Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade The latest in Gamerscore Blog’s running series on the New Xbox Experience is a video about how Avatars can be used in certain Xbox 360 games. First and foremost, the video reveals that certain older Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade titles will inocorporate Avatar use once they are read more
Filed under: News A new detail regarding the Harmonix Beatles game came to light today. According to a report in Variety (lots of news from them lately), Harmonix “will be able to select 45 songs from the Beatles catalog recorded during their 1962-69 tenure within EMI” for the game (does that mean Let It Be read more
Filed under: News Of all the games left in limbo by the merging of Activision and Blizzard, we’re perhaps most dismayed by the current state of Brütal Legend, which at the moment is complete stasis. Yes, it seems like Double Fine’s rock-action opus just can’t find a home — readers may remember that it was read more
Filed under: X3F Features This is just getting silly now. For the second week in a row, Xav is off in some undisclosed location playing an undisclosed game. We are positively irked. Once again, we’ve taken the liberty of filling in his entry, as he’s not around to stop us. Dustin Burg (SuperDunners): I’ll make read more
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade (click to embiggen) Load Inc.’s upcoming Xbox Live Arcade racer of radio controlled proportions, Things on Wheels will be releasing to the Arcade in the not too distant future and, in preparation, every week they’re revealing information about each lil’ racer. They’re actually using a series of collectible digital read more
Filed under: Fan stuff If the latest trailer for the upcoming zombie-slayer Onechanbara proves anything it’s that sometimes shopping can go terribly wrong. Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad lands on the Xbox 360 in mid-December from publisher D3 and developer Tamsoft, the team behind … uh, well we can’t think of anything you’d really know or read more
Filed under: News, Halo 3 In its weekly update, Bungie has revealed Halo 3′s matchmaking changes for November, which will add a four-day Double XP special playlist inspired by Thanksgiving among other changes. Fans of specific weapons will want to note that Bungie has removed Team Sniper and Team Shotgun variants from Ranked Team Slayer read more
Filed under: Fan stuff Now, this is what friends are for. Creative tipster SodaPopinski shot us an image of this Castle Crashers themed arcadestick which he custom built for a friend. Made from spare parts from his other creations, SodaPopinski has quickly shot his way to our annual “friend of the year” award — if read more
Filed under: News, Dead Space, Mirror’s Edge According to EA boss John Riccitiello the Mercenaries series will see another installment. During an earnings call, Riccitiello confirmed that Mercenaries will join Dead Space and the upcoming Mirror’s Edge as continuing franchises for the mega-publisher along with Will Wright’s latest, Spore. Released in late August, Mercenaries 2: read more
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace, Mirror’s Edge Do you have any of “those” friends? You know the ones. The ones that still think that video games are exclusively the domain of kindergartners, and anyone who plays them beyond grade school is a mentally stunted weirdo? If so, we suggest heartily that you show them read more
