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The
Halo 3 Double EXP Weekends
continue on (in spite of whatever day the calender insists it is) with the
very latest playlist addition: Grifball. The Grav Hammer based fan-favorite gametype is firmly grounded in Foundry and is loosely based on soccer. For those who are arriving late to
the Grifball celebration, the game is very simple: get the ball in the goal without dying. But you’ll have to try to get your playing in before 2am Monday morning, as that’s when the “Double EXP Weekend” ends. The Grifball playlist is live now.
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As is becoming more and more common these days, a developer heard about the internet debacle that their comments or actions sparked, AND responded with relative quickness. This time it’s BioShock’s very own Ken Levine and his comments about dumbing down the stories in video games to be understandable for the lowest common denominator. His response was posted over at VE3D, and in it he goes deeper into his side comment about the medium of games having potential through player choice.
In fact he has the ability to say it superior than us, so we’ll just let him do it: “(Players) can, IF THEY CHOOSE, go deeper. That’s where in BioShock all the other storytelling devices kick in: the diaries, the public service announcements, the posters, the thousands of tiny scenes in the world of Rapture that tell the story of what happened there. But I like to assume there’s going to be some part of the audience that doesn’t care about that, and those people can opt out of it. But for the people who do care, they can choose to opt in and get a fairly complex story (and a VERY complex story relative to other console first person shooters).”
The second part of Ken’s response can be found after the break.
Continue reading Ken Levine does best to clear the storytelling air
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So dear reader, when was the last time you were on Live? Now, when was the last time you were on Live and didn’t encounter some form of asshat? However long ago it was, it was definitely too current, and word is starting to really get around. In an article at Gamasutra, Fulton, a Microsoft employee who worked on Shadowrun, writes that: “the on the internet behavior of our customers is dramatically reducing our sales.”
And that’s just the beginning of an excellent four page article on social design and the future of on the web gaming with regard to social interaction. The assertion that Live is generally filled with annoying idiots has been widely held among the more hardcore gaming community since the inception of the service, but this is the first that we’ve ever heard anything out of Microsoft about it affecting them in any manner. In the article Fulton posits that we know and love games so we’re willing to work around it or put up with it, but for newcomers to the medium, the fun/annoyance ratio could just be too high. Readers, what do you think?
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Lots of great stuff to see on Xbox 360 Fanboy this week. In addition to the usual news (and some not so usual Too Human news), we’ve got a new Fancast, a new giveaway (Devil Might Cry 4) and a new XBLA in Brief. Not only that, but we’ve got the first edition of a brand new video series Points>Life, in which we share strategies on scoring accomplishment points. Have a look.
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MyGamercard.net has revealed the accomplishments for Sierra On the internet and Wanako’s upcoming XBLA shooter Assault Heroes 2. The secret to most of the achievements lies right there in the genre: shooting stuff. The trick is just how you shoot them and who you do it with. The achievements offer a nice mix of single and multiplayer accomplishments, and it doesn’t sound like any of them are too difficult, but it’s hard to say before we know how difficult the game is in general. Our favorite accomplishment is definitely Smoothie Heroes. Not only does the name reference a delicious frozen treat, but the description for obtaining the achievement earns points for creativity: “Co-op Campaign: Kill 100 infantry, one player freezes & the other shatters, on Hard in one session.”
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IGN has revealed that Pandemic Studios’ Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is scheduled for a U.S. release on August 31st. And since a release date announcement is a huge deal, Pandemic also supplied a new Mercenaries 2 “US Release Date Trailer” for everyone to enjoy. From what we can tell, things splode really, really good. We also get a feeling for why Mattias Nilsson is so hellbent on revenge … his bum has a bullet lodged in it. Watch the trailer, take it all in and (potentially) add Mercenaries 2 to your ever expanding list of 2008 must-haves.
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We never would have thought that metal band P.O.D. enjoyed themselves a game of Madden, but we guess you learn something new every day. Participating in Xbox.com’s Game With Fame, P.O.D. will log onto Xbox Live and challenge gamers to a game of Madden NFL 08 on Friday, April 11th at 6:30PM eastern. Send a friend request to either GWF POD or GWF POD 2 to get your chance to play and begin pounding the Gatorade in preparation for next week. Oh, and clean those cleats.
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Stop the presses! What’s that, we don’t have presses? Well then carry on! Ladies and gentlemen another momentous day is upon us as yet another piece of downloadable content has arrived for Two Worlds. Honestly, we’re hard-pressed to tell the difference between this round of DLC and the pack that was released last month. Both contain 35 new quests and a PVP mode in which players “battle one another in an innovative player-versus-player challenge where opponents battle to control magical orbs within a variety of arenas.” No, seriously, the press releases for each piece of DLC used the exact same wording to describe the new PVP mode. So, we’re not sure if both packs come with the same PVP arenas or not. Still, that’s a total of 70 new quests if you’re so inclined. Oh, and just so you can tell them apart, the newest piece of DLC is called Curse of Souls. It will run you 600 Microsoft Points.
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One wonders where all these XBLA puzzle games come from, especially when there’s still so many issues surrounding the content and organization of the Live Arcade. Still, that doesn’t stop more developers from creating and releasing them, and the next game to make the jump is Sudoku, or rather Buku Sudoku. If you’ve ever played a digital version of the game you know what to expect here, with custom modes, themes and more. The developer does have plans for DLC though, so they apparently see this as doing somewhat well. The achievement list for this one can be found after the break.
Continue reading Another Puzzle Game for XBLA: Buku Sudoku
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With the Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack seemingly only moments away, we thought it prudent to post this video montage of the new maps from GameTrailers. Strangely absent from the footage is Chinatown and Killhouse, which represent the two biggest departures from the maps already available with Call of Duty 4. We still get plenty of footage from Broadcast and Creek, though. We particularly like the look of Broadcast, which looks like a big violent mess (in a good way). Enjoy the video, and remember that all this fun can be yours in time for the weekend (at the cost of 800 MS Points anyway).
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