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Lumines Live - Xbox 360 - Update

On the Xbox 360 marketplace Lumines Live has added some content, 2 add-on packs and a new skin.

New skin called “Heavenly Star” - A pretty cool skin with a crazy video in the background, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the Japanese style techno music, Lumines 2 has better videos. At least its free for now.
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CoD3 Map Pack - DOESN’T WORK!

Kotaku is reporting that the newly released Call of Duty 3 Valor Map Pack for the Xbox 360 just plain doesn’t fucking work. There’s 5 new maps in the pack, costing 800 MS Points and weighing in at approximately 800MB. The problem is, users can’t select the maps in the game. Anywhere. Yeah.
Let’s break this […]

EA Making Xbox Live Arcade Game

So EA today announced (press release here) they’re “making” an XBLA game, called Boom Boom Rocket. The game is actually being created by Bizarre Creations, the people behind the widely successful Geometry Wars and Project Gotham Racing. The basics of the gameplay is that you fire off rockets in time with music as you travel […]

EA Puts Up MORE FREE Content, Hell Freezes Over

In the wake of the free NCAA 07 alternate uniforms earlier today, Major Nelson is now reporting that all Madden 07 alternate uniforms are now available for FREE on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. These are all throwback jerseys, not the standard alternate jerseys that some teams where (like the Giants white jerseys with red lettering, […]

EA Puts Up FREE Content

EA decided to put up some FREE content on the Xbox Live Marketplace today… alternate uniforms for NCAA 07. Granted, these should be free, since they are included in the on the Xbox and PS2 versions of the games. It’s going to be interesting when the games are only on the next-gen consoles, which are […]

Small Arms in a nutshell -or- “Thanks for no more old crap Microsoft”

So, I broke down and did it. I purchased my 2nd live arcade game. Yes, my second, as I’d only paid points for uno before this one, and that was just because it was cheaper than buying a deck of cards locally. I don’t usually buy many microsoft points because I’m not a fan of […]

Lumines Live! Ass Rapes Your Wallet

So yeah, Lumines Live! got released. It’s 1200 points. From reports coming in from multiple users, the game is severely crippled. You have to PAY MORE to advance in the game. Complete bullshit. Here’s a quote to describe what’s going on:
Don’t forget, the other two content packs are required to fully unlock the game.
The Advanced […]

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