Hey look up there! It’s me; I’m so famous! I’m in this band called Your Favorite Constellation, you’ve probably heard of us. No? Probably because we’re not a real band, just a Rock Band…band. But if I chose, I could make myself into an collectible figure, which obviously means I’m famous.

Now you can feel as cool as I do and get all sorts of customized gear for for your plastic instrument-wielding band in Rock Band’s newly launched Merch Store. From cheap stuff like keychains ($3) to full on customized Bandmates™ figures ($69) the store has everything you need to promote your virtual band. Read more…

After nearly three full days of hit or miss reliability from the Xbox Live service, it’s finally looking like the servers have been successfully gaffer taped back together. Read more…

But only on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. DICE announced today that Mirror’s Edge will ship for consoles on November 11, with the PC version to appear later this winter. Read more…

If you’ve been paying close attention, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted here in a while. (You haven’t? Ah well.) But put down your pitchforks, because I have a legitimate excuse, my friends. I have been spending time digging through couches, panhandling the Texas freeways, and even turning tricks outside of the local 7-11 so that I can afford the Rock Band 2 bundle. That $9999 price tag is too hefty for me to just pull it out of my wallet and be on my way. Confused? You should be. Read more…

Following a price cut in Japan, Microsoft has followed through in the Unitied States. Now the cheapest current generation console, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is the first to reach $200. Read more…

In a bid to undercut Nintendo’s Wii in Japan, Microsoft plans to slash the price of the Xbox 360 by almost 30%. Read more…

Gears of War 2 hits shelves in a little over two months now. With the release date quickly approaching, the full achievement list has now been revealed, as well as the rewards for the previously revealed linked achievements.

Check them out after the break. Read more…

If you’re a fan of the Banjo Kazooie series (or if you just like good games in general) you’ll be ecstatic to know that Rare has a great deal for you- if you preorder Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, you’ll also get a download code for the Xbox Live Arcade port Banjo Kazooie. Can I get a ‘fuck yeah’?

You’ll also be pleased to know that Rare isn’t going with the standard $60 price tag for current gen games, and that the game will be released stateside on November 14th for $40 bucks. Rare has also attached this price to Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, which will be released in North America September 3nd, and Europe September 5th.

After the jump, I’ve attached new images from Nuts & Bolts’s Jiggoseum, in which players can take part in Olympic-esque events. Make sure to make your way out to your local game store to preorder Nuts & Bolts before the codes run out! Go go go! Read more…

Today, Eidos Interactive revealed the first gameplay footage, as well as some screenshots for the PS3/Xbox 360 versions of Tomb Raider: Underworld. They also announced a release date of November 18th of this year for the Xbox 360, PC, PS3, and PS2 versions of the game.

While the trailer is done as if for a movie, it’s great to see some footage of the game in action. I haven’t played a Tomb Raider title in a while, so I’m definitely going to be checking this one out. Plus, she encounters a giant fucking squid. Hit the jump for the gallery of screenshots. Read more…

My inability to read Chinese will probably lead to an article mistranslation, but courtesy of Kotaku & cng4u, we now have 137 images of Fallout 3, from the ZeniMax Asia Expo (ZeniMax Media is the company that owns Fallout 3 developers Bethesda.)

Though I’m sure those in attendance at the expo were all forced to comply with an NDA before seeing game footage, there’s always that one guy that never takes the NDA seriously. Hit the jump to see the fruits of his labor.

Fallout 3 hits the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC simultaneously in North America on October 7th of this year.
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It seems there’s a trend lately in the industry- whenever a company announces a game, you can bet your ass that they will probably release, or leak, the screenshots in less than a couple of days. The latest game that follows this trend is RockSteady Studios Ltd.’s Batman Arkham Asylum, a chilling thriller from the mind of Paul Dini, whom you might know from the popular Batman: The Animated Series.

Unfortunately for RockSteady Studios, these screenshots weren’t leaked by some ambitious blogger or Batman fanboy enthusiast- they were leaked from RockSteady Studios’s site itself. Apparently, someone let the gallery of screenshots go live way before it was supposed to. The gallery has since been removed from RockSteady’s site, but of course, once something gets on the internet, its there forever.

Hit the jump to see the gallery of beautiful, Unreal Engine-produced screenshots for the game. Read more…

Announced at Nintendo’s lackluster E3 conference and remembered as that game that was somehow related to the internet’s most famous soccer mom breaking her wrist, Shaun White Snowboarding is a snowboarding game sponsored by pro boarder Shaun White. It utilizes the Wii Fit’s gyration/motion-sensing technology to make you feel like you’re actually jumping up and down on a $90 box thing jumping off of the Alps on a snowboard. Well, in the Wii version, that is.

Not being one to show the least visually-appealing version, today Ubisoft released the first trailer and screenshots for the Playstation 3/Xbox 360 versions of the game, which you can see in the gallery after the jump. Read more…

After the abomination that was Double D dodgeball, I can’t imagine anyone getting too excited over this; but for lovers of pirates and ninjas, they’ll be dodging balls on XBLA this coming September 3rd. Read more after the break. Read more…

Sony Computer Entertainment America’s VP of product marketing, Scott Steinberg, in an interview over at Gameindustry.biz, has stated that he thinks more and more developers will be switching to the PS3 as their foremost development console, and that will be making multiplatform games better as a result. Read more…

Now here’s a heck of a scoop, provided it’s for real. Xbox 360 Fanboy has what may be the first glimpse at the character customization options for the 360’s avatars, which will be part of the upcoming Fall update.

It appears to be a much richer suite of tools than the Nintendo Wiis, but to be honest, this still doesn’t make me too excited for this Wii wannabe. Also, is it me, or does that extended ring finger on the right side look like it’s flipping us off?

Source: Xbox 360 Fanboy

Peter Molyneux indicates how many days it would have taken him to create Earth.

There is an interview over at GameTrailers with Peter Molyneux that has some pretty interesting stuff about Fable 2… and beyond. The highlights include more discussion about the co-op and how that all works, as well as what I like to call “wuss mode” where you can’t kill any “friendly” townies and the like.

The most intriguing part is toward the end when Peter Molyneux states that Lionhead Studios is planning on releasing three more Fable games, even though the sequel (aptly titled Fable 2) is still two months away from release.

“We’ve got plans for Fable 3, 4 and 5 actually. It’s a big story arc and if you play Fable II you’ll recognize things from Fable 1.”

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Infinite Undiscovery is an action role-playing game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 from Tri-Ace/Square Enix and I just happened to get my hands on the demo at E3. Read more…

I recap the Microsoft press conference, highlighting the top 5 crowd-pleasing moments. Click the jump for some first hand E3 Microsoft press conference impressions. Read more…

Square Enix has pulled out all the stops for Microsoft at this years E3.  After showing a CG trailer, it was displayed that Final Fantasy XIII will be released on the Xbox 360 at launch in North America and Europe. Read more…

Want to get your hands on the new action adventure role-playing game from renowned developer Silicon Knights?  The promised Too Human demo is now up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Read more…