Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting, Online

EA Sports has confirmed an initial report that a demo of its arcade-style boxing game, Facebreaker, will be hitting Microsoft and Sony’s download services shortly. More specifically, the Xbox 360 demo will be available on Thursday, July 31 with a PS3 version arriving a week later on August 7.

What sets this demo apart from most others is the approach EA is taking with regards to migrating user-generated content to the final product. Akin to the Spore Creature Creator, players will be able to generate their own custom pugilists and share them with others over the intertubes. The characters will also be accessible in the final version of Facebreaker, which enters the retail ring on September 5.

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NEW GRAND THEFT AUTO PICTURES LEAKED!!!!!

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New titlee!!! :] [Shannen’s pov] Joe and Bailey are over. They’re making it completely awkward for us. They keep kissing and being all coupley. Nick and Ellen should be here soon. Ellen’s one of my ideal friends in the entire world! *ding dong* Finally. I ran over to the door and opened it, dragging Nick and Ellen inside. We all continued to sit in the living room, watching Joe and Bail…

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live

Kicking off this Friday, July 25th and going into overtime on Sunday, July 27th, EA and Xbox.com are sponsoring an NCAA Football 09 Live Weekend full of prizes, playtime with the developers and a sprinkle of over the top end zone dances. You can read up on all the weekend’s NCAA 09 festivities over on Xbox.com, pre-register for the fun and even find out how you can get a chance to game it up with hall of fame running back Eric Dickerson. Down, 3, 2, set, set, hut, HUT!

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade

Stock up on coal and keep the train engine warm, because next Wednesday, July 30th Xbox Live Arcade board game Ticket to Ride will be hauling in a new expansion. The upcoming European expansion board DLC will give players a new board to choo-choo on and add new game elements to the mix including ferries, tunnels and train stations. All that excitement and more for (deep breath) only 600 Microsoft points. Yowzaz! We never knew that getting a European ticket to ride the rails would be so darn high-priced. Darn the economy!

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We already touched on the upcoming Comic-Con 2008 festivities, but yesterday Microsoft released an officially official press release detailing all the Gears of War 2 love they’ll be showing for Comic-Con attendees. And already, we’re jealous we can’t attend.

Microsoft will have a booth setup on the floor where everyone can get a chance to play Too Human and Ninja Gaiden II, where also on Saturday, July 26th from 2:00-2:45PM the Cliff Bleszinski and GoW2 lead writer Joshua Ortega will be signing Gears posters. Later on Saturday, from 3:30-4:30PM, team Epic will be holding a “Gears of War” Showcase Panel where Bleszinski, Ortega and Karen Traviss will discuss all things Gears and give an exclusive preview of the cars and weapons that’ll grace Gears 2 come this Fall. NECA will also be on hand selling an exclusive Carmine figure, previewing the General RAAM figure and there will be other Gears comic and novel goodness all over.

2008 is the year Gears of War 2 takes over Comic-Con and, depressingly, we can’t attend. Though, MS does promise to “Bring it Home” via Xbox Live, so that should help our Gears 2 needs. Hopefully it’ll be enough.

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Why all the Denis Dyack (stuck) hating? That’s the question Fable 2’s Peter Molyneux (stuck) seems to have asked himself because recently, in an interview with VideoGamer, Molyneux expressed sorry feelings for Dyack and how he and Too Human have been treated as of late. “I feel sorry for Denis Dyack because you know, I think a few things were said wrong, there was that really unfortunate showing at E3 a few years ago” Molyneux continued, saying that “everyone got on the bandwagon of saying things about Too Human.” Peter then threw his support behind Too Human saying that “it’s a good game” admitting that “it doesn’t deserve a lot of that harsh criticism.”

A perfect example of how developers have to stick together if they want to survive in the industry. Strength in numbers, friends, strength in numbers.

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Filed under: News, Downloads, Xbox Live Marketplace

Let’s go off-topic for a moment. Watchmen is probably one of the greatest graphic novels ever created and the film looks absolutely rad. From director Zack Snyder, the guy who directed the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, and partially penned by David Hayter, of Metal Gear fame, it looks like it’s going to be one helluva flick.

The problem with creating a great motion picture is that, inevitably, someone will want to create a game based on it. Variety is reporting that Watchmen is no exception to this rule but the game based on the film (based on the graphic novel) is taking a different approach. Warner Bros. has announced it will release two downloadable episodic games on Xbox Live, Computer and PSN to coincide with the theatrical and DVD releases of the film.

Developed by Deadline Games, which is currently working on Faith and a .45, we don’t know much about the content of the games but we hope a smaller game will work out superior than licensed titles of the past. We also hope for world peace and an end to fanboy flame wars — guess how that’s going so far?

[via Joystiq]

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Telltale Games announced today that Sam & Max, everyone’s favorite pair of anthropomorphic animal investigators, will be getting a collectors edition DVD for their second season of downloadable episodes. This DVD will contain the five episodes that make up Season Two, along with behind-the-scenes and other special features like developer commentary and outtakes.

The Sam & Max Season Two Collector’s DVD can be preordered from Telltale’s on the web store (it’s expected to ship sometime in August) for $34.95. The cool part is if you’ve already bought Season Two (from their site) then this is totally free, aside from shipping and handling! It sure is nice for Telltale to essentially be giving (some of) their early customers a free disk full of shiny extras.

Three new Season Two themed items were also announced, including the two-disk Sam & Max Season Two soundtrack, a case file with Season Two related “evidence,” and a poster print based on the DVD’s cover art that’s available both signed and unsigned.

Is anyone else going to be picking some of this stuff up?

Via Destructoid

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Yesterday, at the Gamefest 2008 event, Microsoft announced that paying for Gold accounts would no longer be necessary to access all the multiplayer features in Personal computer games under their Games for Windows brand. Viva la multijugador libre!

These features included such things as voice chat, usage fo the TrueSkill matchmaking system, the capability to play against 360 owners, and access to multiplayer accomplishments. Maybe not the most exciting list of features — voice chat, for instance, can be easily accessed through other programs on the PC — but I’ll happily take them. After being so used to free on the internet multiplayer in PC games (excluding MMOs, of course) I can absolutely understand why people wouldn’t want to begin paying for something that they used to get for nothing, which is probably why Microsoft felt the need to make it free (read: no one was buying).

I would not take this news as a sign that the ‘Soft might be considering free multiplayer on the 360, however. Console owners have shown that they’ll happily (begrudgingly?) pay for a well-maintained on the web service, as evidenced by Live getting a new paying member every five seconds.

Microsoft also announced that Computer gamers will be getting their own version of the Xbox Live Marketplace. Again, this news may not be that exciting since game demos, movies, and full games can easily be found at multiple locations across the Internet, but it could prove to be a convenient all-in-one spot to find stuff.

So what do you think about these new changes? Are you glad to be getting more stuff for free, or are you jealous that other people are getting the same on the internet experience that you do without having to pay a monthly fee?

[Thanks, Joe]

Via Destructoid

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