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Zombie lovers unite.  This week's Deal of the Week are items to help wage your war against the zombies in Dead Rising 2. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero - 200 MS Points Dead Rising 2: Case West - 400 MS Points Psycho Skill Pack - 80 MS Points Soldier Skill Pack - 80 MS Points The Deal of the Week ends on May 2. via Major Nelson

"Unfortunately, the circumstances didn't allow us to make a 360 exclusive," stated Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon in a statement to Eurogamer regarding the question that left many wondering why the Xbox 360 did not get an exclusive character like the Playstation 3 version did with one of Sony's most recognizable characters, Kratos from the God of War series. With the tight lippedness that is going on around NetherRealm Studios many are speculating that NetherRealm wanted to include Master Chief o

For a limited time only, purchase a Kinect sensor on Amazon and receive 50% off of "select" Kinect titles.  There are a couple of workout gems in the pile of mostly rubbish "select" titles like Your Shape Fitness Evolved and The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout. The other titles aren't even worth a second glance or a mention. via Amazon 

Have you been trying to train Fido to go bring you a can of beer from the refrigerator so you do not have to leave your couch during an intense session of gaming?  Or has your wife become your personal beer grabbing waitress over the years allowing you to beat that level you were stuck on for weeks?  Fido and your wife can now relax thanks to the Octane 120 Driving Pro Beer Arcade. Designed by Dream Arcades, this frothy gaming brew beast can hold two five gallon beer kegs and contains a cup hold

While the hardcore fans of the long time running survival horror series might not be happy with recent announcements regarding Slant Six's take on the Resident Evil world in their entry into the series, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, a new trailer has surfaced showcasing the return and possible demise of Leon Kennedy.  Confused?  Don't worry.  Slant Six claims in the latest edition of OXM that depending on how you play the game you can kill fan favorite characters changing Resident Evil

F2P games or Free to Play games have seen much success in the world of PC gaming especially lately with social games such as Mafia Wars and Farmville where you can play the game for free, but in order to enhance your gaming experience you need to purchase special items or upgrades.  How would you like F2P games to come to Xbox Live?  According to IGN that might be happening very soon. A trusted source close to IGN is claiming that Xbox Live will be adding these style of games soon which will "al

Do you love watching the sweaty bare chested men of the UFC duke it out in the Octagon splattering blood across the mat and found yourself wishing that you could do that without having to leave your living room?  Thanks to THQ, now you can. THQ announced that they are launching UFC Personal Trainer for the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 sometime this June.  The mixed martial arts trainer was designed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and three MMA trainers including Mark DellaGrotte, Greg Jack

"We weren’t an independent studio making ‘our’ games anymore – we were making games to fill slots. Although we did all believe in them, they were more the products of committees and analysts. The culture we’d worked on for so long gradually eroded just enough so that it wasn’t ‘ours’ anymore", said the Creative Director with Bizarre Creations Martyn Chudley during an interview with Edge where regrets and the option to buy Bizarre back after Activision closed the 17 year studio in February 2011 w

All this week Sega has been teasing about "big news" coming to Sonic the Hedgehog's Facebook page.  Fans of Sega's favorite blue chili dog eating hero start tapping your feet, because Sonic is back in a new game coming to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year. The colorful 3D teaser trailer which you can view checking out Sonic's very own Facebook page, shows Sonic speeding along, leaping from platform to platform only to make one big jump and another blue Sonic appears beside him.  Do

Kameo: Elements of Power, a colorful launch title for the Xbox 360 in 2005 almost had a followup with Kameo 2, but Rare cancelled the game in 2009 before it got off the ground.  Artwork has surfaced from the planned sequel that shows Kameo would have gotten a more "womanly" appearance had the game had lived to see a release. via Eurogamer

Gears fans anxiously awaiting for the September 20 release of Gears of War 3 might find the following little nugget of information bitter sweet.  Executive producer Rod Fergusson spoke to CVG and said that fans will finally get closure to the Marcus Fenix story, however the universe within Gears will go on. "We're not blowing up the world so Sera and the Gears universe will live on, but for us we didn't want to betray our customers and community by having a cliff-hanger ending where you're like

Yesterday a hacker who goes by the name of "Predator" claimed that he hacked into the Xbox Live account of Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse who happens to be the head of the Xbox Live Enforcement Policy Team and said that he only wanted to help Microsoft. Toulouse who spoke to Joystiq regarding the incident is telling a far more disturbing story. "He got an old cell phone [number] of mine, and yeah, he called it occasionally".  Toulouse then played it for Joystiq who said that they could not print the

Do you like to play open ended sandbox-styled games like [insert any open-ended game here]?    According to DICE's Patrick Bach who is serving as the Executive Producer to Battlefield 3, you are in the minority because sandbox games just plain suck. "In some cases they aren’t, but in most cases sandbox games are hardcore, boring, hard to get into and they are not very popular." You hear that kiddos?  If you play GTA, Saint's Row, Red Dead Remption, or even Battlefield 2: Bad Company that DICE wo

This Fail of the Day is being brought to you by Konami.  Last week, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow DLC Reverie found it's way onto the PSN in North America to the surprise of fans considering that no release date was announced concerning the PS3 version of Reverie.  Turns out Konami made an error and the content was never suppose to be released in North America which is why there is now a delay with the European version which should have hit their PSN on March 30.   To make matters even more embar

Fanboys get ready to give your favorite console a hug, because GameStop released their annual report regarding who is coming out on top in console sales in the United States and Europe since December 2010. In the US, Nintendo takes the top two spots with the DS selling 47.3 million and the Wii selling 34.2 million units.  The number three spot goes to the Xbox 360 which moved 25.4 million consoles.  Rounding out fourth and fifth place is the PSP selling 19 million and the PS3 selling 15.4 milli

If you have experienced the underrated and very innovative first person shooter meets portal and gravity manipulator then you know that the gameplay from Prey rests heavily on making portals to transport the main character Tommy to and from areas in the game.  Human Head Studios has announced that the portals and gravity manipulation will not be making their return in Prey 2. The announcement came from lead designer Chris Reinhart as he spoke to PSM3. "We explored a lot of the ways you could u

Slant Six, the developer behind SOCOM: Confrontation is working on a new game in the survival horror series Resident Evil that is being titled Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City for the 360, PS3, and PC. While no date has been set other than Winter 2011, Slant Six has released a teaser trailer that showcases actual zombies like in early Resident Evil titles and what appears to be the return of a fan favorite. via Playstation Lifestyle

Rockstar released 2 new screenshots over Twitter today proving that the one man vigilante is still in the works.  This is the first news that surfaced about the game since it's announcement in 2010. via IGN

Here is your Xbox Live Marketplace Roundup for the week of March 27. Current Deal of the Week A World of Keflings - 400 MS Points Raskulls - 400 MS Points Worms 2:  Armaeddon - 400 MS Points Worms 2:  Battle Pack - 200 MS Points Deal of the Week Beginning on April 5th Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - 600 MS Points Onslaught Mode - 200 MS Points Kit Shortcut Bundle Pack - 600 MS Points Specact Upgrade Bundle - 240 MS Points Battlefield 1943 - 600 MS Points Xbox Live Arcade Island

In Nintendo's world there are two different types of indie developers. The "Garage" developer who has an idea, but little to no experience that apparently according to this little quote are only envisioning themselves of a developer and are not passionate about their "craft" and then there is the full on "Indie" developer who has a lot of experience and worked with bigger developers and publishers and that is who Nintendo wants to work with.  No surprise there Fils-Aime. "We've been clear that w

Chris from The New Hobbyist decided that he wanted to upgrade his home security and in doing so created the "Attack Creeper". The "Attack Creeper" is mostly compiled from cardboard, an RC Car, and the guts being different electronic items ranging from a motion sensor to an Aurduino board that you can purchase pre assembled or you can put it together yourself. To see more such as pictures of the process and to check out the places where Chris hides his "Attack Creeper" to scare people like the b

Today's Fail of the Day is being brought to you by previous Fail of the Week winner, Fox News.  Every now and then Fox News decides to take step out of the daily national and worldwide news and try something different, like writing about video games that are considered "controversial".  Take Bulletstorm for example.  Fox News claimed that playing Bulletstorm will make you rape women and that the "possibly worst video game ever" is a bad influence on today's youthful fragile minds.  What could be

This Dumbass of the Day is being brought to you by Bastal, a user on the Bioware's Dragon Age 2 boards who thought he was speaking for "straight males" everywhere when he complained that Dragon Age 2 is geared more to gays, females don't play games like Dragon Age, and to top this asinine rant off,  Bioware needs to stick with making straight males happy, because that is their main demographic.  Unfortunately for Basalt, David Gaider the Senior Writer for Bioware was around and turned his moment

With data using the NPD Group that dates back to 1995, CNBC has made a list of the top ten games of this generation.  The list that will probably surprise you left out fan favorite series Halo and GTA and instead includes a couple Guitar Hero's, Wii games,and Call of Duty. Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock Call of Duty: Black Ops Wii Fit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Rock Band Wii Play (with Wii Remote) Guitar Hero: World Tour Wii Fit Plus Mario Kart (with wheel) Call of Duty 4: Modern W

A small group of members from the now defunct developer Bizarre Creations have joined together to form a new studio, Hogrocket. Peter Collier, Ben Ward, and Stephen Cakebread along with two BAFTA award winning animators formed the studio and are focusing their efforts for the time being to the iPhone/iPad, Mac, and PC. Ben Ward from Hogrocket has announced that their first game is currently under development.