At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft Research unveiled its project Boku, a PC and Xbox 360-based icon-driven tool designed to let users create their own games and using only an Xbox 360 controller. Last Updated: November 3, 2008
Did you think 1200 Microsoft Points to play Portal: Still Alive on Xbox Live Arcade was worth it? Well, if you did, perhaps you’ll be happy to pay that again for this Wednesday’s offering, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Make the Grade. Or not. But either way, “AYSTA5G” is a quiz game based on the grade school (primary) …
Saints Row may have been a Grand Theft Auto clone, but Saints Row 2 managed to fill a niche by offering a straight shot of nothing but fun, which some people believe GTA did not. I personally did not enjoy the first one but Saints row 2 does have some hooks. Now a third edition is on the way. In …
More reliable Xbox 360s are starting to trickle onto the market, but the fallout from the “red rings of death” remains. Now Microsoft are facing a class action lawsuit in California. Last Updated: October 16, 2008
The Castle Crashers patch is finally on its way, I’ve held off playing the game too much because of the bugs and the fact that I can’t play with my friends. But there is hope. According to a recent post on developer The Behemoth’s blog, they’re hard at work putting the finishing touches on the game’s first title update. Last …
1UP Show: Gears of War 2 Single Player Preview the 1up show had a huge Gears of War 2 Single player preview, above is the video, I must warn you, although there don’t seem to be any big spoilers, they do go into a lot of details about the first level and if you want a surprise when you first …
So I get an email today saying that Nick has some business meeting he needs to go to and he would like me to do the afternoon shift today… It all sounded legit until I got a surprise email from gamerlobby. Apparently Gamerlobby has joined forces with The Lair once again to bring us another Epic tournament, this time with …
Halo 3: Recon ‘Debut’ trailer HD Remember all the chaos caused over the fact that the trailer Bungie released for the Halo 3 expansion pack – Recon, really didn’t show much? Well now we have a proper trailer, the first half (and change) of the video is what we’ve seen in the past, with a city being bombarded, pods falling …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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