First look at Half-Life 2: The Orange Box

Basically we are in for gameplay similar to that in Half-Life 2 with a whole lot of surprises. They have made a lot of interesting changes including the “muscle car” or a souped up version of the previously underpowered buggy from the earlier version. You will be surprised to find many new characters [...]

Hitler is banned from Xbox Live

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I will let the video speak for itself.
Warning: This video is not approved for the kiddies
[via: Aeropause]
-Brandon “Hoosierdaddy812″ Petesch-

Why don’t we see more blondes as video game heroes?

The guys over at Ragnar Tournquist have complied a short list of some video game heroes complied of brunette or black haired women.
“There’s definitely a great deal of typecasting involved. Blondes are getting the shaft. Why? Because that’s the cliché, isn’t it? Blondes are dumb, brunettes are smart. Brunettes can take care of themselves, blondes [...]

Use your GH guitar to play real music

Have you been dying to play a real concert but are limited by the capabilities of Guitar Hero? Well, worry no longer for a few guys from The Guitar Zeros have created an app that will let you do just that. The app FRETBUZZ is written in Max/MSP, and requires you to download [...]

Prince of Persia to hit XBLA next week

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For all the platforming fans out there next week will be a good one because next week the Prince of Persia arcade remake will be available on the marketplace. Since Ubisoft is putting the game out don’t get your hopes up for a 400 MSP price tag; this game is to good for that [...]

Bungie chooses emblem contest winner

A little while back Bungie announced a contest to let the community have a shot at designing a emblem that would ultimately end up in the final release of Halo 3. Sometime later and hundreds of entries later, a winner has been chosen.
Two colors were all that were needed (allowed) to be used. Some followed [...]

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