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Lord Bling's Top 10 Games of 2008 [by Lord Bling]I don't know about you, but I'm ready for 2008 to be OVER. However, that doesn't change the fact that there were some very good games released this year. Let's look at my favorites (platform-exclusives are noted in the titles):
TOP TEN CONSOLE GAMES OF 2008
10: PRINCE OF PERSIA. When I heard they were going the 'cel-shaded' route with the first next-gen game in the franchise, I was...
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  Columbia movies back on Netflix instant view (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Keen-eyed observers (or at least one keen-eyed observer, anyway) over at 360Sync have noticed that movies from Sony's Columbia Pictures are once again available for Netflix streaming on Xbox 360. After the titles were first yanked from the service in November, we later reported that most of the Columbia movies had returned, but it seems that now all of them are available once again. | |
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 Xbox 360 install base surges to 28 million (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Late last night, Microsoft sent word that they've reached an Xbox 360 install base milestone, announcing that by 2008's end they have been able to sell 28 million consoles worldwide. That's an increase of around 10 million consoles since last January, don'tcha know. | |
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 Gears Of War 2 Patch Details Gears of War 2 (via Game Radar) - Since the release of Gears of War 2 the online play has been plagued with issues. The issues consist of bad matchmaking to many, many online exploits. Well I guess Cliffy B. has been putting his boot up some programmers asses over there at Epic in order to get the problems solved. | |
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 Microsoft Announces 2008 was our best-ever year (via Xboxer) - SALES WAR update! Microsoft's just sent out a fact-filled press release, claiming that 2008 was the best-ever year for sales in the history of the Xbox "brand." The total global userbase of Xbox 360 now stands at 28 million consoles, which MS says is 8 million ahead of Sony's figure for PlayStation3. | |
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 Skate 2 Demo This Week (via Team Xbox) -- Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Vanelona in Skate 2 with new tricks like onefoots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more. | |
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 This week's Xbox Live Arcade title is 'chaos' (via 360 Monster) - We revealed the achievements a few days ago and it's been confirmed by Major Nelson that Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos will become the first Xbox Live Arcade release of 2009. Releasing this Wednesday (9th January 2009), Interpol puts players into the role of an Interpol elite agent who is tracking down the evil Dr. | |
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 Microsoft CEO to Reveal 2009 360 Line-Up at CES Keynote (via Planet Xbox) -- The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Balmer, is set to talk up two key games that will be heading towards the Xbox 360 in 2009. As part of Microsoft's CES keynote, he will highlight two major games to show the strength of the companies lineup. | |
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 GameStop to Quit Accepting Original Xbox Game Trades? (via Planet Xbox) -- Gaming blog Kotaku received a tip today that major video game retailer, GameStop, will no longer accept original Xbox games, consoles, or accessories as trade-ins starting on February 9th, 2009. Hit the jump for more sad details. | |
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 News: Halo 3 'push to talk' being removed (via OXM) -- Well, almost being removed as Bungie finally moves to get rid of it. Bungie has taken another step towards pushing Halo 3's archaic 'push to talk' system out the game. | |
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Microsoft Suing To Get Some 360s Back Britain (via Kotaku) - For American readers, know this: British retailer Woolworths are done for. They close up shop today. But out in Woolworths warehouses across Britain are tons of Xbox 360 consoles. And Microsoft want them back. To that effect, they're preparing to sue Deloitte, the administrators of Woolworths' rotting corpse. | |
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Download Dozens of Commercial PC Games Free (via Digg) -- Where do computer games go when they die? Nowhere, if you know where to look. | |
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Xbox 360 records best Christmas in Europe (via QJ) - Microsoft may be sacking 15,000 employees, but the Xbox 360 records its best Christmas in the brand's six-year history, almost doubling 2007's sales, with eight million consoles sold in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa up to the end of 2008.EMEA Interactive Entertainment Business Regional VP Chris Lewis was all too happy with this result. | |
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Capcom Struts Its 2009 Lineup Resident Street Fighter Commando (via Kotaku) - Capcom has an excellent line up of games hitting consoles during the first half of 2009, and they've got the Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV-filled press release to prove it. It's not all about the fifth Resident Evil and the fourth Street Fighter, but those two titles do make up the brunt of Capcom's early 2009 line up. | |
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Molyneux Not Impressed With 2009's Games (via Cinema Blend Games) -- While 2008 was a monster year for gaming, with long-awaited sequels like Fallout 3 or Grand Theft Auto IV finally hitting stores, surely game companies have a few good things saved up for 2009, right? Fable designer Peter Molyneux doesn't think so. | |
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XBLA Kicks Off The New Year With Interpol Xbox Live Arcade (via Kotaku) - The last few weeks of Xbox Live Arcade games were a boon to the more casual gamer, and the first game of the new year continues the trend with TikiGames' Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos. Interpol is a puzzle game in which players travel the world, searching amazingly cluttered crime scenes for clues to the whereabouts of the titular villain in order to stop him from doing whatever he is doing. | |
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Rumor: LEGO Rock Band in Works at TT Games (via Planet Xbox) -- In what has to be one of the weirdest rumors of the past decade gaming blog VideoGaming24/7 is stating that one if it's "sources" has dropped a gaming bombshell: the next LEGO game from Traveller's Tales will be Rock Band for EA. | |
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Rise of the Argonauts - Review (via Planet Xbox) - Greek mythology is a field of lore which game developers have foraged since Kid Icarus. It was no surprise when I found out that Jason and his Argonauts were going to appear in their own game. What did surprise me was that Codemasters was going to publish and Liquid Entertainment was going to develop. | |
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Benq/liteon Batch Files, Build 2009.01.04 (via Xbox Scene) - From Exobex on forums.xbox-scene.com (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=672529 ): If you liked X360SAM(info (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/X360SAM.php )), now you can flash BenQ/LiteOn the same way! This is a collection of batch files which allow you to "manage" flashing of BenQ and LiteOn firmwares in the same way that the batch files for X360SAM operate. | |
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Dead Rising CTYD: Video clip (via Xboxyde) -- Capcom just announced the release of Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for February 24 in the US and February 27 in Europe, and did so in a rather original manner: A video clip of a song specially written by the Japanese punk band GaGaGa SP, with some rather surprising zombie dance moves. | |
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Major Nelson reveals top 20 Xbox Live games and arcade downloads (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online Well, that was entirely unexpected. How, in a year chock-full of incredible Xbox Live-enabled releases, did Yaris manage to not only be the most downloaded XBLA title of 2008, but also place first on the annual Xbox Live activity charts? We could have sworn that those accomplishments would have gone to Castle Crashers and Halo 3, respectively! What's that? They did, but we thought we'd distort the truth because we haven't made a Yaris joke in a while? Oh, thank God. | |
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