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Reminder: Xbox Live Entertainment Apps Free This Weekend

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

A reminder to all of you Xbox Live Silver members out there that several of the “entertainment apps” on the Xbox 360 are free until Monday April 23. Now you too can watch Netflix, YouTube or Dailymotion without working over at least $4 a month to Microsoft. Or you know, you could always use the flash enabled browser on a PlayStation 3 and visit most of these sites free of charge. I hear they also have the internet on computers now! Check out a full list of the free apps after the jump.

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New Halo 4 Artwork Showcases Single Player Campaign

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

A number of choice Halo 4 screenshots have found their way on to the internet thanks to All Games Beta. These new screenshots go beyond the Red Vs Blue multiplayer mode that was revealed earlier this week. We get our first look at the single player campaign through Master Chief’s visor as well as a new look at Chief’s revised armor. Check out several of the new screenshots and our analysis after the jump.

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Rumor: Call of Duty Black Ops 2 To Be Revealed Next Month?

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Activision may be set to reveal the next installment in the Call of Duty Franchise early next month. Both Kotaku and IGN report that retailers have received promotional artwork suggesting that the next COD title will be revealed on Wednesday May 2nd 2012. All of the promotional material carry the tagline “05.02.12 Return for Debriefing”. The last few Call of Duty titles have had spring reveals in recent years. After a massive media leak in early May 2011 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 was revealed on May 23rd 2011. There is certainly a precedent for the Black Ops 2

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Risen 2: Dark Waters Delayed on Consoles

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Daniel Shannon

Deep Silver has just announced a new release date for their pirate RPG Risen 2. While the PC version is still on course for a digital release on April 27, console players will have to wait until July 31st (or April 3rd for those who foolishly decided to live outside of North America). However, console owners will receive something extra for their wait. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions will come with “The Air Temple,” a new episode that offers several hours of additional gameplay. “The Air Temple” will also be released as DLC for the PC version. You

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Air Conflict: Secret Wars Released On Xbox Live

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

The latest title published by Kalypso Media, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, has been released on to Xbox Live according to the publisher. If you’re looking to let out your inner pilot you can do so for a mere 1600 Microsoft Points ($15 USD). Air Conflict is an arcade style flight combat game that spans both World War 1 and World War 2. Boasting seven campaigns, 49 missions, and varying objectives like bombing runs and hit & runs on targets. Air Conflict seems like it would appeal to both military fanatics (I’m looking at you fellow Broken Joysticks Staffer Daniel Shannon!)

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Sells Over 400 000 in US

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Matthew Regier

38 Studios new IP Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has sold over 410  000 copies since its release in the United States. According to Rhode Island news station WPRI by the NDP Group, a majority of these sales numbers came from the first month of release, with 80 000 being sold last month. These sales numbers do not reflect digital sales or sales outside of the United States. NDP spokesperson David Riley made the comment, “an impressive figure for just two months, no matter how you slice it”. This proves that a new IP is able to get its foot firmly in

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Halo 4’s Multiplayer Includes Co-Op & Custom Loadouts

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Halo 4 would be launching on November 6th Microsoft have announced some brand new details surrounding the games multiplayer mode. These majority of these details come from a GameInformer ViDoc released to promote the latest edition of the magazine. Other supposed details surrounding the multiplayer also leaked out last week. The multiplayer suite of Halo 4 could offer a radically different experience from previous Halo games depending on how far reaching 343 Industries’ changes are.

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Darksiders II Delayed Until August

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Matthew Regier

It won’t be until August now when we see Vigil Game’s highly anticipated sequel, Darksiders II. The game will be facing a two month delay from its initial release date at the end of June, so we will be seeing the title hit shelves sometime in August. Executive vice president of THQ, Danny Bilson is stressing that the delay is only to add polish to the title. After a rather shaky year in 2011 many would think that this delay means bad news, but is actually quite the opposite. Ever since Saints Row 3 has officially shipped over four million

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Halo 4 Launches November 6

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Eric Regier

The next installment in the Halo franchise launches this fall and will mark the first time since 2007’s Halo 3 that Master Chief will be playable as the main character. In the work shop since 2009 by 343 Industries, this will be their first full release Halo title. With Halo Waypoint downloadable for the 360 and Windows phone first under their belt, then went on to make the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Former Bungie employee Frank O’Connor is leading the development of the project it shouldn’t be straying too far from its roots.

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Tekken Tag 2 Roundhouses Its Way To 360 and PS3 This Fall

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Fans of the Tekken series won’t have to wait long for the next entry in the franchise. The long in development Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be released for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 this September the publisher has announced. With the announcement of the release4 window Namco Bandai also highlighted two other features of the game.  The first is the character roster featuring an impressive 50 characters pulled from the six+ games in the Tekken canon. The second part of the announcement had to do with the various modes available to players.

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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Joins The Order of Assassins With New DLC

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be joining the ancient order of the assassins with the release of new downloadable content for the game. Crossing over with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise a new add-on costume was revealed for the main protagonists Noel and Serah. Noel will be given the Assassin Treatment with a new outfit based upon Ezio Auditore’s threads in Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Serah will be receiving two additional costumes as well based on The Defender and Exposure. These brand new cross over costumes will be available for 400 Microsoft points ($5) on April 10th. Check out screenshots of the new

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Rumor: Prey 2 Cancelled By Bethesda

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Bethesda Softworks may have cancelled Human Head’s upcoming Prey 2. The sequel to 2006’s Prey painted a very picture than its predecessor. In Prey 2 Players take the role of a human Air Marital turned bounty hunter on stranded on alien world. As GameTrailers points out this isn’t the first bump on the road to going gold for Human Head Studios. The publisher apparently cancelled the dev’s scheduled 3 part talk earlier this month’s Game’s Development Conference in San Francisco.

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Baynoetta May be a Playable Character In Anarchy Reigns

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Fans of over the top crazy action (and nonsensical plots) have waited for any indication of a sequel to 2010’s Bayonetta. Unfortunately while fans may have to wait a little longer for that to happen they might have reason to strap on their six-shooter high heels sooner than expected with reports that Bayonetta will be a playable character in the upcoming Anarchy Rising. Anarchy Reigns is the latest beat’em up from Clover Studio veteran Atsushi Inaba. During his time at Capcom he helped produce great games like Okami, Viewtiful Joe and Phoenix Wright before co-founding platinum games. Anarchy Reigns also

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