Coming to Xbox Marketplace

Discounts available December 21st - December 31st,2010:
Super Meat Boy Discounted Price: 800 Savings: 33%
Comic Jumper Discounted Price: 800 Savings: 33%
Toy Soldiers Discounted Price: 800 Savings: 33%
Banjo Tooie Discounted Price: 600 Savings: 50%
Castle Crashers Discounted Price: 600 Savings: 50%
The UnderGarden Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50%
Risk Factions Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50%
Afterburner Climax Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50%
Borderland's Claptrap New Revolution Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50%
Carcassonne Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50%


Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week 
Week of December 20 – Forza Car Packs:
World Class Car Pack, 200 Microsoft Points (50 percent off)
Summer Velocity Car Pack, 200 Microsoft Points (50 percent off)
Exotic Car Pack, 200 Microsoft Points (50 percent off)
Road & Track Car Pack, 200 Microsoft Points (50 percent off)
Audi R8 LMS RC Car, 160 Microsoft Points (50 percent off)
Checkered Flags, 80 Microsoft Points (50 percent off)

 
Xbox Games On Demand:
December 21: Red Dead Redemption
December 21: Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands
December 28: Transformers: War for Cybertron
December 28: Just Cause 2
December 28: Ghostbusters
Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace:
December 15: Bomberman LIVE
December 15: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I
December 15: Winter Wear
December 23: Disney Sidekicks
December 23: University Collection (College Football Bowl Season)
December 23: Ninjas Collection
Xbox Game Add-Ons:
December 21: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion Pack, 1200 Microsoft Points
December 29: Bomberman Live: Battlefest Bomb-Up Pack I, 240 Microsoft Points
Xbox LIVE Arcade:
December 22: A World of Keflings, 800 Microsoft Points and available worldwide
December 29: Raskulls, 800 Microsoft Points
January 5: ilomilo, 800 Microsoft Points

 Source: Major Nelson

Game all night, changes to win 4000 MSP & more

Looking for a Reason to game all night long? Here's a pretty good one.

Lexus is sponsoring a all night Gaming marathon on Xbox live.playing Halo Reach Saturday December 18th,2010.

You will have Download some Lexus content to be eligible some prizes.  Eight (8) Lucky gamers will win 4000 Microsoft Points every hour from 6pm PST until 6:00am PST.

Keep updated on the Xbox 360 Dashboard.

Infection Clips Needed!

I am in need of Halo 3 & Halo Reach infection clips (Customs or  MM) for a video project my BNet group, Social Infection is working on.

We are starting a monthly video series for infection clips, for our first video we are doing clips from both H3 and Reach.

If you have any funny,awesome,interesting,weird Infection clips from either Customs or Matchmaking, please either post a link(s) to the clip in your Bungie.net Fileshare  or email them to me.

Your gamertag will be included in the credits or during your video. If you do not wish to have your gamertag in the video, please state so.

You may submit as many as you wish.

Thank you!

Creating an article for zombies to counter Campers

 You know those spots where humans go and camp and its pretty hard for the zombies to get to them? Like the ledge on Sword base or the cliffs on asylum?

Well my BNet Group Social Infection is creating and working on a article for zombies with tips,tricks and information on how to infect or force out the humans from the camping spots.

Thread*.

We are welcoming anyone to contribute with screenshots,video clips,tips and information to our guide.



*Must be a Social Infection member to view it.

Bungie's Banhammer Strikes Again!

Today Bungie went about and Banned thousands more players who reset their challenges or earned credits illegitimacy have had their credits reset and earned a 2 week ban from earning credits.

As always, you won't get banned for playing too much gruntpocolpyse or playing your "favorite" Campaign level over and over again.

Also, if you can think you can get your credits back by trying to fool Bungie, it won't work. Tyson Green has been looking into players claims the "Banhammer is broken". So far, many of been struck down.

[Source] Calling the Whaaaaaaaambulance!

Undead Nightmare Release Date to be annouced soon

Sooner than you think.

Rockstar posted in the comments section of the Official Trailer for the new DLC released today, that they will be announcing the Release date within the next 48 hours.

Goodbye to Infection & Race in Rumble Pit

Bungie has confirmed that sometime down the road, All Infection & Race Variants will be removed from Halo Reach's FFA Playlist Rumble Pit. No time or further details have been released yet.

[Source]

Halo Reach Oct.5 Playlist Changes

Tomorrow Bungie will unleash its first Playlist changes to Halo Reach's Matchmaking system. Here is a complete list of the changes:

PLAYLISTS

Rumble Pit
* Added Crazy King
* Added Juggernaut
* Removed Oddball on Asylum

Team Slayer
* Removed SWAT
* Removed Classic
* Weights adjusted based on voting data

Team SWAT (New!)
* Based on existing Team Slayer SWAT offering
* Removed Hemorrhage
* Replaced Zealot with Arena Zealot map variant

Team Objective
* Added Crazy King
* Added several gametypes on Powerhouse (CTF, Assault, Stockpile, Crazy King, 3 Plots)
* Removed heavy vehicles from all 4v4 Team Objective gametypes

Big Team Battle
* Added Crazy King
* Removed SWAT
* Removed Snipers from Boneyard
* Weights adjusted based on voting data

Doubles Arena
* Removed Slayer Pro for Season 2
* Removed Boardwalk
* Replaced Zealot with Arena Zealot map variant

Team Arena
* Removed Slayer Pro for Season 2
* Replaced Zealot with Arena Zealot map variant



MAPS

Arena Zealot (New!)
* Added a softkill zone to the space area
* Modified initial spawns so enemies cannot see each other

Zealot
* Objects can no longer be dropped into the boot_base

Asylum
* Removed multiple duplicate Headhunter score zones

Boneyard
* Changed the base object for territories from a hill marker to a flag stand
* Objects can no longer come to rest on the out of bounds cliff behind the scaffolding where the Invasion core is captured
* Players can no longer sit in the out of bounds area under the ship scaffolding

Pinnacle
* Health Packs should not respawn after 15 seconds

Hemorrhage
* Landmine removed from Red team's west cliff
* Respawn time for all Mongoose vehicles is now 45 seconds
* Scorpions replaced with Wraiths (4 minute respawn)

Paradiso
* Respawn timer for Concussion Rifle at Red base is now 30 seconds to match Concussion Rifle at Blue base

Reflection
* Changed the base object for territories from a hill marker to a flag stand

Boardwalk
* Changed the base object for territories from a hill marker to a flag stand

Powerhouse
* Respawn timer for all Needler weapons is now 45 seconds


GAMETYPES

Global Changes
* Slayer DMR now has motion tracker enabled
* Evade has replaced Hologram for all gametypes in which players can hold objects (CTF, Assault, Stockpile, Oddball)
* Evade has replaced Dropshield for gametypes which create concentrated gameplay in specific areas (Crazy King, Territories, Oddball)
* All Classic gametypes should now include Sprint as default equipment

King of the Hill
* Teams are now always able to correctly score points
* Players standing in the hill no longer receive extra points upon returning from a host migration

Rocket Race
* Players now attached to vehicles after being on foot for 10 seconds
* Flipped vehicles will be detected to prevent players from attaching to a non-upright vehicle
* Added functionality for tracking and reporting rotations
* Fountain of Mongeese should no longer be possible (don't ask)
* Players are no longer able to jack another teams Mongoose
* Players are no longer forced into a specific role of driver or gunner
* All players start with a Rocket Launcher
* Players move at 50% speed, do dignificantly reduced damage and are marked with a nav icon
* Players on foot are now able to score points in Rocket Race

Juggernaut
* The Juggernaut no longer sees other players as allies upon returning from a host migration
* New clients after a host migration will no longer lose their Juggernaut status

Territories
* All teams now have separate capture timers for each territory
* Locked territories will no longer prevent players from using equipment
* The flag in the territory is now attached if the territory is a flag stand object
* Added a HUD_Widget to display contested status to players inside a territory
* The progress bar for a territory will now show as full when that territory is being contested (capture progress is saved and will appear again once the territory is no longer contested)
* Random flag clothes will no longer disappear after a round transition

Oddball
* Bombs in Hot Potato now properly report carry time
* Multiple hot potato bombs will no longer spawn in the same location
* The carry time reported stat will now always be correct after a host migration has occurred
* Players carrying the oddball during a host migration will no longer receive extra points

Stockpile
* All stockpile flags are now attached to their spawn location if it is a flag stand

Invasion
* The game score is now set per frame tick based off of the current phase
* A failsafe game end timer has been added to catch any possible bad cases of Invasion games not ending properly

Invasion: Boneyard
* The core will now reset whenever it is thrown through a shield door into a spawning location in Phase 3

Invasion (Assault) and Assault
* Added sudden death to Invasion (Assault) and Assault gametypes

Race
* Players who die before the first checkpoint will no longer spawn in a random location on the map


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Four more Screenshots- Undead Nightmare DLC

Rockstar released four more Screenshots from the upcoming DLC for Red Dead Redemption, the Undead Nightmare pack.

 

 

 

 View the High Definition Versions here.

Undead Nightmare Pack at NYCC

Rockstar Games is letting everyone get a first hand look at the Upcoming DLC for Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare Pack at this weekends New York Comic Con. They will also be giving away some Limited Edition Swag.

The New York Comic Con is hosted at the Jacob K. Javits Center, located at 655 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan.


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Result of Cleaning my gaming room

I finally got around to cleaning my Gaming room today, it hasn't been used or cleaned since september.

Tons of crap in there,as you will see in the picture below.

Spider Count- 0 big ones, atleast 4 smaller ones


There is more crap on shelving in other parts of the room. Once my Dad gets his own TV I will get my 2nd TV back and I will set up my Game room.

Beta set to go off on Thursday

Mancannon aka Sketch aka Brian Jarrad,Community Director for Bungie posted on neogaf forums that the Halo Reach Beta will be going off on Thursday May 20th at 10am PST.

The Stats and Files will be available for a bit after that, but eventually be wiped.

Get playing, have one last all nighter for the Reach beta. It will be your last (Atleast for the beta)

One step greener

I have just changed my Bank statement options.I will no longer receive Bank statements in the mail. Less paper use.




Are you viewing/getting your bank and other bills via Email or online? Consider it. Go green.

Rocket Race is live!

Rocket Race Double Exp Weekend is now live in Halo 3!

Marksmanship takes a backseat to fast driving. Get to the destinations to win!

Category: Double EXP Weekend
Team Size: 2
Max Party Size: 8
Heroic and Legendary Map Packs Required

Gametypes

• Rocket Race (100%) - A variant of VIP. Teams of 2 race to reach destination points. First team to 10 points wins. Player traits: Invincible. Rocket Launcher primary spawns with no secondary weapons. No Friendly Fire. Map Traits: No weapons or grenades on map, mongooses only. 10 minute match time limit.

Maps

• Isolation Speed (Isolation) - Isolation variant designed for Rocket Race. Skipped after Veto.

• Valhalla Speed (Valhalla) - Valhalla variant designed for Rocket Race.

• Sandtrap Speed (Sandtrap) - Sandtrap variant designed for Rocket Race.

• Rat's Nest Speed (Rat's Nest) - Rat's Nest variant designed for Rocket Race. Part of the Heroic Map Pack (REQUIRED).

• Standoff Speed (Standoff) - Standoff variant designed for Rocket Race. Part of the Heroic Map Pack (REQUIRED).

• Avalanche Speed (Avalanche) - Avalanche variant designed for Rocket Race. Part of the Legendary Map Pack (REQUIRED).

  
  
  See in at the finish line (Maybe)  You have until Monday,May 14th at 2:00 am PST.
  

Halo Reach Beta Update!

Bungie has dropped a Update into the Halo Reach Beta to address some "under the hood" stuff and some visible,much called for change. See what's changes below:

• Grab Bag’s “SvE Slayer” pits Spartans vs. Elites
• Spartan DMR Loadout removed from Invasion Phase 1
• CTF Flag return proximity slightly increased
• Headhunter skull pickup radius increased
• Same team Stockpile flag removal and re-scoring resolved

As of 5:00pm, it's live. Thank you Bungie!

DLC Daily Wrap up

I will post some DLC and Indie Games that have been posted today, here. I may miss a day or a week. This may not be everything that has been released today.

Indie Game: Burning Fist of Rage

Arcade: Magic: The Gathering
-Hands of Flame
-Eyes of Shadow
-Ears of the Elves
-Cries of Rage
-Thoughts of the Wind

Demo: Iron man 2

Arcade: Rocket Knights

Arcade: Things on Wheels

Your Q's about New Vegas,answered

Or atleast they will be.

Bethesda is taking your questions via Facebook and Twitter about Fallout: New Vegas.

By Twitter:

@Reply Fallout with your question followed by the hash tag #newvegasqa

By Facebook:
Post a comment on the Fallout Facebook page.


Forum:
Fallout: New Vegas Forums

Adventure Game Bundle for 9.99

Steam hits macs today. Lucas Arts is celebrating by giving you 4 games for $9.99 total.



Download it.

Top 100 Most Sucessful Game Developers

Develop 100 released the "Top 100 Most successful game Developers". Nintendo is number 1,Infinity ward 2 and Bungie is number 16th.

See the full list here.

Glad to see some Canadian Developers up there.

New Lost Planet 2 Kotobukiya Figurine Pictures

Capcom dropped some new screenshots of New Lost Planet 2 Figurine's expected to be released Mid June for around $40 in various comic & hobby stores.

More Images can be found here.

Halo Takes over 4 spots in the top 5

Major Nelson posted the latest LIVE Activity:

I'm surprised Reach didn't take number 1 spot. Halo Franchise took 4 spots out of the Top 5 this week on Xbox Live:

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)

1 Modern Warfare 2
2 Halo 3: ODST
3 Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta (Pre-order the game)
4 Halo 3
5 Call of Duty: WaW
6 FIFA 10
7 Battlefield Bad Co. 2
8 GTA IV (Purchase the full game for direct download)
9 Call of Duty 4
10 Gears of War 2
11 UFC Undisputed 2010 Demo (Pre-order the game)
12 Splinter Cell Conviction
13 Left 4 Dead 2
14 Skate 3 Demo (Pre-order the game)
15 Forza Motorsport 3 (Download the demo)
16 NBA 2K10
17 Game Room **
18 Split Second Demo (Pre-order the game)
19 NHL 10
20 Borderlands




Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 Zombie Apocalypse
2 Game Room **
3 Toy Soldiers
4 RAYSTORM HD
5 Trials HD
6 Tecmo Bowl Throwback
7 Castle Crashers
8 Zeno Clash UE
9 AFTER BURNER CLIMAX
10 Perfect Dark
11 UNO
12 Battlefield 1943

13 Marvel vs. Capcom 2
14 Final Fight™: Double Impact
15 Magic: The Gathering
16 Worms 2: Armageddon
17 The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
18 Worms
19 Hasbro Family Game Night *
20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Classic Arcade


The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.
**Combined sales of all Game Room titles

*Combined sales of all Hasbro Family Game Night titles






Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased) 1 Baby Maker Extreme
2 Avatar Onslaught
3 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
4 Home Run Challenge
5 Breath of Death VII
6 The Impossible Game
7 Avatar Drop
8 Ambient Water
9 Avatar Showdown
10 Super Avatar Hero Force
11 Avatar Avenue
12 Miner Dig Deep
13 Decay - Part 1
14 The Impossible Avatar Getaway
15 Zombies 2.0
16 Avatar Run
17 Inside Lacrosse's CL2010
18 Avatar Dash
19 Twin Blades
20 Beat Hazard




Games for Windows Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s) 1 GTA IV
2 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
3 Colin McRae : Dirt 2
4 Street Fighter IV
5 Fallout 3
6 Bioshock 2
7 Fuel
8 LOST PLANET COLONIES
9  Halo 2
10 Resident Evil 5
11 Shadowrun
12 Batman: Arkham Asylum
13 Gears of War
14 Red Faction Guerrilla
15 Tinker
16 Battlestations: Pacific
17 Universe at War
18 FlatOut UC
19 Quantum of Solace PC
20 Section 8

It's been a very long time since Halo 3 hasn't been in the Top 3.  Halo 2 (Vista) takes the 9th spot for Games for Windows.


What were your predictions?

Enslaved Debut Trailer

Video Games | Enslaved | Exclusive Debut Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

"Two fates become one and the same in Enslaved's debut trailer"

Publisher: Namco Bandai Games

Developer: Ninja Theory Ltd.

Honor Your Marines

There is a new (Free) Theme on the Xbox Live Marketplace to honor our Marines:

Description:

"Earned. Never Given. We don't ask for anything more than everything you've got. And we will let you know when you've given it. You will be measured not by what you have, but how much of yourself you're willing to give. Not by your ability to pull yourself up, but your commitment to stand shoulder to shoulder. Not by your strength, but your honor. You will not be given anything other than the opportunity to prove that you have the courage to stand on an impenetrable line of warriors stretching 234 years. Our title is earned, never given. And what's earned is yours forever."

Direct Link

Search & Destroy now in Team Tactical

In Modern Warfare 2, Search & Destroy has been Added to first person Team tactical on Both Xbox Live and Playstation Network.

New RDR Video Coming

Accoridng to a Rockstar Tweet:
A Brand New Red Dead Redemption trailer is coming later this week. I'll post the video up here on my blog when it goes live!

Halo Reach FFA Tournament

Destroyer Movies have been around since the Halo 2 era. They are hosting their first FFA Tournament. Want to kick some ass and win Microsoft Points? Then this is for you! Watch the video,follow the instructions and get some Reach Action!

You've only got 9 days left till the beta is gone forever.

Used copies of EA Sports Games will not have multiplayer

EA Introduced the Online Pass .

To access the Online and Bonus content in a EA game, you must redeem a Online Pass Code(EA Sports website account required). The Online (Pass) Code is printed on the inside of the Game Manuals that comes with the game. If you buy the copy used, you must purchase a new one.

See more Info and a FAQ,here.

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Test post from phone

You've received a Message from a TELUS phone. For more information on TELUS Mobility's Picture or Video Messaging, visit telusmobility.com/snap. If you don't hear or see the file, download the Quick Time player.

Vous avez reçu un Message d'un téléphone TELUS. Pour obtenir plus d'information sur la messagerie photo ou vidéo de TELUS, allez à telusmobilite.com/clic. Si vous ne voyez ni n'entendez le fichier, veuillez télécharger QuickTime.

Game with Rockstar- May 13th

Rockstar Games is hosting another Multiplayer Event this Thursday (May 13th) in Episodes of Liberty City on Playstation Network.

To see more details enter your Social Club Login Info or Sign up here.

Xbox Deal of the Week

The Ballad of Gay Tony add-on for Xbox 360 is now 1200 Microsoft Points (Regularly 1600). This deal is only for this week.

"The Ballad of Gay Tony injects Liberty City with an overdose of guns, glitz, and grime. As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (a.k.a. "Gay Tony"), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.
"

If you liked the original GTA IV story and the Lost and Damned, this DLC is a must.

Bungie Friday News Wrap Up

Here is the news from Bungie.net on Friday.

Reclaimer 253- Stone Epitaph, Part Four

Taking Fire!

Bungie Explains Ep. 9
Anoj is back with another "Bungie Explains".

Mike n Cheese Beta Review & Contest -

A Review and a Contest in the same?

Greenskull's Reach Beta Randomtage

Greenskull from RUL is back with another Halo Reach Beta Randomtage.

Invasion is Live!

Spartans defend the core at all costs, Elites you must grab the data core and bring it back to the waiting phantom. You've don't got all day.

Firefight Friday: Chopper Rodeo

Mythic Brawl Double EXP Weekend Live!

12 player FFA. Get Brawling!

New Home

Welcome to my new blog! This will be my last move, I promise(for blogs at least :O /teaser).

I do ask that you help me out, email me any links to interesting gaming news or to give me ideas what to post.

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