Archive for the ‘xbox360’ Category

Flatout: Ultimate Carnage, Price Crash!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Robin Reliant: Ultimate CarnageZavvi.co.uk (Formerly Virgin Megastores) have a great deal on Flatout: Ultimate Carnage for the 360 at the moment. They’re offering the game for £13.00! And that’s with FREE Delivery! Flatout is a great racing series, If you haven’t played it before it’s a bit like that old game Destruction Derby except more fun, due to the addition of a handful of original modes such as; Bowling, where you need to launch your driver through the windscreen of your car at breakneck speed toward 10 huge pins in an attempt to knock as many down as possible; High Jump, where you need to launch your driver through the windscreen of your car at breakneck speed at a high angle in an attempt to fly as high as possible and also Long Jump, where you need to launch your driver through the windscreen of your car at breakneck speed in order to… Well you get the point. (more…)

Play.com sale = awesome

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

We’ve brought you a lot of good deals recently, but this one might just take the biscuit.

Play.com are having one of their super-cool sales, with a lot of top games thrown into the mix.

As is becoming customary, here are our headliners:

  •  Rainbox Six: Vegas 360 - £14.99
  • World in Conflict PC - £14.99
  • Company of Heroes: Gold Edition PC - £14.99
  • Supreme Commander: Gold Edition PC - £14.99
  • Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PS3 - £17.99
  • Geometry Wars: Galaxies Wii - £14.99
  • Final Fantasy XI: Revenant Wings DS - £12.99
  • Worm: Open Warfare 2 DS - £12.99

Head on over there and tell them Uncle Goy sentcha.

360 price-drop on the way? *CONFIRMED*

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

360 price dropA Dutch gaming blog have managed to dig up what looks like some fairly hard evidence that the European Xbox 360 will be dropping its price in the near future.

It goes without saying that this will hopefully also include a UK price-drop. More news as it comes, fellow bargain hunters!

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Update: It has now been confirmed by Xbox Live’s Major Nelson. There will indeed be a price drop for Europe - Including UK. Details after the post-break.

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First of Mass Effect DLC released

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The first in a series of downloadable content for 360 exclusive Mass Effect has been released today in the Live Marketplace. It’s called “Bring Down the Sky” and promises 90 minutes of Batarian blasting antics.

If you are at all baffled by the previous sentence we would not be at all surprised. The Batarians are an all new race introduced in this expansion who… well, we won’t say anymore except that their arses should be well and truly kicked once you’re done with them.

The pack will cost 400 Microsoft Points (about a fiver in real currency) and is out now.

This week’s ‘deals of the week’ from GAME

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

CheapskateAfter a moderate amble down to our local GAME store and a quick chat with the thoroughly charming Sarah, we’ve managed to glean top-secret information about this week’s deals. And before anyone says “You could’ve just wandered round the shop and written them down”… shut up.

Here they are then you mangy cheapskates, here’re our picks of the bunch:

360

  • Clive Barker’s Jericho - £19.99
  • Conflict: Denied Ops - £29.99
  • Mass Effect - £29.99
  • Project Gotham Racing 4 - £39.99

PS3

  • Turok - £29.99
  • Sega Rally - £24.99
  • Virtua Tennis - £24.99
  • Conflict: Denied Ops: £34.99

Wii

  • Ghost Squad - £19.99
  • Table Tennis - £19.99
  • Sonic and the Secret Ring - £19.99

DS

  • Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - £19.99
  • Final Fantasy XI: Revenant Wings - £19.99

PC

  • Guild Wars - £14.99
    • Factions - £14.99
    • Nightfall - £14.99
  • Football Manager 08 - £19.99

Well there you have it. 17 reasons to go out and spend your hard-earned.

March 2008: Games to look forward to…

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

On this cold, wintry March come a batch of new game releases. There’s nothing we love more than a steaming batch of games, fresh from the oven, albeitEeeeyy! burnt slightly from delayed release dates and changes to the recipe.

Sorry about that analogy, that’s the result of writing an article while simultaneously watching ‘Ready, Steady Cook’. An unworthy sacrifice as Ready Steady Cook is rubbish.

Jump to the full article for the list of games along with videos showing why we picked them… (more…)

Assassin’s Creed 360 for £20

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

GAME LogoGAME are selling pre-owned copies of ‘Creed for a not-to-be-sniffed-at 20 notes at my local store in Preston.

Hop down to your local store and see if they’re doing the same! And leave us a loving comment with the results.

Pick up Guitar Hero III with Guitar on PS3 for £57.99!

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Online store ChoicesUK.com have a great offer on Guitar Hero 3 at the moment.

You can pick it up for the exclusively low prices of £57.99 and £59.99 delivered on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively.

Here are the prices they’re offering

PS2 - £44.99
Xbox 360 - £59.99
Wii - £56.99
PS3 - £56.99

If you want to take advantage of this offer you should act fast before they sell out or before the offer finishes.

Source: http://snipurl.com/gh3deal

First reviews of Lost: Via Domus trickle out

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Wilsooooon!What? You haven’t heard of this game? You’re not interested in a video game cash in of Lost? Either way you now have reason to be excited, as the first couple of reviews have come out and the verdict is more than anybody could have expected from Ubisludge.

Here is a summary of the reviews; (more…)