the Legendary Map Pack is on sale for 400 Microsoft points, down from 600.  While in […]

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Left 4 Dead Demo

peachey @ November 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Valve is known for a good deal of great games, Half Life and Portal being chiefly amongst them, but a rather little known title is coming from the studio this year: Left 4 Dead.  The game is envisioned as a mostly online co-op affair, with players taking the role of either one of four survivors […]

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Xbox LIVE Party: the New Xbox Experience

peachey @ November 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet

There’s no doubt that the New Xbox Experience (NXE) due to launch November 19th is feature laden.  In fact, some of those features were driven by the requests of the gaming community itself, and lo and behold we have perhaps NXE’s most compelling addition: Xbox LIVE Party.  No, it’s not a Mii Parade or Avatar […]

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Halo Wars Limited Edition

peachey @ November 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Halo Wars is now coming officially in February, and along with it a limited edition version to satiate rabid Halo fanatics.

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A Kingdom for Keflings: Coming with NXE

peachey @ November 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Microsoft revealed an XBLA game that was ever so briefly teased during one of its New Xbox Experience (NXE) preview videos.  The name of the game is A Kingdom for Keflings, and it will be launching alongside the NXE on November 19th.  

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Top 10 Games for the Week of October 27

peachey @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet

It’s been a little while, but we’re back with an all new Top 10 games list. But, not much has changed… Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, and Gears of War all make the top five. That said, Grand Theft Auto IV takes a chilly dip down to eigth position.  Saints Row 2 makes a […]

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