Emo185's Gaming Blog

Bayonetta Demo Now Available on XBL and PSN

2009-12-03T18:32:00.003Z

SEGA's latest (and much talked about) hack and slash, Devil May Cry styled, game - most commonly known as "Bayonetta" may not be released till early next year however fans following the game can now "rejorce" as the demo is now available for download on both UK and US PSN and XBL Accounts.

The Demo, which was previously released several months ago on the Japanese XBL Servers, and most recently been given away as FREE USA XBL CODE Downloads in Competitions finally lands on UK Consoles today, and even though its took all this time to get here its still the demo (with nothing extra added) that i played several months ago and at the recent Eurogamer Expo.

The Demo itself is around 780mb (on the Xbox 360) and 1664mb (on the PS3) and contains 2 Different levels - 1 level mainly fighting and showing the "action" side of Bayonetta, where as the other level shows more of the "adventure" side of Bayonetta, either way - if you enjoyed Devil May Cry you will certainly like Bayonetta.

On another note Eurogamer are currently running a competiton where a few lucky people could win an imported (PS3) copy of the game, which will run on any PS3 Console (since PS3 Games are Region 3) or a limited edition version of the Xbox 360 (PAL) game. For more information on this competition click here.

New "Live" Channels added to Sky Player on Xbox 360

2009-12-02T18:40:00.003Z

If your a Xbox SKY Player Customer and (or) a fan of the Sky service then you may have recently noticed that "several" new "LIVE" Channels have been added to the service.

Most noticeable are "Eden" , "Crime & Investigation" aswell as another childrens live channel "Disney XD"

This news may not "interest" everyone, however it does indicate that Microsoft and Sky will (over time) bring new LIVE Channels to the Xbox Sky Player. Its all just a matter of "when" and "how long". But as usual Sky and Microsoft will just give us the answer of "soon".

However seeing Disney XD live on the Xbox Sky Player sort of makes me happy as they tend to show Pokemon Marathrons (including Pokemon Movies 10 and 11) - which i always forget to record - either way Happy viewing!

Tekken 6 Online Patch To Be Released Thursday

2009-11-24T23:46:00.002Z

NAMCO have recently announced that on Thursday 26th November an Online patch will be released for Tekken 6 on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

This online patch will fix a few problems (mainly the slow response time when pressing buttons during matches) aswell as adding new features such as showing your opponents signal strength.

In case you are wondering this fix that is due out later in the week, is not the same patch that is rumoured to update Scenario mode to online co-op (instead of offline co-op only). The scenario mode update patch is expected to be released later in the year.

Regarding the recent fix that is due to appear in Tekken 6's Online mode later in the week, here is a complete list of "update features" upon what it will change in the game:

• Improved input response: improvement of the game's responsiveness to button / command inputs

• Selectable search priorities for ranked matches: players will be able to set search priorities for opponents in ranked matches based on comparable rank or connection quality as well as location

• Optimized data transmission between fighters and spectators: fight data will be optimized in order to reduce the bandwidth load on the host’s console

• Signal strength bars: the signal strength bar will reflect connection quality more accurately

• Chance to cancel match: players will be able to cancel the match before it begins once the opponent's signal strength has been displayed on ranked matches.

With these "newly" updated feature and fixes the online aspect of Tekken 6 should become more enjoyable and playable then ever before.

Playstation Video Store Goes Live In UK

2009-11-21T21:28:00.002Z

I recently recieved an e-mail from the "Sony Newsletter" saying that there "Playstation Video Store" service is now officially up and running.

Basically the PSN Video Store (for short) is to rival a variety of online "digital" movie purchasing stores such as "Zune Video" on Xbox Live and Itunes Video.

The major difference (so i have read) between the PSN Video Store and XBL Zune Video Store is that all purchases on the PSN Video Store are ONE-OFF-ONLY payments and you get to keep the video. For example "Angels & Demons" on the PSN Video Store costs around £11.99 to buy, with this you can transfer it to your PSP or possibly even your PC and transfer it to other portable video devices - not to mention keep it on the PS3 and watch it like a normal DVD (or HD fBlu-ray film).

This seems like "superb" news espically compared to the XBL Zune Video Store where all videos (mainly movies at the moment) are RENTED out for a week for around 560 MS, which is around £4.50.

To Celebrate the launch of the PSN Video Store, Sony are offering everyone (and anyone) who purchases "Angels & Demons" from 19th November to 30th November a FREE Download of "The Da Vinci Code" (usual price is £6.99) - So thats two great films for one superb price.

For more information regarding the PSN Video Store click on this link here.

Playstation 3 - 3.10 Firmware Update Goes Live

2009-11-19T13:04:00.002Z

The latest Playstation 3 Firmware update, 3.10, officially went live this morning and one of the major features that has been added to the Playstation 3 is facebook.

Xbox Live went live with facebook, twitter and last.fm support earlier in the week, but 2 days later sony have now responded with their version of the facebook application.

At this moment in time the "facebook" on the PS3 only allows users to update their "Trophy status, PSN Store purchase information and recent gaming event information", users will not be able to post messages on the wall or view friends photos - this all has to be done via the main "facebook" website, which now looks more realistic and better than it did on the previous PSN Web browser.

Other small changes that are included in this firmware update is that "thumbnail photos" can be sorted into different layout, such as vertical (like previously) or in rows of 5 - which makes it easier to view alot of photos at once on screen. Also the background colour of your PSN Gamertag can be changed colour, as before it was a dull grey, but now you can customise is so your friends know exactly which person you are on their list. The last update is that "POLISH" is now an officially suported language on the Playstation 3 console.

For more information regarding this 3.10 Firmware update on the Playstation 3 check out a preview of it on the playstation blog here.

Band Hero - The Complete Export Track List

2009-11-18T21:04:00.002Z

Most of you will probably find this rather old news, but id like to mention it anyway seeing as Band Hero isnt one of the "popular" Xbox 360 (and PS3) titles this holiday season.

As most of you are aware you can import previous Guitar Hero games into Band Hero, well you can also export Band Hero to be used in Guitar Hero 5 (and possibly future Guitar Hero games). Now the process is exactly the same as importing/exporting music into Guitar Hero 5.

The only difference is that around 62 tracks (out of 65) from Band Hero can be exported into Guitar Hero 5 and it only costs 400 MS, which is slightly different to the 480 MS points that i previously read about.

Either way since i had recently completed the main "story smode" of Band Hero i decided to import the songs into Guitar Hero 5 and i was welcomed with a nice 2.2GB Download, so while waiting i found the "track list" of songs that are imported into Guitar Hero 5, which are:

• "ABC" - Jackson 5
• "American Pie" - Don Mclean
• "A Million Ways" - OK Go
• "Angels of the Silences" - Counting Crows
• "Back Again" - Parachute
• "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett
• "Believe" - The Bravery
• "Black Cat" - Janet Jackson
• "Black Horse And Cherry Tree" - KT Tunstall
• "Bring Me To Life" - Evanescence
• "Dirty Little Secret" - All American Rejects
• "Don't Speak" - No Doubt
• "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" - Culture Club
• "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
• "Fascination" - Alphabeat
• "Gasoline" - Airborne Toxic Event
• "Hands Down" - The Dashboard Confessional
• "Hang Me Up to Dry" - Cold War Kids
• "Happy Together" - Turtles
• "Honky Tonk Women" - Rolling Stones
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
• "If You Could Only See" - Tonic
• "In a Big Country" - Big Country
• "I Want You to Want Me" - Cheap Trick
• "Just A Girl" - No Doubt
• "Kids" - Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue
• "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas
• "LES Aristes" - Santigold
• "Let's Dance" - David Bowie
• "Lifeline" - Papa Roach
• "Lips Of An Angel" - Hinder
• "Love is A Battlefield" - Pat Benetar
• "Love Story" - Taylor Swift
• "Naïve" - Kooks
• "Ocean Avenue" - Yellowcard
• "Our Lips Our Sealed" - The Go-Go's
• "Paralyzer" - Finger Eleven
• "Pictures of You" - The Last Goodnight
• "Picture to Burn" - Taylor Swift
• "Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
• "Put Your Records On" - Corinne Bailey Rae
• "Rio" - Duran Duran
• "Rockstar" - N.E.R.D.
• "Santa Monica" - Everclear
• "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5
• "Steal My Kisses" - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
• "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" - Fallout Boy
• "Take a Picture" - Filter
• "Take Back the City" - Snow Patrol
• "Take What You Take" - Lilly Allen
• "The Adventure" - Angels & Airwaves
• "The Impression That I Get" - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• "Turn Off The Lights" - Nelly Furtado
• "Walking On Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves
• "Wannabe" - Spice Girls
• "Warwick Avenue" - Duffy
• "When I'm Gone" - 3 Doors Down
• "Whip It" - Devo
• "You Belong With Me" - Taylor Swift
• "YMCA" - Village People
• "You Had Me" - Joss Stone

These songs, with the 85 songs that are already on the Guitar Hero 5 Disc, allow me to choose from over 140 different songs, and since i have previously imported Guitar Hero Smash hits and downloaded Guitar Hero DLC - i now have over 220 songs to play from - which is alot of music.

Xtival Weekend Returns!

2009-11-14T20:31:00.003Z

Xtival Returns with "Xtival '09 Winter" and is expected to commence on 27th November 2009.

"What Does this mean?" you ask, well the main "popular" reason is that EVERYONE gets Xbox Live for FREE for the whole weekend, so all your friends that have XBL Silver Accounts can now play online and see what its like to play with us "Gold Members" of the Xbox Live Community.

Not only that other special events (which will be announced closer to the date) will take place. Special Events include random prize giveaways and online tournaments for popular games such as Halo 3 (ODST), Gears Of War 2, Modern Warfare (1 & 2) and Fifa 10.

Obviously the only way to "win it" is to be "in it", so check the official Xtival Website here every so often for the latest and up-to-date news regarding the Xtival '09 Winter Event.

Previous "Guitar Hero" Exports do work in Band Hero

2009-11-12T18:18:00.002Z

Band Hero was released onto various consoles nearly a week ago and while most are currently enjoying the game (or maybe switched over onto Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the process) the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions of the game do allow previous downloaded songs from Guitar Hero World Tour , not to mention having the option of importing (yet again) the songs from previous guitar hero games, including the recent Guitar Hero 5.

Just like last time there is a charge for importing Guitar Hero 5 songs into Band Hero (and have mentioned this in a previous blog post a few weeks back), the reason for this post is that previous "imported" content such as Guitar Hero Smash Hits & Guitar Hero World Tour can be "re-imported" into Band Hero for FREE!

Basically if you have already imported the Guitar Hero World Tour & Smash Hits setlists into Guitar Hero 5 you can "re-download the activation key" (so to speak) inside Band Hero to activate the songs for play in Band Hero - at least this way it makes the game more "rock-ish" - and playing more (aswell as favourite) songs is always a good thing.

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Now Available On Xbox Live Marketplace

2009-11-03T20:46:00.002Z

Valves latest "Zombie-Survival-Coop-game" is due to be released within the coming months and to celebrate the Left 4 Dead 2 Demo (which was previously only available to people who pre-ordered the game) has now gone live on Xbox Live Marketplace.

The Demo weighs in at a "huge" 1.69GB, which according to some, is abit more than the pre-order demo which weighed in at 1.67GB.

The Demo (at the moment) is only available to GOLD Subscribers, so for silver members you will have to wait a few weeks before you can download it.

According to xbox360achievements.org the demo will feature gameplay from the "parish Campaign" not to mention new zombies, special infected bosses and some cool new melee weapons - however the only way to find out, for sure, is to download the demo today!

Xbox 360 Sky Player Goes Live

2009-10-27T11:36:00.002Z

The Xbox 360 Sky Player has finally gone live today on the UK Xbox Live Servers and unlike "original" thoughts where the consoles firmware would have to be updated - all the you have to do is download the Sky player from the video marketplace for free.

The Sky player is a FREE Download, but there is a charge for using the service, which varies depending if you an existing sky customer or a new customer.

If you are a completely new Sky Customer you can pay £15 a month for a basic package, which will give you a selection of "live channels" (such as G.O.L.D, Sky News, Cartoon Network) and a variety of "on demand channels" (such as Sky ONE) - for premium channels like Sky Movies and Sky Sports, a higher fee will be charged, however the monthly price is not a strict contract, so you can "opt-out" at any time and rejoin at any time.

For Existing sky customers, it gets a little bit more complicated because if you are a Sky Multiroom (or a Sky Broadband Customer) you get the live channels and on demand services for FREE (depending on your current sky package, for example if you have everything on your sky package you can watch everything on the xbox sky player - if you pay for movies but not sports, you can only watch the movie channels).

However if you are an existing sky customer that does NOT have multiroom you are required to pay £9.75 a month (which is exactly the same price as having a proper multi-room subscription). But yet again if you paid this £9.75 on your xbox Sky Player you can only watch channels / programmes that mimic your current sky package.

An Online SKY ID Account is also required to login onto the Sky Player, this way it can make sure you watching the right channels and paying the right subscription amounts. If you have already been using Sky Player on a PC or setup a Sky Account online then it will be the same username and password.

So Depending on what sort of package you have depends if it benefits you, for me i will benefit from it as i do not have a sky box in this room and i like to watch movie channels - all i need to do now is wait for the service to actually work (as the Sky Player servers are currently down).

Dragonball Raging Blast Demo Now Available on Xbox Live Marketplace

2009-10-23T11:25:00.002Z

NAMCO Bandai's latest fighting game adaptation of Dragonball Z (or the Dragonball Universe) gets released next month.

However people eager to play the game (as this time its Spike's turn to develop the game, instead of last years attempt by DIMPS - Spike are the guys that made the "Budokai Tenkachi Series on PS2 and Wii) will be glad to know that a playable demo of Dragonball Raging Blast is now available to download on Xbox Live Marketplace.

The Demo is 262mb in size and contains three playable characters which are Goku, Piccolo and Raditz which can battle it out in VS Mode, against a CPU or against another player.

Dragonball Raging Blast is expected to be released in the UK on 13th November 2009 and will retail for around £39.99

Limited Edition Nintendo Wii Now Available For Pre-Order In The UK

2009-10-22T10:23:00.002Z

Yet again Nintendo are jumping onto the "Limited Edition" bundles as Nintendo have recently announced that pre-orders are now open for a "limited"black Nintendo Wii.

As you can see from the picture the Wii-mote, Wii-Console and Kunchuck are all going to be black, but the Wii base will become a darker shade of grey, and i do have to say it looks pritty slick.

This Limited Edition Wii will come with the standard "Wii Sports" aswell as the ever popular "Wii Sport Resort" and "Motion Plus". So its the exact same package that was recently earlier in the month, but now its black ad in limited amounts.

All major games outlets such as Gamestation, Game and Gameplay and other online retailers such as Play.com are all currently accepting pre-orders for this item. As you can see from the websites this edition of the Nintendo Wii will cost £179.99 (SRP) with is exactly the same price as the previous Nintendo Wii consoles and it is released on the 6th November.

Black Nintendo Accessories are also expected to be released for a limited time period (obviously you do not want a white controller with a black machine) and will cost exactly the same as the original White versions.

Three Xbox 360 Games Released onto "Games On Demand" Service

2009-10-21T10:53:00.004Z

Its Wednesday and that can only mean one thing for Xbox gamers like me and that is that Xbox Live Marketplace gets updated with numerous amount of content such as Videos, Games, Demos Game-Add-ons and Xbox Live Arcade Games.

Even though the popular additions to this weeks marketplace are the "Rock Band Queen Track Pack" or the extra album for The Beatles: Rock Band, i also noticed that three, Xbox 360 games have been released onto the "Games On Demand" (Download to Own) service.

Though this service, in theory, is a good idea, its the prices at the minute that are keeping it from being more popular, last week saw the release of Rockstars GTAIV and being sold at £19.99, which is exactly the same price as it is in stores now since the game has now gone into the £19.99 Classic selection.

Well this week see's the release of Army Of Two, Sonic Unleashed and Midnight Club: Los Angeles and its the first time (i think) that more than 1 or 2 full xbox 360 games have been released onto the service.

The only downfall is that each game costs £19.99 and because the games are well over a year old (from original street date) you could easily pick these games up (even brand new) for less than that, i know for a fact Sonic Unleashed was getting sold at around £17.99 last christmas / january in Game, Gamestation and Gameplay.

Either way its still nice for some new titles to be released onto the service, but it would work ALOT better if brand new releases (or games not from this region) are thrown onto the service.

Band Hero Setlist Announced

2009-10-20T15:55:00.002Z

Band Hero, the pop-band-styled spin-off of Guitar Hero is due for release soon (November), so its only fitting that Activision should announce the track listing for this game.

The Band Hero Demo previously went live on Xbox Live Marketplace Last Thursday which contained 3 songs, well today Activision announced the other 67 songs aswell as some other interesting pieces of information.

The Full setlist for Band Hero is as follows:

* 3 Doors Down - “When I'm Gone”
* The Airborne Toxic Event - “Gasoline”
* The All American Rejects - “Dirty Little Secret”
* Alphabeat - “Fascination”
* Aly and AJ - “Like Whoa”
* Angels & Airwaves - “The Adventure”
* Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - “Steal My Kisses “
* Big Country - “In a Big Country”
* The Bravery - “Believe”
* Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
* Cheap Trick - “I Want You To Want Me (live)”
* Cold War Kids - “Hang Me Up To Dry”
* Corinne Bailey Rae - “Put Your Records On”
* Counting Crows - “Angels of the Silences”
* Culture Club - “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”
* Dashboard Confessional - “Hands Down”
* David Bowie - “Let's Dance”
* Devo - “Whip It”
* Don McLean - “American Pie”
* Duffy - “Warwick Avenue”
* Duran Duran - “Rio”
* Evanescence - “Bring Me To Life”
* Everclear - “Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)”
* Fall Out Boy - “Sugar, We're Goin' Down”
* Filter - “Take A Picture”
* Finger Eleven - “Paralyzer”
* The Go-Go's - “Our Lips Are Sealed”
* Hilary Duff - “So Yesterday”
* Hinder - “Lips Of An Angel”
* Jackson 5 - “ABC”
* Janet Jackson - “Black Cat”
* Jesse McCartney - “Beautiful Soul”
* Joan Jett - “Bad Reputation”
* Joss Stone - “You Had Me”
* Katrina and The Waves - “Walking On Sunshine”
* The Kooks - “Naïve”
* KT Tunstall - “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”
* The Last Goodnight - “Pictures Of You”
* Lily Allen - “Take What You Take”
* Maroon 5 - “She Will Be Loved”
* Marvin Gaye - “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
* Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “The Impression That I Get”
* Nelly Furtado - “Turn Off The Light”
* N.E.R.D. - “Rockstar”
* No Doubt - “Just A Girl”
* No Doubt - “Don't Speak”
* OK Go - “A Million Ways”
* Papa Roach - “Lifeline”
* Parachute - “Back Again”
* Pat Benatar - “Love Is A Battlefield”
* Poison - “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
* Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - “Kids”
* The Rolling Stones - “Honky Tonk Women”
* Roy Orbison - “Oh Pretty Woman”
* Santigold - “L.E.S. Artistes”
* Snow Patrol - “Take Back the City”
* Spice Girls - “Wannabe”
* Styx - “Mr. Roboto”
* Taylor Swift - “Love Story”
* Taylor Swift - “Picture To Burn”
* Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”
* Tonic - “If You Could Only See”
* The Turtles - “Happy Together”
* Village People - “YMCA”
* Yellowcard - “Ocean Avenue”

Band Hero contains 24 more additional songs on disc, espically compared to LEGO Rock Band, and Activision have "definately" improved on there "exporting catalogue" As all previous Guitar Hero World Tour & Guitar Hero 5 Downloadable Content will work on Band Hero, so thats over 150 DLC Tracks that can be used in the game.

Not only that some of Guitar Hero Smash Hits (Greatest Hits for EU) and Guitar Hero World Tour tracks can be exported to be played on Band Hero, just like you did with Guitar Hero 5, whether or not another charge (to export into band hero) occurs has not been announced. But the cost is exactly the same as it was previously.

One last thing is that over 60 tracks on Guitar Hero 5 can be exported to be played on Band hero (costs around 480 MS Points / 500 Wii Points / $5 on PSN) and Band Hero songs can be exported to Guitar Hero 5 (costs around 420 MS Points / 500 Wii Points / $5 on PSN).

Whether or not "exporting" is a good thing, but at least youll get to save a portion of songs before you pass the game on, however at the moment the songs "eligible" for exporting havent been announced. Fore more information head over to the official Guitar Hero FAQ Page.

Xbox Sky Player - Possible Channel Listings & Prices Revealed

2009-10-17T20:31:00.002Z

As most of you will know the Xbox Sky player will be available in the UK from Tuesday 27th October, however what we do not know is what channels and on-demand services will be available, let alone how much the service will cost.

Well the guys over at "Xbox360Achievements.org" have come across XML data that feeds directly to the Xbox / Sky Player itself and inside this bit of data contains information about the sky players chanel listings aswell as other things.

According to this data there will be 20 Live streaming channels available from launch, which are:

* G.O.L.D
* Sky Real Lives
* Sky Arts 1
* Sky Movies 1 & 2
* Sky Movies 1, 2, 3 and Xtra
* Sky Sports News
* British Eurospot
* ESPN
* ESPN Classic
* Sky News
* National Geographic
* National Geographic Wild
* History
* Eden
* Cartoon Network
* Boomerang
* Discovery Channel

More channels could be added after launch, however these are the only channels that will be available at launch, Sky1 is missing from the list however Sky1 programs (channel) will be availe to download using the Sky players "on demand" service.

All this sounds rather interesting, however its the price thats the problem, non-sky subscribers can pay £15 a month (and not be tied to any contract) for these "entertainment" live channels aswell as a selection of "on-demand" channels, however the Sky Sports & Movie channels will cost extra.

Another "possible" downfall is that the Sky Player may "not" be free to all current Sky Subscribers, as apparently the service will only be available to Multi-room and/or broadband subscribers - if this is true, then current sky subscribers would have to pay an additional £9.75 a month to use the sky player on the Xbox 360.

At the moment this is mostly "speculation" as me (and the website that found the info) are assuming that this info is correct, if the info is correct i should be able to use the Xbox Sky player for free without any problems - however for the others, id rather just get another Sky Box (for multiroom) or stick with standard freeview.

Band Hero Demo Now Available On Xbox Live Marketplace

2009-10-15T19:31:00.002Z

Activisions "Pop" spin-off of Guitar Hero, mostly knownly as Band Hero, has recieved a 3-song demo on Xbox live this afternoon.

The gameplay and graphics are exactly the same as Guitar Hero 5, except a few tweaks, a new game mode and a different selection of music.

The Demo at the moment (since its new) is only available to Xbox Live "GOLD" Members, however silver members should be able to download it within the next few weeks.

The Band Hero demo is 533mb in size and consists of 3 tracks, which is similar to the Guitar Hero 5 demo that was recently a few weeks back. The 3 tracks that are available to play on the Band Hero Demo are:

* Finger Eleven "Paralyzer"
* Katrina & The Waves "Walking On Sunshine"
* Taylor Swift "Picture To Burn"

As mentioned previously the demo is available only to GOLD Xbox live subscribers and the demo is available on USA and UK /EU Xbox Live Accounts.

Mega Monsters Now Available On N-Gage

2009-10-14T21:11:00.002Z

The N-Gage Application showroom has recently been updated today with Firemints N-Gage Debut of Mega Monsters.

Mega Monsters is an arcade style game, in tribute to the arcade classic "RAMPAGE!" where the player takes control of giants monsters and wreak havoc across fully destructible enviroments.

This N-Gage game also features online (N-Gage Arena) Multiplayer for up to 2 players, who will battle it out against each other to cause the most damage.

Not only has the game been released onto standard N-Gage Compatible devices but Mega Monsters is also available to download on the N97, which seems at the minute, to be not getting much attention with new releases until now.

The game itself has a download size of 20mb, and an installed size of 23mb - so yet again its one of the "bigger installed" N-Gage games - espically compared to a few of the older titles. The Game costs £8 for the full version, so its one of the most expensive titles that has recently been released or a 1 day trial is available at £1.50.

At the moment the game is only available on the N-Gage Application (via your phone), however the Game-page on the N-Gage Website (which can be seen here) is up and it should have the download available in the next few days.

Lego Rock Band Full Setlist Announced

2009-10-13T10:53:00.004Z

The full setlist for Lego Rock Band has recently been revealed and it seems to be that 45 is the magic number.

Just like The Beatles: Rock Band, Lego Rock Band also consits of 45 different tracks spanning different genres and era's of music such as "Jackson 5, Blink 182, Ray Parker and Kaiser Chiefs".

Seems to me like this Rock band title is aimed at the whole family as there is a song that everyone can enjoy, not to much all the tracks can be exported to be played on other / future rock band titles.

The full setlist / track list can be seen below:

All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing”
The Automatic, “Monster”
Blink-182, “Aliens Exist”
Blur, “Song 2”
Bon Jovi, “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Boys like Girls, “Thunder”
Bryan Adams, “Summer of 69”
Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”
The Coral, “Dreaming of You”
Counting Crows, “Accidentally in Love”
David Bowie, “Let’s Dance”
Elton John, “Crocodile Rock”
Europe, “The Final Countdown”
Everlife, “Real Wild Child”
Foo Fighters, “Breakout”
Good Charlotte, “Girls & Boys”
The Hives, “Tick Tick Boom!”
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
Incubus, “Dig”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
Katrina & The Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”
The Kooks, “Naïve”
KoRn, “Word Up!”
KT Tunstall, “Suddenly I See”
Lostprophets, “Rooftops”
P!NK, “So What”
The Police, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
The Primitives, “Crash”
Queen, “We Are The Champions”
Queen, “We Will Rock You”
Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway”
Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters”
Razorlight, “Stumble and Fall”
Spin Doctors, “Two Princes”
Spinal Tap, “Short & Sweet”
Steve Harly, “Make Me Smile”
Sum 41, “In Too Deep”
Supergrass, “Grace”
Tom Petty, “Free Fallin”
T-Rex, “Ride a White Swan”
Vampire Weekend, “A-Punk”
We the Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”
The Zutons, “Valerie”

Lego Rock Band is expected to be released "mid-november" in the US and UK, and it is coming out on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Just in time for the Christmas peroid of rocking around the tree.

Achievement Unlocked: Halo 2 & The Scarab Gun

2009-10-11T19:44:00.003Z

The Scarab gun is one of the most powerful weapons in the whole Halo universe (at the moment) and was made available in the Metropolis level of Halo 2 (on PC and Xbox).

The only problem was that you had to get to it, as its on one of the highest buildings in that area, and the only way to get to it is with a banshee.

To get to the scarab gun itself you have to lure a banshee into the tunnel and then hijack it as soon as the "loading....done" message appears on screen, if you dont get into the banshee quick enough, it disappears - if you get in it too soon it blows up - its a painful and time consuming experience, however its rather easy to pull off. There are other ways such as Activating skulls, however the banshee is the most "effective" and easiest way of getting to the weapon.

There are countless guides (and video guides) showing you what to do and doing exactly what is shown in the videos really does work- as i managed to get the achievement today and even on my first attempt.

So what exactly is the "Scarab Gun" - well its exactly the same as a plasma rifle except its extremely powerful (1 hit kill on everything except items that cannot be destroyed in the game) and has unlimited ammo. The Scarab gun does come in handy espically up against the Wraiths (Tanks) and the Scarab later on in the level.

However the downside to the "Scarab Gun" is that it can only be used on the "Metropolis" level, as soon as the level ends (or if you exit the level) then the gun disappears and you would have to find it again.

Another thing that makes getting the Scarab gun hard (aswell as unlocking the Achievement "King Of The Scarab" on the PC Version of Halo 2) is that you cannot simply hijack a banshee and fly to the destination, as doing so will result in the banshee blowing up and you being killed.

So finally i have joined the "king of scarab" achievement club on the PC Version of Halo 2 and now you can too with a little help from this video guide (enjoy!):

Sonic & Knuckles XBLA Bonus Content

2009-10-05T16:41:00.003Z

Sonic & Knuckles has been on Xbox Live Marketplace for sometime and has proven to be one of the "quiet" but "popular" Megadrive Vintage Collection games but what alot of people (including people at GamesTM magazine) dont know is that Sonic & Knuckles on XBLA still features the "link up" feature that it had on the original megadrive cartridge.

On the "Sonic & Knuckles" main menu screen there is a "bonus content" menu, on this menu you can choose to link Sonic & Knuckles up to any-one of the previously released sonic games, including Sonic 1, 2 and 3.

However you must have the games downloaded and installed on your Xbox 360 hard drive or else it will not do anything other than say "please download this game from the Xbox Live marketplace". What is also rather cool is that you can access this menu even when playing the "trial" version of the game.

So it seems to me that SEGA are still listening to some of its fans as the Sonic & Knuckles link up feature was very popular on the original megadrive, and now even in the digital age we can still do it.

Nintendo Wii Sports Resort Console Bundle Now Available

2009-10-05T16:25:00.002Z

It seems that Microsoft has started a trend with "Console Bundles" as Nintendo are now offering the Ninendo Wii Sports Resort Console Bundle.

This bundle is (at the moment) retailed at £179.99 (currys) and is not a "special store promotion" its a band new package bundle released by Nintendo.

Inside this new "Nintendo Bundle" you will recieve the following items:

* 1x Nintendo Wii Console
* 1x Nintendo Wii-mote
* 1x Nintendo Wii Knunchuck
* 1x Wii Motion Plus
* 1x Wii Sports
* 1x Wii Sports Resort
* 1x Silicone Wii-mote clover
* Power Adaptor
* Manuals

So there is a saving of £40 involved as Wii-Sports Resort game (with the motion plus add-on) retails for around £40. Seems to me like the great "christmas" starter bundles are starting to roll out and not too soon either.

If your plannin on getting a Nintendo Wii then i would suggest getting this bundle as it will provide hours of entertainment for the whole family.

Dirk Dagger And The Nuclear Zeppelin Now Available On N-Gage!

2009-10-02T16:06:00.003Z

Last week Dirk Dagger And The Nuclear Zeppelin was added to the "Coming Soon" section of the N-Gage Showroom, now today (or late last night) the game has been uploaded onto the N-Gage Servers for us to download. Thats right Dirk Dagger 2 has finally landed and is available for purchase via the N-Gage Application on your phone.

Developed by Jadestone and published by Nokia, Dirk Dagger is a detective, and this time he is on the run - The murder of New Heaven’s favorite Mayoral candidate sees Dirk Dagger framed and on the run, so its now up to you (and maybe some help from your old dead fly-buddy) to solve the case - because Dirk will need all the help he can get.

The Game features your standard "high-score leaderboards" aswell as a welcome return of the "Camera Control system" where instead of pressing the d-pad to move around the room, you use the camera on the phone so it feels like your actually inside the game.

The game costs £6, which seems to be the new "standard" for N-Gage games nowadays and you can download the trial version of the game here, or you can visit the official game page here.

PSP Go! and PS3 Slim 250GB Model Now Available Today!

2009-10-02T10:14:00.002Z

Sony's latest handheld "PSP Go!" finally gets released in Europe today - 1 day later then when it was released in USA and ASIA Areas.

Not only that Sony have also released the "250GB" model of the "PS3 Slim" today.

So the question is "which will you buy today?". The newly updated PSP Go, which features 16GB Built in Hard drive, a few inches small than the original PSP and no UMD Drive (all games have to be downloaded from the PSN Store via PC / PS3) will cost your £225, which is around £80 more than a standard PSP, However it does look nice (from the pictures ive seen).

However if you want a "TRUE" High Definition Entertainment experience the 250GB PS3 Slim, which is exactly same as the 120GB PS3 Slim released a month ago will cost your £249.99, thats £20 more than the 120GB Model for double the storage capicity.

If your wondering why you would want 250GB Worth of storage space on a console, then here is the answer. All PS3 Games can be installed onto the console itself (this takes around 4 - 6GB at a time), this will improve loading times and make the game run alot smoother. not to mention PS1, PSP and PS3 Games - aswell as demos and HD Videos can also be downloaded from the PSN Store. So if you have a big collection of games, your hard drive (espically on a 60GB Console like mine) will fill up relatively quick.

This is also exlucding the HD Movie Renting & Purchasing service that SONY is releasing on the PSN in the next few months - this is where you can rent movies (just like on XBL Video Marketplace) in full HD or SD, but the PS3 Service offers the user to purchase and own (for a higher price) instead of just renting it - im assuming these films can be transferred to the PSP Go and watched on there, as it should be the same format.

So to sum up Sony has released two "newer" versions of its previously released consoles a 16GB PSP Go at £225 and a 250GB PS3 Slim at £250. All i can say now is that its going to be an interesting christmas period.

Super Sayian 3 Broly Confirmed As Playable Character In Dragonball Raging Blast

2009-09-30T10:50:00.003Z

The news that "Super Sayian 3 Broly" will "officially" appear as a playable character in Bandai's latest Dragonball Game for the PS3 and Xbox 360 is not new, however up until recently the news was only shown as a promo shot in last months "Jump!" magazine in Japan.

Recently on Xbox live Marketplace, and on various gaming websites, a trailer for "Dragonball Raging Blast" has appeared and towards the end you get a few seconds glimpse of Super Sayian 3 Goku Fighting Super Sayian 3 Broly.

Not only that since TGS has just gone by a variety of new "in-game pictures" have been appearing on the internet with SSJ3 Broly in full view.

So far the reaction to SSJ3 Broly is getting mixed attention, and for me im "against it" as Broly never went SSJ3 in the Movies (broly never appeared in the TV Series, except maybe GT as a background character). So its like adding a completely new character just because they have "milked" everyone else, either way you can enjoy the "english text" trailer for Dragonball Raging Blast Below:

N-Gage Wizard Goes Live - Get A Free Game Code

2009-09-29T16:58:00.003Z

The N-Gage Wizard has recently gone live. This wizard guides new (and current) N-Gage users on how to download and install the N-Gage application aswell as games onto their N-Gage Compatible device

Not only that if you registered your username and email address with the N-Gage Wizard you will recieve a "FREE Activation Code" which can be used to get a game of your choice.

According to the Wizard the Activation Code will work on "All" N-Gage Games that are currently available in the showroom, but im expecting a few of the recent games, such as Ducati Moto are not included in this offer.

You Can visit the N-Gage Wizard Website here.

At this point in time the offer is only available to people from the United Kingdom.