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X10 just finished awhile ago Microsoft showing off more screenshots from some of it’s biggest games that are in devolpment and release this year.

Hale Reach was one of the biggest games to be shown at the conference. The first bit of information is that teh Halo Reach Beta will be officialy released May 3rd in Hale 3 ODST. Bungie devloper talks about how Hale Reach will be a even more dark tale compared to Halo 3 ODST where the planet where we fight in will fall to the covenant. A ViDoc of Halo Reach has been released, it is also avaliable to download of Xbox Live. Link to video on youtube. Halo Reach is also recieving a engine upgrade from the previous games. Giving us a better visual look to the game. Battles in Halo Reach have described as epic and Be mroe intense. Sprint Boost has been added into the game and the replacement for Single use equipment has been used by Armor Abilities that can be used over time after a small amount of time to recharge. A Ton of Screenshots and concept art can be seen here

Dead Rising 2 DLC has been confirmed and it will be released first for 360 players first. THe DLC is described to the a prologue mission.

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The Left 4 Dead 2 DLC “The Passing” has been confiremd to be released around March 2010

A Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Bundle will be released in America. It Contains 2 wireless Controllers, 250GB Hard Drive, Standard Edition of Game and a Exclusive DLC

New Screenshots of Splinter Conviction has been showed at X10 and been confirmed to be released in April 13 2010.

New Details of Fable 3 show they have gotten rid of the true RPG Cliches and have begun using thw work of more interaction with other characters and how that affects unto the your characters visual appearence and future storyline. Trailer of docuementry on whats going on inside for Fable 3 here

A New Trailer for Alan Wake has been shown. Watch it here. Also details of the release date and editions

Alan Wake – Limited Edition
SRP: $80
Release date: May 25, 2010

What’s in the box?
- Game Disc with unique art
- Exclusive in-game audio commentary and hints by Remedy
- ‘The Alan Wake Files’ – a 144 page book that includes a short story written by Alan Wake and compiles the FBI dossiers investigating the events in Bright Falls, WA.

This spring, Microsoft will pull back the curtain on the ‘Game Room,’ a virtual hangout that lets you experience classic titles that elderly arcade rats remember fondly. It’s all part of the 360’s Arcade Block Party, which will kick off on March 3 with the release of Toy Soldiers, a game about war raged between antquidated tin men. Also in March, XBL will get Scrap Metal, an online vehicular combat game.

Above: How old people remember videogames

Last, but certainly not least, a remake off the classic Rare FPS, Perfect Dark, featuring remastered visuals and LIVE-enable multiplayer. Wow, March is certainly shaping up to be an exciting time for people who hate physical media.

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Mass Effect 2 has been released and has received great reviews and a great score. It is sequel to the science fiction RPG Mass Effect.

Dante Inferno also has been release for those who don’t know it is roughly based on the Divine Comedy. For those who don’t know Divine Comedy it’s a poem split into 3 parts. Dantes Inferno is based on the first part of the poem which describes the 9 circles of hell.

BioShock 2 has also been released.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta has been released. It will also receive day one DLC

which is free to download the Demo for the PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain has been released on the PSN.

Microsoft gaming event X10 is 2 days away and bungie has confirmed that Halo Reach will be shown with a new ViDoc for the press on the following morning on Xbox Live.

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A new Patch has been released for Modern Warfare 2. Here is a list of changes

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized
• Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection, preventing cases of Sentry Guns inside geometry
• Model 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887s
• Improved player collision removing cases of getting into geometry and ‘elevators’
• Mouse latency tweaks for more mouse movement consistency
• Fixes to prevent various texture and XP hacks

Rockstars Handheld GTA game Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars has been released today and is avaliable to download of the Apps store at a Price of $9.99

The Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars App packs a range of new features developed for the revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch, including Independence Radio, the brand-new station allowing players to create custom iTunes® playlists; enhanced presentation with higher 480 x 320 resolution graphics; intuitive Multi Touch user interface controls; adjusted difficulty levels, and more.

The release date for the New Quantum Theory has been confirmed.It will be released on  the 26th of March in the UK. Quantum Theory will have a similar gameplay style to Gears of War.

Fans of Civilzation will be pleased that there is a sale on GamersGate on all Sid Miers Titles. It will be 50% off for all the games heres is a list of some of the titles.

Civilization III Complete

Civ IV

Civ IV Colonization

Civ IV Complete Edition

along with CivCity Rome, Pirates! and Railroads!

The Development for the next Assassin’s Creed title will being in April 2010. It is not an expansion from AC II but a new title on it’s on featuring the return of Ezio and it will have an online Multiplayer Mode.

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For those who have been much anticipated for the new Gran Turismo 5 to be released this March in Japan, it has seem that Sony has now delayed the release of the game and will release a further update for Release date in Japan and North America. Reason for the delay is there a production related matters

Valve has released an Update for Left 4 Dead 2

Army of Two 4oth Day has been released
Rumors has been flying around wether Netflix will come to the Ninentendo Wii is has been confirmed today in New  York Times that Netflix Streaming Video servive is officially coming to the Wii. It’ll launch sometime in the Spring, and will be available to anyone with a Wii, an internet connection and a minimum $9 a month Netflix subscription. Like the PS3, Wii owners watching online movies will need to use a special streaming disc.

The Wii of course is not capable of outputting in high definition, meaning Netflix subscribers looking to use the streaming service on their Nintendo console will have their movies and TV show choices restricted to standard definition content.

The move means Netflix’s online service is now available on all three current generation consoles, making it the most unlikely of industry standards.

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The new Exclusive game Alan Wake has been confirmed to have DLC in the form of episodic content which will provide additional story to the main plot. The game is scheduled to be released in Spring 2010.

Microsoft has released details on a new Xbox Live Game Toy Soldiers. Toy Soldiers is a marriage of real-time strategy and action set to the backdrop of the first World War, but as the name implies, it’s not a simulation. Rather, you control armies of plastic soldiers, vehicles and guns as you wage war across battlefields that are in fact dioramas within the confines of a child’s bedroom.
Full Preview Here

A demo for the most anticipated sequel to Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 has been shown at CES. Check out full preview Here

Earlier I talked about the new Games Room for Microsoft here is a preview on what in the new Arcade.

As Splinter Cell Conviction gets closer the Confirmed Released date of 25th of Febuarary Ubisoft brings to CES more demos on teh game Full Preview Here

Not only the details for a new Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus. The announcement for new 3D games, Gameloft’s Asphalt 5: Elite Racing, Need for Speed Undercover and The Sims 3 from Electronic Arts, and Glyder 2 from Glu. These games will be avaliable on the App Store.

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Pne of Microsoft new Ideas for the 360 is a new room called the Game Room. The Game Room is a virtual Arcade with classic Retro Titles. The Idea for this game room is to bring back the retro feeling from games for the people who have grown up loving those retro games like centipede. The arcade will be released this Spring for 360 and PC with 30 original games and console classic.Players will be able to invite friends to your own custom arcade to challenge each other. The retro games will appear in their original cabinets and can be placed anywhere in your arcade. New games will be released every week, with over 1000 titles being available over the next three years. Titles will be priced between 240-400 points for download, while 40 points nets players a single play.

Purchasing a game allows players to play it both on either Xbox 360 or PC.

“Game Room” will support Avatars, Voice Chat, 1080p, online multi player (Gold membership required), and cross-platform leader boards and achievements.

Sounds something like the Playstation Home eh.

Mad Catz have made a new mouses aimed to make your gaming experience on the computer a lot better. Introducing the Cyborg R.A.T meaning Really Awesome Technology for some reason.”For the first time ever on a mouse, the key points of contact between the gamers hand and the mouse are fully adjustable allowing it to be customized for any grip preference,” explained Darren Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz.There will be four incarnations of the Cyborg R.A.T. including a high-end wireless model with rechargeable lithium batteries. It’s set to hit stores in the spring.

Toshiba has just unveiled their ZX900 Series CELL TV, so named for its powerful CELL Engine which has 143 times the processing power available in current TV models. What exactly are they using all that power for? Well, with the Toshiba CELL you’ll be able to watching everything in 3D. That’s right, when true 3D content isn’t available CELL TV’s TriVector 2D to 3D Conversion takes any 2D content and converts it into 3D in real time — games, movies, sports, TV shows, whatever.

If that hasn’t sufficiently blown your mind, CELL TV is also a high-end Home Entertainment Server with a built-in 1TB HDD, BD Player, and 802.11n wireless. Content can be downloaded from the Internet, transferred from your PC, or recorded directly onto the HDD from the BD Player. Furthermore, the companion CELL Set-Top Box connects to the display without any wires. Net TV content will include Netflix, VUDU, CinemaNow, Pandora and more. And there’s video phone capability.

The CELL ZX900 Series is the first CELL TV Series, and will be available in large 55″ and 65″ screen sizes. This two piece system features a sleek Set-top Box, and a display in the new Genesis Design with a black brushed aluminum bezel with acrylic trim.

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Sony Has released details on a new product, the Sony Dash.  The dash is a brand new product for accessing web-based content in the home without utilizing a full computer system. Instead, it packs specially tailored web content such as Twitter, video streams, and more into a small, alarm-clock device that you can position anywhere in your home Wi-Fi network. The Dash will be able to use proprietary apps and servives. The Sony Dash will come out in store in April at a cost of $199 US

This Year Sony is planning to invest more into 3D media. They have started to invest into making 3D Television to have 3D channels like IMax. Sony Promises to expand into 3D gaming for the PS3. According to Sony every PS3 can get a Firmware Update that will allow them to play 3D standard games and other 3d media. At the Conference 3 games were shown in 3D Avatar The Game, Super Stardust HD and Gran Turismo 5. Sony hasn’t confirmed a pricing yet.

Microsoft reveals more details on their new motion controller Project Natal. They Have confirmed that the new Controller will be released before the end of 2010. Project Natal will be running at 30 frames per second from camera. Microsft reassured that the games won’t run at the speed.

Microsoft also reveal that a new DLC for Modern Warfare 2 will be released first on the 360.

Optoma unveiled their newest series home projection systems, the Game Time projector series. According to Optoma, the Game Time projectors were designed specifically with interactive gaming in mind. The two new projectors are the GT360 and the GT720, and both feature 2,500 lumens, 3,000:1 contrast ratios, built-in stereo speaker systems, and short-throw lenses to accommodate smaller room configurations. The GT360, Optoma says, is designed with the Nintendo Wii in mind, with a native SVGA resolution of 800 x 600. The GT360 is capable of accepting and processing full 1080p HD signals from other sources, but the resolution output remains limited to 800 x 600. On the other hand, the GT720 is geared toward the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with a higher native widescreen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Like the GT360, the GT720 can accept full 1080p sources, but again, the resolution is locked in at the native 1280 x 800 resolution. Aside from the slight bump in resolution, the only discernible differences between the two projectors are their color schemes; the GT360 comes in white, while the GT720 is available in black.

As for the 3D-readiness of the projectors, both are DLP, which means they are capable of 3D playback, however, the functionality of their 3D capability is dependent largely on a user’s input sources.

The GT360 and the GT720 will arrive this March and will be priced at $499 and $699 respectively.

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Hey guys hoping all of you guys having a great Holiday and a good new year
So a New Year has started and to start thing right off for 2010 here are some gaming news
As some of you know sega is realising a new Alien vs Predator game it will have a lot of gore and finishing move.  Now It was bannd to be realesed in Australia but now has been un-bannd.

If you have been recently looking around the Steam store there has been a massive sale on nearly every game it is nuts. So check it out guys

The Downloadable game Battlefield 1943 is now reduce to only 600 MS Points on Xbox Live

A New Dragon Age Origins DLC will be released on the 5th of January

There has been some leaked footage of Half-Life 2 being played on Project Natal. The video is on youtube Link Here

So thats it for now there wll be more post during this holiday and enjoy the rest of your Holiday

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The VGA’s ( Video Game Awards) have ended and the results are in

2009 Video Game Awards (VGA) Winners and Results

GAME OF THE YEAR
Assassin’s Creed 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Left for Dead 2
Unchartered 2: Among Thieves

STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Infinity Ward
Naughty Dog
Rocksteady Studios
Valve

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME FUELED BY DEW
‘Splosion Man
Flower
Osmos
Trials HD

BEST XBOX 360GAME
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Halo 3: ODST
Forza Motorsport 3
Left for Dead 2

BEST PS3 GAME
Infamous
Killzone 2
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Unchartered 2: Among Thieves

BEST Wii GAME
Madworld
New Supermario Bros. Wii
Punch-out !!
Wii Sports Resort

BEST PC GAME
Dragon Age: Origins
Left for Dead 2
Plants vs. Zombies
The Sims 3

BEST HANDHELD GAME
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Mario&Luigi: Bowsers’ Inside Story
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Scribblenauts

BEST SHOOTER
Halo 3: ODST
Killzone 2
Left for Dead 2
Modern Warfare 2

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Blazblue: Calamity Trigger
Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny
Street Fighter IV
Tekken 6

BEST ACTION ADVENTURE GAME
Assassin’s Creed 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Brutal Legend
Unchartered 2: Among Thieves

BEST RPG
Borderlands
Demon’s Souls
Dragon Age: Origins
Mario&Luigi: Bowsers’ Inside Story

BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
Borderlands
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Halo 3: ODST
Left for Dead 2

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
EA Sports Fight Night Round 4
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
UFC 2009 Undisputed
Wii Sports Resort

BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
FIFA Soccer 10
Madden NFL 10
NBA 2K10
NHL 10

BEST DRIVING GAME
Dirt 2
Forza Motorsport 3
Gran Turismo (PSP)
Need For Speed Shift

BEST MUSIC GAME
Dj Hero
Guitar Hero 5
Lego Rock Band
The Beatles: Rock Band

BEST SOUNDTRACK
Brutal Legend
Dj Hero
Guitar Hero 5
The Beatles: Rock Band

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Assassin’s Creed 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Halo 3: ODST
Unchartered 2: Among Thieves

BEST GRAPHICS
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Killzone 2
Unchartered 2: Among Thieves

BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE/TV SHOW
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play!
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN FEMALE
Eliza Dushku as Rubi Malone
Kristen Bell as Lucy Stillman
Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes
Tricia Helfer as Dare

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN MALE
Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Samuel L. Jackson as Afro Samurai/Ninja Ninja
Shia Labeouf as Sam Witwicky
Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick

BEST CAST
Brutal Legend
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play!
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition

BEST VOICE
Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn
Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer
Jack Black as Eddie Riggs
Mark Hamill as The Joker
Nolan North as Nathan Drake

BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAME
Battlefield 1943
Fat Princess
Plants vs. Zombies
Shadow Complex

BEST DLC
Fallout 3 – Broken Steel
Fallout 3 – Point Lookout
Grand THeft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Bioshock 2
God of War III
Mass Effect 2
Starcraft II

Here are some trailers for new games

A new Rock Band has Debut it’s New Trailer Green Day: Rock Band

The Return of the Prince. Prince of Persia: The Forgotton Sands

Trailer for the Revived Series Medal of Honor

New Halo Reach Trailer Doesn’t show any gameplay but more satisfying then what was shown at E3

A Trailer for the Sequel to Batman Arkham Asylum

Star Wars Force Unleashed gets a sequel

True Crime goes to China

Trons own Game

2010 UFC Undisputed Debut Railer

Spec Ops: The Line trailer

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This Month a new Firmware update is confirmed. Sony Europe have confirmed that the Firmware 3.15 will be released on the 10th of december

For Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Update 1.06 has been released. It will be 15 MB

More Details on the difference between the 360 version and the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII. THe PS3 version will have a dual layer Blu Ray disc containg 25GB of memory for the PS3 while teh 360 will have compressed video and Audio compared to the PS3. The game will be released on the 17th December for Japan and March 9th 2010 for the rest of the world

For the Well aclaimed game Uncharted 2 a DLC has been released on PSN. It will have up to 100 MB to download and some extra Maps

Valve has released another Update for Team Fortress 2

EA is celebrating for this New Year with some free downloadable content for Sim 3.

Just make a note School has nearly finish so there will be post

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