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This is Your 2011 Summer of Arcade Lineup
Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft’s From Dust and Fuelcell’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we’re in for one…
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When EA and Insomniac Collide You Get Overstrike
Set to debut any minute now at EA’s E3 2011 press conference, the developer of Ratchet & Clank and the Resistance games is taking their next big thing multiplatform, and this is it. This is Overstrike What is Overstrike? Let’s not steal too much thunder from the press connference and give you the short and…
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Electronic Arts’ E3 2011 Keynote Liveblog
Console makers aren’t the only ones giving presentations during the week of E3. Publishers are, too, and Electronic Arts fires first with its news conference, and RPGs should figure prominently, with Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic all coming in the next year. Oh yeah, and there’s a game called Battlefield 3…
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Kinect Makes Taking Your Kids to Disneyland Much More Affordable
Frontier Developments is giving parents around the world an amazing gift this holiday season: The ability to take their children to Disneyland for the price of the Xbox 360, Kinect, and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures As a soon-to-be father, the idea of a virtual Disneyland where I do not need sunblock, wads of cash, and more…
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How Forza Motorsport 4 will change car culture forever
With Forza Motorsport 3, Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios tried creating the greatest racing game. On October 11th, when Forza Motorsport 4 is released for Xbox 360, they’re setting their sights higher – creating the next generation of car enthusiasts. [Jalopnik]
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Dance Central Returns with Two Player Dance Battles
Harmonix took the stage during Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference today to lift the curtain on Dance Central 2, detailing some of the new features coming in the follow-up to the popular Kinect-powered body mover. It’s time for a dance off! Dance Central is a lovely game, but it was obviously pushed out in rather…
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Introducing Microsoft’s Kinect Fun Labs
Microsoft has shown us Kinect Fun Labs, describing it as “the place to check out the best innovations for Kinect.” The Fun Labs are set to be a permanent addition to the Xbox Dashboard, and you’ll be able to check out various indie and user generated additions to the Kinect library. Among the features scheduled…
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Master Chief Returns with Halo 4 in 2012
A teaser trailer for Halo 4 concluded Microsoft’s E3 news conference today. In it, the series’ longtime hero, Master Chief, awakens from cryonic sleep to the voice of Cortana, calling him by his name. He then grabs Cortana and flees the wreckage a ship hurtling toward some sort of portal. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said Halo…
By Owen Good