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. It shows off the various customization options available to players in the multiplayer mode, 
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – As if the gun-toting action in "Call of Duty: Black Ops" wasn't expected to feel real enough in high definition, Activision Blizzard Inc. announced Tuesday that the latest entry in its successful first-person-shooter video game franchise would be released in 3-D, yet another addition to the 3-D revolution's growing arsenal.
So I have seen the trailer for The Green Hornet and I have to say that even though my expectations were kinda low on this one I was pleasantly surprised. This movie might actually turn out to be rather entertaining. When I first heard Seth Rogen was cast to play Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who goes out in his masked "Green Hornet" identity at night to fight crime as a vigilante , accompanied by his similarly masked Asian manservant Kato (played by Jay Chou) I thought to myself "YEAH RIGHT!!!"
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The news might not be a surprise for most of you because speculated prices had been advertised on numerous retail websites since E3. Nevertheless, there were still some (small) surprises in Microsoft’s announcement. Kinect games will retail at $49.99, instead of the $59.99 more typical of Xbox 360 releases -- and the basic Kinect unit will come bundled with multiplayer outdoor game Kinect Adventures.
I recently watched Natural Born Killers today. There was nothing on cable and the dvd was staring at me on the shelf so I popped it in to watch. Now this movie is one of my favorite films by Oliver Stone and I have always been entertained by the over the top characters Mickey and Mallory Knox. But I have to admit that I have always and still want to see Quentin Tarantino's original vision for this movie.
The Xbox 360 dashboard, the user interface for Microsoft's gaming console, looks like it may be getting a slight polish in November when the company launches their Xbox Live Gold Family plan. Microsoft confirms that the November Family Center update will include a "refreshed" Xbox Live dashboard. "Yes, the next Xbox LIVE update will include Family Center," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "As we discussed at E3 it will also include a refreshed Xbox LIVE dashboard, the new Kinect Hub and ESPN. This update will be available over LIVE just prior to Kinect for Xbox 360 being available in store in November. We have no additional details to share at this time."
I have to comment on the “first look” at Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern “costume,” on the cover of EW (magazines are still useful?!). This costume sucks Monkey Balls! Reynolds is not actually wearing a costume, rather the entire suit is CGI-ed onto his body. Who ever came up with this brilliant idea needs to be blackballed from Hollywood. I would not only think that having your entire costume CGI-ed to your body would be more expensive then actually wearing a costume made out of material but having your costume CGI-ed is just fucking STUPID!!! It looks like something I created in photoshop. The mask looks like face paint. The costume looks even worst. If the costume looks this stupid I can only imagine what the fight scenes are going to look like. As a woman I would have loved to see Ryan Reynolds in an actual costume because he is a lovely piece of eye candy (I apologize in advance to all my male readers) but this is just crazy, bizarre and beyond stupid. I am not looking forward to this sure to be shitastic movie. 
It really sucks to admit but I have FINALLY been defeated by my boyfriend in a video game. I am no longer invincible to him and it is a crushing blow to me. Here is how it all went down. Yesterday we decided to get some gaming in after a lengthy argument the previous night over my obsessive Modern Warfare 2 playing. We came to a happy agreement and decided to play some Split/Second the next night. Game night arrives and I put my trusty game into the Xbox 360 thinking to myself this is going to be to damn easy because I am way better at this game than my boyfriend. Boy was I wrong!
As I have mentioned in a previous post my boyfriend has yet to beat me in any video game. I am here to say that I am still undefeated! I do have a very interesting update on this. So I recently received the race car game Split Second for the XBOX 360. Split/Seconds core gimmick revolves around a series of environmental traps called power plays that causes your opponents to crash if you time them just right. You can fill your power play meter by drifting around turns, drafting behind opponents, and catching air off jumps. This game is actually pretty fun. It has a lot of replay value with its online multi player mode. So this was a good purchase.
I am not fooled by EA's name change of their basketball series. So NBA Live is now NBA Elite. Does this really mean a full upgrade and intervention on their part or is this just a nice name change with an updated font and new packaging? Either way EA is looking to come with the fire to finally compete with NBA 2K11 this year.
The smaller Xbox 360 250 GB Elite models cannot physically display the "red ring of death," according to a system specification sheet. Why is that, you ask? Because if (when) one of these new consoles experiences technical issues, it will display green lights instead. Sounds like Micorsoft didn't care for the famous nickname that caused an uproar when the Xbox 360 first launched.So a green ring of light will be used to alert us when it's time to phone up Xbox customer support. I wonder who is going to come up with the clever new catch phrase to go along witht the new design choice. Anyone have any cool ideas?!
Being a female gamer definitely has it's perks! For one guys automatically think you are cool. I mean how many things in life make you cool by default? Can anyone answer that? I know I can't. But one thing I know for sure MEN LOVE FEMALE GAMERS! Extra Brownie points if you are a cute gamer chick like myself (enter cute smile here :) 
Sorry I have been away for so long but I needed a moment. Well, now I am back in all of my glory and I am going to start my relaunch by diving into this year's upcoming E3! As you all should know E3 2010 is almost upon us and in celebration I am listing the reasons why I along with everyone else should be tuning in! E3 will be incredible this year at least that is what I am hoping. E3 is the premiere event for the video game industry with a rush of new games, consoles, trailers, demos, booth babes, and announcements each year. I plan on hyping up something that truly deserves it. I'll be rolling out new picks every so often, so check back frequently, but feel free to share your hopes and dreams below in the comments. By the way this list is in no particular order!
I think this is a photoshop project rather than an actual mod, but if it actually existed I would have to have one STAT. DeviantArtist DarkTwist made up this skin for the Wii which makes it over into a far better Nintendo system, the NES. Really, it is kind of sad to see Nintendo come from such a great history and slowly become boring as all hell. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few fun Wii games, but for the most part, the system is flooded with absolutely garbage games, and it lacks the processing power to play any of the “new classics” that populate the PS3 and 360. Pick it up Nintendo, I am counting on you.
Okay being a female gamer I hear just about every pick line in the book on Xbox Live. Sometimes it's pretty funny I will admit (like the other day a guy said to me “Man you suck at Modern Warfare… so, do you have a boyfriend?” LOL) but mostly it is completely annoying. I get online to play videogames. I am not online looking for my future soulmate. 
You'd think the lawless atmosphere of the Old West would be the perfect venue for compelling video game action, but oddly, cowboy-themed games are a rare sight. But not this week. Red Dead Redemption, a gritty cowboy thriller from the creators of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, should be in your local game store by now, and it's promising to shoot up the charts with all the enthusiasm its outlaw heroes might normally display for shooting up a saloon. And judging by the rave reviews it's getting, its purchasers are in for a real treat. 
How many of you have a small pittance of leftover Microsoft Points from your last Xbox Live Marketplace purchase, putting you in the untenable position of either letting the points go to waste or purchasing a new batch of points in a large increment that will probably only leave you with yet more leftover points after a purchase anyway? Well, good news: That's less likely to happen now. In case you missed it, at some point over the last couple of days Microsoft quietly changed the increments of points they offer for purchase online, with new increments of 400 rather than the old 500. Now, it's $4.99 for 400 points, $9.99 for 800, $19.99 for 1600, and $49.99 for 4000. It's a small change, but one with great importance: Since most items on sale on the Xbox Live Marketplace tend to cost 400, 800, and 1600 points, it means you'll now likely be able to purchase only as many points as you need in order to buy whatever item you're interested in. Well, for the most part -- Rock Band DLC, for instance, still ranges between 160-440 Microsoft Points, so there are still situations where you're likely to end up with an annoying number of leftover points anyway. Nothing's ever perfect.
I don't know about you but this is one action figure I MUST have! I know I have passed the point where it is ok to play with action figures but this one is just too AWESOME! I mean who wouldn't want a serial killer of their own. And for the record no, I am not one of those people who has a series of box-wrapped action figures lining their walls as an adult…not that there’s anything wrong with that…I just really think this is awesome, and I would definitely be unboxing it and having it murdering my old X-Men action figures in no time.”These are all the people you’ve hurt Magneto, LOOK AT THEM!
According to a fact sheet released this morning, the single-player mode sees Ezio return as a Master Assassin in "the living, breathing, unpredictable city of Rome," and is estimated to last 15 hours. The brand new multiplayer mode allows players to "choose from multiple authentic character classes, each with their own signature weapons and killing moves." The game will ship during the Holiday season in Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC flavors. While development is lead by Assassin’s Creed studio Ubisoft Montreal, several other internal Ubisoft studios are contributing to the title, including the Annecy office, which developed the multiplayer in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The official announcement is available from Ubisoft.
Well one guy did! Nick Hagman completed the classic NES title using a DDR dance pad. Documenting the feat in an 11-minute YouTube video. 
I found this short film on youtube made by Hollywood professional’s in their spare time. They have a love for Street Fighter and the means to make it look too AWESOME!!, as you’ll see in this epic battle between Ken and Ryu.
If you walked down the street in this hoodie alot of people would not get the reference. But I assure you the ones that do will think that you are AWESOME. It's best to rock this look with the hood up for full effect. It's a Mega Man Hoodie PEOPLE!! However, that does not mean I don’t want one, because it is crazy awesome, but sadly its only a concept piece from somone at, you guessed it, DeviantArt. I seriously think that DeviantArt should open up brick and mortar stores filled with poster prints from the best artists and statues and clothing crafted by its members. It would defeinitely be a huge hit and they can thank me later when they do it and I’m totally right.
Someone named "Xbox360 Leaker" dropped a screenshot of a French-language Xbox Live Marketplace that shows the Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio available as a demo. The picture, of unknown provenance, adds weight to rumors that other Dreamcast classics are inbound. Jet Set Radio was the game's Japanese name (Jet Grind Radio was its name in North America), but one would have to figure that if they're going to take it this far, this game would include the additional content from Jet Grind and De La Jet Set Radio Nothing's confirmed, but it should definitely whet the appetites of Dreamcast fans, of which there are many. I for one would love to see an influx of several Dreamcast titles that were some of my favorite games. This tibbit of news got me to thinking...What Dreamcast games would I like to see available on Xbox Live Marketplace? Well then I will tell you: 
