The news from Namco had come out a few days earlier, and with such timeliness with regard to the Soulcalibur IV tournament, too: Darth Vader is available later today as an Xbox LIVE downloadable item for the Soulcalibur IV game. Priced at 400 MS points (about $5.00 USD), it should introduce the dark fella for [...]
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Hurry up, before it’s too late! For those of you who were wondering what that odd blurb in the booklet and the inside jacket of your Soulcalibur IV game case was all about… the tournament for Namco’s Soulcalibur IV has officially kicked off. Already, the first of the three Brackets has filled up. However, you still have [...]
The Setup Hanging Stefan, Tonya’s “fashion consultant”, out of the car window while avoiding the ‘fuzz in order to scare the security code out of Stefan is hard work. So, to take a little breather from the screaming and chasing in Saints Row, I dropped back into the Xbox Dashboard and browsed through my Games [...]
We’re at about the halfway mark for the run of Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE “Extended Play Download Days“, where several games’ add-ons have been temporarily reduced in price. The promotion started September 5 and will continue until October 31. Major Nelson’s blog provides a nice list of the applicable add-ons on sale, but here’s a quick [...]
While the (non-)news about “Halo 3: Keep It Clean” roared onto the scene early last week and continued throughout, until the Xbox LIVE outage earlier today, the more surreptitiously released Halo 3 Title Update 2 (affectionately acronym’ed as “TU2″ by Bungiers themselves) came online on 9/23/2008… Even I hadn’t realized the relevance of this that [...]
The Setup For several months, there have been rumors that, in addition to Halo Wars, there would be another Halo game, in the same vein as the blockbuster Halo 3. Was it all wishful thinking on the parts of the unwashed Halo gunners out there? Or was it a carefully orchestrated PR campaign by the [...]
Up and Down: Upcoming Downtime On September 29, 2008, starting at 12:01 AM PT (3:01 AM ET), Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be shut down for system upgrades and other changes for approximately a day. Those of you who frequent the Xbox 360 Dashboard may have noticed the system bulletin concerning this. Keep in mind [...]
As many of you know, I’ve had an Xbox 360 for almost a year now, and it’s been quite a diverting bit of hardware. Well, the games are The Thing, so it makes sense that excellent game titles are the way to keep gamers focused on a given platform (and even multi-platform games tend to [...]
Remember the previous Microsoft [MSFT] Xbox 360 price drop? The first mention on Javamancy was back on July 2, 2008; the second post occurred on July 12, 2008. Well, a lot of folks have been bouncing around rumors of further price reductions. A lot of it was previously due to the pricing discrepancy between the [...]
“Steve, did you get Soulcalibur IV?” Quite a common statement lately, when I had returned from the Hawaii trip. During my hiatus, Soulcalibur IV was seemingly released with little fanfare. A lot of the diehard fans are gone…? Or are they? Or are they, like me, patiently biding my time for each Soul series release? [...]
