And the everything-but-official official date is...
It has been announced that EA is to take ever more aggressive steps to halt the testosterone fuelled dominance of its main rival, confirming that on the same day Infinity Ward's Stimulus Package will arrive on Xbox Live for a princely sum, their DLC will arrive for free. Providing you've actually bought the game new, of course. Though the situation is not quite like-for-like, EA's offering merely adding gameplay modes to pre-existing maps while Activision's offers bona fide fresh thrills, this ...
Will I wave my sword if I'm simply reaching for my beer?
Whatever your thoughts and feelings over Natal, it's hard not to give over just a little bit of excitement for Lionhead and Fable III. Now that it's been revealed ex-Python and all round funny man John Cleese will be providing the voice of your own personal butler, the steam roller of hype has already begun. We've no doubt Cleese will provide ...
…but, does anybody really care? Having peaked absolutely too soon, EA continues to metaphorically browse the shelves of Lidl for new additions to its musical line-up. Still, we assume that at least twelve isolated teenagers will throw some money at the Peter Pans of rock and roll. If you ever catch us dressing that young while approaching 40, do the decent thing, eh? Anyway, up to six gamers can take in more than forty minutes of band-based video,simply porting the whole ...
Yeah, I'm that hard I'm going to beat you to death with my own arm!
Violence and videogames is nothing new, it's always popping up in the mainstream media every now and again (you know when election season rolls around or there's nothing else news worthy out there). So, it's a little promising to see a developer already on the offensive when it comes to the violence in their game.
Nigel Cook, executive producer ...
Oh, LucasArts you do know how to win us over...
We've not tried to hide the fact that pretty much every person on team X360 is a massive fan of the old point and click Monkey Island adventure games. It was a dream come true when LucasArts HD'd up the original and let it loose over Live. It seems most of you agreed with us and now we're happy to report that the sequel, Le Chuck's Revenge will be available later ...
Capcom revealed the final character in the Super Street Fight IV roster last night in San Francisco.
Perhaps the world's most followed developer Robert Bowling (known to Twitter users as fourzerotwo) has just announced that a small title by the name of Modern Warfare two has reached the two million player milestone, presumably across all formats. In addition, it appears we're to expect an announcement on Downloadable Content for everyone's favourite insanely scripted war title some time later on this week. We're on tenterhooks. Not literally, like - we'd be in agony…
They're coming outta the DLC!
For those of you that didn't pick up the special edition of Rebellion and Sega's Alien vs Predator last month will be able to download the extra multiplayer maps as of the 18th March.
Collectively known as the Swarm Map Pack, for 540 Microsoft Points you'll be able to indulge in two new maps for every game type; Docks and Machine and then switch over to Outpost and Hive, which will just be for those who want to ...
"Bodycount rips apart the first person shooter as genre-defining gunplay comes alive in a balletic orgy of bullets and destruction"
Once again, the team behind the last-gen visceral shooter 'Black' are back on the FPS-wagon with their new title: Bodycount. Codemasters Studios, headed up by Black co-designer Stuart Black, is helping Bodycount look like a spiritual successor far more than anything else and is promising all the same press release bullet points as Black did all those years ago. Crazy action ...
Evening, all! Word has been sent through the great Xbox 360 grapevine that Slick Entertainment's racer Scrap Metal will touch down this week for a mere 1200 Microsoft Points. Well, mere by modern standards, anyway. The game itself is somewhat of an odd mix between Twisted Metal and, say, Micro Machines, challenging players to compete in armed vehcles for the title of top racer. A prestigious one indeed, that.
It's out there, but what is Epic planning...
The likely hood that Gears Of War 3 is in the works with a possible release date of fall 2010, is just one of those things. We all know it's probably coming, but Epic are keeping tight lipped (annoyingly). That said, Gears is a formulaic type of game and one we think we can probably second guess, so here we go, here's the top three things we think we'll see from Gears 3...
1. Flashbacks ...
Who needs a PC when Crytek can get Crysis 2 running on your 360!
Obviously, these screens won't literally blow you away, that would be stupid, but they do look mighty impressive. The much anticipated Crysis 2, now for consoles, is finally starting to look like it might, just possibly, actually be able to work on the clearly inferior 360 technology. Not that were dismissing our beloved Xbox or anything, but compared to the ridiculous PC rigs required to run the original ...
No, he's nothing like the Master Chief...
The first batch of screenshots of Platinum Game's promising looking sci-fi third person shooter have begun to emerge and it's looking as curious as ever. With it's transforming suit and at war super powers (Russia and America, again!) fighting other resources it could be argued that it's lacking in the originality departments. But, there's just something about these shots that says stomping around in this suit is going to be awesome fun....
Good bye Tomb Raider and hello Lara Croft... again
Square Enix came out today and announced that Crystal Dynamics, long running saviours of the Tomb Raider games, is working on a new title. The 'hinting at a reboot' Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light is going to be interesting for a few reasons. Firstly, because it's a reboot of a much loved franchise and secondly because it won't be a traditional release ...
