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On September 14, 2010 one of the most successful series on a video game console will sing it’s swan song. We here at Gamercide would like to thank the people behind the Halo franchise for the memories, t-bags, and plasma nades that landed in the wrong place causing us to laugh for hours. How can you participate? It is this simple. Send an email to siren@gamercide.org with the subject being, “Remember Halo”. You can talk about the first time you ever played Halo, your online experience, etc… Make sure to include your gamertag in the message. The deadline for Remember Halo is September 11, 2010. Anything received after that day will not be included. If you have alre…

Just a friendly reminder for those of you who have yet to submit your “Remember Halo” memories. Any replies received after midnight tonight will not be used. Everyone who has participated in “Remember Halo” will have their messages along with their gamertag sent to Bungie and 343 Industries. There will also be a drawing for those that have participated to receive a personalized Halo prize. For more details please check out the link below. Remember Halo Details View the full article

One of Dead Rising 2′s new features is the ability to create and customize new weapons. A meta website, Tape It or Die, has been created to help residents of Fortune City survive the zombie plague that started five years ago by making them aware of the various methods of weapon creation, providing blogs and pictures in hopes of creating the “ultimate weapon.” What they may have provided, though, is perhaps the “ultimate spoiler”. For those of you who haven’t survived the outbreak of Willamette, Colorado, be warned, there be spoilers ahead. So “Johnny Pipes”, one of the bloggers and founders, blogs about a recent outing yesterday where he took some photos of new hero Chu…

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/09/child-in-the-road-il.html Discuss.

Look to your left. The object closest to you is now your one and only weapon. Describe what it is (be honest), post a picture if you like, and write a short sentence or two describing how you would use it, or how it would be completely useless to you.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/t306LSERD-w/ A federal appeals court said Friday that software makers can use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares, an apparent gutting of the so-called first-sale doctrine. Basically, if it's a license then they can forbid you from reselling it. Could really suck for the end users.

Last week we posted one of the gameplay videos for Megaman Universe. It evoked classic Mega Man gameplay…almost a bit TOO classic, as the stages seemed to resemble remixes of stages from Mega Man 2. And we still had no clue about the special characters that would guest star (Ryu and American Box Art Man). Well, Capcom Unity has revealed the nature of Mega Man Universe. The people behind the new stages and characters won’t be the Capcom designers but the Mega Man Universe players. Taking cues from Little Big Planet, Mega Man Universe will allow players to not only customize and create their own unique robotic hero from various parts of classic, new, and guest characters…

The fate of Clayton Carmine in Gears of War 3 was in the hands of Gears fans during the “Fate of Carmine” campaign. Will he meet a horrific end like the Carmine’s before him or will he live on and support his fellow Gears? We will have to wait until the game releases in 2011 to find out, but in the meantime check out the thank you message from Epic below. They raised over $150,000 for Child’s Play charity with the help of gamers like you. Xbox 360 Games – E3 2011 – Gears of War 3G4tv View the full article

Overpriced, lacking, or just plain sucks. Those are a few of the words used by gamers to describe the behemoth that is the Xbox Live Marketplace. Why have gamers turned so hostile towards the one stop destination for all things 360 and is Microsoft, the developers behind the games, or are the gamers themselves the ones to blame for the growing number of angry remarks being made against the marketplace? In part one of this two part series, we take a look at just how much gamers are spending for their games. View the full full article

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Dateranoth has found a nice solution for any of us who wants to stream live. It's incredibly easy and the people who run it, are willing to work with us on our portal. This is where you all come in. Give us feedback on the sorts of options/features you'd like to see there. Combined chat with stream is one we will already be asking for. Here are some streams for you to check out, so you can get an idea for feedback. Dat's http://dyyno.com/channel/dateranoth Assassin's http://dyyno.com/channel/assassin Vocals http://www.dyyno.com/channel/vocals Here's a mockup that the hosts made up for us. This is essentially what a channel in our portal would look like, once made for us. …

No this is not replacing the Fail Award, which I plan to start up again here soon in October. This is something completely different. I think the name of the award says it all. If you guys like it, I'll keep doing it. The First Dumbass Award

Despite incredibly oddball Japanese games like Katamari Damacy making it over to shores, some Japanese games don’t receive the same following. Sengoku Basara was released in North America on October 25, 2005, but with many significant changes. Whereas the original Japanese game was a fictionalized telling of the Sengoku period in Japan, the localization removed all historical references in favor of a pure fantasy setting, altered various gameplay modes and designs, and renamed the game “Devil Kings”. This was a misguided effort, as the game failed miserably outside of Japan. While sequels, spinoffs, and anime have flourished, the series was all but ended overseas…unt…

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/27/and-vinyly "Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones. A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favourite tunes or their last will and testament. Minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles." So, Gamercide, which album would you want your ashes pressed into?

Ever wanted to know what some of the world’s most popular artists sound like speaking “Simlish”, the native tongue for the PC’s mega successful life simulator, The Sims 3? You are about to find out when The Sims 3 releases on your favorite consoles in Fall 2010 and when The Sims Late Night expansion for The Sims 3 releases on the PC. View the full article

by Mona Ibrahim Deus Ex and Disney Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector opened PAX Prime in Seattle, an empowering Gamasutra-attended keynote today, with a call for gamers to look beyond the celebration of geekdom so that the industry as a whole can move toward the mainstream. "After years of facing insecurity and rejection while striving for mainstream acceptance, Spector suggested that game culture has finally reached a 'Golden Age', noting: "Every medium that has lasted has gone through this. It’s gone through what we’re going through today.” Not long ago, he suggested, game culture was largely a collection of adolescent males with a decidedly geeky tilt. Now we see peop…

That’s right folks. Like everyone in the world is reporting, DUKE NUKEM IS BACK!! 2K Games and Gearbox are bringing Duke Nukem Forever to market, FINALLY, in 2011 to PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. After a few days of heavy hinting, Randy Pitchford from Gearbox has made it official at PAX. The game is actually playable as well. As soon as more video and info is available, I’ll post it up, so stay tuned…. View the full article

http://kotaku.com/5627036/report-kinect-doesnt-speak-spanish-it-speaks-mexican So yeah, apparently Spaniards will not be able to use Kinect yet. It's humorous that it does support "Mexican" though, and also that there are THREE varying versions of English (One for US, one for UK and one for..... Canada?) I loved the first comment in the article saying ""Canada, WTF? So I will be forced to say "eh" at the end of every sentence for it to recognize my voice?" ROFL Makes me wonder how well it will pick of various accents too which was mentioned in the story, like the famous Boston "Pahk the cah in the yahd" sort of speak, or even how our Irish friends will fare with the…

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Monday Night Combat Developed by: Uber Entertainment Published by: Microsoft Games Studios Platforms: Xbox 360 exclusive (Xbox Live Arcade) Players: Singleplayer, On & Offline Co-op (up to 4 players), Online Multiplayer (up to 12 players) Rated T for Teen by the ESRB The Breakdown Bacon makes everything better, and gives this outstanding and genre bending class based third person shooter from Uber Entertainment that extra special sizzle! View the full review on the main site

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Teaser trailers are a tricky treat. Designed to evoke knee-jerk excitement upon initial announcement, they can also evoke more confusion than concept, and such was the case with the teaser for Mega Man Universe, that depicted a claymation Mega Man, Ryu, Sir Arthur, and even the “mega man” from the original US cover taking on various classic baddies. Exciting? Definitely. Confusing? No doubt. View the full article and check out the video on the main site

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Telltale Games has dropped a few details about the Back to the Future game that was announced in June. Very little is known about the game currently but below are a few tidbits from the press release and other sources View the full article on the frontpage

Mafia II Developed by: 2K Czech Published by: 2K Games Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC Players: 1 ESRB rating: M 17+ The Breakdown You’re Vito Scaletta. You find yourself back home in Empire Bay, after getting injured in World War II. Once back home, you realize some things have changed, while others haven’t. Your Mother and Sister haven’t changed one bit. However, your best friend from childhood, Joe Barbaro, most certainly has. Joe has a few things to show you, and you too will change after being introduced into the seedy underbelly of his newfound, Costa Nostra (mafia) world. Head over to the main site to check out the full review.