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Video Game Canon- Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA Soccer, and Silent Hill are the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
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- Video Game Research Library
- We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) – Yarn Spinner (2026)
- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
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Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt launches on January 15
Gearbox and 2K Games have announced that the next Borderlands 2 expansion, “Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt,” will be available to download for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on January 15, 2013.
What starts off as a relaxing hunting expedition with Sir Hammerlock soon takes a sinister turn as our Vault Hunters stumble across a new villain intent on restoring the legacy of Handsome Jack.
As expected, the add-on has been priced at $10 (or 800 Microsoft Points), but it’ll be a free download for owners of the Borderlands 2 Season Pass. And remember, Gearbox will also release a fourth expansion to Borderlands 2 (and the likely inevitable “Game of the Year compilation”) sometime in 2013.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Borderlands 2
Halo 4: Crimson Map Pack Review: Vehicle Lovin’ Fun
The first map pack for Halo 4 is here, and all three battlefields have one thing in common: vehicles. Each one has a plethora of death-dealing machinery for you to ride and enhance your Spartan-blasting pleasure (hmm, I think I’ve been playing this game way too much). So how do the new maps stack up? (more…)
XBLM Countdown to 2013 deals begin today with CoD Modern Warfare 3 and a lot more
Microsoft has announced that the “Countdown to 2013” sale has begun on the Xbox Live Marketplace. From now until December 31, a ton of games, add-ons, and Avatar items have had their prices slashed by as much as 67% off. Kinect owners will also be able to download the Double Fine-developed Kinect Party for free until the 31st as well.
You might also be interested to know that today’s “ONE DAY ONLY” deal is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The Game on Demand edition of Modern Warfare 3 can be downloaded TODAY ONLY for $29.99 (a savings of 50% off). All four of the game’s DLC Collections are also half off and they’ve been priced at 600 Microsoft Points ($10) apiece.
The full list of deals can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Add two new courses to Doritos Crash Course on January 2
Microsoft has announced that they plan to release an expansion for Doritos Crash Course on January 2. You remember Doritos Crash Course, right? It was a freely available advergame that was added to the XBLA in 2010 and one of the most-downloaded XBLA games of all time.
The Crash Course add-on will be priced at 160 Microsoft Points ($2) and it’ll include two new locations (London and Vegas) as well an Easy Mode for the Japan courses, new Achievements, and two new Avatar Awards. Each location will include ten courses, almost doubling the size of the game.
Not bad for $2.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Doritos Crash Course
Sleeping Dogs: The Zodiac Tournament DLC available on December 18
The second downloadable expansion for Sleeping Dogs, “The Zodiac Tournament,” will be available to download on December 18.
Unlike the self-contained storyline featured in “Nightmare at North Point,” “The Zodiac Tournament” will hook into the main game and add a mysterious island to the game map. Don’t worry, the island isn’t populated by Smoke Monsters or misfit toys, but it does host a fighting tournament that Wei Shen can enter if he’s tough enough.
As you can see from the poster on your right, “The Zodiac Tournament” will draw heavily from Bruce Lee’s classic film, Enter the Dragon. It even includes a Mr. Han-like evil mastermind.
[Source: CVG]
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Sleeping Dogs
Hitman HD Trilogy officially announced
I think it’s fair to say that Hitman: Absolution has divided the video game community since its November release (to say nothing of the battle against the naughty nuns). But Agent 47 will get another chance at redemption in 2013 when Square Enix releases the Hitman HD Trilogy for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Scheduled for release on January 29 in North America (February 1 in Europe), the Hitman HD Trilogy will include Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts, and Hitman: Blood Money. Expect the usual complement of Achievements/Trophies and a high definition graphical makeover.
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Tagged Hitman HD Trilogy
Dead Space 3 adds Kinect functionality
I wonder if it’ll recognize your screams of sheer terror?
Electronic Arts has announced that Dead Space 3 will ship with Kinect support when it’s released for the Xbox 360 on February 8, 2013. Players will be able to use voice commands during co-op play to “share health or ammo, find objectives, revive one another and more.”
“The voice commands in Dead Space 3 give players a unique way to take down the terror, whether they choose to face the Necromorphs alone in single-player, or alongside a friend with drop-in / drop-out co-op,” said Steve Papoutsis, Executive Producer on Dead Space 3. “Dead Space 3 delivers the action-horror experience our fans have come to know and love. And with the ability to survive the adventure alone, with a friend, or with Kinect, we’re excited about extending the spine-tingling Dead Space experience to a whole new audience of players.”
Dead Space will also be available for the PC and PS3.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Dead Space 3
D3 announces US release date for Earth Defense Force 2025
D3 Publisher has announced that the fourth Earth Defense Force game will be making its way to America in 2013. Announced as Earth Defense Force 4 a few months ago, the game will be released in America for the PS3 and Xbox 360 as Earth Defense Force 2025.
In addition to more missions and bigger bugs, EDF 2025 promises to include a four-player multiplayer mode and the return of original developer Sandlot.
Earth Defense Force 2025 is an action shooting bonanza that arms players with their choice of EDF soldier classes equipped with more weapons ever in the series and the elite training to exterminate menacing insects of all sizes in the global quest to protect the world from alien invasion.
Sign me up.
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Tagged Earth Defense Force 2025