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Fable III Traitor’s Keep DLC Review

One of the most compelling concepts of Fable III was the fact that you not only had to breath life into a revolution, but then serve as king (or queen) and try to make sure Albion flourished after completing your main quest. But what would happen if someone else tried to start a revolution to dethrone YOU?

That’s the question that the new “Traitor’s Keep” DLC asks. Another one of your brother Logan’s nasty secrets rears its head when while going through your daily duties an assassin makes an attempt on your life right in the throne room! After dispatching the would be killer, you get word from some of your soldiers that an unknown ship is approaching the harbor. 

Microsoft Sells Ten Million Kinect Units

Microsoft announced today that they have sold over 10 million Kinect sensors worldwide.  The sales remained steady through to this year.  They saw very little dip in sales since the release of the Kinect.  This has also pushed Kinect game sales over 10 million.  Which is a big number but I wonder if they are counting all of the Kinect Adventures that comes with every Kinect?

Not only have they sold 10 million units but they also got themselves a new Guinness World Record.  The Kinect is the fastest selling consumer electronic device to date.  The device sold an average of 133,333 Kinect sensors per day for 60 days in a row.  For a total of eight million sold between the days of November 4, 2010 to January 3, 2011.  That is an amazing achievement for Microsoft.

Microsoft Hiring New Hardware Engineers, New Xbox?

It’s about that time, folks. It’s about time to start prepping for another 400-500 dollar investment in a new console. And Microsoft has further proven that after placing a few ads on Linkedin calling for a “Graphics hardware architect” and a “Senior Architect and Performance Engineer.”

The Hard Drive and Cloud Saves

It’s amazing
to think that not too long ago the idea of having a gaming console with a hard
drive was simply a pipe dream. And even more bizarre when you remember that
there was a time when you couldn’t save your game at all. Now here we all are
with our triple figure gigabyte hard drives and installing games like it
doesn’t even matter.

The original
X-Box was the first traditional home console to come with a hard drive, but it
didn’t come without its disadvantages, this being one of the main reasons that
Microsoft lost so much money on the system. This was before the days of
detachable hard drives or being able to save to a USB drive or even downloading
an online profile. More importantly this was the time when console gaming was
largely offline, Playstation 2 game cases even came with memory card holders in
them for the times where you would take your saves to your friends house. Including
a hard drive was a great idea, but it was too early for it to really take off.

Hamilton’s Great Adventure Teaser Trailer

Take part in an amazing journey, guiding the splendiferous adventurer Ernest Hamilton and his brilliant bird Sasha as they co-operate to crack crafty conundrums and challenges!

Progress through four unique and visually stunning environments. Delve into gameplay featuring both action puzzling and traditional problem solving.  Immerse yourself into a fantastical storyline filled with extravagant escapades and memorable characters

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: The Da Vinci Disappearance DLC review (360)

The Borgia have fallen. Rome has been restored.
There is peace (relatively speaking) at last. Time for Ezio to put his feet up
right? Wrong. The year is 1506, and a new cult has arisen and come
to prominence from the shadows. Known as The Hermeticists, they are the main
antagonists you face in Ubisoft’s newest helping of downloadable content for
its flagship franchise.

Torchlight XBLA Review

In late 2009 Runic Games took the PC Gaming world by storm. Out of what seemed to be nowhere, they introduced an isometric styled RPG named Torchlight that not only drew numerous comparisons to Diablo, but also brought up questions of is it actually better than Diablo. So having played its original PC version, I knew mostly what to expect upon entering the XBLA port of Torchlight. But some questions still remained; would the controls lend themselves to consoles well? As well as would the game look as good as it did on PC?

The biggest question of the two is obviously the one regarding the controls. Would Runic be able to map the PC controls well enough to an Xbox 360 controller where it didn’t feel too much like an obvious port? And the answer to that question is: Mostly. The standard controls such as moving around, attacking, and zooming in and out the camera all work well. Attacking is done simply by holding down the X button, which is nice because having to repeatedly tap a button during a battle would be very tedious and thankfully Runic Games knew that. But once you get into using the abilities, that’s when things can get complicated.