Red Faction Demo Smashes it's way onto Xbox Live

The Red Faction Guerrilla demo (on & offline) is available and certainly looks the business! Personally I have only played the offline (campaign) demo and to begin with thought it was a pretty standard shooter, reminding me a little of Lost Planet but with the temperature dial turned up... after a while it revealed itself to be a complete riot! Smash everything! The map preview at the end of the demo suggests a giant open world reminicent of Far Cry 2. With any luck the multiplayer will be equally as impressive - team deathmatches with completely destructable environments should make for some pretty crazy battles! This game is right on my list!

The Dead - Given new Life

US, December 29, 2008 - Valve will officially reveal downloadable content for Left 4 Dead, its November-released zombie shooter, "shortly." During a video podcast with Kotaku (via Shacknews), one of the game's writers, Chet Faliszek, confirmed that Valve is working on new scenarios, "What we want to do is just deliver more content you can play at this point."

Faliszek also revealed that Valve has plans on incorporating the Versus mode to the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns. Currently, only Blood Harvest and No Mercy are playable in Versus.

In addition, the game writer said that, unlike Team Fortress 2 updates, Valve plans on releasing Left 4 Dead DLC for the Xbox 360 and PC platforms at the same time.

During the podcast, which was recorded on December 15, Faliszek speculated that the game's DLC announcement may come before Christmas. That, however, did not happen. Faliszek did state that announcement delays may happen as a result of the company's press guys going on vacation. However, he added, "We'll have an announcement shortly, I don't know exactly when."

Typically, PC versions of Valve releases receive free updates through Steam, the company's popular digital-distribution service, but no official pricing plans for either PC or Xbox 360 platforms have been announced. IGN has attempted to reach Valve for additional DLC details.

thanks to ign.com for the text

Sonic Boooooom!

The Demo for the new Sonic game is now on Marketplace, and..... it's actually rather nice, well I had a bit of a laugh with it....very nice graphics, great speed, actually felt like old skool Sonic but new...

Rock this bitch!

Check out ROCK BAND! If you've been a fan of GUITAR HERO it's well worth a lash and with a silly amount of downloadable tracks, well priced at around 140MS points each, I think it's all great value for money. The GH controllers work fine too - saving cash on the game (if you already have GH!).

See you all backstage for drugs and sluts then!

Laters.... The Dude.

Video Marketplace - Worth bothering with?

If Microcock pulls it's finger out we should all have the ability to download movies this evening from the video marketplace. Personally I won't be able to download anything as I only have a 20gb hard drive, and like most gamers out there already have it reasonably full of Arcade games and additional content for full games. I only have about 3gb spare on my drive so even a SD movie may well not fit onto the remaining space.

Personally I am a little disappointed that the HD movies are about 5gb and the SD movies will probably come in at about 2.5/3gb, surely there is a way to compress the video into smaller files (DIVX springs to mind). It would seem that only people with the (hideously) overpriced 120gb drive or the Elite system will actually have the space to take advantage of the new service.

If anyone who has the space for movies on their hard drive actually does start to download movies, let us know how you get on and I wonder how long it will take to actually download a 5gb file, I suppose you may well have to plan your evenings movie viewing a whole day in advance. Hopefully we will also get the TV shows at some point which will be of a much smaller size, and a more practical "multi-media machine experience" for Launch machine owners!

Cheers

XBOX Originals - Save your money!

Just been reading a collection of reviews for the downloadable Xbox original games new to the marketplace. It would appear they're all a bit shit. You may well experience picture tearing, dodgy framerates, a lack of online play, no additional content (that was present on the discs) and none of them seem to support a widescreen format....oh, and they're more expensive than going down the shops and buying the games second-hand on a disc.

Don't do it!