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"Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Xbox Live Europe general manager Jerry Johnson explained that the basic codec had originally required just a 64k connection. "It's time for us to move on," he said. "Especially if we want to think about broadening - a crackly headset on the top of your head – not what people think of when they talk about popular entertainment."" Read more at, Joystiq

Hone your skills before anyone else by playing fun new games, such as “Kinect Sports,” “Kinectimals,” “Kinect Joy Ride,” “Kinect Adventures” and MTV Games’ and Harmonix’s “Dance Central.” Aug. 26–30 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair Aug. 27–Sept. 1 - Pueblo, CO - Colorado State Fair Aug. 30–Oct. 24 - Tampa, FL - Westfield Citrus Park Shopping Mall Sept. 3–6 - Indianapolis, IN - Rib America Festival Sept. 3–6 - Denver, CO - Elitch Gardens Sept. 9–12 - Albuquerque, NM - New Mexico State Fair Sept. 10–13 - Nashville, TN - Tennessee State Fair Sept. 15–16 - Atlanta, GA - Atlantic Station – Entertainment Plaza Sept. 16–19 - Salt Lake City, UT - Utah State Fair Sept. 18–19 …

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Do you miss the days of Double Dragon, River City Ransom, Final Fight and Golden Axe? Do you long for 4 player beat'em up action? Do you wish you could reclaim a bit of the old 8 & 16 bit era with a heavy dose of Epicness? If you've answered Yes to any of these questions, then download the demo of Scott Pilgrim VS. The World -NOW- Played this last night with Karen and it reminded me SO much of my youth. Gods, I sound like an old fart typing that but it's true. Pure unadulterated fisticuffs and fanservice with a hefty dose of nods to game culture and geekdom fills this side scrolling 4 player button masher. What I really liked was how every character has different sty…

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All four DLC's and a fold out map of the Borderlands territories. Ships October 12th. That's the full game, plus The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot The Secret Armory of General Knoxx Claptrap's New Robot Revolution Foldout map of borderlands Heyoooo!

Monday Night Combat Title Update, DLC, and PAX First of all, we want to thank you for playing Monday Night Combat and supporting Uber Entertainment. We’ve been busy fixing bugs, exploits and optimizing based on your feedback on our forums, emails, Facebook, and Twitter. Our first Title Update is being tested right now and then it will be handed off for certification and in your hands as soon as possible. Here’s a full list of fixes and changes that will be in the Title Update. Connectivity and Multiplayer: * Reworked the way we handle parties in the pregame lobby to avoid splitting them up. * Fixed several issues where host migration would fail immediately. …

Just a reminder that its on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace today, here is the link to download it. If you played it or beat it yet, what did you think and which ending did you get? I got ending A and was quite happy with it, it got me very excited (more than I already was) for Dead Rising 2 this September. Can't wait to kill some more zombies.

Revenge is in the Air with Jimmy’s Vendetta - Next Game Add-On for Mafia® II from 2K Games Downloadable pack confirmed for September 7 and features more than 30 quests in the underworld of Empire Bay New York, NY – August 31, 2010 – 2K Games announced today the September 7, 2010 release date for Jimmy’s Vendetta*, the second action-infused downloadable game add-on for the epic crime game, Mafia® II. In Jimmy’s Vendetta, players will experience arcade-style gameplay with more than 30 new quests and leaderboard ranking. Jimmy’s Vendetta will be available for players worldwide from the PlayStation®Store for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox LIVE® Marketpl…

I stumbled upon some Arkham City screens, I don't know if they're new or old, but they're awesome: View the rest here.

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Matt Kessler on Sept. 2, 2010 You see? This is what happens when you don’t always bet on Duke. You’re going to be taken for a ride. Last week, we heard a rumor that, somehow, the long-in-development Duke Nukem Forever--currently in a state of limbo after 3D Realms was forced to lay off the development team due to the company's inability to continue self-funding the game--was going to be “resurrected” in the hands of Texas-based developer Gearbox, the developers of last year’s excellent first-person RPG, Borderlands. When asked to comment on the rumor, Gearbox president/Samba De Amigo fan Randy Pitchford tweeted that he would be able to "clarify" the rumor at this weekend…

By Phil Meza "Rockstar San Diego have plenty of additional DLC still to come for Red Dead Redemption, but it would be foolish to think the studio wasn’t already looking to the follow-up, especially since the nearly 6-year-in-the-making action game seems to have sold quite well for Take-Two. MCV claims to have learned from an “employee of a services provider currently working on some early technical work for the game” that Red Dead 2 is called — or at least being referred to as — Red Dead Revolution. Fitting. Whether that is the official name of the unannounced Western sequel or not, we’ll have to wait and see. And wait we shall, because Rockstar Games currently has their …

GEARS 2 LABOR DAY 25x XP EVENT posted 9/2/2010 Fans turned out in huge numbers to follow the Gears of War Facebook page and drive up the Gears 2 Labor Day XP multiplier—now you get the reap the rewards. From September 3-7, you’ll rake in a staggering 25 times the usual XP rewards across all multiplayer modes. Boost your rank in style with gold Lancers and Hammerbursts, enabled for all players throughout the event. And be sure to check out Horde, where the Locust are playing a new game—Torque Bow Tag! With the exception of Scorchers and Boomshots, all enemy rifles are replaced with Torque Bows. Update your life insurance and watch your back! http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/defa…

The Crackdown 2 DLC Toy Box was initially released with a series of bugs caused by incorrect configuration of the DLC package. These included: * Crash on loading * Problems with DLC specific achievements * Problems with the Voice Of The Agency These issues were caused by problems mastering the DLC package. They have now been resolved with a new version of the Toy Box DLC that Microsoft has released today. However if you are unlucky enough to have downloaded the bugged version you will need to: * Delete the Toy Box DLC from your system * Re-download the DLC After that all will be fine. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and hope you will now be able to enjoy the gam…

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The Gearbox panel is about to start. Doubt there will be a live feed, but Twitter will most definitely light up. I'll post all that I find out. I hear there's going to be a pretty big surprise (other than Duke). Get you some, Randy!

At the Gearbox panel at PAX today, company president Randy Pitchford told a Borderlands-loving audience that the level cap for that game will be going up from 61 to 69. For zero dollars. "The level cap will now be 69," Pitchford said. "That's the magic number." He said the cap will come out close to the late-October release of the Borderlands Game of the Year edition. Pitchford said that the studio felt that they couldn't go up a full 11 levels, as they did through the paid downloadable content, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, because they didn't want to put another level cap increase in paid DLC. The way that Borderlands DLC is structured, he said, would have requir…

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http://edfia.com/ Sweet! I loved the first one! The final battle almost gave me seizures. LoL

AMAZING! This was probably the best DLC I have ever bought. I can't wait to play through it again on my other characters. I just don't see how any Mass Effect fan could miss this especially if you plan on playing ME 3. The best of the ME 2 DLC for sure. I gotta say the Mass Effect series is one of the best! Hope ME 3 can bring it all home! It was not super long, maybe around 3hrs at most, you could rush through it faster for sure, but was very fun. I would like to see ME 3 be a perfect combination between 1 and 2 gameplay wise. I miss some of the character building, equipment, talent point planning from 1 but the gun play and action from 2 is soo much better. I guess you…

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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-debut-section-8/704253 I played the demo of the first one and quite liked it but as the SP was essentially bot matches never bothered to pick up the retail copy. The sequel looks much more refined.