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Don’t Play Fable 3 On Your Modded Xbox 360 With Kinect Dashboard Update
The newest Kinect Dashboard update (Fall 2010) for Xbox 360 has new anti-piracy measures, specifically AP 2.5 What it does is as we’ve said earlier, stops “backup” games from booting on your modded Xbox 360. Right now the only game affected is Fable 3. If you insert a “backup” copy of Fable 3 on your […]
Fallout: New Vegas Ships 5 Million Copies Worldwide, $300M In Sales
Bethesda has just announced that Fallout: New Vegas shipped 5 million copies worldwide and raked in $300 million in sales since its October 19th release date. “We are delighted by the reception Fallout: New Vegas has received from fans around the world,” Bethesda president Vlatko Andonov said on the numbers. “Despite the large launch quantities […]
Xbox 360 DVD Drive Catches Fire
Note to aspiring modders when taking apart your Xbox 360, be careful otherwise the Xbox 360 DVD drive may catch fire! A modder by the name of iwemion was tinkering with his 360’s innards while a slip-up caused his DVD drive to catch fire: “So i had my Xbox 360 case open, and it was […]
Kinect Hacked By Two MIT Students
Two MIT graduates successfully hacked Microsoft’s Kinect in a bid to win $2000 prize money by Adafruit Indsutries. Adafruit Industries put up the prize money “because its directors believe that the technology used in Kinect is too useful to not be adapted to further uses.” The hack bypasses Kinect’s security measures and allows control of […]
CoD: Black Ops To Sell 20% Less Than Modern Warfare 2
Cowan & Company analyst Doug Creutz predict that Call of Duty: Black Ops will sell 20% less than Modern Warfare 2. Speaking in an investor meeting, the analyst said, “This includes an assumption that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops comps negatively against last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, despite the fact […]
“Comprehensive” Fallout: New Vegas Patch “Coming In Weeks”
Even with the latest Fallout: New Vegas patch, the game isn’t exactly bug free. Bethesda promises a a “comprehensive” patch due for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in the “coming weeks”. Mainly, it will fix the save issues among other bugs. “In the meantime, an incremental update for PC should be going up by early […]
Gran Turismo 5 Boxart Leaked Online
The official boxart for Gran Turismo 5 has been leaked online. View it below. No official release date as of yet.
GameInformer Review Scores, AC: Brotherhood, Black Ops, Hot Pursuit And More
The latest issue of GameInformer magazine has reviewed these three games and we have the scores below for you: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – 9.25/10 Call of Duty: Black Ops – 9/10 Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit – 8.75/10 Fable III – 9/10 God of War: Ghost of Sparta – 9.5/10 GoldenEye 007 – 6.5/10 via […]
PS3 Not Powerful Enough To Handle The Real Gran Tursimo
Gran Turismo 5 creator and Polyphony boss Kaz Yamauchi believes that the PS3 is not powerful enough to handle the Gran Turismo game he wanted to make. Infact he believes that every PlayStation he has worked on has “restricted” him. “Software has to be created under the restriction of the hardware,” he told the latest […]
Sly Cooper Trophy Hints At A Possible Sequel
If you’re anything like me, you’re really excited about Sucker Punch’s Sly Cooper HD Collection. If you take a closer look at the trophy list, you’ll find that Sucker Punch has slyly added a hint for Sly Cooper 4. The platinum trophy for The Sly Collection: Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves reads: “Unlock every trophy […]
Modern Warfare 3 In 2011 And Being Developed By Sledgehammer Games?
Activision has already confirmed that a new Call of Duty FPS is coming in late 2011. This could actually be Modern Warfare 3, according to Janco Partners’ game analyst Mike Hickey. Mike Hickey also believes that Sledgehammer studios could be working on Modern Warfare 3, instead of Infinity Ward. It makes sense, after the whole […]
Analyst Expects Call Of Duty: Black Ops To Sell Over 18 Million
Janco Partners’ analyst Mike Hickey believes that Black Ops could sell over 18 million units, generating $818 million. However, that is still short of the $1 billion-plus Modern Warfare 2 bagged up in sales revenue. Black Ops is due for release on November 9 for PC, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. source IndsutryGamers
Dead Space 2 Developer: Market ‘Not Rewarding’ Single-Player Only Games
Dead Space 2 developer Ian Milham of Visceral Games believe that the market is “not rewarding” single-player only games and the reason why Dead Space 2 will have multiplayer. Uncharted 2, BioShock 2 and a host of others have added multiplayer modes to their sequel where the first was single-player only. Speaking to ThatVGBlog, Ian […]
Analyst: Hot Pursuit To Benefit From Gran Tursimo 5 Delay, 4.2 Million Hot Pursuit Sales This Holiday
Gaming analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners’ predicts that EA’s Criterion-developed NFS: Hot Pursuit could sell 4.2 million units and rake up $185 million in sales this holiday. He believes that “the delay of Gran Turismo 5 will likely benefit the holiday sales performance of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.” NFS: Hot Pursuit releases on […]
