Kane & Lynch is developed for the XBox360, by IO interactive, about two men with very different lives forced to work together to make hell on earth. Kane was the regular guy who turned bad when his son shot himself with Kane’s own gun. Unable to cope with the loss of his son, he turned into a mercenary. Lynch is a guy who schizophrenia who works in warehouses. His illness requires him to be heavily medicated to control his symptoms. One day he came home to find his wife dead in their apartment and because he is susceptible to blackouts during which he commits atrocious acts, he is unsure if he was the one who killed her. So being the prime suspect with ALL the evidence pointing to him, the jury sentenced him to death.
Somehow, fate tied these two unlikely characters together. Now questions avail, will these two men find peace and get their lives back together again?
Check your XBOX360 and you’ll see that EVERYONE is playing Halo 3 online. And on its first day of launch in US alone has collected $170million, I think that’s just nuts. In a good way, I suppose.
How come I don’t see the same hype for BioShock? I bet Bioshock is a better game *ducks the controllers* Okay, so let’s talk about Halo 3. Halo 3 is the 3rd installation of the Halo saga built up by a great amount of fanboy hype and flair. Much to many people’s relief, Halo3 did live up to its hype although you will find smithereens of negative feedback of the game around the net. Most notedly, a feedback that Halo 3 isn’t as great as what it claims to be. Hm.
Oh well.
Check out its official trailer. Get the game. Play it. Leave a feedback at Gamespot.com
As most of you know, the Xbox hasn’t exactly made it big yet in Japan but the folks in Microsoft is hoping that Halo 3 will be the game that inspires the Japanese market to buy the console because “it’s a cool game”.
This long awaited game is set to come out in 21st of August 2007, in Canada and 24th Aug for Europe. I don’t know if it’s going to be released in Japan BUT BUT i am sure you can get your hands on one via eBay.
Anyway, I downloaded the demo on my XBox360 and HOLY MOLY, it’s AWESOME. I love the setting the game was set in. Dark and haunted, with crazy people running around hitting people with a wrench. It’s like a cross between emo goth and dracula’s castle set in the 50’s. God, I’m so in love with this game and can’t wait for its release!
The game takes place in 1960 in a fictional large underwater metropolis called Rapture, built in 1946 by Andrew Ryan, a Howard Hughes-like industrialist and caricature of Ayn Rand. Rapture was designed to be entirely self-supporting, with all of its electricity, food production, water purification and defense systems powered by undersea volcanic openings. At one point, it is learned that Rapture’s population numbered several thousand at its peak during the early 1950s, composed of those people Ryan viewed as the best examples of mankind. A large and tiered economy grew among the people, catering different quality products to different levels of the society.
A scientific discovery upset the balance of the society. Two scientists studying ocean-floor dwelling creatures discovered a species of sea slug that secretes pure stem cells. These could be used to enhance one’s body, improving physical or mental capabilities, curing diseases and healing injuries. A young entrepreneur named Tenebaum invested early on in the research to gain control over the material. The substance, dubbed “ADAM”, became so sought after in the society, that it became the dominant currency of the city. A “full-scale genetic arms race” broke out between Ryan and Tenebaum as Tenebaum’s monopoly on ADAM threatened the current social structure. Ryan eventually won, but everyone in the city was permanently changed. During the war, it was discovered that ADAM could be used to modify one’s body, combining technology and mutations to adapt and survive the conflict, but losing their humanity in the process. During the conflict, all natural sources of ADAM were destroyed, which eventually resulted in a major shift in the “ecology” of the city, as all inhabitants had become biologically dependent on ADAM to survive. On New Year’s Day in 1959, attacks with biological weapons lead to the downfall of Rapture’s society, and the city fell into a state of disrepair.
And with that, i shall leave you to ponder if you want to be a part of the game….
Oh No…i am sure some of you fans out there must be disappointed. The game, Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed to 2008 due to some technical improvements they’re doing to the game.
The overcrowded monkey house that was the 2007 holiday release schedule lost one of its 800-pound gorillas today. Without warning, this afternoon Take-Two Interactive stunned the game industry by announcing it was delaying Grand Theft Auto IV to the second quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, which begins on February 1, 2008. Published by Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games, the crime-action title had been slated to ship for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on October 16, 2007.
“Certain elements of development proved to be more time-intensive than expected, especially given the commitment for a simultaneous release on two very different platforms,” said Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick in a statement.
Unsurprisingly, not having GTA IV in its 2007 fiscal-year lineup has put a serious dent in Take-Two’s earnings expectations. The company’s guidance is now for net revenue of $950 million to $1.0 billion for the 12 months ending October 31, and a loss of $1.25 to $1.35 per share. That figure is over $200 million lower than prior estimates of $1.2 billion to $1.25 billion in annual revenue–which would have been “break even results” according to the company’s second-quarter earnings statement. With the AO-rated Manhunt 2 on indefinite hold, Take-Two now expects net revenue between $275 million to $300 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, with a net loss of $0.05 to $0.10 per share.
It’s like a combination of things in this game, The Darkness, but nonetheless it’s a very good one. The main character, Jackie Estacado, looks like The Crow and he belongs to the mafia (which he refers to as “the family”, don’t they always :)); he even speaks like the Godfather when he was lad. One his 21st birthday all hell breaks loose and things seems to go from bad to worse. Nothing is worse than having your own uncle wanting to kill you off because you’re “no good” anymore. That’s when The Darkness visited. A demon, in need of host, and it follows the first male born of the Estacados like a genetic disease - made known to them only on their 21st Birthday. This disease equips its host with a pair of demonic snake like arms, that devours its victims hearts.
So, there Jackie goes, searching for the truth and how to control, and perhaps, rid his family line of The Darkness.
The rest of the game remains to be played by you. There is no fun in telling everything, you see.
It is me or is the XBox 360 getting a buncha good games in line lately?
Resident Evil 5, the forthcoming installment that is set to be out in 2009 has it official trailer out! OMG OMG, it’s just that i have been playing Resident Evil SINCE the first one came out in PS! And now it’s going to be on XBOX360 too..that is like out of the world!
But only in 2009. 2 years from now is rather nuts. If I have to wait so long for that game, it better come out good.
Let’s check out the trailer now:
Does it look it it’s somewhere in the middle east or along the Mediterranean coast line? Cos that scene just looks like somewhere in Morocco or something.
Do you like being in command of minions who will do the pillage and plunder for you? Do you like being called the Dark Lord/Master? Do you want to have 15 minions following you around doing your bidding whenever you please? Does murdering innocent people/halflings/goats/cows appeal to you?
If you say yes to one or more, Overlord may just be the game for you. While you may think this game is dark and evil, let me just say that it’s really a lighter side of the dark and evil. Sure you’ll be be doing all that pillage and plunder for you but your minions…they resemble Gollum from lord of the rings and wants nothing more than to please their masssster. They’ll die for you, steal for you, kill for you, anything you want and they do it in such an adoring way you just can’t help but feel bad for these creatures. LOL!
Check out the youtube clip and you’ll know what i mean:
Hour of Victory is a World War II-based first-person shooter released for Xbox 360 on June 25, 2007. A playable game demo was released on Xbox Live Marketplace on June 1, 2007. This game, albeit, receiving very bad review from Gamespot, “scathing” was the word used and a score of 2 out of 10, has a pretty impressive trailer.
“3 Heroes, 3 Destinies, 1 Purpose…” so it says. :P
Microsoft has decided to extent the XBox 360’s warranty to 3 years instead of the usual one. As much as I love my XBox, I have heard stories about how the XBox just dies off suddenly with the “red ring of death” (three flashing red lights on the console’s front panel). Yes, this incredible machine unfortunately dies off rather unpredictably even though it never showed signs of symptoms.
At least Microsoft’s doing something about it :)
Today, Microsoft announced that it is once again revamping its warranty scheme for the Xbox 360. After mounting anecdotal evidence of the system’s failure rate due to the dreaded “red ring of death” (three flashing red lights on the console’s front panel), the publisher is changing its warranty to cover systems affected by the red ring for three years from the date of purchase. Any console that suffers the aforementioned failure in any territory the 360 is sold can be returned to Microsoft for repair for free, because the warranty also includes shipping charges.
“As a result of what Microsoft views as an unacceptable number of repairs to Xbox 360 consoles, the company conducted extensive investigations into potential sources of general hardware failures,” the company said in a statement. The three-year extension is for all 360s, and will be retroactively applied to every console bought since the 360 launched. That means anyone who bought a console in November 2005 will be covered until November 2008.
[UPDATE] Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President of the Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Business, said he is personally sorry about anyone who’s suffered a 360 failure. “We haven’t done right by our customers, and for that I apologize,” he told GameSpot. “We listened, and we’re going to make it right.” In an in-depth interview with GameSpot, Moore outlined the new warranty, and emphasized it would be “global” in nature.
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