The publisher of the Halo series has filed a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum to acquire a fake beta site for their upcoming title Halo 4. This website, Halo4beta.net, has been flagged as fake from the beginning by 343 Industries David Ellis via his twitter account. In response to the flag, the domain has since been taken down by its owner and is currently suspended.
Playstation Network will be undergoing scheduled maintenance tomorrow until Friday, so don’t panic and assume the worst has happened when you can’t log in. This will not affect trophies as they will sync up as usual (as if you had been playing offline) when Playstation Network comes online again this coming Friday at 7 a.m. GMT.
Square-Enix’s latest entry into the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy XIII-2, releases today, and the Japanese gaming company is wasting no time revving fans up with the announcement of projected downloadable content including one that drops exactly one week after launch.
If the rumors are true, buying something on Xbox Live could get a lot simpler. According to Inside Mobile Apps, by the end of this year, Microsoft Points will be ditched and replaced with real money. Along with Xbox Live, the change would also apply to Windows Phone and Zune marketplaces. Any outstanding balances a user might have would be converted into real money.
According to anonymous sources speaking to Kotaku, the next Xbox will support Blu-ray discs, and Kinect 2 will be introduced. But perhaps the biggest, and scariest, bit of information from the sources is the Xbox 720 will block gamers from playing used games. How the next Xbox will block games was not shared, but Kotaku theorizes that a game could be linked to a specific Xbox Live account, although even that could easily be bypassed by playing offline.
It’s been a few years since we had a new installment in the tactical RPG series Jagged Alliance. Jagged Alliance 2 came out in 1999 with a trickle of expansions in the years following. But the franchise returns to PC’s in February with the aptly-named Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. This new game keeps the tactical squad-based gameplay of the older games, but drastically updates the graphics.
Asura’s Wrath has an impressive amount of gumption behind it judging by the the demo that hit XBLA recently. Comprised of two chapters from the full game, the demo for Asura’s Wrath is just as noisy and frenetic as one would should hope. What appears to be a gleeful celebration of soul-boiling cataclysmic rage is hiding a certain amount of depth from the player in numerous ways.
