| | Rare will own avatars on 360! | 
Gareth Seiler - November 27th, 2008 | In an interview with gamesindustry.biz Mark Betteridge, studio manager of Rare, the Viva Pinata and Banjo Kazooie developer, also creators of the Avatars and NXE has said that they plan to own Avatars in the future by creating multiple games and software that support them. "There's a lot of interest in avatars by third parties, as you can imagine," said Betteridge. ... [»] | 
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| Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (*Breathe*) Available on XBLA | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 27th, 2008 | SF2THDR...That's quite a combination of letters and numbers. The good news is that the new HD version of the classic Street Fighter 2 Turbo finally became available yesterday on Xbox Live Arcade and PSN.I posted up a video of the gameplay for anyone interested who wants to check out the new look but it is easy to see that it is still exactly the same game as it was before. Is that a bad thing? I really don't think so and the fact that they went through all of the effort to ... [»] | 
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| Resident Evil 5 Demo Coming to Xbox 360 | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 27th, 2008 | Resident Evil 5. What is there to say about it really. If it is anything like RE4 then we know that it is going to be absolutely amazing.In fact, the idea of taking the gameplay and tone behind RE4 and adding Next-Gen visuals and Co-operative ... [»] |
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| Now there’s something that you don’t hear everyday |
Nick de Bruyne - November 27th, 2008 | Ok, I know that this is quite a strange one and I was quite lost at how to really explain it but I found it rather interesting anyway. The people at Maxim magazine were able to get an interview with the man behind the Mortal Kombat voice, Hernan Sanchez. 1UP report that instead of boring the poor man with strange questions, they decided to have him read some absurd lines of text into a microphone instead. They then compiled it into this rather nifty little flash movie that allows you to click on the phrases and listen to them.Maxim had the following to say:"We put Mr. Sanchez and his thundering larynx to the test with some of our own alternatives, ranging from nerd favorite phrases like "Epic Fail" to what we're expecting to play right after the President-elect's swearing in ceremony on January 20. Enjoy!"Thanks Maxim! Things like this are completely useless in the real world and even a little unnecessary and that's exactly the reason why it's awesome!So there you go, click on some of the buttons and giggle as you hear him say strange things like "tickle him" and "Obama Wins, Flawless Victory". It's quite a hoot.source: Maxim via 1UP |
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| Zero Punctuation: Guitar Hero World Tour |
Gavin Mannion - November 27th, 2008 | Yahtzee has been relegated to 11am this week as punishment for being a royal pain in the a$$.Okay I am sure it wasn't him or buggered up the embedding code but that's not the point... The fact that he most probably couldn't care less is also beside the point.This week Yahtzee attempts to love Guitar Hero World Tour but in reality he spends more time complaining about the lack of Rock Band in Australia, which is relevant because if you change the word Australia to South Africa it makes it feel local... |
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| COD5 Competition Honourable Mentions | 
Gavin Mannion - November 27th, 2008 | As I said earlier we were very impressed by the quality of the entries and while I couldn't list off them here I would like to single out two others who really pushed hard for the win.Leon Jordaan entered with easily the shortest but still entertaining entry when he posted
I would take my Zippo, light my cigar, ... [»] |
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| COD 5 Competition Winner Announced |
Gavin Mannion - November 27th, 2008 | Apologies to all involved for the delay in announcing the winning entry for our Call of Duty 5 Limited Edition Zippo competition.I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and undeniable effort put into the entries and  this is what has caused the delay as we couldn't come to an unanimous decision and ... [»] |
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| Call of Duty: World at War – Reviewed – XBox 360 | 
Werner - November 27th, 2008 | With Call of Duty: World at War (CoD:WaW), Treyarch went back to the most major conflict in world history, World War II. Its predecessor was situated in the modern day and quite a few people (me amongst them) felt that they made a mistake going back to the WWII scene. Let’s have a look to see whether this is in fact the case.The ... [»] | 
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| Xtival ’08 Weekend – Free Xbox Live for All | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 27th, 2008 | Earlier this week I was browsing through the NXE and happened to see an interesting little bit of news about this upcoming weekend (28 - 30 November).This weekend coming is going to have a Live promotion called "Xtival '08" running that will allow all Xbox Live Silver Members to play online. Not only that but it also looks as if ... [»] |
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| “PS3-Mote” Seen in Action – Is this the future for Sony? |
Nick de Bruyne - November 27th, 2008 | After a whole bunch of rumours flew around the net earlier this year regarding a PS3 motion controller, nothing was ever shown or seen of the remote and what it was capable.But now we have something special to show you. A company by the name of "Sixense" has put on a presentation showing the capabilities of the remote that they have been working on and the results are astounding to say the least.This new technology far outperforms that of the Nintendo Wii in terms of accuracy and usability and some of ... [»] |
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| Sonic Unleashed Trailer |
Gareth Seiler - November 26th, 2008 | Sonic Unleashed 'Launch' trailer How about a round of applause for another mediocre Sonic game? No? I didn't think so. You'Â’ll have to excuse me but I lost all faith in there being another decent Sonic game years ago. Id prefer they just put their effort into updating the original game with new funky graphics and put them all out as a compilation, that would do just fine. Meanwhile if there ... [»] |
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| Cooking Mama pwns your Mama |
Gareth Seiler - November 26th, 2008 | Cooking Mama World Kitchen 'Infomercial' TV ad Tired of the same old meals day after day? Soggy vegetables, chicken pie, and peanut butter sandwiches are a thing of the past. Well according to this Cooking Mama ad anyway. I love the style of this ad, it seems more like an infomercial for another "Mama" than it does an ad for a game. Well done Majesco. |
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| Sony Columbia Pictures Movies Available Again on NXE | 
Gareth Seiler - November 26th, 2008 | Oh well I guess you can't be right all the time. It seems that Microsoft and Netflix have managed to sort out the licensing issues surrounding the Sony Columbia Pictures movies not being available for streaming on the NXE. So unfortunately this ones a bust as both 1up and Evil avatar are reporting all movies are back up and working ... [»] |
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| Xbox 360 Installs may have a secret. | 
Gareth Seiler - November 26th, 2008 | So I have had some time to test out quite a few games using the new install feature in the NXE. I wanted to determine just what the benefits were. Would the games load faster, how much quieter was the console and so on. I must say I'm rather surprised at what I've found and it's led me to an interesting ... [»] | 
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