Microsoft Sells One-Million Consoles in Best Sales Week in Xbox History
It looks like Microsoft and Xbox 360 has managed to break their own records again with the “best week in Xbox 360 history” where the company moved almost 1 million consoles. Along with that they’ve moved 750,000 Kinect peripherals during that Black Friday week as well.
Nice to see that the almost-7-year-old console is still a workhorse. Kit Dotson at SiliconANGLE has the story.
Let’s Play Alice: Madness Returns Set 8, Parts 1 to 3
We continue our adventures through Alice: Madness Returns on the bottom of the sea. After the Mock Turtle’s ship wrecks upon the reef (with a little help from scary fish), we find ourselves in a coral world with a new dress and a new goal. The Theater! Of course Alice can breathe at the bottom of the sea. She is Alice, and she can breathe in space. Also, fish town.
Let’s Play Alice: Madness Returns Set 7, Parts 1 to 3
Our adventures in Wonderland take us out to the northern ice where we jump between icebergs, avoid thinking too long about half-eaten, frozen animals twice our size, and bash hell out of legged fish-creatures with a child’s riding horse. That’s between the scary fish, and the part where we blast sharks with cannon fire and depth charges.
Also, the shout-outs begin!
Let’s Play Alice: Madness Returns Set 6, Parts 1 to 3
The party just keeps on rolling with Alice: Madness Returns. We’ve put the Mad Hatter back together, and in return, he’s taken us to the last factory complex in the strange flying mechanical fortress that he calls home. It’s time to hunt down the March Hare and the Doormouse for a final showdown. They have a giant fighting robot, by the way.
Let’s Play Alice: Madness Returns Set 5, Parts 1 to 3
As we continue our adventures through the corrupted Wonderland of Alice: Madness Returns, we discover new revelations. The white rabbit we saw was not our time-keeping friend, but the March Hare from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, and now we encounter the Doormouse. Both have been changed with mechanical components, and have between them a grand plan of industrial revolution. Oh, and there’s also the matter of the Hatter’s arms, hidden somewhere inside the molten core of a burning metalworks.
FEAR 3 by Warner Bros contains some interesting enhancements
It’s hard to recall if we reviewed the first installment of this video game series, but FEAR does fit into the atmospheric horror first-person-shooter pretty well. However, we found ourselves quickly bogged down in the tirelessly moronic AI and other elements that didn’t really let us feel our way through the game. The scary bits, however, if memory serves did tend to prove pretty jump-tastic.
The additional enhancements FEAR 3 will see is something we’re actually intrigued by: co-op play with two different main characters.
In a break from previous installments, F.E.A.R. 3 features two-player co-op. Players have their choose between the super soldier Point Man or the powerful psychic Paxton Fettel. Each has their own special set of abilities, allowing for two distinct play experiences. There’s no mention of competitive multiplayer features.
Other enhancements included could also be noted in
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Corporate Masters Feign Care About What Xbox Players Think
Doritos and Microsoft have teamed up to promote their brands through a contest on Xbox Live, offering players a chance to submit their own hard work, dreams, and efforts to their corporate masters for little more than the chance to win a contest. It’s called Unlock Xbox, and it runs today through October 4th.
“We are always looking for new ways to connect with fans and give them unique opportunities to express their creativity in a way only Doritos and our partners can deliver,” said Ann Mukherjee of Frito-Lay, in a statement that made my skin crawl with a thousand outraged artistic sensibilities.
The end result will be ten semi-finalists, voted on by Xbox players, and plastered up and down with branding from Doritos, Microsoft, and whatever other corporate partners attach themselves to the contest.
You can read the whole press release here. Bring along some strong drink, …
Castle Crashers Necromantic Pack, downloadable content release
Tomorrow.
Castle Crashers by The Behemoth—possibly one of the cutest action-arcade games playable on the Xbox 360 with friends—features a great deal of downloadable content to extend and otherwise enhance already rapid-fire, chibi gameplay.
The Necromantic DLC pack is being released Thursday, Aug 26th 2009. According to sources, the last time The Behemoth released a DLC they spread codes across their forums like rich tapioca pudding. So we’d say keep a lookout for that.
For just 160 MS Points, come Thursday, this lovely little DLC could be yours. Just let us know how it works out!
Link, via The Behemoth dev blog
Dead Rising on Xbox 360 – A Reader Review
Reader Dracul sent in this review of the Xbox 360 game, Dead Rising. I’m sure we all remember this zombie cruncher from the early days of the Xbox’s timid entry into the gaming market. Let’s see what Dracul has to say about it. Take it away…
Contrary to what some may say about Dead Rising, how lame or uncanny this is with its strange sense of humor and random happenings around the mall, there is actually a pretty decent game in here. If you can manage to get through more then half of it without giving up, of course. You’ll discover plenty of certain little parts in Dead Rising where you’ll just want to throw the controller at the wall and scream, but we’ll get to those moments later. First …
Xbox 360 Avatar Awards and Dashboard Update
The monolithic computer overlord Microsoft just released a new dashboard update for the Xbox 360, including tighter Netflix support, new Avatar goodies to buy, and the mysterious Avatar Awards.
You still can’t run a proper search on the Netflix. Neither will you be able to waste your time and life on Facebook or Twitter, both promised features that will be released sometime either later this year or when Hell freezes over.
None of that really means anything, though, in the face of the new Avatar upgrades and Avatar Awards. That’s what you googled to find this page, right? Here’s what we know.
Avatar props give your digital representation new toys to play around with on the screen, so you can use your top-end, vastly powerful, expensive gaming console and its …
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