Xbox Live Marketplace is down – Hacked much?
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Fable III Traitor’s Keep DLC Review – Alcatraz meets Albion
We abuse our cap limit and give the latest Fable III DLC a spin. Is it worth the 560 MS Points, or is it another wasted DLC opportunity?
An(other) Update on the ZA Xbox Live Marketplace – Sync or Swim?
I’ve been pretty defensive about the local Xbox Live Marketplace. It’s a new fledgling store in a new territory and it takes time to get things up and running. Mostly, I’m just glad that we finally have Xbox Live after fighting so hard for it for the better part of 4 years. There’s a point though where even the strongest …
A List Of Everything Coming To Xbox Live Marketplace
Xbox Live’s Marketplace offers up a variety of goodies for XBL users including Arcade games, a Deal of the Week promotion as well as goodies for avatars, add-ons and more. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson has posted up a list of all of the goodies scheduled to be released over the coming weeks, and we have it all for you right …
Gears of War 2 Dark Corners Gameplay – War Machine Is Back! – SA Screwed Again?
According to the guy who posted this video up on YouTube, the Gears of War 2 Dark Corners Map Pack was accidentally released onto Xbox Live for a very short amount of time, allowing anyone who noticed them to grab them at light speed before they were hastily taken back off. So thanks to YouTube user and Xbox Gamer “UGoTBlinDFireD” …
Braids budget was not as small as we expected
Jonathon Blow, the developer of the smash hit Braid has been chatting at GDC about many things, one of them being the size of the budget required to make a game like Braid. Well it’s not the little budget game we thought it was, it actually required a budget of around $200 000 which is just a little more than …
Confirmed: GTA IV DLC Unblocked
Happy days everyone. Thanks to one of our readers, Gnarkill, who posted up proof on the Xbox-360 forums that the GTA IV DLC is indeed working locally. While we aren’t exactly sure why the DLC isn’t working, I highly doubt that Microsoft read about it somewhere and then decided to unblock it just to be nice. Maybe it was a …
Is XBLA failing the indie developers?
When we first heard about Xbox Live Arcade it was touted as being the next best thing for indie developers or even part time guys working in their basement. However that hasn’t been the case as the amount of indie games hitting the Arcade has been few and far between, so why is that? Well according to Daniel Jones, MD …
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