The heralded shooter from Sega Europe, The Club, makes its way to XBL tomorrow. This demo will be available only in UK and Australia as will the game as of right now. This only applies to all our friends across the pond, but if the game is as good as Sega is saying it is, you can be sure we will get it in the states sooner that later as opposed to never. Hit the more for the official details of the demo.
Starting now in the United Kingdom, if you convince a friend to buy an Xbox 360 and you both fill out the referral form, you BOTH get 10 free XBLA arcade games. Yeah, no bollocks. Click here for the link for the claim form. This is the official press release we received from London today:
Participants simply fill out the form together, then send off as instructed to both receive an incredible ten Xbox Live Arcade titles, including Every Extend Extra Extreme, Sonic The Hedgehog, Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, Bomberman Live, Marble Blast Ultra, Spyglass Boardgames, 3D Mini Golf Adventures, Small Arms, Assault Heroes and Zuma Deluxe.
That is probably over a $60 equivalent, not sure of the Pound equivalent or where the button for it is, but check it out. Cheers.
It’s being reported that Microsoft is talking with the BBC to bring their entire catalog of content (including HD versions of programs) to the Xbox 360’s Video Marketplace.
The agreement, if reached, would solidify the Video Marketplace for the UK and most of Europe. No word on any other studios or networks being reached for content.
I’d love to see some BBC content make it’s way across the pond to the US. There’s some great stuff there and I’m sure they’d sell enough to make it worth their while.
That rhyme was not intentional by the way. Damn it. Anyway, yahoogames reports that the UK will start a service at the UK based website, tournament.com that allows players to pay a small entrance fee in order to win various amounts of money. The entrance fees range from free for practice and $10 for buy in. The only game that is available now is Counter Strike and Half Life 2. The rationale behind this is simple:
“Gambling rewards a player based purely on luck, while Tournament.com is a service that rewards players based on their skill. They’re two very different models.”
We’re confident that [our anti-cheating software] is some of the best out there and we use a combination of different anti-cheating software developed by third parties in conjunction with our internally developed Tournament Anti-Cheat, also known as TAC.”To supplement our security, we also have admins who continuously monitor in-game play, making sure that everyone is playing fair.”
This seems to be the equivalent to the online poker craze that swept the nation a few years ago, although far more in depth. I see the only flaw being this. Sometimes luck is a good thing. There are no doubt some awesome players who will keep piling up the wins and laughing with your money. I hope the ranking system will take this into account.
Eidos has teamed up with Strawdog Studios to throw their hat into the Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) arena and develop its first title exclusively for XBLA, GEON: emotions which will be available later this Summer.
“High octane visuals, with a fast and slick sound track to match, GEON: emotions is a psychedelic, pick-up-and-play game of rapidly changing tactics. Playing as one of eight emotions – Rage, Passion, Fear, Envy, Rapture, Courage, Bliss or Melancholy – players must race to collect pellets and score goals, using power-ups and their ‘emotional’ strengths and weaknesses.
There are three single player modes: Duel, Time Attack and Mini Games, and three multiplayer modes for up to four players: Duel, Team Geon and Last Man Standing and a huge selection of different arenas to get pulses racing.
Contenders will need passion to overcome their fear in order to rage towards the bliss of victory. Do you have the courage to look melancholy in the eye, give a rapturous performance and become the envy of all as the Master of Geon?”
It sounds like an interesting premise, but I am thoroughly confused by the last statement, WTF are they talking about?? In any event Eidos is looking to mix things up and I am all for it. If you want to see a clip of the game go to their website, looks kind of like a cross between Pac Man and Marble Madness on LSD.
For some screenshots hit the jump.
The UK isn’t getting a price cut on the PS3 like we saw in the US. Instead, Sony is adding some value to the console and now calling it a Starter Pack.
For your £425, you’re now going to get the 60GB PS3, two SIXAXIS controllers, and copies of Resistance: Fall of Man and Motorostorm. Sounds like a pretty good deal, right?
Here’s where I see a problem with this bundle… no one in the UK under age 18 can buy this bundle. You might say people under 18 don’t have that much cash anyway, but that’s not the point. By including Motorstorm, and 18+ game in the UK, Sony is preventing the sale of the Starter Pack to minors. Seems like a poor choice in my eyes. What do you think?
It seems that the bevy of Xbox360 coffins have also been sighted overseas in the UK recently to the tune of 2,500 per day reports 360-gamer.com. Don’t get me wrong, I love the system, but this goes to show that the mysterious failure rates that the consumers are claiming and the company denying are true indeed. The report cites the number of coffins that UPS is shipping, which is an almost exact estimate for obvious reasons. Here is the kicker, when my Xbox360 broke, it was shipped out of state to a repair center in I believe is in McAllen, Texas. If you are unfortunate to be over in the UK with a busted machine, it has to go to Prague due to the backup in a city called Havant, which is inside the country. Yeah, the same Prague that is in Czechoslovakia. There you have it, hockey and Xbox, thats what Prague does!
