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Nearly a million Xbox 360 consoles sold in one week!

Nearly a million Xbox 360 consoles sold in one week!

And you thought Black Friday was some cool way to create  national color scheme eh?  According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson, the Xbox 360 just closed the biggest sales week in the history of Xbox, selling more than 960,000 consoles in the U.S. during the week of Black Friday. Microsoft’s retail partners are equally excited about our [...]

Final Fantasy XIII-2 gets an assassin

Final Fantasy XIII-2 gets an assassin

Ubisoft is venturing out into quite a few properties lately.  Well to be exact, their Assassin’s Creed character, Ezio, is venturing out to quite a few.  Square Enix just announced that the costume for Ezio Auditore will be available as downloadable content for Noel Kreiss. I’m not sure if it’ll be a standalone costume or [...]

Go Insane on Gears 3 and get an Impossible weapon skin pack!

Go Insane on Gears 3 and get an Impossible weapon skin pack!

Do you see what I did there?  Microsoft and Epic Games are promoting the new Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol movie with a challenge for Gears of War 3 players.  If you complete the game on Insane difficulty by December 25th, you get an exclusive Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Weapon Skin Pack. The teams at [...]

Verizon FiOS coming to Xbox 360

Verizon FiOS coming to Xbox 360

Verizon is running a cool signup deal for their FiOS TV service for Xbox 360 gamers.  Why you ask?  Well next month you’ll be able to use your Xbox 360 as a receiver for live TV via Verizon FiOS.  If you sign up, you get a free copy of Halo: Anniversary plus 12-months of Xbox [...]

Arkham City DLC inbound, but I want story additions!

Arkham City DLC inbound, but I want story additions!

Batman: Arkham City is an untouchable game.  My friends at Rocksteady are “steady” on the new content train and anticipate more for fans in December.  The latest word is that the new DLC will feature the Batcave in some form as well as Joker’s Carnival and the Iceberg Lounge.  These things of course will be [...]

Sport Your Avatar

Sport Your Avatar

I’d love to see my name in lights!  However, realistically I know that is not likely to happen.  The next best thing is sporting my Xbox Avatar on some killer clothing and items.  I think that this could also be a great gift for that special Xbox enthusiast you may know. Cafe Press has some [...]

Cyber Monday, Veterans say thanks!

Cyber Monday, Veterans say thanks!

If you didn’t get a chance to be a part of the madness that was Black Friday, you can twiddle your fingers now in what has become known as Cyber Monday.  I’m sure there are deals out there but I’m way too lazy this monring to post them.  I just wanted to remind you of [...]

New DLC characters appear in Gears of War menu

New DLC characters appear in Gears of War menu

It’s the day after an all out assault on turkey and dressing so what better way to recover than a peek at the new characters of the upcoming DLC for Gears of War 3 called RAAM’S Shadow.  Playing as Zeta Squad you’ll be able to take control of new characters in the Gears of War [...]

Turkey gaming, what are you playing?

Turkey gaming, what are you playing?

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day and the majority of you should be home eating some delicious food with the family.  That also means that you should have plenty of time to sneak a game or two in right?  I plan to play a few games although Kinect won’t be on the menu due to some bad [...]