Gaming Outcasts

For the holiday season you may be thinking about buying a gaming system. There are Xbox 360 consoles to consider in your choice of gaming systems. Each type of console has different features. Here are some of the features you will have if you decide to purchase an Xbox 360. The coolest thing about Xbox is that is has Xbox Live. It is a live way to get online and chat with friends. As a gamer you can get on Xbox Live and ... Read More

At what point is an IP owner “cashing in” on their product? Has Microsoft given us enough versions of Halo to satisfy us, or have they shilled out so many titles that it has lost its luster. Tony Hawk, Need for Speed, Madden, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and now Bioshock have seen new retail releases every year for at least the last 4 years. When do we say enough is enough. 2K's plan is to release 5 more versions of Bioshock because ... Read More

Most Played Board Game in the World Reinvented With a Party Twist For Next-Gen Video Game Platforms Guildford, UK – April 23, 2008 – The Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today released additional details on MONOPOLY (working title), the first Hasbro-branded video game set to launch on next-generation consoles including Wii™ and the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system. MONOPOLY will also be appearing on the PLAYSTATION®2 computer entertainment system as well as mobile phones ... Read More

The newest video short for Team Fortress 2. This one is titled, "Meet the Scout" To subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGamersVideoUpdate Read More

I don't know about you, but I absolutly love the way Rock Band is doing DLC. Rock BandTM Defends The Faith By Adding Judas Priest's Entire 1982 Classic Screaming For Vengeance As The First Downloadable Album Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the first complete album to be added to the Rock Band downloadable content catalog: Judas Priest’s 1982 classic, Screaming For Vengeance. On April 22, some of the most influential metal tracks of all time will get new life as Screaming For Vengeance ... Read More

Collector's Editons equal fast and easy money.  To bad I'm sold on it. Fallout 3 Collector's Edition to be Available Worldwide April 18, 2008 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company, officially announced today that it will release a special Fallout® 3 collector’s edition worldwide for Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows, and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. The limited collector’s edition is available for pre-order through participating retailers. This premium Fallout 3 package, presented in a customized, metal ... Read More

Launches Simultaneously with Charity Event! Tallahassee, Florida – April 16, 2008 – Want to be part of the largest and possibly only Xbox 360 Community Scavenger Hunt? 360Sync.com today announced it has teamed up with an astonishing 38 Xbox 360 community websites and magazines to launch the largest website scavenger hunt built strictly for the community. The concept – which has been in development for the past year – is nearing its public debut extravaganza. Players – the name referring to visitors involved ... Read More

The award-winning multiplayer experience evolves with three new maps and expanded Forge options now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace After launching in Sept. 2007, millions of fans the world over still log onto Xbox LIVE every day to experience the award-winning action of “Halo 3” multiplayer. That experience expanded first in December with the release of the Heroic Map Pack, and today Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie release the next evolution with the Legendary Map Pack. Available for 800 Microsoft Points ... Read More

WildStorm a DC comic company will be creating a comic book for the Xbox 360 and PS3 game Prototype. Although nothing much was stated in the article, we can only hope this will add to the conspiracy between main character Alex Mercer and the Military’s elite Blackwatch division. This genetic experiment gone wrong will hit a comic store near you this August. Source Read More

NHL 09 Community Event held from April 1st – 4th is highlighted on the XBOX LIVE in-game Dashboard. If you turn on your XBOX 360 without a game in it, you’ll be at the XBOX LIVE Dashboard upon startup.  From there click on the tab right underneath your Gamertag entitled “Inside XBOX.”  Our Community Event should be the first thing you see. Read More

Heads up to all the COD4 players out there! Remember back when the game launched last fall and there was a weekend event to celebrate? Well it's happening again next weekend. Thanks to a press release from Microsoft, we can report that next weekend you'll have the opportunity to play against the COD4 devs as well as an MMA fighter named Jens "Lil Evil" Pulver Not only that, but just playing during the weekend will enter you for all sorts of prizes. ... Read More

We see this type of promotion quite a bit in recent years. The newest game to feature this is Iron Man. It seems that PS3 and the Xbox 360 will have armor specific to each console. This comes courtesy of IGN. The 360 will receive the Silver Centurion armor which was first seen in issue 200 when Tony used it in battle against Obadiah Stane, and was worn during his tenure in the West Coast Avengers. The PS3 seems to get a ... Read More

Cockpit, Austin, TX – April 9, 2008 – Gamecock Media Group announced today that due to pirated copies of Blazing Lizard’s upcoming Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball being on the loose the game will be revamped and held until later this Spring. “We see the irony in all this,” noted Christopher Stockman, Studio Director at Blazing Lizard. “Rest assured, we have a crack team of Ninjas on the case and hunting down all pirates. On the positive side it gives us a ... Read More

These scans are from the May 2008 issue of Game Informer which features a Gears of War 2 exclusive cover story. The screens look much better in the magazine, so pick it up as soon as you can! Read More

In a surprising move, Microsoft has released a new firmware update for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player, which will automatically download the next time users watch an HD DVD movie. The new update includes "compatibility improvements" for specific HD DVD titles as well as "additional support for network features," according to a post by Xbox Live's Larry Hryb in his official blog. The update is widely expected to be the last firmware update for any HD DVD player. In fact, it comes ... Read More