Major Nelson (from the Microsoft Xbox team) has announced that Microsoft will be increasing the price of it’s Xbox Live Gold subscription in some of the countries around the world. From the 1st November 2010 the following price increases will come into effect. For those of you who have your credit card details on Xbox
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NCSoft have released quite a bit of information about the new Necromancer class that will appear in Guild Wars II. Check out the videos below to see some of the Necromancer’s spells in action. Personally, I love a good minion spell. It’s great seeing them go off to beat the crap out of an enemy
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You can now play the classic shoot-em-up R-Type on your iPhone or iPod Touch thanks to EA Mobile. It costs £1.19 and is available now from the iTunes store. This version of R-Type includes all 8 levels from the arcade version and 3 different control methods: Touch (self explanatory really, control your ship with your
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This is kind of a teaser trailer really. I looks really cool, but you don’t get to see an awful lot of action from inFAMOUS 2. Still, it does whet one’s appetite for the game. Did anyone play the first game, as we only got round to checking out the demo which was quite fun?
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Hydorah is a gem of a game that has come out of nowhere made by someone called Locomalito. It is a real old school shoot-em-up (or shmup), i.e. it’s side scrolling and its bloody hard. I’m talking R-Type hard here, which coincidentally was one of the games Locomalito was really good at when he was
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Here is a much longer demo by the NCsoft guys at Gamescom showing off Guild Wars 2 (thanks for the link to the video Brinstar. In you get to see many of the new features that NCsoft have added, like casting whilst running, huge boss fights very early on in the game. One of the
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As an average gamer who pays for all her own games, I’m pretty good at avoiding the terrible ones. At £30+ quid a pop in an industry with stupendous marketing budgets I usually make damn sure I’ve done my research before buying anything. Yet I have a terrible disability when it comes to the two
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To celebrate the launch of the Mafia II game (on PS3, PC and Xbox 360) 2K Games have organised a short pop-up barber shop tour at England’s most prominent shopping centres. The barber shop will look something like this: Anyone who visits the barber shop can get: Free professional hair cut (courtesy of America Crew)
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I don’t think you’ll ever watch a trailer that contains more Superheroes than this one does for the forthcoming DC Universe Online game! DC Universe Online is due for release on the 5th November 2010 PlayStation 3 and PC.

I’ve just added 8bitstange.com to the list of my webcomic/gaming sites. It now sits proudly alongside Order of the Stick, xkcd and Penny Arcade to name but a few. Why have I done this? Well, 8 bit strange is a new site set up by an animator called Greg Kaperski which currently contains 2 episodes
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