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Fable II bug prevents players from finishing game

Those of you who are playing Fable II may want to take note of a bug that some gamers are reporting. The glitch happens during "Monk's Quest."

If a player goes into the Temple of Light in Oakfield and leaves the area before hearing the entire instructions from the Abbot, the game will refuse to let the player resume the quest. In short, you won't be able to finish the game.

Lionhead Studios is working on a fix to the problem. In the meantime, Lionhead is asking all players to make sure to finish listening to the Abbot and let the cut scene play out entirely before moving on.

Another bug, not as fatal as the Abbot glitch, was also reported recently concerning players who enter co-op mode with another player when starting a new game. When players leave the childhood stage, all gold and experie...

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Rumor: Zombie DLC coming to GTA IV?

It seems like every other game is doing some zombie-related event for Halloween. That's not too surprising, because zombie events and scenarios are awesome. What is surprising is the possible addition of GTA IV to the list of zombie-sprouting games.

In a new Eugenics Inc. ad on RockStar Social Club, the in-game location (which, last time I played, didn't have any actual role in the game) the company has issued a quarantine locking down the company compound due to the outbreak of a disease.

The ad reads:

"QUARANTINE

CONTAGIOUS DISEASE

No one shall enter or leave this premises without the proper documentation issued by Eugenics Inc. No person except an authorized agent or employee of Eugenics Inc. shall alter, destroy or remove this sign. Anyone violating these regulations will be arrested and...

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Free Rock Band 2 DLC revealed

When Rock Band 2 came out, Harmonix and MTV promised that we'd (eventually) see 20 free DLC songs. That promise is about to be fulfilled, as the full list of featured songs and the day of their release has been announced.

Starting November 4, PS3 and 360 owners who purchased Rock Band 2 will have access to the 20 additional tracks. (Wii is coming when the game ships in December.) To access the tracks, take a gander at the back of your Rock Band 2 instruction booklet for a unique code. Input that code on XBL or the PSN, and you're given the rights to download the 20 tracks. While they aren't by gigantic Super Duper Famous musicians, the list does have a couple of gems from up-and-coming and little known bands. For the most part, though, expect these 20 songs to serve more as a way to become...

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MGS4 for the Xbox 360 in the works?

Snake has appeared in a lot of places. From the jungle to Alaska, he's always given it his all and makes it appear as if he is always at home.

Now, however, he may be given an assignment to sneak somewhere he's believed to have been ordered off limits for years - the 360!

The rumor of Metal Gear Solid 4 being ported from the PS3 to the 360 has a long history--even before the game was released. In fact, Metal Gear Solid 3 was host to plenty of rumors claiming it would show up on the 360 eventually.

So far, these persistant rumors have had little to be based on. In fact, Hideo Kojima, mastermind behind the entire franchise, has stated repeatedly that these rumors are as trustworthy as Revolver Ocelot, and that under no circumstances would MGS4 appear on the 360.

Indeed, he has argued th...

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Dead Space launch trailer

Dead Space ships to retailers today. Excited? If for some reason you aren't, this launch trailer should certainly do the trick.

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Madden Pink joins the fight against breast cancer

If you didn't know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Highlighted by races, donations, events, and fundraisers, it usually serves as a vehicle for people to be reminded to donate time or money towards finding a cure, and to remind women to be aware for earlier detection.

What it usually isn't is the month Madden NFL goes pink.

This year, that changes. For the month of October, EA is releasing special Madden NFL 09 Pink editions in Target stores. Available for both the Xbox 360 version and the Wii version, Madden Pink will contain a normal edition of the Madden game in special, limited edition packaging. Proceeds of Madden Pink will be added to an already established flat donation EA plans on making to the HOPE Foundation.

Deanna Favre, wife of Madden NFL 09 cover athlete Br...

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NBA 2K9 to feature Living Rosters

Every now and then, something new happens in sports games which quickly becomes the standard. I have a feeling that 2K's newly announced Living Rosters will do just that.

Featured for the first time in this year's iteration of the NBA 2K franchise, living rosters are like roster updates on crack. While normal roster updates switch players to the right team, take them off of rosters when they're on the IR, and do all of that fun stuff, living rosters will take it a step further.

Throughout the NBA season, as players improve, fall off, slump, or change how they play, NBA 2K9 will reflect it. As players perform new moves or skills in real life games, new animations, attributes, and tendencies will be added to their virtual counterpart.

After each update, an NBA 2K Insider (ie developer) will r...

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Secret document refers to new Xbox 360

An inside informant, going by the name of GilZ, seems to always have the hot tips on what Microsoft is up to. He gave several hints in the past that indicated the arrival of the Xbox 360 Elite, and moist recently, the across the board price drops on all models of the 360.

His latest inside info is backed by a hastily taken photo of a document which shows the code name of a new Xbox 360.

According to the document, if it is real, the new Xbox has the final code name of "Xbox-Pure." And now, for the theory on what it all could mean. It probably isn't the next gen Xbox because the first code name for this possible new edition was named "Xbox-Lean." (see photo below)

Okay Sherlock, since it was called Xbox-Lean, we'd take a guess and say that lean means smaller and thinner. So our bet is that a n...

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Large Hadron Collider renamed Halo

I'm sure you've heard of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The controversial rig (and even more controversial experiment) hopes to unlock all sorts of mysteries, but plenty of skeptics and conspiracy theorists are claiming it could end up destroying the world instead.

To try and appeal to more people, the scientists in charge decided to hold a contest to rename it, given that Large Hadron Collider wasn't exactly the friendliest title. Thousands of people submitted new names, including The Matter Splatter, Puff the Magic Hadron, Black Mesa, and The Infernal Machine but the final winner was one all gamers should be familiar with: Halo. 

Suggested by a man from Rhode Island, the scientists couldn't be happier with the new moniker. "Halo conjures visions of radiant beauty, power and wisdom. The ...

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Game exploit in Fable II Pub Games is a "trap"

The Xbox 360 title, Fable II Pub Games, allows you to gamble in three casino-type games; Spinnerbox, Keystone, and Fortune's Tower. You try to win, and if you do, you can transfer gold and items to your character in Fable II.

However, some gamers have found an exploit in Pub Games and have been happily raking in the gold and goodies by cheating.

It looks like Peter Molyneux, boss at Lionhead Studios, will have the last laugh on the cheaters. Apparently, Molyneux knew all about the exploit in the game, but decided to purposely leave it in. Why? He said that it was done as a "social project."

The social experiment, it seems, may have some consequences for those who took advantage of the exploit. Molyneux was somewhat silent about what he would do, but it has been reported that he definitely ha...

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Insider source says DLC coming to Too Human

In one of this season's "you love it or hate it games," Too Human by Silicon Knights, is rumored to be in the stages of having some DLC for the game.

An insider source revealed to GameXtract that there will be new armor sets and a bank that will appear on the first floor of Aisler.

Some of the new armor will be available for purchase with Microsoft points through Xbox Live while others can be obtained through buying the from within the game. The bank's function is to allow gamers to store or share items. The source said that future DLC will add four player co-op.

Too Human has received an average rating of 69% in the press while users generally rate it in the 70s-80s. See GamerNode's review on the game here.

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Microsoft tester fired for blowing whistle on RRoD...

The RRoD, or Red Ring of Death, is known to many Xbox 360 owners. The status message of the red LEDs means the console is fried and the console must be shipped back for repairs.

Nothing new here, but what is new is what Microsoft did to one of its contract testers--they fired him for divulging information about how the 360 was ripe with problems, thus confirming that Microsoft knew all along about the occurrences of RRoD in its machine before and during its release.

Robert Delaware gave his story to VentureBeat about what he experienced during his time as a tester (2005-2007) for Microsoft. He was fired on Wednesday and now expects to be sued by VMC, the outside vendor that hired him to test Microsoft games. The VentureBeat article went into detail about Microsoft's problems with the manuf...

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Full Guitar Hero: World Tour track list

With the release of Rock Band 2 this weekend (and for some folks last Tuesday) it's time to re-enter Music Game Fever as EA and Activision prepare to compete for your hard-earned dollars this holiday season with Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Boasting a full band for the first time in the franchise, the latest Guitar Hero will try to take a bite out of Rock Band's domination of the band genre for music games. (Is it a genre with two games in it?)

While we already know about the new features, song creation, new instruments, and all the other fun gameplay elements, what we don't know is if the songlist can compete with Rock Band 2. Until now.

Today, the full list of 86 tracks for Guitar Hero: World Tour has been released. Featuring a smattering of genres and decades, people will be...

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Full Mortal Kombat vs DC roster revealed

Today Midway has revealed the full list of characters for the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC game, aptly titled Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. (Check out Eddie's hands-on here.) While most of the roster has been shown already, this marks the final day in their "reveal a few at a time!" campaign thus giving us the entire roster we get to play through when it finally comes out.

Representing the Mortal Kombat side: Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonya, Jax, Shang Tsung, Liu Kang, Raiden, Kitana, Kano, Baraka, Shao Khan.

Representing the DC Universe:  Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Catwoman, The Joker, Shazam, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Deathstroke, Lex Luthor, Darkseid.

While I'm glad to see people like Darkstroke and Shazam for DC, I'm still a little saddened at the lack of Green Arrow. Oh well, maybe he'...

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Ensemble Studios to close after Halo Wars

Microsoft will be shutting down Ensemble Studios following its completion of Halo Wars (early 2009) for the Xbox 360. Largely known for its RTS Age of Empires franchise, the studio was acquired by Microsoft in 2001.

According to Shacknews, the core Ensemble Studios team will form a separate new studio and continue support for Halo Wars and future projects with Microsoft Game Studios. Here's part of Microsoft's statement regarding the studio's closure:

"This was a fiscally-rooted decision that keeps MGS on its growth path. While the decision to dissolve Ensemble was not an easy one, Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."

I found Age of Empires III and its two expansion packs to be ve...

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360 120GB HDD heading for another price cut?

Two things that you'll usually hear complaints from in the Xbox 360 community concern the dreaded Red Ring of Death, and the high price of the add-on 120GB hard drive.

There can't be anything done for the RROD blues at the moment, but there is relief for the $180 priced drive.

Amazon is selling the 120 gig drive for only $149. That's still not exactly a bargain when off the shelf drives cost less than a hundred bucks, but a $30 price drop is better than none at all.

Microsoft has stated in the past that the expensive drive was due to proprietary features and software that needed to be loaded.

Since Microsoft has enacted price drops across the board for all of its Xbox 360 line, could another price drop for the 120GB drive be near?

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Dead Space to ship on October 14

Originally scheduled to ship on October 21, EA has just announced that they're pushing up Dead Space's release date. The sci-fi horror title will now ship October 14 on the Xbox 360 and PS3, a full week before the original date. (The PC version will still ship on the 21 - sorry PC gamers.) This marks the second time Dead Space's release has been pushed forward, as the game was first slated to release on Halloween.

One of the most anticipated games of the year, Dead Space takes place aboard an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura. It has come into contact with alien life in a distance star system, and when communications with earth are suddenly cut off, engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair them. Obviously, things don't go as planned and he finds himself thrust into the middle of a livin...

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Halo 3 Mythic's new achievements

Just before PAX, pictures leaked of a behind-closed-doors Bungie room with a screen showing the title "Halo 3 Mythic." Apparently an online-only menu, almost nothing is known about the game. Was it the cancelled E3 announcement? Is it just a work-in-progress placeholder? Is it a surprise collaboration between Bungie and EA Mythic? The title is shrouded in so much mystery people aren't even sure if it's real, and Bungie's claim that it's "Nothing worth notice" doesn't do much to dissuade thoughts of possibility from running rampant.

While not much is officially known about the add-on/expansion/whatever-it's-officially-called yet, thanks to people at PAX who happened to check their Dashboard at Bungie's booth we do know that "Mythic" will add an additional 30 achievements to the game. Based o...

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Realtime Worlds cracks down on Crackdown DLC

Many gamers who purchased Crackdown also paid for the DLC that was offered not too long after the game was released. In the DLC package were new weapons, cars, new gameplay features, and new cop abilities.

Since then, fans have been clamoring for more DLC, but Realtime Worlds, the developer of Crackdown, says there won't be anymore.

Chris Dye, community manager at Realtime Worlds said:

"Unfortunately from a Realtime Worlds perspective there will not be any additional DLC for Crackdown; the company has moved onto our next Project, APB, and is 100% committed to that and other projects yet to be announced, and as such we are not in a position to work on any new Crackdown content."

Perhaps they can't work on any DLC at the moment because of time commitments, but that doesn't necessarily mean the...

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Far Cry 2 map editor is outrageous. NO limits

Two of a gamer's most sought after feelings are likely to be the ability to feel like God and the ability to destroy without moral or legal ramifications. Well, now it seems Far Cry 2 will fill both of these desires with its fabulous map editor.

When the words "map editor" are uttered, many gamers think of something akin to Halo 3's Forge, where gamers can "make there own levels" by moving around spawn points and weapons, nothing more. For the guys at Ubisoft, however, this just wasn't enough. So, they are giving gamers full control of their levels, giving tools that, before, were only available to level designers.

The map editor feature was demonstrated in a video where God like powers are shown off from raising mountains, carving river paths, and placing houses and vegetation to control...

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