Microsoft’s House Party has begun, so we take a look at Hard Corps: Uprising. Tune in to find out if its worth your time and money. Plus we have the NPD numbers for January and talk about weird DLC practices. Some of the games we yap about include Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two [...]
Tags: Back to the Future: Episode 1, Checkmate Arcade, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, Dragon Age 2, Hard Corps: Uprising, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, Killzone 3, Left 4 dead 2, Podcast
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Game: Left 4 Dead 2: The Sacrifice Format: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PC Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Around six months ago Valve released the magnificent The Passing add-on for Left 4 Dead 2, which saw the cast of Left 4 Dead 2 meeting the cast of the original Left 4 Dead. One of the big selling [...]
Tags: DLC, left 4 dead, Left 4 dead 2, Luke Mears, Mightyles, Review
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This week Jason runs down a long list of Xbox Live Indie Games and ten months after release, he checks out MAG. Steven clears off some more demos, as well as finishing the story mode in Puzzle Quest 2. We both check out the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow demo and run down the news of [...]
Tags: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Checkmate Arcade, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Hydrophobia, Left 4 dead 2, MAG, Podcast, Puzzle Quest 2
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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: this generation of consoles has seen the way publishers and developers make money change irreversibly. As every console is designed to be connected to the internet 24/7, game makers can offer us extra content including new missions, characters, costumes, and even new game modes… for a price.
The rise of DLC (Downloadable Content) has led to some truly wonderful gaming experiences, but at the same time some truly terrible gaming sins have been all too regularly committed. Today The Newb Review makes note of the DLC Dos and Don’ts: dishing out praise to those that produce particularly good DLC, and condemning those that have earned our scorn through their shameful practices.
Tags: A Newb's Guide To..., darth vader, DLC, Eric Cartman, Horse Armour, IV, Left 4 dead 2, Lost in Nightmares, Luke Mears, Mightyles, Oblivion, Poker face, resident evil 5, Rock Band, Saints Row 2, soul calibur 4, star wars, Tera Patrick, the elder scrolls, the passing, Ultor, yoda
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This week both hosts have some new games to talk about. Jason just uses Ryu in Super Street Fighter IV and hits the sky in After Burner Climax. There was a joke there, but I decided to delete it. Steven crosses paths with the original survivors in the new Left 4 Dead 2 dlc and [...]
Tags: After Burner Climax, Borderlands, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Checkmate Arcade, Left 4 dead 2, MLB 2010: The Show, Podcast, Prototype, SSF4, Super Street Fighter IV
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