After watching sales of XBLA games soar whenever they had their "Summer of Arcade" event, Microsoft has since made "Game Feast" in the fall, and now "House Party" starting on February 16th, including five games.
Microsoft has confirmed that Kinect for Xbox 360 has sold 8 million Units worldwide in the 60 days immediately following its November launch at their CES 2011 Press Conference. Steve Ballmer made the announcement on stage after revealing Avatar Kinect, a Playstation Home-like service that allows gamers to chat using their Avatars and Kinect. Microsoft had previously said they were aiming to sell 5 million Kinect units between launch and [...]
According to Rock Band Aide, who fished out a post on the Rock Band Forums by Rock Band Network author Ron over at Alt-Strum Productions, alternative rockers Alien Ant Farm will have their first major label album, ANThology, released progressively via the Network.
Previously, I had read a post on Rock Band Aide about some inexplicably discounted DLC in the Rock Band Store. RockBand.com announced today that it’s a legitimate sale to toast in the New Year with some rockin’ discounts!
Game Informer has released it’s predictions for 2011 of what it feels might be around the bend for us gamers. However, some are just a bit more absurd than others.
For some reasons people didn’t really take to Rock Band 3. It sold moderately well despite rave reviews all around, but those sales apparently weren’t good enough for Viacom who decided to sell the developer. Rock Band 3 was the music game genre’s last hurrah, it would seem. It has now come to light that Harmonix was sold to investment group Columbus Nova for the low, low price of $49.99, [...]
Game Informer recently published a fairly comprehensive release schedule for the major titles being released across all formats in the next 12 months. If you have any interest in figuring out what to spend your limited income on in 2011, you’ll probably want to check out the full list after the cut, because it looks like it’s going to be a ridiculously good year for gaming this year.
Not to be outdone by GameFly’s Year-End Sale, Amazon are now having their own sale with a good handful of gems available. Titles like the Limited Edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West are available for a fraction of their prices, as well as the ultra-hard Demon’s Souls with a CD soundtrack! The fun retro PS3 title 3D Dot Game Heroes is also on sale. [...]
Update: Wow! Looks like a lot of stuff went really fast! I personally missed out on Monster Hunter Tri and Transformers: War for Cybertron on the cheap, but there’s still plenty of games available on several platforms! This sale may be until January 3rd, but the game you want may not be there! Original: GameFly are having their incredibly huge year-end sale RIGHT NOW. Literally hundreds of used titles at [...]
That’s right! The ol’ Tomb Raider herself came out with a new game just this year titled Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, a fun two-player experience. And it can be yours for only 600 MSP ($7.50) instead of 1200 MSP ($15) today only!
