Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, On the internet

The much ballyhooed Team Fortress 2 Heavy Update that Valve released this past Tuesday will be heading to the Xbox 360 by year’s end, according to Gamespot. At last, you can begin cracking your knuckles and bone up on your sandvich eating skillz. Just watching those videos made us want to begin playing TF2 again. We know, you’re saying, “What?! Why’d you put it down in the first place?”
New maps, new weapons, and new achievements? What’s not to love? Anything that can …

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, On the web, Politics

Meet 1ickTh3P0l3. He can vote. But why tell him that? When Rock the Vote comes to Xbox Live on Monday (the begin of the Democratic National Convention), it won’t find the disempowered young citizens eager to be mobilized it’s expecting. In fact, the Xbox Live community is a conglomerate of well-organized sub-divisions — or “clans” — which communicate through a modified, verbalization of “133t speak” with a massive admixture of derisive language; including racial, ethnic, gender, sex, and religious slurs. These nihilistic …

Filed under: Mac, Personal computer, Action, Adventure, On the web

This week American McGee’s Grimm retells the story (in Grimm’s special way) of the anthropomorphic Puss in Boots. The episode is free for everyone the first 24 hours after release and will be available only to GameTap subscribers after that time.

Grimm: Puss In Boots (Windows) - Cats are evil and Puss is no exception. Dogs rule!
Patrician III (Windows) - How to describe … how to describe? Oh, it’s like playing “Medieval Tycoon.”

There are no new additions to GameTap’s free …

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, First Person Shooters, Online
Sony, Guerilla - our hats voice headsets are off to you. After all, you tried to deliver the total on the internet play experience with your official Killzone 2 multiplayer trailer at Leipzig. The only problem is … well, it sounds too much like real mutiplayer. Or maybe someone’s polite approximation thereof.
Oh, we like what we see (and state, are those auto-turrets from Aliens?) but the “radio chatter” not only sounds forced - …

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, On the internet, Sports

The PlayStation Blog announced this day that the God of War himself will be available tomorrow as a downloadable character for PS3’s Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds. Kratos, sporting the “clubs of chaos,” is taking some time off from battling the gods of Olympus to try and sink a couple putts.
The Kratos DLC will cost $2, but this isn’t just a fancy new character model for the game. We give Sony props for bringing in T.C. Carson, the voice of Kratos, …

Not only does independent developer/publisher Stardock put out some great strategy games, they’re also somewhat well known for totally omitting any sort of DRM in their releases. Building upon this idea of actually, y’know, treating Computer gamers with some modicum of respect, they’ve released a list entitled “The Gamer’s Bill of Rights,” a collection of standards that we can anticipate to see the company employ from this point on.

Gamers shall have the right to return games that don’t work with their personal for a full refund.
Gamers shall have the right …