TrueAchievements news archive for July 2010

  • NBA JAM Heading to the 360 [UPDATED]

    Updated Story: You want NBA JAM? Well then you are going to have to put NBA Elite, an upcoming title from EA Sports on your list of games to purchase. EA has finally confirmed that NBA JAM is indeed

    Posted 13 years ago 96

  • Operation Flashpoint: Red River

    Codemasters have revealed Operation Flashpoint: Red River as the sequel to Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. They decided to do so by granting a world exclusive to Official Xbox Magazine (OXM), wh

    Posted 13 years ago 28

  • Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days Additional Trailer

    There's been a slew of trailers for the forthcoming Kane and Lynch title, and this article will add another to the catalogue. Titled, "Do you think you can kill me?", we take a look at the gun play i

    Posted 13 years ago 30

  • New Two Worlds 2 Trailer

    SouthPeak Interactive has released a new trailer for their follow-up game Two Worlds 2. The trailer is fully narrated to help you follow along in the intense action and describing the lush environmen

    Posted 13 years ago 58

  • Capcom Makes Available Characters & New DLC

    Capcom has decided to allow those new to the Lost Planet franchise to enjoy some new characters in Lost Planet 2. Those that had still had Lost Planet 1 saves on their harddrive when they loaded up L

    Posted 13 years ago 29

  • Medal of Honor Comes With Battlefield 3 Beta

    If the Medal of Honor Limited Editions' two early unlocks and one exclusive gun isn't enough for you, EA has just sweetened the deal. Now, alongside the exclusive weaponry, they're also throwing in b

    Posted 13 years ago 62

  • Rock Band DLC for 3rd August

    Next week, a selection of singles are coming to the Rock Band Store: Blondie – “Rapture” dc Talk – “Jesus Freak” The Decemberists – “The Perfect Crime # 2” Eagles of Death Metal – “I Only Want You” *

    Posted 13 years ago 33

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Map Pack #5

    EA released the fifth map pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 yesterday. It is free to those that purchased the game new, through the use of the VIP code. It does not contain any new original content

    Posted 13 years ago 45

  • Metro 2033 DLC Release Date and Price Announced

    Originally announced back in May, news on the upcoming Metro 2033 DLC has been non-existent. So it's a bit out of the blue that THQ have today announced that the Ranger Pack will be releasing next Tu

    Posted 13 years ago 46

  • Transformers: WFC 2X Experience This Weekend

    Xbox Live is going all Transformers: War For Cybertron crazed this weekend, it seems. In addition to it's first batch of DLC (which you can queue up at the external link below), it's also getting a G

    Posted 13 years ago 23

  • Halo: Reach Campaign Revealed

    Microsoft unveiled the first trailer for Halo: Reach's campaign. Showing portions of the game's campaign (the first trailer since E3's unveiling of space combat) and including one of Marty O'Donnell'

    Posted 13 years ago 67

  • THQ To Make Wrestling More Casual Next Year

    THQ top man Danny Bilson has announced that they are working on an, as of yet, unnamed wrestling title which would encompass a more laid back and casual style of gameplay. Bilson likened the title to

    Posted 13 years ago 56

  • Where did the difficulty go?

    The earliest games are treasured in many of our hearts for being what we grew up with. A lot of us grew up with the NES and SNES. Many of us will also remember that a lot of these titles could be eit

    Posted 13 years ago 196

  • Tiger Woods 10 - Final Chance to Play the Pros

    Public Service Announcement: this week is your very last chance to get the Tough at the Top in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 achievement! The achievement requires you to play in the online Play-the-Pros to

    Posted 13 years ago 85

  • New Dragon Age DLC Coming

    Bioware has announced the next piece of DLC for Dragon Age: Origins. The next piece of DLC is called "Golems of Amgarrak." It will be hitting Xbox Live Marketplace on August 10. It will cost you 400

    Posted 13 years ago 56

  • R.U.S.E. Release Date Announced

    Aymeric Evennou, Ubisoft's Senior Community Developer, is worried that you may have heard some bad information about R.U.S.E. Perhaps a wrong release date? Well, Evennou is here to make sure you get

    Posted 13 years ago 26

  • Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 Screens

    Namco Bandai has published some new screenshots of the upcoming Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2. http://www.incgamers.com/images/screenshots/20323orig.jpg http://www.incgamers.com/images/screenshots/2032

    Posted 13 years ago 43

  • Dungeon Siege III Debut Trailer

    Earlier this month, Square Enix announced the third installment to the Dungeon Siege franchise, Dungeon Siege III. This is part of Square Enix's push to establish itself as a Western RPG publisher. I

    Posted 13 years ago 33

  • Red Dead Redemption: Legends & Killers Screens

    I have to apologize about this one, I've had this tab sitting open in my browser and it completely slipped my mind to post this on Friday. I hope you all won't verbally abuse me too much this time. O

    Posted 13 years ago 48

  • Dragon Age 2 Videos and More on Dialogue

    A few days ago, news got around that Dragon Age 2's dialogue system had been distilled down to three simple conversation options. You had, good, nasty, and badass options for Hawke's dialogue tree. I

    Posted 13 years ago 17

  • Alan Wake - The Signal DLC Now Available

    Hey bestseller! Want to enjoy more Alan Wake? Good news then, as The Signal for Alan Wake DLC pack has hit the Marketplace today. The DLC adds eight additional achievements, worth 250G total, and wil

    Posted 13 years ago 63

  • 343 Industries Is Not Done With Master Chief

    A little background for those not familiar with who 343 Industries is: when Bungie left Microsoft's exclusivity realm, Microsoft was forced with the task of finding a development studio that could pr

    Posted 13 years ago 137

  • Gamer Spotlight: Aerodynamo

    Greetings! Welcome to the latest installment of TrueAchivement's Gamer Spotlight! This week's staff interview will focus in on Aerodynamo. A little background on Aerodynamo, he joined the site on Sep

    Posted 13 years ago 60

  • RUMOR: Fatal Labyrinth Headed to XBLA?

    So, Fatal Labyrinth. For those of who have never heard of Fatal Labyrinth, it was a RPG of sorts that had you trekking through a 30-floor dungeon consisting of randomly generated floors, monsters, it

    Posted 13 years ago 37

  • XBLA Wednesday: July 28th, 2010

    The Summer of Arcade continues this week with: Hydro Thunder Hurricane - 1200 MSP Hydro Thunder Hurricane™ is the all new, full-featured sequel to the legendary arcade racer. Featuring rocket-powered

    Posted 13 years ago 58

  • Deal of the Week: July 26th, 2010

    Looks like somebody's getting a treat! This week's DotW sees a 50% price drop on all three pieces of Borderlands DLC, all only 400 MSP this week. As always, the DotW is exclusively for Xbox Live Gold

    Posted 13 years ago 86

  • Super Street Fighter IV Getting New Costumes

    During Capcom's panel they had a slide show moving along and Kotaku caught the following image: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/07/5....jpg Via Kotaku: [Street Fighter Producer Yos

    Posted 13 years ago 38

  • Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online In Development

    Via IGN: At a panel Saturday at Comic-Con, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono announced that Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition was in the works. No other details on the follow-up to the "Sup

    Posted 13 years ago 40

  • Capcom Announces Street Fighter X Tekken

    Over the weekend, Capcom announced Street Fight X Tekken at the San Diego Comic-Con. Street Fighter's producer Yoshinori Ono interrupted the Capcom panel to show off a new trailer and gameplay videos

    Posted 13 years ago 59

  • Mass Effect 2 Weapons Pack Accidently Revealed

    Some of you noticed something fishy about the "Lair of the Shadowbroker" DLC announced earlier in the week. Doktor Brun said: Are those new weapons i spy too? Confused Shelf said: Yes there is a new

    Posted 13 years ago 112

  • Skate 3 - After Dark DLC Hitting July 27th

    Most important info first: the upcoming After Dark pack DLC for Skate 3 is free... but only if you bought the game new. According to Black Box, the DLC was created as a "Thank You" to all the fans wh

    Posted 13 years ago 49

  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Multiplayer Video

    Call it the Friday haze. Between Gears 2 XP boosting (with some really nice people, minus Ando0420) and the hot and humid hell-ish summer day (we like to think it is normal in Pittsburgh), I just can

    Posted 13 years ago 47

  • Dragon Age 2 Conversation System

    IGN has a little preview up on some of the observations they made about Dragon Age 2. There are some notable bits that anyone who is following the game will be interested in. First it appears that co

    Posted 13 years ago 46

  • Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters Announced

    Green Lantern. The best comic book hero out there. If you wish to argue against this, you have all ready lost. First, let us deal with the elephant in the room: there is only one black Green Lantern,

    Posted 13 years ago 39

  • Rock Band DLC for 27th July

    Next week, coming to the Rock Band Music Store: Avenged Sevenfold – “Nightmare” Avenged Sevenfold – “Scream” Avenged Sevenfold – “Seize the Day” Juanes – “A Dios le Pido” Juanes – “Fíjate Bien” Juane

    Posted 13 years ago 60

  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels Screenshots

    In all honesty, I forgot who asked for more Yu-Gi-Oh! stories and I apologize for that. Hooked Gamers has acquired a handful of new screenshots of the upcoming XBLA game Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels (

    Posted 13 years ago 77

  • Mafia 2 Demo Details

    Just a brief update trickling out of Comic-Con concerning the recently announced 2K Games' Mafia 2 demo. The level you will be playing is called "Buzzsaw". Featuring characters Joe and Henry in the s

    Posted 13 years ago 20

  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Screens and Art

    Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was recently announced at the San Diego: Comic Con event. You find details of it in Dog of Thunder 's fine newspost. 38 Studios has released some screen art for the game

    Posted 13 years ago 39

  • Marvel Super Hero Squad Coming To The 360

    The Marvel Super Hero Squad started off as a line of super deformed figures more appropriate for children than your average action figure. Catching on in popularity, the Super Hero Squad now has a re

    Posted 13 years ago 24

  • Bungie Reveals Forge World

    As a beloved fan of the Halo franchise, I was blown away by the inclusion of the Forge game mode in Halo 3, such that I might have spent just as much time building and creating new maps as I did kill

    Posted 13 years ago 159

  • CONFIRMED: MS Releasing Halo: Reach Console Bundle

    Updated story: Major Nelson has just announced that there will be a $400 Halo: Reach Console Bundle for release. It will be released on the same date as the rest of the Halo: Reach editions hit the s

    Posted 13 years ago 86

  • Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Release Date

    It is no secret I have a huge... man crush on the upcoming sequel Dead Rising 2. I am also equally excited for the demo-slash-DLC-prequel-slash-whatcha-ma-call-it titled Dead Rising: Case Zero. Some

    Posted 13 years ago 61

  • Phantasy Star Universe Expansion Now Free

    Sega have announced that Phantasy Star Universe's DLC expansion is free from now on. That's right, you could pay Sega in peanuts for all they care. The expansion is titled "GUARDIANS Advance Content"

    Posted 13 years ago 28

  • Transformers: War For Cybertron DLC Arriving 7/27

    Coming July 27th is the first piece of DLC for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Creatively titled as a "New Map and Character Pack", here is the description from Xbox.com: Become the ultimate weapon

    Posted 13 years ago 40

  • Monday Night Combat: Meet the Sniper Trailer

    The sniper, to scientists he is known as Weakerus Sniperii. A good sniper is a nightmare to any team in any multiplayer match. Snipers have been blamed for having overpowered weapons and low health.

    Posted 13 years ago 33

  • Final Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Universe

    Quick catch-up: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is an upcoming Spidey game from Beenox and Activision, cleverly utilising their Spider-Man license to offer four distinctly different universes across

    Posted 13 years ago 47

  • New Dead Space 2 Trailer

    EA dropped a new trailer for Dead Space 2 into our collective laps. It shows more battling of necromorphs. Some slicing and dicing action. I believe there was also a curbstomp involved. It looks good

    Posted 13 years ago 24

  • New Mass Effect 2 DLC

    Remember your old friend Liara T'Soni? For some of you she may have been more than a friend. I know I'm guilty of that. I digress, the battle to find out who the Shadow Broker is and how to take him

    Posted 13 years ago 77

  • Gears of War 2: 20x XP Has Begun

    Just a helpful reminder that the Gears of War 2 event with 20x XP has started. In fact, as I write this, it has been in effect for 10 minutes. What are you doing reading this? Stuck at work? Pretend

    Posted 13 years ago 132

  • Stopping The Red Dead Griefing

    Rockstar recently updated their Red Dead Redemption blog with some interesting notes for their next title update, which will be dropping next month. First, Rockstar is watching you. Yes you, Mr. Hack

    Posted 13 years ago 82

  • New Concept Art from Dragon Age 2

    Suddenly, I am on board with the new Dragon Age game. As long as I can use the weapon depicted in Bioware's latest tease of concept art. http://dragonage.bioware.com/cdn/L/DA2/announce/concept....jpg

    Posted 13 years ago 9

  • Fable 3 Comic-Con Screens

    ScrawlFX has three new screenshots released for the San Diego Comic Con event. There really isn't much analysis. Dark. Moody. Some sort of mechanical wooden ride. Magic. http://scrawlfx.com/gallery/a

    Posted 13 years ago 32

  • H.A.W.X. 2 Has European Release Date

    Ubisoft has confirmed that Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 will be hitting shelves September 3rd in Europe. Ubisoft, at this time, has not confirmed any other regions. Retailers for the United States have it

    Posted 13 years ago 6

  • Force Unleashed 2 Pre-Order Bonuses

    GameStop has unleashed their pre-order bonus for all those will to plop down $5+ towards their purchase of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. For those fans of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (all three

    Posted 13 years ago 28

  • Mafia 2 Demo Coming for Protection Money

    2K has confirmed to various media outlets that Mafia 2's demo will be hitting Xbox Live on August 10. The latest issue of MCV carries an ad with that date on it. From 2K's Mafia 2 website: Born the s

    Posted 13 years ago 16

  • Six More Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Characters Revealed

    Earlier today Capcom jumped the gun on San Diego Comic Con and revealed four more characters in the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Returning from Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are Doctor Doom and Chun-Li. Makin

    Posted 13 years ago 70

  • 38 Studios Bringing Kingdoms of Amalur to 360

    Considering I am a Boston, Massachusetts born and bred nerdling, the following news is nothing short of amazing for me. 38 Studios, founded by former Red Sox/Diamondbacks/Phillies ace Curt Schilling

    Posted 13 years ago 98

  • Tor Books Announces New Halo Novels

    The following news post is dedicated to all of those followers and posters of What is the last book you read?. Every so often someone will mention that they just finished Ghosts of Onyx of the latest

    Posted 13 years ago 53

  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Release Window

    There was some speculation that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was going to get pushed back into 2011. Konami has come out and said "no no no". Konami will be releasing Castlevania: Lords of Shadow som

    Posted 13 years ago 32

  • Red Faction: Origins Coming to TVs

    THQ announced a few days ago the official plans for the Red Faction TV-movie deal with the SyFy (pronounced Sci-Fi) channel. This will be a two hour live-action event that is scheduled to hit airwave

    Posted 13 years ago 17

  • Save Or Kill Carmine In Gears Of War 3 For Charity

    In Gears of War, the first Carmine brother, Anthony, was killed valiantly in the line of duty while saving the rest of Delta Squad. At least that's the story that Benjamin Carmine believes in the sec

    Posted 13 years ago 292

  • Medal of Honor Gets Its 360 Beta

    So, you may recall a few weeks back when Medal of Honor began its beta, PS3 and PC users had no problems logging onto EA's servers and redeeming their beta keys and getting directly into the action,

    Posted 13 years ago 88

  • SEGA Bringing Thor, God of Thunder to Xbox

    In a move that took absolutely no one by surprise, SEGA announced today that they will be releasing Thor: The Video Game in conjunction with the release of Thor: The Movie on May 6th, 2011. While no

    Posted 13 years ago 46

  • Alice: Madness Returns Announced

    You may remember American McGee's Alice, which took the beloved fairy tale of Alice in Wonderland and twisted it into a dark and bloody story of insanity. It came out nearly 10 years ago, and has som

    Posted 13 years ago 37

  • Shank Gets Release Date and Price

    EA gave us some details today in their latest press release about their newest side scrolling, beat-em-up entitled Shank. The first bit of info they dropped is how the backstory would be told, player

    Posted 13 years ago 22

  • Fight Night Championship Announced

    Fight Night Championship is the fifth iteration of the Fight Night series from EA sports. EA assures consumers that this is not an expansion of Fight Night Round 4, but a new, standalone retail game.

    Posted 13 years ago 15

  • Xbox 360 Amazon Gold Box Deals Today

    Today only the lightning deals for Amazon.com are exclusively for the 360. The deal of the day is Transformers: War for Cybertron for $42.98 (28% off). The rest of the deals are: Singularity with gra

    Posted 13 years ago 23

  • Kinect Pricing Confirmed

    Microsoft has gone on record and confirmed the price-point for the Kinect across the US, UK, and Europe. United States - $149 United Kingdom - £129 Europe - €149 That is for the sensor bar itself. If

    Posted 13 years ago 108

  • Dead Rising: Case Zero Plot Details

    Capcom has released some details about the plot for Dead Rising: Case Zero. Andriasang was at the "Save the Zombie" event in Tokyo and secured us some details about what this is, exactly. Case 0 tell

    Posted 13 years ago 20

  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Release Date Announced

    No, not the movie, I'm talking about the XBLA game! The old school side-scrolling beat 'em up is scheduled to hit the Marketplace on August 25th, and will set you back 1,200 gold coins Microsoft Poin

    Posted 13 years ago 28

  • Trials HD - Big Thrills DLC Announced

    RedLynx have today announced that Trials HD will be receiving a second DLC: the Big Thrills pack. The DLC is set for release in Q4 this year. Here's what the DLC will include, directly from the press

    Posted 13 years ago 46

  • Bargain Breakdown: July 18th, 2010

    Welcome to the first edition of Saint's Sunday Saver, where I'll be bringing some awesome deals to the forefront of your attention, because with the economy the way it is, paying full price is paying

    Posted 13 years ago 112

  • Rock Band 3 Release Date Announced

    I feel almost embarrassed that as a huge, huge Rock Band fan it took me three whole hours to realise that Rock Band 3 now has a concrete - and fairly imminent - release date. That date, ladies and no

    Posted 13 years ago 52

  • XBLA Wednesday: July 21st, 2010

    The third annual 'Summer of Arcade' begins this Wednesday! Just as a reminder for you lovely people, here's the offer information that DavieMarshall was kind enough to share with us in his Summer of

    Posted 13 years ago 52

  • The Disappearing Genre

    I just found out that I am an “average gamer”. A recent study has shown that the average age for a “gamer” is 29. What does this mean? To me, it means that most gamers grew up with a console in their

    Posted 13 years ago 59

  • Netflix Canada Coming

    Netflix announced today that they are preparing to launch its streaming capabilities into the 51st state great country of Canada. Our hockey loving allies to the north will have a large library avail

    Posted 13 years ago 42

  • Call of Duty Membership Plans Leaked [UPDATED]

    Update: Whew. Some heated debate in there. Still a lot of fun. Either way, we got word from all three big parties involved here. From Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling's blog: To be clear: There is not,

    Posted 13 years ago 201

  • Plants Vs. Zombies Hitting XBLA

    PopCap has announced that Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade will be graced with its popular Plants Vs. Zombies title. It will hit XBLA in September, costing you 1200 MSP. Achievements had been leaked for

    Posted 13 years ago 34

  • Dragon Age: Origins and Awakenings Patch

    Bioware has a very large list of fixes that was just submitted to Microsoft for certification. Here is what is happening: Release Notes: General Fixes • Daggers will now properly assign the dexterity

    Posted 13 years ago 21

  • You're Getting Oddworld Sooner Than You Think

    In an interview with VG247 (external link), Just Add Water (JAW) boss Stewart Gilray announced that you will get an official Oddworld announcement (an announcement of an announcement, oh boy!) toward

    Posted 13 years ago 16

  • Deal of the Week: July 19th, 2010

    Great deals this week for big Assassin's Creed fans, not so much for Achievement fans. This week's DotW sees a price drop on both of Assassin's Creed II's DLCs and two of the game's items on the Avat

    Posted 13 years ago 39

  • UK Game Classification Changes Delayed

    Time for some UK centric video game industry news. The Video Standards Council over here in the UK have previously announced the switch to the Pan European Games Information content rating system (th

    Posted 13 years ago 66

  • Rock Band DLC for 20th July

    A few punk songs coming to the Rock Band Store next week, they are: Bad Religion – “New Dark Ages” Bad Religion – “No Control” * The Stooges – “1969” * The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog” * The Stoog

    Posted 13 years ago 62

  • Spec-Ops: The Line Beta Sign-ups Begin

    Need to get a military third person shooter fix? Don't want to wait until later this year? Well, you'll be pleased to know the beta for 2K's upcoming shooter Spec Ops: The Line is now taking applicat

    Posted 13 years ago 116

  • Mega Man Universe Announced

    Capcom just announced Mega Man Universe for the Xbox Live. What is Mega Man Universe... well we are not quite sure either. It appears that Mega Man Universe is the classic type of Mega Man game but w

    Posted 13 years ago 45

  • Breach Slips To January 2011

    Atomic Games' Breach was big news coming out of PAX East this year due to the theft of some of its netcode by a criminal mastermind. Since then, there has been little news on the game, including when

    Posted 13 years ago 18

  • James Bond 007: Blood Stone Announced

    Activision have today announced that their newest Bond game finally has a name: James Bond 007: Blood Stone. Oddly enough though, the press release that they sent out announcing this starts with a wh

    Posted 13 years ago 48

  • Kinect's Rock Tour Event!

    There are those on the fence with the Kinect. There are those that could care less about it and are going to post comments like "pass", "lame", and "Codster bad". We get the point. You're too hype, c

    Posted 13 years ago 47

  • Oddworld IS BACK

    Just Add Water (JAW) just announced on their blog that they have been working on new Oddworld games across all platforms for the past 12 months. I guess we can forgive the sneaky bastards for hiding

    Posted 13 years ago 66

  • Madden 11 Demo Details

    Remember last year how EA decided to fracture the demo between those that had pre-ordered the game and those that did not? You remember how if you were on the fence for the game EA rewarded you with

    Posted 13 years ago 21

  • New Gamerscore & Achievements Limits Confirmed

    Okay, firstly I would heartily recommend you read Xbox LIVE & Platform Architect Vince Curley's new blog post for anyone who has ever wondered about how Achievements actually work, as well as the his

    Posted 13 years ago 139

  • Dead Rising 2: Zombrex Edition

    http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/jgonzo/l....jpg See that? Pre-ordered with the ninja costume? North America just won the battle for best special edition. This pre-order set is exclusiv

    Posted 13 years ago 52

  • Zombrex Dead Rising Sun

    This one is out of left-field for me. I hope THQ and the Saint's Row people are taking notes on how to do a proper media blitz. To get the hype train moving chugging along, Capcom will be releasing a

    Posted 13 years ago 38

  • Next Bonus XP Event For Gears of War 2

    Another week, another story going up about Rod Fergusson , the man known as GearsViking on Twitter. Why is this man so important right now? Because the amount of people following GearsViking on Twitt

    Posted 13 years ago 486

  • Aliens vs. Predator Patch Cancelled

    Over at the Sega forums, Administrator Clumsyorchid announced that he received mail regarding a promised patch for Aliens versus Predator. (Spoilers: It's not good.) I've just received a mail this AM

    Posted 13 years ago 31

  • Microsoft Cancels 1 vs. 100

    R.I.P. 1 vs 100. Microsoft have today announced that the Guiness World Record-holding game - "Most contestants in a game show," a whopping 114,000 simultaneous players at one point during the beta -

    Posted 13 years ago 182

  • DJ Hero 2 Artist List Announced

    Activision, in either a move of pure marketing brilliance or simply going through the wrong channels, announced the artist list for the sequel to last year's DJ Hero, DJ Hero 2, but instead of announ

    Posted 13 years ago 71

  • Blacklight Tango Down 2 Coming Summer 2011

    Blacklight: Tango Down is already a sales hit for developer Zombie. Even though it came out on the XBLA just a week ago, the insta-hit has already spawned a sequel. Zombie CEO Mark Long confirmed the

    Posted 13 years ago 50

  • Listen to a Track from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

    Let me say it right now: Anamanaguchi is awesome. I blame GamesRadar for using them as their theme song to create an addiction to both their podcast and Anamanaguchi's music. Discovering today that t

    Posted 13 years ago 19

  • Atari's Haunted House Making a Return

    Haunted House is an old game from the Atari days. Yes, that very same game that you can get in the Game Room. Quick synopsis from Wikipedia about the game and how it operates: Haunted House is an Ata

    Posted 13 years ago 24

  • Halo: Reach Collector Edition Pictures

    Remember back in April when DavieMarshall reported on the Halo: Reach collector's editions? Well, Bungie has now released some photos of the two special editions you can purchase. http://www.blogcdn.

    Posted 13 years ago 67

  • Potentially Leaked Kinect Dashboard Pictures

    UPDATE: The images have been pulled down. Logic-sunrise received a nice "cease your activities!" type of letter. Sorry to those late to the show. Non-English speaking website (is that Spanish?) Logic

    Posted 13 years ago 68

  • Do You Do Everything with Your Shirt Off?

    This isn't exactly gaming news. This is news involving someone from the gaming industry and something awesome. In America, there is this new Old Spice commercial. Let me just tell you that Old Spice

    Posted 13 years ago 163

  • Medal of Honor Limited Edition

    EA have announced the next Medal of Honor title (due out October 12th for the US, and October 15th for Europe) now has a Limited Edition available for pre-order. The Limited Edition offers the gamers

    Posted 13 years ago 60

  • Molyneux's Milo

    In Oxford, England, an event called TEDGlobal 2010 is underway. TEDGlobal, (or Technology, Entertainment and Design Global to deconstruct it's acronym) is a non-profit organisation devoted to 'Ideas

    Posted 13 years ago 41

  • Nexuiz gets CryEngine 3

    For those of you who have not heard of Nexuiz, it is a free open-source first person shooter developed by the folks over at IllFonic that was released in 2005 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Based off o

    Posted 13 years ago 32

  • Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Release Date Changed

    In an incredibly rare move, IO Interactive today announced that their upcoming Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days has already gone gold, and will now release a week earlier than previously scheduled! The game

    Posted 13 years ago 67

  • Dead Rising 2 DLC and Combo Cards

    The Dead Rising 2 information train seems to be working at high speeds lately. Perhaps there is a build-up to a release date announcement for Dead Rising: Case Zero, but that is purely the author's s

    Posted 13 years ago 41

  • Driver: San Francisco Hits Speed Bump

    Only a short while back during E3 it was revealed that there was to be a return to roots for Tanner and co, via the title Driver: San Francisco. However, the original launch date of November 26th has

    Posted 13 years ago 26

  • Dragon Age 2 Alpha Screenshots

    I believe I figured out why Bioware went with the name "Hawke" for the upcoming Dragon Age 2 sequel. It was so I could make corny jokes like the strapline of this story. Anyways, GameInformer continu

    Posted 13 years ago 33

  • MLB 2K10's Midsummer Classic is Now Obtainable

    With the MLB All-Star break currently taking place, the once a year MLB2k10 achievement is now available: in The actual All-Star game takes place tomorrow (July 13th, 2010) but the achievement is alr

    Posted 13 years ago 35

  • XBLA Wednesday: July 14th, 2010

    This week, hopefully keeping you entertained: Deathspank - 1200 MSP For uncounted years the wanderer DeathSpank has been a Dispenser of Justice, a Vanquisher of Evil, and a Hero to the Downtrodden. T

    Posted 13 years ago 55

  • Deal of the Week: July 12th, 2010

    This week's Deal of the Week is purpose-built for South Park fans, seeing a reduction on both their XBLA game and the hilarious Eric Cartman cover of “Poker Face," DLC for the Rock Band series. Sadly

    Posted 13 years ago 64

  • Halo: Reach Achievement Details

    Whatever your opinions on the franchise, Halo: Reach is undoubtedly one of the biggest, most highly-anticipated games of the year. Combining that fact with the site's love of achievements and the lea

    Posted 13 years ago 230

  • CAVE Bringing Guwange to XBLA

    Cave, the psychotic company famous for the hardest SHMUP's in gaming, recently announced that their 1999 arcade classic Guwange will be ported for the XBLA. A full English translation is the only ann

    Posted 13 years ago 39

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