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• Left 4 Dead's 360 version to be playable at PAX

  by Gus Lanzetta August 12th 2008 10:56 PM CDT0 Comments

  Valve announced today that the Xbox 360 version of the zombie slaying FPS known as Left 4 Dead will be playable at PAX. There will be two 360s running the game and four people at a time will be able to play in each system. This will be the first time the public will have the chance to experience the game, so if you are super excited for L4D, guarantee a ticket to PAX.
  
  To finish up the Left 4 Dead public exposition watch: the PC version will be playable at the Leipzig Games Convention and the Festival du Jeu Video and PC Gamer Showdown (best game event name ever). It's also good to note that all three events cited are open to the public.
• Braid selling a lot, rated very high

  by Gus Lanzetta August 12th 2008 10:46 PM CDT0 Comments

  Braid is out there stealing the hearts and minds of gamers around the world. But not in a bad way at all.
  
  Jo(nathan) Blow, the game's creator has posted a few of the games real life achievements on the official Braid blog. The first one mentioned is that Braid is now the highest rated Xbox Live Arcade game at Metacritic, where it's also the 10th highest rated game for the Xbox 360, surpassing the aggregate score of Mass Effect.
  
  On the sales side the game is also doing well, with estimate sales at 28.5k copies sold during its first three days of availability. But Mr. Blow apparently blew a lot more cash to make the game and stated that the game needs to sell a lot more for it to break even. Lets hope it does generate profit, if not with the 360 release, with the upcoming PC version.
  
• Death Tank coming to XBLA

  by Chris Holmes August 12th 2008 10:20 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  Everyone's favourite leaky ratings board the USK (Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle), has today let slip that Death Tank is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade. For those of you unfamiliar with Death Tank, it was a multiplayer tour-de-force in it's heyday with it's simple interface and addictiveness. Essentially, it is like Worms and Scorched Earth in style, with a similar 2D viewpoint and a destructible environment. However, there was one key difference, as Death Tank was in realtime, making the battles quite frantic. Keep an eye out for more on this, with Leipzig a few weeks away it could be making an appearance there.
  
• EA releases new cover for Madden 09

  by Chris Holmes August 12th 2008 3:52 PM CDT0 Comments

  For those fans of American Football purchasing their copies of Madden 09 this week, they might be feeling a little miffed that the cover has Brett Favre in his old Packers uniform.
  
  Such a travesty has been the subject of much forethought by the brains at EA, and to ensure you get the maximum amount of enjoyment out of your Madden 09 cover, they have made an amended version that can be downloaded on their website, featuring Favre in his new Jets uniform.
  
  In other news, there is a roster download that puts him into his proper squad and sorts out this situation, so you can breathe a sigh of relief into your pillows tonight.
  
• Halo 3 wins award, Bungie teases fans

  by Gus Lanzetta August 12th 2008 3:25 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  Yesterday, Edge Magazine held its yearly award's ceremony in Edimburgh and Halo 3 took home the Edge Award For Interactive Innovation.
  
  The honor is described by the organizers as an "accolade to the title released in the last 12 months that does most to further the creative culture of gaming – in other words, to mark out new directions for the form." The judges' choice was summed up in the Edge website today with the following words:
• Death of a game in the online age: What nobody plays

  by Gus Lanzetta August 12th 2008 1:33 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  OXM UK's website has posted a very interesting article where their editors explored the online environment of many 360 games that are... Well, unpopular at best.
  
  Click here to read the full feature, but we'll warn you, they only found one player in World Championship Snooker 2007 and Brian Lara International Cricket. Maybe if we get the two guys together in somekind of Snookricket game they can play together forever. Also, read the part about World Championship Poker, it seems so much like underground UNO that I kind of wanna try it. 
  
  What about you guys, are there games you play online where you struggle to find other people?
  
• Jake Gyllenhall in the PoP movie

  by Gus Lanzetta August 11th 2008 9:35 PM CDT0 Comments

  Look, it's Jake Gyllenhaal all dressed up as Dastan (the prince formerly known as The Prince of Persia). Don't worry, it's not cosplay, it's for a movie.
  
  I must say he looks closer to the look of the game as I thought he would, but I totally preffer the Sands of Time look, especially with the movie being called Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Also, I can't stop thinking that hair is a wig and there is something just wrong looking about his abs in this pic (or is that just me spending way too much time at his muscles?)
  
  This is the paragraph where I should make fun of him for playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, but I won't. It's stupid and childish. Plus the movie is not that bad ok? Good, now put it behind you (not in the Brokeback sense. Ha!)
  
  What do you all think of his look? What about the movie? Will it finally be the great movie based on a videogame, the big screen messiah?
  
  See higher resolution versions of this and other pictures at Just Jarred.
  
• Analysts do their guessing: 360 outsold PS3 in July

  by Gus Lanzetta August 11th 2008 6:37 PM CDT0 Comments

  
  Industry analysts are paid to spout out predictions about where things are going, but most of the time they seems to be guessing with less accuracy than they should. And they're up to it again. The NPD numbers for the July sales will be released on Thursday, but Michael Pachter and his cohorts have been talking out their assess again.
  
  NCAA Football 09, Final Fantasy IV (DS), Soul Calibur IV (360, PS3), Metal Gear Solid 4, LEGO: Indiana Jones, Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii are the "probable" top sellers and the Wii is supposed to sell 650 thousand units, which is more than the number Pachter pulled out of his ass predicted the sales of the PS3 (250K) and the 360 (275K) would add up to.
  
  If you want to read the full list of the "impressive" videogame industry futurology then... Click here (but if you were Pachter you would already know that before reading).
  
  
• Viva Pinata 2 achievements unveil 4 player Live co-op

  by Chris Holmes August 11th 2008 10:50 AM CDT1 Comments

  360Sync.com have got their hands on the achievement list for Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise, and one little 10 point one is pretty surprising. Called "Full House", the description reads "Play 4 Player Online Co-Op for 1 hour".
  
  If this list can be trusted, then this is excellent for fans of our paper-mache friends as previously it was thought that the game would only have 2 player offline co-op. The game will be released in the first week of September so get your shovel whacking ready.
  
• 60GB Premium 360s hitting Europe August 15th

  by Chris Holmes August 11th 2008 10:26 AM CDT0 Comments

  Microsoft has today announced that the new 60GB equipped Premium 360s will be coming to Europe, starting this Friday (August 15th) in the UK. These units will replace the 20GB model and will cost exactly the same, £199.99 or 269.99 Euros. It's not known whether retailers will do any clearance bargains with the 20GB units, but there isn't that much room for price maneuvering given the Arcade version of the console.
  

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