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Call of Duty Elite to be Fixed by December 1st

Call of Duty Elite hasn’t had the smoothest of launches, but developer Beachhead assures fans that its battle station will be fully operational by December first. Beachhead Vice President Daniel Suarez has asked fans to be patient and admitted to making some misguided assumptions based on Elite’s beta.

“It was our fault that the service wasn’t up and running the day [fans]  put in their token or the day they bought it,” Suarez admitted. “They kind of have to bear with us while we bring this all back up, but  for us it’s literally ‘Give us those couple weeks, we’re giving those to you for free and come December 1st the goal is that we’ll have  everything up and running.”

Achievement Unlocked – End of the Season

This week offered no achievements for just starting a game, pausing it, or any of that nonsense. Each achievement at least requires you to play the game, and hopefully enjoy it.  Unsurprisingly the strongest, and by far most bizarre, of this week is Saint’s Row: The Third. When the trailers first showed up the game showed how very little seriousness was going to be involved and the achievement list seems to echo that. Once Bitten…Braaaaaaains is for completing ‘Zombie Attack’, Your Backseat Smells Funny can be obtained for completing all Escort missions, and Ow my Balls! is for getting your first nutshot or testicle assault.

New Screens of Ninja Gaiden 3

Ninja Gaiden has always had a dedicated following of hack ‘n’ slash gamers who appreciate the dark and mysterious. The third game in the franchise is shaping up to please these fans more than ever. With that in mind, let us not forget that blood and gore are part of these games and we have finally gotten some new screenshots. Gore and all:

King of Fighters XIII Gets DLC Support

The King of Fighters series, while generally less well-known in the
West than the all-conquering Street
Fighter and Tekken franchises,
has been grinding away in Japanese arcades for about fifteen years now.  The console adaptation of the latest game in
the series, King of Fighters XIII,
is set to hit the 360 on November 22nd, and developers ATLUS U.S.A have
confirmed their long-term commitment to the series by announcing a DLC plan for
the game alongside the release of a new trailer.

First Episode of the Making of Risen 2 Released

Everybody likes pirates, right?  Not the pirates we have nowadays, the pirates popularized by a certain series of Disney films, who sail the seven seas on big ships waving cutlasses and shouting ‘yarr’.  If you’re a particular fan of that kind of pirate, you’ll be interested to see that Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes, the developers of Risen 2: Dark Waters, have released the first in what will be a series of in-depth ‘making of’ videos for the game. 

Minecraft Easter Egg in Skyrim?

Many of you are already familiar with Bethesda’s legal escapades with Minecraft developer Mojang, but it’s highly possible that Bethesda isn’t taking everything involved too seriously.  As seen in the screen below, a character in Bethesda’s latest game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim¸ is about to loot a “notched pickaxe,” the central tool of Mojang’s Minecraft.

Halo Living Monument Launched

Today, Microsoft has released the Halo Living Monument, an interactive 3D model of Master Chief which allows fans of the Halo series the opportunity to load pictures of whatever they wish related to their experiences with Haloonto it.  Master Chief’s body is split up into hexes, much like Civilization V, for the pictures to be uploaded to.