It’s not just raging Steam boycotters that Valve has upset with the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2. According to the studio, the ESRB has also shown concern, causing Valve to edit the original cover art for the game which showed a hand with a thumb and two fingers chewed off. In order to satiate the demands of the censors, the famous Left 4 Dead hand will now be holding down two fingers, rather than having them torn from the palm.
Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers is slated to hit Xbox LIVE Marketplace later this afternoon. If you’ve never played Magic: The Gathering before, you may be thinking twice about the 800 Microsoft Point commitment — the Magic paper game isn’t that easy to learn. Understanding this, I asked two guys behind the XBLA title — senior business manager Worth Wollpert and senior brand director Aaron Goolsbey — what the game offered to newbies.
By now I’m sure you’ll have heard the rumours regarding Project Natal launching with a new Xbox in 2010. Well, up until now, we’ve pretty much ignored them … why? Because we thought it was pretty absurd. Thanks to Aaron Greenberg, we know its not happening, and there’s nothing we love more than shooting down a ridiculous rumour.
Radical Entertainment marketing director Chris Hansell said DLC for upcoming open-world action game Prototype is being seriously looked at, but that the price would have to make sense.
“We haven’t announced… plans yet but we intend to really look at DLC and see how we can extend the experience,” he said.
Xbox Live will be down for the entire day on June 16th. The maintenance by Microsoft will see Xbox Live and Xbox.com whipped offline for the day, as Microsoft readies up Xbox 360 for some of the E3 announced features such as Facebook and Last.fm on 360. You can still play offline though. Remember offline gaming? You will do on…
Details on Forza 3’s Limited Edition pack have emerged, via a listing on US retailer Gamestop. The special pack, which is exclusive to Gamestop in the US, includes an exclusive car pack, premium dashboard theme, VIP membership to community features, a 2GB memory stick and a Forza keychain. As always there’s no word on whether or not this will come…
Meeting with Microsoft’s Scott Austin to talk about Xbox Live, there was little expectation of sexy reveals or big news, and what we saw during the briefing wasn’t flashy in any way. But there was still some really good news for Xbox 360 owners: Microsoft is getting set to update Xbox Live in a number of ways to make it…
Gearbox’s Borderlands will finally be released in October, the developer has confirmed. The post-apocalyptic Shooter-RPG has experienced a great deal of turbulence and delays in its journey to the shops, most recently including a total revamp of its art style to the rather lovely ‘toon-ish’ cell shaded look you can see on this page. Described as an RPS (role-playing shooter)…
It looks like that Microsoft have heard your pleas and complaints regarding their pretty awful Deal of the Week selections and this month, it’s a pretty damn good selection. June 8th-14th – Gears of War 2, Combustible Map Pack, 560 Microsoft Points June 15-21: Fallout 3, Operation Anchorage, 560 Microsoft Points June 22-28: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix,…
Step back into the unforgettable world of Rapture in BioShock 2, the next installment in the franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards and has sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide. Developed by 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes, BioShock 2 provides players with the perfect blend of explosive first person shooter combat,…