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Surely most have heard of this by now, but Steve Jobs, the genius who gave us all the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, which exploded into the App and digital music age we are all enjoying today and will enjoy for generations to come, died today as a result of a rare pancreatic cancer. Let us all remember a man who fundamentally and forever changed the way we listen to music, interact with computers, and explore the possibilities of technology. Here are statements from other important individuals and organizations about Steve’s passing: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know…

It appears that the much rumored Halo movie is back on the front burner of the rumor mill after a french press release claims that Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks are backing the film set to release in 2012. The press release which happens to be for the Forerunner based Halo novel, Halo: Cryptum clearly states, “ A film adaptation is set in 2012. It will be conducted jointly by two heavyweights of American cinema: Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks.” Does this mean that a Halo movie might release around the same time as Halo 4 in winter 2012? Or is this just simply another rumor that needs to be put to rest until Microsoft steps forward and says, “yes a Halo film is being p…

Gamers be prepared to get rid of that nasty and expensive cable bill. Microsoft has announced their entertainment service lineup for the upcoming Xbox Live tv service. BravoCinema NowCrackleDailyMotionEpixESPNHBO GoHulu PlusiHeart RadioManga EntertainmentMSN with MSNBCNetflixSyfyTMZThe Today ShowUFCVerizon FiOS on TVVEVOXfinity on Demand (Comcast)YoutubeNo payment plans have been announced yet or any word on if there will be any other channels and/or services added to their entertainment lineup that will be launching in the very, near future. via Xbox.com Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Developed by: Robot Entertainment Published by: Microsoft Studios Platforms: PC and Xbox LIVE Arcade Players: 1 Rated T for Teen by the ESRB Darwinism be damned, those crafty orcs have evolved adaptations that make them march straight into battle, directly through deadly traps and into incoming crossbow fire. It’s pure science, orcs must die. Orcs Must Die! isn’t so much a tower defense game, as it is a strategic third-person action game wherein you must defend your base with the traps and weapons at your disposal. Sure you plan out where to place the spike traps, arrow walls, and such to maim as many passing orcs as possible, but you actually get to be in the fray as …

The Battlefield 3 beta has been live for a little over a week and gamers have already found ways to cheat in order to gain the upper hand in battle. DICE has come forward and is threatening to swing the mighty banhammer towards any gamers who are caught using any kind of cheats and/or glitches. “The hammer will fall swiftly and accurately,” noted DICE’s CM Ian Tornay on the Battlefield 3 forums. According to Gameranx , DICE has disabled cheating protection in multiplayer beta so that they can see and monitor what extremes players will go to just to anger other gamers and rack up those kill counts. So far during my playing of the beta I saw a few gamers glitching out of t…

Square and IO are promising fans of the long running Hitman series a more personal and darker look into the life of their favortie bar coded and bald hitman, Agent 47 all while he is on the run in 2012′s release Hitman: Absolution. In the latest teaser trailer, it appears that 47 has the upper hand on the metro PD as they run around yelling like morons while trying to find him. Needless to say, 47 is doing what he does best. via Gamersheep and Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Your Keflings are in for an extraterrestrial treat! Ninja Bee, the developers of A World of Keflings have announced that their avatar friendly, village building Xbox Live Arcade hit will be getting DLC in the form of spaceships and UFOs. “It Came From Outer Space” will feature plenty of new items and a kingdom for you to build a village in. “Aliens have crash-landed in the Kefling world and you and the Keflings need to use your mad building skills to get them home,” said Mike Nielsen, lead designer on the DLC. “You’ll be building giant robots, crazy alien structures, and even robotic Keflings all in the name of repairing their mother ship. There’s plenty of new stuff t…

Last week a pair of quick eyes spied an “Xbox 720″ logo in the trailer for the movie based on a 1956 short story, ”Real Steel” causing rumors to run rampent on the internet regarding the next Xbox since Microsoft had to plunk down a pretty penny to get that advertisement to appear in the movie. As more news is surfacing regarding Microsoft’s new supposed console, many are now wondering the console may already be in development. According to Gamezone, several Microsoft employees LinkedIn profiles changed at the beginning of 2011 to reflect working on a new console and a new entertainment experience. Jeff Faulkner ~ “Xbox Next Gen Creative Designer” since January 2011. “G…

Zen Studios has had a steady stream of new tables for their really great pinball simulator Pinball FX2. As all my other table reviews has shown, even someone who isn’t a huge fan of pinball and have a blast with these tables. Will Sorcerer’s Apprentice keep this trend rolling? Here’s the rundown of the table’s story. Jake and Amanda come face to face with an Evil Sorcerer in his citadel. The kids have no choice other than to fight the Sorcerer and his summoned creatures by using their pinball prowess and a specter named Whisper. A fairly simple premise but once you get down to the pinball, things get really interesting. The table has a ton of rail chutes and ramps …

The hackers vs. Sony battle continues as Sony’s SVP and Chief Information Officer Philip Reitinger made a short announcement late yesterday evening stating that hackers were once again attempting to compromise Sony’s Playstation Network and Entertainment Networks. Sony has temporarily disabled some accounts that may have been affected by the attempted hack. “We want to let you know that we have detected attempts on Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment (“Networks”) services to test a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords against our network database. These attempts appear to include a large amount of data obtained from one or …

Bethesda’s games are very well known for the sheer amount of in-game content included in their titles. The studio has made some of the biggest and most detailed maps in games today, maps that provide hundreds of hours of possible quests. And that’s just for one playthrough. I personally have sunk in over two hundred hours into both The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3. But what if I were to tell you that the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls sequel, Skryim, could be completed in 2 hours and 16 minutes? In an internal competition, the developers raced through the game to see how fast they could complete it. The top two scores were clocked in at 2 hours, 36 minutes, …

One of the most toughest and frustrating bundles of joy to grace your Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Dark Souls, has been beaten on a speedrun in an amazing one hour and 26 minutes. The tough as nails RPG was released less than a month ago and gamer SexyShoiko proved that despite the reputation that this game comes with, the difficulty was no match for their knowledge and skill set. If you think you can beat Dark Souls in a faster time or just want an insane challenge, please know that this RPG may cause many of you to die repeatedly in the game and smash your controller in an anger filled rage. You have been warned. via PSX Extreme Tweet This Post Post to Facebook…

What’s a developer to do when their third installment of their popular series, Resistance sells rather poorly in the United States? Go on the defensive of course. Insomniac Game’s Resistance 3 was not as huge of a hit as they might have hoped here in the United States. The followup to 2008′s hit Resistance 2, only managed to sell a meger 180,00 copies during it’s first month release compared to Resistance 2 which sold 385,000. GamersMint who posted an article detailing their let down first month sales, compared Resistance 3′s sales to Dead Island’s first month sales which released on the same day. Dead Island happened to move over 2 million copies. So what did Insomni…

In the upcoming Battlefield 3, there will be nine multiplayer maps. These maps are the ones ‘that combined bring out everything we want both veteran and new Battlefield players to experience in Battlefield 3 multiplayer’ says DICE’s David McDonagh. So here is the list and names of the maps you can expect to run, duck, and drive in on Oct. 25th. Caspian Border This map is one of the few that is ‘lush and green’ and is supposed to be an obvious choice for players who want to play with vehicles. This is a large map where base distances are usually too long to cover just on foot, so vehicles will play a major part in this map. Damavand Peak This map takes place on a mountain …

As we all know, Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the biggest badass to come out of Italy in the past six hundred years. But how would you like to play as him against some of the whackier characters to come out of a Japanese fighting game? It is rumored that Ezio will be a playable character in Soulcalibur V. It’s doubtful that you will be able to jump down from a rooftop and instantly assassinate your opponent, however Ezio is a master of many weapons and would make a great addition to the weapon based fighting in Soulcalibur. Soulcalibur is no stranger to cameo appearances, so this awesome rumor could very well be true. Source: Official XBOX Magazine Tweet This Post Post t…

Developed by: Bitfield GmbH Platforms: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later Players: 1 Rated 4+ by Apple Application Ratings. ( contains no objectionable material ) Blockado Deep Sea is the fourth and most difficult installment of the Blockado series. With the change of difficulty also comes a change of scenery. As the name would imply your puzzle solving skills are put to the test under the sea. The sea overlay and subtle ocean sounds provide a nice relaxing atmosphere to solve the puzzles in. Deep Sea builds on the Blockado puzzle solving series where you must get a treas…

To say that the Xbox Live Arcade 2005 release, Bejeweled 2 was a hit is a huge under statement. The game’s addicting modes had gamers playing for hours at a time, not only on the Xbox 360, but across consoles, on PC’s, and the internet. After the release, fans of the puzzler have been eagerly waiting to get their hands on Bejeweled 3. Today, PopCap has announced that Bejeweled 3 has launched on the Xbox Live Arcade for the price of 1200 MS points. Bejewled 3 will also be available for purchase in a retail store near you for the Playstation 3, Nintendo DS, and Xbox 360 on November 15th. This entry into the popular franchise features twice as many game modes as Bejewele…

Last week the brillant minds at Ninja Bee which happen to be behind one of the Xbox Live Arcade’s most addicting games A World of Keflings, announced that new alien-friendly downloadable content would be arriving soon. Details were a tad bit fuzzy at the time regarding a release date and price, however my fellow kefling addicts can calm down now because Ninja Bee has released the details. On October 25th , the It Came From Outer Space DLC will release on the Xbox Live Marketplace for a tiny lumpsum of 320 points. Not too shabby considering that the content will add anywhere between two to four hours of gameplay and increase the game’s total content to 30%. It Came From…

As the freaks, zombies, vampires, monsters, and all things that make up Halloween prepare to party on October 31st, Zen Studios has found a way to help you pinball and scare loving gamers out there get in the mood a few days early. For a limited time only beginning on October 26th, you can download Pinball FX2′s newest pinball table addition Paranormal for free as a thank you from Zen Studios for all the support that they received. “In celebration of one year of Pinball FX2, and as a big THANK YOU to all of our supporters, we are happy to offer the new Paranormal table free for one week!” according Mel Kirk, the Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations. “For pla…

This December your favorite characters from the X-Men universe will be appearing in the second of four tables coming to Marvel Pinball as part of Zen Studio’s Marvel Pinball: Vengence and Virtue event on the PS3 and XBLA. The second table will feature events that have been inspired by the popular X-Men comic book series and includes when Magneto destroyed the Brooklyn Bridge and events based on the Dark Phoenix Saga. The Dark Phoenix Saga events will feature actual dialogue from the classic series. The X-Men table will be joining Ghost Rider and two other announced tables. Zen Studios teases that “one starring a “vengeful” character, the other a “virtuous” one” will soo…

Developed by: Paradox Interactive Published by: Paradox Interactive Platform: PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Ipad Release: 6 December 2011 Defenders of Ardania is an upcoming tower defense game, set for release in December this year. It is set in the fantasy world of Ardania, the same world from the Real Time Strategy series, Majesty, also developed by Paradox Interactive. We got a chance to play a preview build of the game. In it, players take the role of the human leader, referred to as “Your Majesty” as they attempt to figure out why Sir Foxwalde has attacked. Rest assured that the story progresses much further than that, with players utilising and fighting units from …

Talk about embarassing. EA has announced that Battlefield 3 will have a day one update that gamers will be required to install in order to play the game and that all media reviews of the shooter be held off until a week after it’s release. EA has also added that Xbox 360 gamers will have to download the game to their hard drive in order to see the graphics at their best representation. What is EA’s reasoning behind the day one update? DICE are perfectionists of course! “DICE are perfectionists — they will not stop polishing the game until it is in your hands” claimed EA. Why yes, gamers across the board will accept that giberish especially after the horrible, cheat fi…

Are you still in denial about the next Xbox being in development? Many gamers are even after the job title changings of many of the Xbox staff to reflect working on the next Xbox. What about if I told you that sources close to Xbox believe that the new Xbox will be at E3 2012 and they even go on further to say that a late 2013 or 2014 launch is in the horizon? Sources are claiming that both Microsoft and their partners are gearing up for a late 2013 to 2014 launch of the next generation Xbox. The sources of this information range from chip manufacturers to middleware firms. Online game design website Develop even came up with a few possible hints of what some people i…

Telltale Games’ Jurassic Park: The Game is stomping toward its anticipated November 15, 2011 release date with the speed of a hungry T-Rex pursuing a herd of tasty Gallimimus. Telltale has partnered with GameStop and GameStop.com on an exclusive pre-order for the Xbox 360 version of the game. Anyone who pre-orders between now and the November 15 launch date will receive a codeat the time of purchase (online customers will receive their code via email within 2 days of their game shipping) to unlock an official Jurassic Park T-Rex avatar pet on Xbox LIVE! It’s a dino-mite incentive as the Jurassic Park T-Rex avatar pet is authentically modeled on the design used in the Jur…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is slated for release worldwide on November 11, 2011. Learn more about Skyrim at http://elderscrolls.com and at The Elder Council, the official Facebook page of The Elder Scrolls https://facebook.com/TheElderScrolls Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article