117… What else is “-117″?
Wow, 117 games... Don't forget John-117!
I just realized that I’ve fired up 117 games, displayed on the Xbox LIVE portal. Cute, right?
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Steve
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Steve
Action-Packed Weekend?
Wow…
First, the news that Amazon [AMZN] will be preparing to roll out their Android-based 7″ Kindle Tablet… That’s quite a bit o’ buzz. The market cornered by the Barnes & Noble’s [BN] Nook Color anti-neo-hybrid reader/tablet is about to get a shot across its bow, courtesy of Amazon. And this is well in advance of anything that Google [GOOG] itself may have thought to launch. They’ll probably even have a press conference, or at least a press release about it. To make an impact, it’d have in ready inventory supply before the holiday shopping season to pick up the target audience of people looking for an iPad alternative, a more amenable reader, and/or a secondary/tertiary/quarternary tablet device.
Second, in light of the PC and Sony [SNE] PlayStation 3 release of the Rezurrection DLC, Call of Duty Black Ops will have another Double XP + Nuketown 24/7 Weekend on XBox LIVE!
Third, there’s still time to wrap up the Halo Reach Weekly Challenge on XBox LIVE!
Fourth, there’s that new Red Dead Redemption “Myths & Mavericks” DLC, with its hardcore matches now available on XBox LIVE! And to top it off, there’s a Triple XP Weekend for em>Red Dead Redemption until Sunday!
Enjoy!
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Steve
Borderlands: Clap Trap’s New Revolution… Starts Now
As of today, the newest DLC for Borderlands, entitled “Clap Trap’s New Revolution”, is now available for download from Xbox LIVE, for a mere 800 MS Points. It weighs in at about 1.35 GB, so make sure you have plenty of disk space on your hard disk (or USB drive, if that’s the way you play).
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Steve
Halo Reach Beta Begins…
Depending on which part of the world you’re in, Microsoft’s [MSFT] highly-advertised Halo Reach multiplayer beta period will be starting up in your region shortly, or has just started at this point.
For the folks who’ve been eagerly awaiting this, getting ramped up with their Halo: ODST campaign disc is a fairly straightforward process: pop the game into the Xbox 360 console, fire up the game, and navigate to the new menu item announcing accessing the Reach beta. On the first run of the menu item, you have the opportunity to download the actual Reach client software: it may take some time, depending on your network connection. Once it has completed downloading, access the ODST menu again, and for the second time, click the menu item to access the Reach beta. This will toss you into the Reach beta multiplayer menu, where you can begin to hop into the action.
If you have the Halo Waypoint application already loaded onto your Xbox 360, you can log into it to fetch the Reach beta tester avatar T-shirt after you have played in at least one Reach game session.
Enjoy!
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OscarMike
Hey are people really getting into this? I like it but it seems to play different from regular Halo mp.
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Steve
Free Avatar Item for Modern Warfare 2 Fans
For a limited time (until this coming Sunday), you can fetch a free XBox LIVE avatar item, a pair of Nitefinder goggles, as a promotion touting the latest map pack DLC for the wildly popular Modern Warfare 2.
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Steve
Borderlands: A Sucker Born Every… Ahem
This is one of those deceptively simple achievements… but there’s a cost. Literally.
This is the secret achievement introduced in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, where you are, say, going on a day trip through the desolate wastelands. And, let’s just say, you wanted to squeeze in a tour of the World’s Largest/Greatest/Whatever Bullet/Slug/Whatever.
Lo and behold! There ’tis! Such a sightseeing opportunity!
All you have to do is hit the X button to start the tour.
Ka-pow! There’s your sign. And you’ve just snagged yourself the secret achievement: Sucker Born Every Minute.
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Steve
Borderlands: The Eridian Glob Gun
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
Continuing in our new series on Eridian weapons technology in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx… This is the second new Eridian weapon encountered: the Eridian glob gun.
The first thing that came to mind when seeing “glob gun” on the hover description is, “Oh, like the spiderant spittle?”
Nope: something more fun and exciting… corrosion damage! And, not-as-much-fun, like the flaregun, this is an arc trajectory weapon.
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Steve
Borderlands: The Eridian Flaregun
Will the wonders never cease?
This next Borderlands revelation is, of course, a weapon drop. Now, a lot of you Borderlands fans on Xbox LIVE have pooh-poohed building out the Eridian weapon proficiencies because, based upon the comments from your mod-errific PC counterparts, the Eridian weapons have been “dumbed down” for the Xbox 360 version.
Well, while that may (or may not be) true, there’s still some fun to be gotten in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, with the new Eridian flaregun type!
Yep: it’s what it sounds like… an incendiary Eridian weapon, just like the old PC specifications have pointed toward.
Good times, folks, good times.
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Steve
The Secret Armory of General Knoxx… Not So Secret Anymore
The third Borderlands DLC, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, is now available for 800 MS points on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Get ‘er done!
And, oh, yeah: the level cap is raised to 61… Presumably because a measly +10 levels is not enough.
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Steve
From the intro to the new DLC, it looks like Athena is an ex-Lance Siren who has a grudge against the Crimson Lance and is using the Pandora invasion as her way to get revenge.
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Steve
Also, it looks like several of the red-type chests in the main game’s maps, like New Haven, have been converted to the lesser white-type chests. This means that the ammo panels aren’t available anymore.
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Steve
Wow, inadvertently ran into the first (of five, apparently) Red Lance assassin squads… And there’s apparently a new Specter class mod, for Sirens.
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Steve
Almost needless to say, once you arrive at T-Bone Junction, the first of the new locations, scout around for all of the chests and other goodies.
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Steve
Second Borderlands DLC Coming Today…
The second Borderlands expansion, in the form of a Xbox LIVE DLC package, is slated for availability later today. Entitled “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot”, it finally adds the much-requested stash feature, in the form of a “bank”. It also brings onboard a new “riot mode” to entice the mega-combat players…
Since we’re big Borderlands fans here, it may seem like a no-brainer that this would be a definite acquisition…
And we’re still waiting on news about Borderlands II…
OscarMike is discussing. 
Steve 12:32 PM on September 28, 2010 Permalink |
In case you missed the post on Javamancy a few days about this: http://tell.im/3y .