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Gears of War 3 weapon props for your Avatar

Gears of War 3 weapon props for your Avatar

Remember that one time in band camp when Microsoft wouldn’t allow weapons as props for your Avatar?  Well it appears that Gears of War is just too much of a beast to not allow it.  You can now grab a fancy digital Golden Lancer or Hammerburst for your Avatar along with other interesting items like a Berserker [...]

Call of Duty Elite, let's pay to play some things

Call of Duty Elite, let’s pay to play some things

It’s been long rumored that at some point Activision was going to get bored of the billions of dollars that Call of Duty brings in.  Many suspected that the “fathers of milking” would soon set their sights on gaining a GAZILLION dollars at the expense of fanboys across the world.  How are you going to [...]

Hulk Hogan’s Main Event for Kinect

Hulk Hogan’s Main Event for Kinect

Well have you eaten your vitamins kids?  You can chalk this one up to one of those never seen it coming moments.  Kinect is at least getting variety eh?  I have no idea how this game will look but I can imagine how each of you will look doing your favorite Hulk impressions. Developed by [...]

Tropico 4 box art

Tropico 4 box art

You love box art … I know you do.  So here’s some fresh box art fruit for you to eat.  And I’m going to copy and paste the press release informationf or those of you who might not be familiar with Tropico 4, an Xbox 360 exclusive. Tropico 4 sees you return as El Presidente, [...]

BloodRayne: Betrayal, sink your teeth in

BloodRayne: Betrayal, sink your teeth in

Now this looks pretty damn cool.  Will it play just as good as it looks?  The BloodRayne series has its fair share of hits and misses (including both movies and video games).  When you think about both though the video games have faired much, much, much better than the movies.  Let’s face it the movies [...]

Trenched coming June 22, 1200 MS Points

Trenched coming June 22, 1200 MS Points

Double Fine’s latest is set to arrive on the Xbox Live Arcade next month for 1200 Microsoft Points.  I’ve been following this game for a bit and it has that Mech Assault type vibe that I’m really digging.  It’s co-op so you know Double Fine is trying to sway you into dropping some points on [...]

Dead Space 2 Outbreak Map Pack free

Dead Space 2 Outbreak Map Pack free

Hard to believe that EA is handing out free map packs isn’t it?  Well they are.  The Necromorph onslaught is stronger than ever! Return to The Sprawl in the Dead Space 2: Outbreak Map Pack for free May 31st on XBOX Live and June 3rd on the PlayStation Network. The Dead Space 2: Outbreak Map [...]

Ms Splosion Man early access, grab your dynamite!

Ms Splosion Man early access, grab your dynamite!

Twisted Pixel Games is one of my favorite Xbox Live Arcade developers as you well know.  Splosion Man is one of my favorite games alongside Comic Jumper.  Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way (again), I’m happy to be telling you guys and girls of a cool opportunity for Ms Splosion Man!  They’re [...]

Saturday afternoon live ... let's go!

Saturday afternoon live … let’s go!

Hide your games…hide your controllers…Unscripted 360 Live is raping errbody up in here!  I hope you’ll be able to sit down and run a conversation as we dig into the latest trailers surrounding Dead Island, Modern Warfare 3 and plenty more.  We’ll talk gaming folks because that’s what we do. Don’t want to talk trailers?  [...]