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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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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The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is about to host what I think is the UK’s first flight simulator exhibition on the 4-5th September 2010. The Flight Sim 2010 show will take place in a spacious indoor exhibition hall within AirSpace, which will give visitors the perfect chance to hop next door to the Aircraft
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Fancy seeing how cool it can be to have your own assassin’s guild in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood? Well, have a look at this video, complete with commentary from one of the developers at Ubisoft, to see just how cool. A simple hand signal can spell doom for your enemies. Awesome. My only worry is that
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Following on from the nail’d trailer I posted last week, some screenshots have been released showing off some seriously steep hills. Eeek! From the looks of it nail’d is shaping up to be a more mountainous version of Motorstorm. Excellent. Screenshots:

I can’t wait for this game to come out. I absolutely loved Assassin’s Creed II. I admit, I was initially sceptical about the addition of multiplayer into the series, but Ubisoft appear to know what they are doing based on early hands-on reports (not us though, sadly). So, sit down and enjoy the cool looking
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For those of us that don’t want to give Microsoft our credit card details and then try to remove them these pre-paid cards are ideal. Here is a list of the best deals out there at the moment for 12 month Xbox Live gold memberships. As you will notice, they all include extra months for
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Microsoft has announced more of the songs that will feature on the upcoming Kinect: Dance Central game that we played at the Kinect Galleries last week. So far the list looks like this: Basement Jaxx – “Rendez-Vu” Nelly Furtado – “Maneater” Benny Benassi – “Satisfaction” Nina Sky – “Move Ya Body” Cascada – “Evacuate the
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Now that Weefz and I got to play with Microsoft’s Kinect (previously known as Project Natal) for Xbox 360 courtesy of the Kinect galleries, here’s my summary of our Kinect experience. As I covered in my Kinect galleries post last week, you can book your 30 min Kinect session either via facebook or in person at 4-6 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 7BN. The location itself is pretty easy to get to as it’s right next to the Covent Garden market. It is also pretty inconspicuous too with swathes of Kinect flags adorning the outside of the location. You really can’t miss it.