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Best Xbox Games of 2011 – So Far

Jul 14, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

This has been a bad year so far for the Xbox, at least when compared t the first half of last year. In early 2010 games like Mass Effect 2, Bad company 2, Bayonetta and Red Dead Redemption were all released to huge critical acclaim, and massive sales. Alas, only a couple of big games this year have lived up to their hype and they’ve been multi-platform releases. Struggling to redeem our platform of choice, our Xbox team of Charles Battersby, Curtis Bloomfield and Alex Martinet look back at the best Xbox games of the first half of 2011.

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Catherine Hands On Preview

Jul 13, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

A demo of the English language version of Catherine hit Xbox Live today giving westerners a chance to meet both Catherine with “C” and Katherine with a “K”, as well a try out the game’s platforming/ climbing puzzles.

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Ms. Splosion Man – Pink Death Awaits

Jul 12, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

Those horrible, evil scientists at Big Science are at it again. Back in 2009 they created an insane, mutated exploding man named Splosion Man, but this time around they’ve mixed sugar, spice and everything nitroglycerin to make the exploding woman called Ms. Splosion Man. Note the neo-feminist “Ms.” instead of the old-fashioned “Miss” like in Miss Pac Man. Yes, Ms. Splosion Man is one of them liberated dames, and she’ll probably blow you up if you call her a dame to her face.

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Namco’s New ‘Metro-Cross’ Reimagining!

Jul 9, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

Namco Bandai is at it again! The leading interactive
entertainment software developer and publisher has announced that Aero-Cross
will be the latest game remake in the Namco Generations games. Their goal is to not
only remake classic arcade games but to re-imagine them and capture the hearts
of audiences young and old. The best part is that these games have been remade
in high definition and they allow all those gamer score fiends to get some easy
achievements!

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Top Five Patriotic Games

Jul 5, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

As the video game industry has grown over time and become western based, many games have slipped in patriotic elements. Some subtle, some just plain obvious. Before the we head out to our Bar BQs and fireworks, let’s take a look at the top five patriotic games.

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Captain America Super Soldier: Fighting For Your Beliefs

Jul 1, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

The upcoming Captain America: Super Soldier
might seem like another mediocre movie tie-in game,
rushed through development in order to coincide with a film’s release
date. You
can believe that if you want, but you know who’ll fight to defend your
right to
express your beliefs until his dying breath? Captain America! So go
ahead and think what you want, Cap, and I along with all freedom-loving
people everywhere will hold off on our opinions until we’ve seen a bit
more of
the game in action before rushing to judgment.

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How Much Life is Left in the Xbox 360?

Jun 23, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

After that
rumor regarding Microsoft announcing their successor to the Xbox 360 at next
year’s E3 and the Wii U supposedly starting the next generation early next
year, it’s not absurd to think that the 360 could be coming to the end of its
life cycle. But don’t go throwing it out just yet – after all, the rumor about the
next Xbox is just a rumor and there’s not much information regarding the technical
capability of the Wii U console.

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Best and Worst of Xbox Live Arcade

Jun 21, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

Coming up on its seventh anniversary, Xbox Live Arcade has close to 400 games that cost up to twenty dollars. So, which of these is worth your hard-earned Microsoft points, and which should you stay away from? After some painful research I’ve found the two games that represent the absolute best XBLA has to offer along with the worst.

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Reasons Why Duke Nukem Forever is Awful

Jun 17, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

Well, aside from the obvious 14 year development time, which meant that they probably had to essentially start from scratch about three times, there are some core elements of Duke Nukem Forever that aren’t merely out-dated; they’re just plain bad. The arrival of Duke Nukem Forever has sparked a lot of debate, people are defending it and others are ripping it apart, but all I want to do is highlight the main things that made it a failure as a first person shooter in 2011. As I mentioned in my review, this genre has certain standards, and Duke Nukem Forever fails to even skim the bar of requirement on a lot of levels.

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Is Kinect Good for Hardcore?

Jun 13, 2011 | | Xbox 360 Features

This year at E3, the Microsoft Press Conferences chose to make Kinect their main focus. Now, like it or not, the Kinect is extending the life cycle of the Xbox 360. But at what cost? Microsoft has been pushing Kinect with a half a billion dollar campaign. That is a lot for a motion device, but has the Kinect proven itself to the hardcore yet?

Best Xbox Games of 2011 – So Far

Catherine Hands On Preview

Ms. Splosion Man – Pink Death Awaits

Namco’s New ‘Metro-Cross’ Reimagining!

Top Five Patriotic Games

Captain America Super Soldier: Fighting For Your Beliefs

How Much Life is Left in the Xbox 360?

Best and Worst of Xbox Live Arcade

Reasons Why Duke Nukem Forever is Awful

Is Kinect Good for Hardcore?

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