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NBA Jam (X360) Review

December 1, 2010 | Justin Moody | Xbox 360 Reviews

NBA Jam, in its current Xbox 360 incarnation, was never meant to see the light of day. While expected to be released as a full retail game exclusively on the Wii console, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions were supposed to come in the form of downloadable “freebies” with EA’s NBA Elite 11. Turns out that when the demo of NBA Elite 11 hit PSN and XBL, it was universally panned, and left EA scrambling with what to do. EA, in a bold move, scrapped the buggy mess that was Elite and opted to release NBA Jam as a full retail game on all major consoles, instead of the stripped down “freebie” that was supposed to be included in Elite.

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PSN and PS3 Store Releases for 11/30/10

December 1, 2010 | Justin Moody | PS3 News

Not much new content to get excited about this week in the world of Playstation. For store releases, Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition is a re-release of the full game with some extra content. Nail’d is an off-road racer, and Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos must be one of the first games where your aim is to catch King Crabs in the Bering Sea.

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Video Game Inventions That Should Be Made (11/30/10)

December 1, 2010 | Justin Moody | Xbox 360 Features

Video games over the years have showed us many things. Brilliant worlds that don’t exist, scenarios that never happened, and heroes we wish were real. However we are not here to honor those today (maybe another time). Today we are here to honor a great invention made by a video game character. This will be a new feature that will honor great instruments for the good of science…in video games.

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Two Worlds: The Musical

December 1, 2010 | Justin Moody | PC News

If you were a fan of the first Two Worlds game by SouthPeak Interactive, you probably already know that the sequel Two Worlds II has only been released in Europe. The rest of us have to wait until next year to get our armoured gauntlets on it. The folks at SouthPeak are a wacky band, and they seem to understand how hard it is waiting for a game to hit shelves, so they produced this Two Worlds II music video which will let you commiserate with you fellow RPG fans while listening to an 80’s power ballad.

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Blybergiving Sales

November 30, 2010 | Justin Moody | PC News

For the last month, all of the online stores and digital distributors have been holding sales, and they’re converging today due to the “Cyber-Monday” media hysteria. There are quite a few of these special sales, so we’ve compiled the most prominent ones here in a handy guide. First up is Ubisoft who are in on the joke with all of these made-up shopping holidays, so they’re having a “Blybergiving Sale”. You can getAssasin’s Creed for five dollars today, along with several other Ubisoft games that are marked down by about 50%.

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Tron: Evolution Preview

November 29, 2010 | Justin Moody | PC Features

With the release of Tron: Legacy so close, it doesn’t come as a surprise that there has been a video game in the works to take advantage of the predicted popularity. Developed by Propaganda Games and published by Disney Interactive, Tron: Evolution will allow players to experience the Tron universe first-hand. Tron: Evolution is intended as a prequel to the film Tron: Legacy that is being released around the same time,

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Sega Resets Sonic 4 Leaderboards

November 28, 2010 | Justin Moody | Xbox 360 News

It is a sad day for the gaming community, as Sega has officially had to wipe the leaderboards for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 on 360. That’s right, folks are cheating at Sonic. Hackers are reportedly able to hack the game to obtain a time of 0 minutes and 0 seconds. Sonic is quick, but he is not that quick, so the whole leaderboard was reset two days ago to try to curb the problem.

NBA Jam (X360) Review

PSN and PS3 Store Releases for 11/30/10

Video Game Inventions That Should Be Made (11/30/10)

Two Worlds: The Musical

Blybergiving Sales

Tron: Evolution Preview

Sega Resets Sonic 4 Leaderboards

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