Finding its release roughly half-way between Halloween and Christmas, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Borderland’s first DLC is a Halloween-themed gift from Gearbox. A self-contained episode, The Zombie Island of Dr Ned focuses on the over-saturated, clichéd gaming stalwart of the living dead. Zombies really are everywhere these days; it’s getting harder to turn on a game these days …
Good news for fans of classic side-scrolling beat ‘em ups. Capcom is porting two of their most classic to PSN and XBLA; the seminal Final Fight, and the equally awesome Magic Sword. Even better is that they’ll be bundled together and billed as “Final Fight: Double Impact†Ufortunately unlike other Capcom classics like Super Street Fighter 2 and Puzzle fighter …
Major Nelson has posted the latest Xbox Live Activity charts, dated November 9 and – BIG SURPRISE! – Modern Warfare 2 sits firmly at the top. With Xbox Live having hit new user records on the back of the game, it really was to be expected. What has come as a surprise is that both previous COD games, the original …
It’s the 17th, which means that it’s the day that the update for the Xbox 360 is here. I just popped on my console to have another check since last night and I can confirm that the update is already live and the applications are already available for download. So tonight when you get home, you can go and download …
Philosopher Bertrand Russell questioned the existence of a higher spiritual being – and attempted to remove the burden of proof on the sceptic when it came to proving or disproving religion – through the employment of a celestial teapot. Much like the invisible Pink Unicorn and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Russell’s celestial teapot is still used today in discussions about …
If any of you turned on your Xbox 360 yesterday evening whilst connected to the interwebs-youbook-facespace cable, you would have noticed that there was an update that had to be downloaded. If you like me wondered what in the heck was going on and even possibly got the idea that you would be tweeting and facebooking on the console soon, …
We reported recently that Microsoft were sending out surveys to select members with regards to this new rewards system that they may be bringing to their online service. There may not be much to tell at the moment but I think that this is definitely heading in the right direction. Here’s a full screengrab of the email posted after the …
This weeks releases for XBLA come in two flavours, boards and blocks. The first release is Panzer General: Allied Assault and has you playing a digital board game of World War II and controlling little units. The second game of the week is Tower Bloxx Deluxe, which is apparently so incredibly addictive that not only did they swap out the …
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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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