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• RB2, GH:WT, RR instruments cross-compatible

  by Jaleel Boone August 19th 2008 6:01 PM CDT0 Comments

  In an overdue move that should please all fans of music games on the 360, MS fired back at Sony's announcement of cross-compatible instruments with one of their own. After the post on the official Playstation Blog stating the peripheral love spreading on the PS3, MS responded on their Gamerscore Blog:
  
  

  "For the record, we also do that, so consider this an official announcement.

  All the instruments from Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Rock Revolution will be cross-compatible.

  In other words, welcome to the party.  ;)"
  

  And so my purchase of both Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 is confirmed (Sorry Konami, Rock Revolution hasn't won my $60 yet). The question now is: which set of instruments?...
  
• Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts demo confirmed

  by Chris Holmes August 19th 2008 3:32 PM CDT0 Comments

  Talking to Eurogamer earlier, Salvatore Fileccia, the lead programmer behind the upcoming reincarnated sequel of Banjo Kazooie confirmed that there will be a demo of the game coming to the Live Marketplace before the title's release. Check out this quote to see what he had to say:
  
  "A Marketplace demo? Yes," lead programmer Salvatore Fileccia told Eurogamer when we popped round last week for our Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts hands-on preview, published today. "We've got various different ideas. I think all the leads on the team all have their own idea what the demo should be, and it obviously makes sense for the demo to happen before the game ships. We all feel that it's essential because the game is so different."
  
  "There were four challenges in the E3 demo in Banjo Land...and that worked well, so the idea would be that and then we'd have some form of the editor in there as well, because that's a whole different part of the game - building things and seeing how they perform, and taking part in challenges."
  
  Banjo Kazooie: Nut & Bolts is due to be released on 18th November in the US and the 21st in Europe.
  
• New weekly Rock Band DLC hits Live

  by Chris Holmes August 19th 2008 3:11 PM CDT0 Comments

  As you may or may not know, new downloadable tracks come to Rock Band every single week, and this week is no different. This week, Harmonix is treating us with tracks from what can only be described as one of the best 80s pop groups of all time, Duran Duran. This brings forth their two best songs, "Rio" and "Girls on Film", which cost 160MS Points.
  
  They're also bringing two songs from New Wave group Devo; "Girl U Want" and "Through Being Cool", which also both cost 160MS Points. Finally, there's The Janitors' "Get Your Rock On", costing only 80MS Points.
  
• The Duke will be nuking XBLA soon

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 8:39 PM CDT0 Comments

  A long, long time ago in an internet not very far away, George Broussard announced that Duke Nukem 3D was being ported to the Xbox Live Arcade with online versus and co-op modes. Everyone that likes gore, bubble gum, guns, killing aliens and seeing strippers rejoiced. But then we were left alone, cold and waiting for news on the game (something that we kind of expect from Duke games since 1997). That is until today's announcement that the game is done and has been through Microsoft's certification process, so it's ready to be released. All we need now is a date.
  
  Hit the jump to watch the best trailer ever (the Duke Nukem Trilogy trailer)... just because.
  
• Almost 150 Fallout 3 screens

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 8:34 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  In a recent business/investors something or other, Zenimax (the company that owns Bethesda), showed attendees a bunch of screenshots of the game and the very helpful photographers attending took pics of almost 150 of them. Assuming that the game runs at 30 frames per second, that's almost 5 seconds of the game, man!
  
  Go here to see them all!
  
• Is it a demon plane? A demon bird? No! It's Akuma

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 8:28 PM CDT1 Comments

  If you had any doubts about Akuma's presence in Street Fighter IV, you can thrash them. He has been added to the arcade game last week and we have a video to prove it.
  
  For now he is not selectable, but you can play against him in the single player mode, but it is safe to say that when the game hits consoles we will all be able to do diagonal hadoukens with gaming's badest red-head.
  
  Hit the jump to see him in action.
  
• Mega Man energy drinks celebrates Mega Man 9, geek consumerism

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 8:19 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  Japanese people like drinking stuff that comes in colored, videogame/manga/anime themed packages. Not only do I know this, but so does Capcom. That is why, next month, Mega Man's energy drink will hit stores and vending machines all over Japan. It'll cost you 137 yen ($1.25), which is a total rip-off because we all know Mega Man gets them for free. And when you think about it, how good can it be? People AND robots just leave it lying around for Mega Man to pick them up and gobble them down... Wait, can a robot drink soda? Can he taste it? CAN HE FEEL?
  
• Shinji, 51 and Q dudes are making a game

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 8:08 PM CDT0 Comments

  Suda51 (No More Heroes, Killer 7), Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil series) and the folks down at Q Entertainment were all called by EA to make a game under its new EA Partners project. And they all said "yes".
  
  Each one brings something unique to the project.
  
  In a recent press event EA announced that the team was working on an action horror game. Shinji and Suda also said that the team is hard at work and that the project is being handled by Grasshoper Studios, Suda51's developing company where he made his most famous (and weird) games: No More Heroes and Killer 7.
  
  What do you guys think this PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 game will be like?
  
• See the Arkham Asylum

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 7:46 PM CDT2 Comments

  Last week, Rocksteady Studios, the guys behind the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum posted some screenshots on their website. Thing is: they were not supposed to do so yet and they took them off the air very quickly... But not quickly enough. The crazy Europeans at CVG have all 16 of them for you viewing pleasure. We must say, the Unreal Engine 3 based third person game is looking very good and so are the character designs. Click here to see the screens.
  
• Rocket Riots will riot XBLA with rockets this fall

  by Gus Lanzetta August 18th 2008 7:30 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  THQ has announced that it's Worms clone, Rocket Riots, will be released on Xbox Live Arcade sometime this fall (and we bet it's gonna be on a wednesday none the less).
  
  The game has a similar premise to that of the Worms series, but instead of mini-snakes from the dirt, you will control ninjas and zombies. Now, maybe the game sucks, but it already gets extra awesome-points for having ninjas AND zombies. The game's multiplayer mode will support up to 4 players locally and 8 online.
  

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