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Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Launch Event at Darling Harbour IMAX this Thursday!‏

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If you live in Sydney Australia and would like to be a part of the Final Fantasy XIII launch event.  EBGames have organized this cool little gig.  Click on the link below, enter your details and wait patiently for a reply 🙂

If you manage to get an invite, leave a comment below.  Hope to see you there 🙂

God Of War III installation FREE

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Yes you heard it.  Well we also heard it from Director of technology over at Sony’s Santa Monica Christer Ericson’s Twitter

So it looks like we don’t have to wait to for the paint to dry in the end as God Of War 3 will be installation free and ready to hit the ground running as soon as you throw it into your Playstation 3.  As stated by Christer God Of War 3 will only need 5mb to save your game.

This is great news for all you Playstation 3 owners that have next to no hard disk space left on their PS3 hard drives, especially owners of the original Playstation 3’s that have only 20gb in them.

Happy Days !! now all that’s left to see is how good the loading times are whilst playing and moving from one local to the other within the game.

God Of War 3 makes it’s way down to Australia on the 18th of March the rest of the world get it a few days before on the 16th.  Not long now !!

If you haven’t already pick up your copy grab it now for only $71 AU with free delivery

What do you guys think about the install free setup ? Would you rather have the option available or are you glad that you don’t have to go through the pain of the waiting for the install to complete.  Your thoughts and suggestions.

Don’t Let Ryo Hazuki borrow your motor bike

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This cool video was featured on Sega’s blog today.  It shows Ryo Hazuki from Sega’s Shenmue borrowing his friends motorbike.  But why would he need it for ??

Click on the play button and find out for yourselves 😉 

On a totally different note. I hope Sega are secretly working on the long awaited finale of Shenmue 3.  After playing the Yakuza 3 demo the other day 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 was stopping 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 even has its own theme song playing when you enter the store).  After all this… I have a feeling that Shenmue is just around the corner. 

If sega can make a game so similar in every which way and call it Yakuza 3.  What’s stopping them from changing the scenery a little bit dropping Ryo’s character back in, brush up the finishing touches to the storyline which we all know is already written and ready to go, then slapping the title SHENMUE 3 on the cover. 

Sega if you are out there and we know you are !! please hear our prays !! Ryo needs to ride his motorbike one last time in his OWN game !! 😉

Who else agrees with me on this one.  Your comments please !!

BioShock 2 DLC Revealed

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2k Games announed today that the “Sinclair Solutions TEST Pack” will be the first of many DLC planned for Bioshock 2 

The DLC pack will expand on Bioshock 2’s multiplayer with the following extras.

  • Rank Increase to level 50 with Rank Rewards
  • New playable characters Louie McGraff and Oscar Calraca
  • 20 new trials
  • A third weapon upgrade for each weapon
  • Five additional masks Soome are only available after a you reach rank 41 or higher.

The DLC will be making its way to all platforms : XBOX, Playstaion 3 and PC in March.  Xbox owners expect to pay 400 MS points for it PC & Playstation 3 peeps your looking at $5.

I personally think that 2k Games should be looking into fixing the online issues/bugs rather than release DLC’s but lets hope the fixes are next on the list 🙂

Your thoughts, ideas and opinions on this one please 🙂

Street Fighter IV iPhone gameplay video

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Thanks to Seth over at Capcom and IGN for this piece of information on the new Street Fighter IV coming in March for the Apple iPhone.  Video isn’t the best but you can clearly see Capcom have done a SUPER effort, the gameplay, speed and visuals are totally outstanding.  

To all the non believers out there click on the play button and watch the action for yourselves.  The video shows a wireless multi-player battle along with some other little options and a SUPER being pulled off which looks absolutely stunning.  There are a total of 8 playable characters, Ryu, Ken, Guile, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, M. Bison and Street Fighter IV newbie Abel.

Capcom have reported that Street Fighter IV will be priced at $9.99 US

Check out the video and let us know what you think !!

‘General Knoxx’ DLC this week for Borderlands

The 3rd installment / add-on pack for Borderlands : “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx,” will be available for download tomorrow for the XBOX 360 owners.

The PC and PS3 users will not be able to get their hands on the DLC until Thursday this week. 

This DLC looks very promising and has been early awaited by a lot of peeps.  Are you one of those peeps ?  Let us know what your looking forward to seeing and doing in the new DLC.  The Mech looks interesting.  Leave a comment and express your opinions 🙂

Red Steel 2 “Hidden Moves” Trailer now available

UBISOFT have released a new  “Hidden Moves” Trailer for Red Steel 2 Check it out below and get excited.  I am, Red Steel 2 is shaping up to quite nicely and with the added Wii Motion Plus support, shooting and slicing your way through the game is going to be even more realistic and fun !!

Check out the video below.  There are some ULTRA amazing jaw dropping finishing moves with the guns.  Lucky the blood effects have been watered down big time otherwise all you’d see is limbs and blood all over the place

Red Steel 2 will be released in Australia on 25 March.

Let us know what you think of the trailer.  I personally think its very cool .  What do u guys think.

Xbox LIVE Block Party details and dates

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Info provided by Major Nelson

Earlier this month at the X10 Media event, Microsoft announced the upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade Block Party* promotion. Today Microsoft have announced additional promotion details and the release schedule1 

March 3rd: Toy Soldiers -1200 points
March 10:
Scrap Metal – 1200 points
March 17: Perfect Dark – 800 points
March 24: Game Room – Free to download. Individual games will cost 240 to 400 points

ALSO : When you purchase all three Block Party titles and download the free Game Room app you’ll receive 400 Microsoft Points back to your account**! And if you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold Members you’ll also get an extra month of Gold absolutely free**!

From Noon ET Friday, March 26, – Noon ET Monday, March 29 Block Party is making it easy for you to play together with an Xbox LIVE Multiplayer Unlock weekend! For this weekend only, Microsoft have UNLOCKED the online multiplayer features of all Block Party titles for Xbox LIVE Silver Members to play for free (games sold separately).

NOTE : 1This is the current release schedule for Block Party titles. As with everything game release related, dates are subject to change.

*Depending on your region, you may see this promotion called House party. The above information applies.

**FREE GIFT OFFER TERMS:

Purchase all 3 games: Toy Soldiers, Scrap Metal, Perfect Dark, & download the free Game Room app before March 31, 2010 11:59pm EST, and receive 400 Microsoft Points – FREE! As a bonus, all current Gold members as of April 30, 2010 that fulfill this offer will also receive 1 month of Gold for FREE! Limit one (1) of each gift per person. To qualify for your gift, you must purchase all three (3) games from Xbox LIVE Arcade and download the free Game Room app using your Xbox LIVE account, by March 31, 2010 11:59 EST. To qualify for the bonus month of Gold, you must have a current Gold account (sold separately) as of April 30,2010. The free Points and 1 month of Gold will automatically be deposited into your Xbox LIVE account after the end of the promotion period. Please allow 4 weeks for delivery – on or around April 30, 2010. Offer available only to legal residents, age 13 plus, of all countries that support Xbox LIVE, while supplies last, is non-transferable, not redeemable for cash, and cannot be combined with any other rebate or offer. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the recipient. Broadband internet required for Xbox LIVE; for terms of use and system requirements see www.xbox.com/live.

So what’s everyone think of this little Block Party / House Party Deal ?? I know that most of you were not that excited about Game Room.  But what you all think about the 3 other games being released ?

Xbox Live Deal Of The Week and This Weeks New Xbox Live Arcade titles

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There are 3 new Xbox Live Arcade games coming out this week along with the Deal Of The Week.  Lets start with the deal of the week.  It’s none other than the Alien Kick ASS and Chew Bubble Gum (but he’s always outta gum) Duke Nukem3D available to download for only 400ms points until the 1st of March. 

Details below  :

Duke Nukem 3D

Xbox LIVE Gold members can download Duke Nukem 3D for the Deal of the Week price of 400 points until March 1st.

Add Duke Nukem 3D to your Xbox 360 download queue

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NEW Games making their way to Xbox Live Arcade this week will be :

Fret Nice will be available this Wednesday for 1200 points.

Greed Corp (800 points) and

Lazy Raiders (800 points) will also be available on Wednesday.

Which ones are you going to pick up ?  Are you looking forward to any of these titles ?  Your thoughts, comments and suggestions please 🙂

That Girl Is Poison And 25% Off AND HOT Too !!

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The Capcom Store‘s latest Deal Of The Week which occurs every Friday has a very poisonous deal this week. Feast your eyes on the ULTRA HAWT  Poison statues . At 25% off the regular price, I think its worth getting a little poison into you 😉

Poison is Sculpted by Mitsumasa Yoshizawa (REFLECT), this stunningly statuesque PVC figure of Poison stands approximately 10.85″ and comes complete with handcuffs, arm rings, chains, and mirror base all packaged in a collector’s style window box.  (The Perfect Woman .. she even carry’s her own handcuff’s)  😉

Whilst your checking out Poison alo check out the Street Fighter IV FightPads, the exclusive San Diego Comic-Con editions, are now $5 off of each one when you order more than one. They’re available in both Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.

Let us know what you think of the ULTRA HAWT Poison.  I wonder if Capcom ever made a Final Fight movie who do you think would be playing her ?? Suggestions.