Did you finish all your current tracks in DJ hero? well activision has announce a new pack that will release this month on the XBox 360, PS3, and Wii.

The pack includes:

• “Shake That” by Eminem mixed with “Show Me What You Got” by Jay-Z
• “Without Me” by Eminem mixed with “Encore” by Jay-Z
• “Can I Get A…” by Jay-Z mixed with “Lose Yourself” by Eminem

The Schedule for release is:

• March 18 on Xbox Live for 640 ($8)
• March 25 on PSN for $7.99.
• March 25 on the Wii as a downloadable single for 300 Wii Points ($3) each; $9 for all three.

(The tracks will not be sold separately for Xbox 360 or PS3.)

Game Name: Scrap Metal
Platforms: Xbox 360
Publisher(s): Xbox LIVE Arcade
Developer(s): Slick Entertainment
Genre(s): Racing Games
Release Date: 3/10/2010
ESRB Rating: E10 (Everyone 10+) Alcohol and Tobacco Reference Mild Suggestive Themes Mild Violence
Price: 1200MSP
Demo: Add to Download Queue

Story
“Drift around corners with guns blazing and take out legendary competitors in the fast-paced, top-down racing game Scrap Metal™. Fight your way through explosive, action-packed missions and defeat cunning bosses to add their vehicles to your garage. Customize your newly-acquired cars and then return to the track to blast through more enemies. Jump online with Xbox LIVE ® to race against your friends and crush their cars with the wheels of your monster truck in pulse-pounding online multiplayer matches.” [Via Xbox.com]

Drive around destroying your opponents in order to beat the levels and finish off the bosses. Every car you wreck while racing goes to your junkyard and enables you to drive that car. Defeat the bosses in order to gain that land and own it all!

Gameplay
Scrap Metal is a Top Down racer with weapons thrown in. Race and shoot your way through the levels and beat them all! Multiple Car Types, such as muscle cars, bulldozers, sports cars, and even tanks; customization them with with paint jobs and accessories; and finally Race them to victory.

When you wreck a car in a race you get that car in your junkyard for you to choose from. You also get upgrade points by placing in 3^rd (10 points), 2^nd (20 points), or 1^st (30 points). Use these points to make your cars even better, and make winning those races easier.

There are two sets of controls, the easy set up where the direction you point the joystick is where you go, and then the advanced controls where you drive your car like a remote control car. Since I drive a lot of remote control cars in real life I prefer the advanced controls, the advance controls also enable you to reverse and use an emergency break for extra precision. The controls are still extremely hard to get used to, and with other cars trying to shoot you the game becomes extremely hectic and anything can happen.

In the video below I demonstrate some aspects of the game. Some key points are:

• The first part shows the junkyard as well as the customization of your vehicle, as well as upgrading of one.
• The first race is an elimination race, weapons are disabled and after every lap the person in last place is destroyed. Other races have weapons enables, and it leads to a whole new level of difficulty.
• As you can see, car debris stay on the road and it become hazardous to drive. Every scattered part is a hazard that could make you lose.
• One of the biggest annoyances is getting knocked off of the path right as you are about to pass a checkpoint, causing you to miss the checkpoint and have to go backwards to go through it.
• The Second Race is a demolition derby, where you try to destroy as many cars as possible within the time limit.
• Different Cars have different weapons. I was using Machine Guns x2, but there was also a computer using a flamethrower, and another using a saw blade.
• You can also pick up power ups by shooting them, this will help a lot. All the power ups I got in the second video I simply shot at.

Audio
Engines revving, guns blazing, blades spinning; Scrap Metal focuses more heavily on the sound effects over the soundtrack. The menu’s have a nice theme, but while playing you will be focused on what is going around you, which is gun fire, vehicle driving, and vehicles ramming each other.

Achievements
A majority of the achievement list is based on completing the story. The online ones can be achieved with friends, so those are decently easy too. The hardest achievement is getting a gold star on every level, which is pretty much obtained by getting in first place in every race or derby. Even this one is easy if you take the time to get upgrade points and upgrade your vehicles as much as you can. Overall the achievements in Scrap Metal are easy to obtain.

Scrap Metal also contains 2 avatar awards.

An Awesome Scrap Metal Shirt – Complete the first chapter

A Scrap Metal RC Car! – Complete all missions in the single player game to win this costume. (It says costume, this could be a typo)

The Achievement List is:

• Kicking the Tires – Complete the Single Player tutorial mission.
• Mr. Awesome – Defeat the Awesomeland End Boss.
• Sal – Defeat the Gastown End Boss.
• Semi Slapshot – Defeat the Coal Harbour End Boss.
• Alex Alternator – Defeat the Motordome End Boss.
• Petrove Piston – Defeat the East District End Boss.
• Cletus Clutch – Defeat the Wetlands End Boss.
• Rick Bricktop – Defeat the Downtown End Boss.
• Bling Bling – Achieve all gold medals for all Single Player missions.
• King of the Hill – Win first place in an Xbox LIVE King of the Hill match.
• Dominator – Win first place in an Xbox LIVE Race match.
• Scrap Yard – Take out 20 or more opponents in an Xbox LIVE Derby.

Overview
Top down racer fans rejoice! Scrap Metal is a fun top down racer with loads of customization possibilities. The game does have a tendency to get repetitive due to a lack of different game types, but on the other hand there are loads of different cars, upgrades, power ups, and customization options that will lead to endless hours of racing and destruction for those who purchase Scrap Metal (1200MSP / 15$ USD). Scrap Metal is a fun, bullet flying, car destroying experience and I give Scrap Metal 8 Capsules out of 10.

Pros

• Customize your cars, and get new cars by destroying your enemies.
• Many Tracks, Cars, and power ups for hours of fun.
• The classic feel of a top down racer with the added benefits of guns.
• Leaderboards enable you to compete for best scores with the world.

Cons

• Like all arcade games, the online community will probably not last very long.
• The game has a tendency to get repetitive, since every level requires you to kill someone, run away from someone, or be faster than someone.
• Driving can be a nuisance sometimes because you can’t get a clear view of what is around you at all times.

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WANT A COPY OF SCRAP METAL?
This week’s most active community member will win Scrap Metal on the Xbox Live Arcade. Every Friday we give away a Xbox Live Arcade game or Steam code to the the most active member. For more information click here.

Extra information regarding the Modern Warfare 2 DLC

As your already aware Robert Bowling AKA fourzerotwo posted something nice on his twitter update today!

“http://www.mapathy.com – Feeling the effects of Mapathy? It’s okay, the cure is hitting #Xboxlive in just 3 short weeks. #MW2″

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So March 30th it is! OMG, I am so excited.  No other news has been given so far, maybe some more later on this week.

Also other big news from the twitter feed is the patch for the matchmaking update for the Xbox360 is supposedly coming before the DLC is released.  Can you imagine never (or rarely) having to play in a dirty 1 red bar/2 yellow bar match again!

That’s it for now, only 2 more nights until the Capsule Computers MW2 Community night – hope to see alot of you there.

Click in the image below for more details on the Community night

Hope to see you all there on the night !! remember WE HAVE PRIZES TO GIVE AWAY !!!

@DuraRoc

Yakuza 3 has left Okinawa, jumped on a plane and made it to western shores.  Sega’s Yakuza 3 is now available world wide exclusively for Playstation 3

After playing the Yakuza 3 demo last week I totally fell in love with it as it reminded me soo much of Shenmue.  I was walking around the streets of Tokyo FOR HOURS  like a kid in a candy store !!  I honestly stopped to read all the Japanese signs on every building (lucky I can now read Japanese, which makes playing the game even more fun).  I even played games in Club Sega and bought some bargains in Don Kihote (which has its own theme song playing when you enter the store).  The amount of little extra’s Sega has thrown into Yakuza 3 is totally amazing.  You can go into a convenience store, stop by the magazine stand and check out all the latest magazines from manga to adults books  

You can also buy a HUGE variety of goods from stores some just trivial others providing you with ability boosts, energy replenishment and also weapons you can use in battle. Besides exploring Tokyo and Okinawa, you can also visit restaurants, pick up ramen at a local noodle shops, go golfing, bowling, fishing, karaoke, or bust some heads in a local street fight which never gets dull !! Ahh how I miss Japan

Well if you haven’t already do so make sure you pick up your copy of Yakuza 3 from your local retail or online.

Visit the  Yakuza 3 site for more information.

Who’s already picked up Yakuza ?  Give us your  thoughts on it.

G’day everyone.  Here’s this weeks new releases movies on Blu-ray.  Some old some new.  Looks like there’s something here for everyone today   I’m not to excited about any of them but let us know which ones you might consider picking up.

March 09, 2010

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 118 mins | Rated R | Mar 09, 2010 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Blu-ray  The MacManus brothers have been in deep hiding with their father, Il Duce. When word comes that a beloved priest has been killed by the mob, the brothers return and mount a violent and bloody crusade to bring justice to those… Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 109 mins | Rated R | Mar 09, 2010 Up in the Air Blu-ray Ryan Bingham, is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his… Comedy / Drama / Romance

Lionsgate Films | 2009 | 109 mins | Rated R | Mar 09, 2010 Precious Blu-ray Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at… Drama

2007 | 98 mins | Rated PG-13 | Mar 09, 2010 Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone Blu-ray A reluctant young hero is called upon to pilot an immense robot in a battle against alien invaders. Action / Anime / Sci-Fi

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 88 mins | Rated PG | Mar 09, 2010 Old Dogs Blu-ray (3disk collection) Two best friends — one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor — have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of 7-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest… Comedy / Family

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 91 mins | Rated PG | Mar 09, 2010 Planet 51 Blu-ray American astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker, lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a… Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Warner Bros. | 2009 | Not rated | Mar 09, 2010 NFL Super Bowl XLIV Champions Blu-ray Highlight film recapping the Regular Season, Playoffs and Super Bowl Game for the winning team from Super Bowl XLIV, in BD. Sport / Television

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 127 mins | Rated R | Mar 09, 2010 Capitalism: A Love Story Blu-ray Plenty of excitement -and controversy- is sure to surround this film from decorated documentarian Michael Moore. After previously taking on America’s gun culture (Bowling for Columbine), the Bush administration… Documentary

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 93 mins | Rated G | Mar 09, 2010 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale Blu-ray This heartwarming true story is an U.S. adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him… Drama / Family

Universal Music | 1978 | 109 mins | Not rated | Mar 09, 2010 The Kids Are Alright Blu-ray The Who…smashed guitars…demolished hotel rooms…cars in swimming pools…the legendary band in their most explosive performances. Re-live the glory from their pre-Who days as The High-Numbers to their final appearance… Documentary / Music

Lionsgate Films | 2008 | 116 mins | Rated R | Mar 09, 2010 The Stoning of Soraya M. Blu-ray It is 1986 in Iran. Undercover French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam (Caviezel) is traveling though a small southwestern village when his car breaks down. Surrounded by strife, he has little choice other to wait until his… Crime / Drama

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 129 mins | Not rated | Mar 09, 2010 UFC: Best of 2009 Blu-ray Grab a ringside seat and relive all the thrilling action with this compilation of highlights, milestones, behind-the-scenes footage and bone-crushing battles from the UFC’s 2009 season, featuring a big celebration for its… Sport

20th Century Fox | 2009 | 85 mins | Rated PG-13 | Mar 09, 2010 Possession Blu-ray A woman’s husband collides with his brother in a freak car accident, landing both of them into comas. Complications arise when the brother wakes and believes that he is the woman’s husband. Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 88 mins | Rated PG | Mar 09, 2010 Old Dogs Blu-ray Two best friends — one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor — have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of 7-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest… Comedy / Family

Check out other titles over at : http://www.blu-ray.com.

The wait is is finally over.  Capcom have announced that Street Fighter IV is now officially available for the Apple iPhone / iPod Touch via iTunes download. 

Now you can finally take Ryu & Ken along with you everywhere you go.  Do battle on the train, the bus, at your mates house,  anywhere you want.  Priced at only $9.99 grab it via the iTunes store :

Click on the link here  :

Playing Is Believing!

Street Fighter 4 delivers the first true fighting game on iPhone. This uncompromising fighter features all the visceral thrills, fantastic graphics and brilliant gameplay that are hallmarks of the series. 

Long time Street Fighter fans can jump into the action and have an instant familiarity with the controls. For more casual players Street Fighter 4 features numerous settings and tutorials that put you on the path to world warrior.

Oh, and Street Fighter 4 supports MULTIPLAYER  head-to-head arcade play over Bluetooth!

Features:
- Fight as eight Street Fighter characters in seven different environments.
- Full move sets including Unique Attacks, Special Moves, Focus Attacks, Super Combos and Ultra Combos. 
- For a true arcade experience, battle head-to-head on Bluetooth against friends and foes alike.
- Robust “Dojo” boot camp transforms neophytes into Street Fighter masters in five in-depth lessons. 
- Customize the controls for your style of play. Move the buttons anywhere you want on the screen and set the level of transparency. 
- Unleash super moves with a tap of the “SP” button, or toggle it off from the “Options” menu if you want to enter the button combo manually.
- Four levels of difficulty.

Let us know what you think of this fantastic fighting title !!

Robert Bowling, from Infinity ward, directed everyone who follows him on twitter to a self help site that announces Modern Warfare 2 maps are coming March 30th.

See the Tweet here.

Are you suffering from Mapathy?

Great news for Playstation owners.  The PSN Video store is now the first to offer HD movies for purchase from all of the major movies studios !!

Let’s welcom 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. To the PSN Video Store !!

Now what movies are you going to buy ?  Let us know

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Who doesn’t love Street Fighter.  It’s a game that’s been around since the beginning of time, it’s touch nearly all of us in one way or another in some point in our lives (that is if your a true gamer) Well if you live in the US, San Francisco to be exact and you know where the Apple Store is there.  Then here is your chance to meet Capcom’s executive producer Yoshinori Ono-san and mobile producer Takeshi Tezuka-san for a look at the all-new Street Fighter IV for the iPhone and iPod touch. 

MasterAbbott wishes he could get on a plane and fly up to San Franscisco but he wont be able to make it in time So if anyone of Capsule Computers Community goes, let us know how it all went. 

Here are details below

Where:

 Wednesday, March 10, 5:00 p.m.

 One Stockton Street

 San Francisco, CA 94108

 www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco/

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Win a war by tricking your enemies !! NOW  That’s got me interested !!

Check out the full details in the trailer written press release below that.  R.U.S.E looks and sounds very promising.  I like the idea of weasling your way out of things by tricking your opponents and gaining the victory for your nation.  Gone are the days of Brawn and Brute Force and even RUSHING !! (Don’t you hate the rushers – *Shakes his fist at them !!* ) Now any pencil necked geek can take on a full army of crack commandos and come out on top !!

Press Release information :

AUSTRALIA — March 10, 2009 — Today, Ubisoft announced that the Public Beta Test for R.U.S.E., a one-of-a-kind real-time strategy (RTS) game developed by Eugen Systems, is now supported through and available for download and installation on Steam. Set to reinvigorate the strategy genre, R.U.S.E. allows players to use their brains as the ultimate weapon to fight a war of perception where the ability to deceive and mislead the enemy determines success.

In the public beta, players will have the opportunity to choose one of the 6 unique factions available in the game (US, UK, GER, USSR, FRANCE, IT) and train themselves against the artificial intelligence on the “Blitz” map before entering the multiplayer challenge.

With 7 multiplayer maps (from 1 vs. 1 to 4 vs. 4…or free for all) players will be able to test their strategist skills against enemies combining up to 10 different ruses to lure their opponents in one of the 3 multiplayer game modes (1939, 1942, 1945).

R.U.S.E. is scheduled to release on June 3rd 2010 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC. 

For more information on this Public Beta content and how to play it, you can visit www.rusegame.com/beta.  or www.steamgames.com/RUSEbeta.  

About R.U.S.E.

R.U.S.E. is a one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory, controlling the action using views that range seamlessly from the heart of the battlefield to the full theatre of war.  Players will be plunged into the action thanks to the exclusive IRISZOOM^TM Engine which offers an intuitive interface that allows for smooth, rapid transitions from a birds-eye view of the entire conflict, down into the heat of the battle and vice versa.

In R.U.S.E., players use their brain as the ultimate weapon, fighting a war of perception, where the ability to deceive and mislead the enemy determines success. A first in a strategy game, R.U.S.E. reinvigorates the genre by using deception to give new-found depth to the game play.

R.U.S.E. is scheduled for release on Windows PC, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system in Q2 2010.

To learn more about R.U.S.E., visit the redesigned website at www.rusegame.com.

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Whats everyone think about this little game ?  Your suggestions and thoughts ?  Will you try it out ?  Let us know