Keeping with the latest trend in the industry, EA has given the latest entry in the Mass Effect series the online pass treatment. Each new copy of the game will come with a redeemable code which unlocks the previously mentioned co-op multiplayer experience. Used game purchasers will have to spend $9.99 to join in on [...]
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Mass Effect 3 Getting Co-op Support
October 10th, 2011
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Similar tweets from both Casey Hudson and the official BioWare account have revealed that Mass Effect 3 will support co-op multiplayer. I’m sure we’ll get more details soon, but these tweets are likely just rumor control due to Australian gaming magazine PC Powerplay (pictured above) spilling the galactic beans on ME3‘s multiplayer earlier than BioWare [...]
Broke Gamer: XBLA Deals…of…the Week
June 29th, 2011
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The XBLA deal monger has been busy taking his discount hatchet to the prices of a few XBLA favorites, splitting the cost right down the middle. Starting now until July 4th, you can get: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Reshelled for 400 MS Points Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light for 600 [...]
Free Weekend of COD: Black Ops Multiplayer for XBL Coming
December 21st, 2010
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On the heels of an announcement that Black Ops’ first map pack, dubbed First Strike, would be arriving Feb. 1st, we just got word that Activision will be hosting a free weekend of online play on Xbox live January 28-30. So if you’re a Silver XBL member wanting to get in on some multiplayer, this [...]
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Coming Spring ’11
December 2nd, 2010
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Sony and Atari are working together on a new Ghostbusters game that will be coming out the Spring of 2011 for XBL, PSN, and Windows PC download. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime‘s gameplay will focus on cooperative action with up to four players locally or online. From what we’re hearing so far, the scale of some [...]
Microsoft Wants to Give You Points For Spending Points
December 1st, 2010
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In addition to the recently announced Indie Games Winter Uprising, we have some more exciting XBox Live Arcade news for you today. Microsoft will be giving crediting your XBL account 400 MS points if you download two of the games listed below. One thing to note is that in order to qualify for this credit, [...]
New XBL Game Secretly Sneaks Into the Marketplace
November 27th, 2010
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Like that hobo you keep catching sleeping in your crawlspace, ilomilo has snuck into its new home on the XBL Marketplace. Ilomilo is a cutesy puzzler set in a fantasy world that looks like a mashup of Little Big Planet, Pikmin, and Kirby’s Epic Yarn. The game is available for download immediately if you have a [...]
Kinect May Soon Use Your Face to Determine Content Suggestions
November 12th, 2010
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Dennis Durkin of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business was recently talking to Gamasutra about potential uses for Kinect. Microsoft may soon utilize Kinect’s facial recognition feature to build a database of what type of content each individual user of an Xbox uses with their console. The idea is that if you sat in front of a [...]
Super Meat Boy Getting Patched, New Levels
November 4th, 2010
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Team Meat’s challenging platformer, Super Meat Boy, will soon be getting a patch for XBLA to fix a bug that was causing some users to experience improperly formatted autosaves and some other small problems. In addition to the fixed bugs, SMB fans can look forward to another 20 levels (40 if you include their Dark [...]
Marvel Pinball Game “Announced” via Australian Ratings Board
October 20th, 2010
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Thanks to a game listing on the ratings board website of our mates down under, we now know that a Marvel Pinball game is in the works. The game is being published by Zen Studios, the same guys bringing us Pinball FX 2 for XBL and PSN, so everything seems to make sense. Some speculate [...]