Filed under: Mac, Computer, Portable, Retro, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Casual

Alan R. Moon’s Ticket to Ride has only been out for four years, but it has picked up several prestigious board gaming awards, and is quickly becoming a popular “haul it out of the closet and get yer game on” addition to game night. Last week, the Xbox Live Arcade version was released, joining Catan, Carcassonne, and Lost Cities as games that have breached the digital divide. But how does it stack up against the freebie Java version, and the …

Filed under: Mac, Computer, Online, Strategy, Competitive Gaming

Earlier this week, Blizzard released a patch for Warcraft 3, known to some of you as “the game before World of Warcraft” and the rest as “the client for playing Defense of the Ancients.” Patch 1.22a provides balance changes for the units, fixes some technical issues and includes four new maps. You can update the game by either logging onto Battle.net or by downloading the patches manually (available from BigDownload).
PC (1.22a requires patch 1.21b for installation)

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Excitement for Halo Wars has been palpable of late, what with a recent GamePro cover story and Ensemble finally allowing a few details to hit the tubes (even from the official Halo Wars website, no less). It wasn’t long ago that Ensemble made it known that they would “hopefully” have a playable build at E3. Considering no one outside of Ensemble and a few lucky journalists have laid their hands on the game, it was pretty exciting news. Prepare to be even more excited, as the “hopefully” part …

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This generation of games has seen the average price for a title rise to $59.99, so when a game looks to possibly be released at a price point lower than that, we take notice. Over at Gamestop’s website, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts are both currently listed at the price of $39.99. Now while this could just be a simple error (Amazon has them both at $59.99), we’d like to hope that there’s more going on …
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One of the few Square Enix RPGs that’ll see release on 360 in the future (Septmeber 2 to be exact), the strangely titled Infinite Undiscovery has just recently had its box art released, and surprise, it’s not covered in large-eyed anime style characters. To go with the reveal of the artsy box cover, we’ve got a collection of some rather good looking screens for the game. The shots show case everything from the varied environments to some of the battle system, the UI and characters.

Gallery: Infinite Undiscovery

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Filed under: News, Downloads, Xbox Live Marketplace, Rumors

Thank you sharp-eyed forum posters, you may have spotted something that could mean Ninja Gaiden 2 will actually get some content worth paying for. Mentioned over at NeoGAF, and spotted somewhere on the XBL Marketplace, was the mention that NG2 will get a downloadable mission mode on the 25th of this month.
The mission mode that was in the original iteration was incredibly popular among the franchise faithful for its focus on the game’s main strength: pure combat. There are of course no …

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Fanboys who have their gaming roots firmly planted in the UK and are interested in Soulcalibur IV, (no not that Soulcalibur) we recommend getting your pre-order on. Ubisoft just announced that customers who pre-order at UK retailer Play.com will receive a free Soulcalibur IV faceplate and those who choose to preorder at GAME stores will be getting an exclusive metal case packed with a bonus DVD and art book. Make your pre-order decision wisely, though no matter what you decide on, pre-order goodies have you will.
[Via Eurogamer]

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Last week, we told you about Todd McFarlane’s interesting decision to gobble up the Guitar Hero license and the subsequent creation of a set of four Guitar Hero figures that are set to release this Fall. No, we still haven’t fully accepted the figures seeing that we don’t have any real attachment to the characters of Guitar Hero franchise, but we do now know exactly what each figure will look like. Viewable in the gallery below are the final sculpts of the Johnny Napalm, Lars Umlaut, Axel Steel …

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade

Will the back and forth never end? It’s multiplatform, then it’s not, and now it looks like it is again. With no official word from Capcom, this new Mega Man 9 news of course has only as much credence as the first OFLC rating. But we really don’t think that government game rating boards are in the habit of making up games or confusing which controller and console they’re using, regardless of what country the ratings board is from. Though there is just one tiny …

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Because Haloclix just didn’t fill the tabletop Halo niche market, Genius Products, B1 Games and Microsoft have teamed up to create a new strategic Halo board game that’s set to hit retailers this September. No joke!
The Halo Interactive Strategy game will feature characters and themes from Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3 using 3D collectible figures in tandem with a “modular board that can be re-configured” that allows players to strategically battle it out board game style. It’ll also somehow incorporate a DVD … somehow. Not much …