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Xbox Live’s Top Cop Reads ‘The Book of Enforcement’
Stephen Toulouse gave a presentation at PAX that, like most of his outreach, leavened the dirty work of running Xbox Live’s banhammer ops with comedy. His sermon is about how the wicked “Poonhunter” came to be banned from Battlefield 1943. Stepto’s presentation continued well after the above excerpt. The rest of the address is full…
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Splinter Cell: Double Agent And GRAW Now Slightly On Demand
Two Tom Clancy titles are added to the Xbox 360 Games on Demand service, unless you don’t live in the UK or Europe (excluding Germany), in which case there’s just the one. The first Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter game is now available everywhere but Australia, New Zeeland, and Korea for the low price…
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Red VS. Blue VS. Halo 3 ODST
The Red vs. Blue team from Rooster Teeth‘s machinima series take a look at the "normal soldiers" of Halo 3: ODST. Their reaction was pretty much the same reaction I have to a new Halo game. I think, “Hooray! I shall be at the same skill level as many other people for a short period…
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Shadow Complex Sets Xbox Live Sales Record
Chair Entertainment’s Shadow Complex is officially the most downloaded single-player title in Xbox Live Arcade history, with 200,000 copies purchased during its first week of release alone. We loved Shadow Complex, and so did you folks apparently, with stellar review scores and one-week sales so spectacular that Microsoft had to issue a celebratory press release.…
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Oh Good, More Doritos Games For Xbox Live Arcade
Cheesy indie advergaming returns to the 360, as Doritos announces the return of the “Unlock Xbox” video game design competition, calling creators to capture the essence of the snack chip in video game form. Last year’s “Unlock Xbox” winner, Doritos Dash of Destruction, was downloaded nearly a million times, so while we endlessly poke fun…
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Cryptic: Microsoft’s Behavior Means No Champions This Year
Jack Emmert, the Cryptic chief creative officer, says Microsoft has a “baffling” issue with MMOs, and it’s holding up the console release of Champions Online. In a VG247 podcast, Emmert says Cryptic has a 360 version of the game “ready to go,” but it’s not likely to arrive this year. “It just takes time for…
By Owen Good