Mirror’s Edge gets Release Date!

via Game|Life
EA’s promising first-person parqure action adventure title, Mirror’s Edge finally has a street date. Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 owners should mark their calendars for November 11. Those of us wait for this highly anticipated title have to wait until “later in the winter.” Added bonus for those who preorder, anyone [...]

Coulton’s “Still Alive” Free Rock Band Download tomorrow for Xbox, later for Sony

via Game|Life
Owners of the hit multiplayer rhythm/karaoke hybrid Rock Band will get a special April Fool’s treat tomorrow. Well those that have it on Xbox 360 that is.
The infamous end song from last fall’s break out hit Portal will be available for download from the newly renovated Rock Band music store, absolutely free of [...]

UPDATE: Bungie delivers!

via Game|Life
Well Bungie has made good on it’s claim that it would reimburse the unfortunate gamer named Nathaniel who had his signature laden Xbox360 wiped clean while it was getting de-red ringed by Microsoft.
Boy did they deliver. Look at all this stuff!

Photo respectfully lifted from hawtymcbloggy.com
For a full detailed list of what the guy [...]

Microsoft Ruins Autographed 360

via Game|Life
A launch model Xbox360 owner named Nathaniel got the dreaded “red ring of death” on his one of a kind console, laden with autographs from members of Microsoft’s Xbox360 team, Bungie, and Rooster Teeth Productions, including a giant Master Chief portrait drawn by Luke McKay.

Images lifted from Game|Life
He wrote a letter to Microsoft [...]

BUY THIS NOW!! The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

I came upon some awesomeness at the Microsoft booth on Friday.

This is The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, winner of the Dream-Build-Play game development contest in 2007 held by Microsoft.  It was designed entirely by a young man named James Silva.
This game is freaking awesome.  The art style is amazing and as far as gameplay goes, it’s [...]

GDC 2008 Day 4, or My brush with greatness.

Today was freaking awesome.
And loooong.
But don’t worry though, as per advice from one of my colleagues, I will keep this [fairly] brief.

I started the day off with the Ray Kurtzweil’s Keynote, The Next 20 Years of Gaming. It was very fascinating, although really he was talked about the future of technology in general and not [...]

Microsoft reveals its self to be CAPTIAN OBVIOUS, Announces Gears of War 2 for November 2008

At the Microsoft keynote this morning at GDC 2008, the software and gaming giant announced the highly anticipated (and downright expected I might add) sequel to the 2006 smash hit Gears of War.

from www.gametrailers.com posted with vodpod

GDC 2008 Day Two.

Not to much went on today. I checked out the North Hall today,

Microsoft has their booth set up in the main lobby, and really that’s about it for now. I ventured on down to the expo floor, and once again, didn’t see much.

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

via The New York Times
The epic battle between Microsoft and Google took an interesting turn last Friday when the big M put in a $44.6 billion bid to purchase the currently hurting Yahoo! (The exclamation point is part of the company name and not for dramatic effect btw.)
This would have a pretty big, and rather [...]

FAUX News “We distort, you’re duped.”

“Fair and Balanced” my ass!

Seriously, this makes me sick. What ever happened to journalistic integrity? They seriously think that they don’t need to do any actual research I guess. Going on the website and “clicking on a lot of trailers” a few hours before broadcast is not [...]