Best Buy Christmas Promotion: Buy 2, Get 1 Free

In case you didn't get enough deals on Black Friday, Best Buy is running a buy 2 games, get one free promotion until Saturday, December 14th. The promotion is quantifiable with PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC games. You can visit their website here.

New Sleeping Dogs DLC Released, 'Year of the Snake'

Square-Enix's latest sandbox game, Sleeping Dogs, has received it's second DLC installment which is titled "Year of the Snake."  The new add-on content brings a whole new "short story" to extend the game.

Wei Shen's story continues in Year of the Snake as he rejoins the ranks of the Hong Kong Police Department in a series of new missions set immediately after the main game. A vicious end-of-the-world cult is taking root in the back streets of Hong Kong... the Cult of the Snake. Hell-bent on cleansing the city of its evils, they cannot be negotiated with as they pursue a path to their righteous salvation. With an arsenal of weapons, including teargas guns and electroshock pistols, new outfits and abilities, Wei must enter a race against the clock to bring the cultists to justice before Judgment Day.

I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs tremendously, and completed the game in just a handful of days. The previous DLC, Nightmare in North Point, was short, but a very enjoyable extra side story. You can pick up on Year of the Snake for 560 MSPs in the Xbox Live Marketplace, or $7.00 on the Playstation Network. Also, for all you achievement hunters out there, the content add four achievements for 100 gamerscore.

Hitman HD Trilogy Details

The Hitman series has been going on on for more than a decade now, and in my opinion, the best one yet, Hitman: Absolution, was released just a couple months ago. Now all you Hitman fans can rejoice, Square-Enix has announced they are releasing a Hitman HD Trilogy containing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money.

Today, Squre-Enix released three new screenshots of the upcoming title.

You can expect to find Hitman HD Trilogy in stores on January 29th in the US, and February 1st in Europe.

Gears of War: Judgement Giveaway

It's that time again! After a very successful November contest, we decided we'd get everyone pumped about for my personal favorite series, Gears of War: Judgement. One lucky contestant is going to be able to play this game when it's released, for free.

The rules are very simple. We award our readers by helping us build our fan base.


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Good luck to everyone out there. Tell your friends about this contest, or share it on facebook or twitter with the bar on the left. The contest will end on Gears of War Judgement's release date, which is currently scheduled for 03/19/2013.

Next LEGO Title: Marvel Super Heroes

Traveller's Tales has been putting LEGO in every movie franchise that's gotten big so far, and people have been begging for a Marvel adaptation of the LEGO games. It has happened! Today Traveller's Tales announced their next upcoming title, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.

Tom Stone, the Mananging Direct at Traveller's Tales, seemed very excited to re-create the Marvel universe:

"We’re very excited to bring a myriad of classic Marvel characters to life in LEGO form for some fun, family-friendly gameplay in 'LEGO Marvel Super Heroes'. Players will brave the ultimate mission to save the world as they explore famous landmarks in LEGO New York and take the adventure beyond Earth to iconic locations in the Marvel Universe."


It's also mentioned that there will be over 100 playable characters in the game, so you will be able to play as your favorite Marvel hero. The game is set to release sometime this fall. We will keep you updated with further news, and the release date of LEGO Twilight.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 Teaser

Every year, EA Sports bring us a new Tiger Woods PGA Tour title, and each year they've tried to include more and more of  some type of "story mode" which most of it has been a look into Tiger's life, and has even gave us the chance to place as young Tiger when he was just learning his incredible golf skills. This year it seems Tiger Woods PGA Tour will be focusing on Legends, in the upcoming title, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, and will introduce Arnold Palmer and several other golf legends as available characters.

EA released this teaser trailer today:

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 is set to release on March 26th, 2013.

Far Cry 3 Achievement Videos

I've recently completed all the achievements for the amazing Ubisoft title, Far Cry 3, and it is no doubt one of the top 5 games of the year. There are a couple achievements that can make for quite a struggle, and I made a couple videos to help you obtain that 1000 gamerscore (or platinum trophy for you PS3 players).


Never Saw It Coming (on hang glider):
This achievement requires you to perform a death from above from a parachute, hang glider, or a zipline. If you have already cleared the game, then the zipline is out of the question. Here is my take on getting that Death From Above from a hang glider.

Poacher Achievement:

The poacher achievement requires you to kill and skin a rare animal. There are only a few of these special creatures in the world of Far Cry 3, and with our video, you'll be able to snag this achievement for yourself.

A New Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

Rockstar released the second trailer to the game almost everyone's waiting for, Grand Theft Auto V, this morning, and it's already caused quite the hype. The trailer gives glimpses of several missions and other dialogue from the game. Grand Theft Auto V is set to release in the Spring of 2013, but if you need your GTA fix sooner than that, don't forget that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is coming to iOS and Androids real soon.

And if you need more time out of your current Grand Theft Auto games, be sure to check into modding Grand Theft Auto 3 on your iPhone or Android.

Disney's Epic Mickey 2 Collector's Edition Revealed

Disney has released details on their upcoming title, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, and it's collector's edition. At the moment, this edition is only confirmed for Europe. The Epic Mickey 2: Collectors Edition will include:

• Exclusive Mickey or Oswald figurine
• Exclusive film cell from 1928 short "The Fox Chase"
• Exclusive retro TV packaging
• An 8GB Oswald USB drive w/ Disney content

Epic Micky 2: The Power of Two is set to release for the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony Playstation 3 on November 18th, 2012.

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Minecraft on the Xbox 360 to receive another patch

The top selling Xbox Live arcade game of all-time, Minecraft, will be receiving another new patch fairly soon. Last month, Minecraft players received a huge patch adding new modes to the game and fixing various issues, and now we can rejoice once again as another game changing patch is about to drop. A list of all the current fixes has been published:


Changes and Additions:
- Added an option to clear the quick select bar in the creative interface
- Added an option to enable or disable bedrock fog, and set to off by default
- Added an option to toggle the HUD off/on
- Added an option to turn the player hand off/on
- Added a crafting recipe for Golden Apples
- Added a crafting recipe for Pumpkin Seeds
- Made cakes stackable
- Added a How To Play page for Host and Player options

Fixes:
- Fix for a problem with signs in online games causing crashes
- Fix for save renaming deleting the wrong save due to input received during the confirmation flow
- Fix to the mob generation code to increase the number of animals in the world
- Fix for chests being incorrectly lit, and rotated for maps from previous versions
- Fix for problem with the eating animation being shown for players who weren’t eating
- Fix for problem with chest lids not behaving properly
- Fix for animals looking like they were taking damage when they shouldn’t
- Fix for some sounds not playing when the player has an empty hand
- Fix for lever sounds
- Fix for fence gate sounds
- Fix for splitscreen players sometimes having their settings zeroed
- Fix for being damaged while flying over lava
- Fix to stop lava, milk and water buckets being empty after use in creative mode
- Fix for Leader of the Pack achievement being awarded incorrectly
- Fix for leaderboard stats issue where value stored was incorrect
- Fix for hitbox problems with glass panes and iron fence
- Fix for small character display changing color to green
- Fix for map rendering incorrectly in some situations with clouds disabled
- Fix for block rendering problem at the edge of the map
- Fix for splitscreen players not being able to mine in the tutorial
- Fix for players not being able to sprint/sprint-fly in creative mode if the player was previously in survival mode with a low food bar
- Fix for arrow damage not being ignored when PvP is turned off
- Fix for activated pressure plates not working correctly
- Fix for the low food bar hint appearing when loading a game in creative mode (usually the tutorial world saves)
- Fix to remove the player shadow when the Invisible option in the Host Privileges is used
- Fix for Red Roses not being generated on the terrain
- Fix for paintings being pushed by pistons
- Fix so that players who can’t eat, due to the Trust Players option being off, do not get exhausted
- Fix for the interface disappearing after a Share to Facebook action
- Fix to limit the number of Slimes, Ghasts and Silverfish that can be spawned in a world
- Fix for the cursor position in creative mode being able to go offscreen
- Fix for players showing on maps when they should not be, after the player dies and respawns
- Fix for capes displaying wrongly when sprint-flying
- Fix for capes not displaying in the Nether
- Fix for capes not displaying when the player respawns
- Fix for tools taking damage in Creative Mode
- Fix so Bows don’t need or use up Arrows in Creative Mode
- Reduced the volume of the chest open/close sound effect

There is currently no set release date for the patch, but it should be coming soon. We will keep you updated.

Review: LEGO Batman 2 - DC Super Heros

This weekend I invested about twenty five hours into the newest installment of the LEGO series. LEGO Batman 2 is one of the first open world LEGO made yet, and is quite like it's original, LEGO Batman, but with much more content.

We are started off with Lex Luthor, who is Superman's arch-nemesis, is running for president, and has teamed up with the Joker to obtain what he wants. Since all of this is going down in Gotham City, Batman and Robin must save the day. They eventually realize that the Joker and Lex Luthor duo may just to be too difficult for them to handle alone. Luckily, the whole Justice League is here to help out.

The controls are just like all the other LEGO games out there. You can punch, switch between characters with a push of a button, and each character has their own unique special attack. With the simplicity of the game, you must use Batman and Robin's suit to use unique abilities catered to each suit, or use any of the other characters unique power. For instance, Superman can fly, use his ice breath, or even shoot laser beams out of his eyes, while the Green Lantern can use his own powers to build special green LEGO blocks which are unique to him.

The open world is quite large, especially for a LEGO game. You have the entire city of Gotham to explore, which is broken down to 3 parts. Apart from the open world, you have 15 mission levels to explore also. The entire world contains so much to do. There a total of 250 gold bricks to collect between the levels and the open world, 150 minikits to collect in the levels and with every 10 you get a special vehicle. You will have 50 citizens to save, and 20 red bricks to collect which will give you cheats to use to make the gameplay even easier for you.

LEGO Batman 2 is the first LEGO game to feature voice acting.  You'll be able to experience the funny dialogue between Superman and Batman (who I believe is a little jealous), and you'll be greeted with a fully voiced newscast at the beginning of each level.

My personal favorite thing about the game is almost every single thing is destroyable, and gives you a chance to collect studs, which are the in-game currency. The game is full of replay-ability  and is even better with a friend. Someone can join in through local co-op or by Xbox Live at any moment of the game. You will be able to run through the story mode under 10 hours, but collecting all the gold bricks, minikits, and saving citizens is gonna take another 15 hours. I highly suggest you give the game a try, no matter what your age is.

Borderlands 2 receives lots of fixes with new patch

Now I know most of the gaming community, like myself, have been pouring hours into Borderlands 2, considering there is so much to do, and so many areas to explore. Gearbox Software are really trying to keep their fan base happy. We received some fresh DLC last week, "Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty", which is the first campaign based DLC for Borderlands 2.

Gearbox Software released a patch today fixing a lot of smalls bugs and glitches that have been found in the game. There's nothing I enjoy more than seeing developers keeping their game up, and not ignoring the problems. On the other hand, I have really not experienced any kind of glitches in the game myself.

Here is the patch notes for the recent update:


• Fixed player first-person arms appearing too far up or down the screen when in horizontal/vertical split mode.
• Fixed players losing ammo when reloading a savegame with max ammo and a stockpile relic equipped.
• Fixed the vendor UI sometimes showing a count of 1 less item in the player's backpack than is actually there.
• Fixed fast travel stations from downloadable content sometimes disappearing when loading a saved game.
• Fixed players getting stuck in a white box when two people try to travel at once and one is in a vehicle.
• Allowed players to trade with each other when at maximum backpack capacity if they're trading the same number of items with each other.
• Fixed clients sometimes losing access to fast travel stations unlocked during co-op progression.
• Fixed the favorite/trash icons on inventory items sometimes disappearing when scrolling the inventory list.
• Added safeguards against the game getting stuck on a 'Saving...' prompt when a client with a splitscreen player saves and quits the game under specific rare circumstances.
• Fixed the "has abandoned your struggle!" message sometimes appearing with no player name.
• Fixed mini-map fog-of-war sometimes not uncovering correctly when first loading a saved game as a client.
• Fixed co-op players sometimes spawning at different places after a level transition.
• Fixed an error that could sometimes occur when trying to join a game where the host had recently returned from a downloadable content area.
• Fixed an error where clients would sometimes see certain weapons firing in incorrect directions.
• Fixed a blocker in the "Do No Harm" mission and repaired users already affected by the bug.
• Fixed an issue with savegames sometimes causing the game to stutter / freeze and repaired saves already affected by the bug.
• Made the user's inventory not jump to the top of the list when using a customization item.
• Fixed a bug with shields that reduce the player's maximum health not displaying the amount of health reduced on the item card.
• Fixed a bug where some challenges would sometimes re-complete levels 1 through 5 over and over again, granting the user additional ranks and tokens.
• Enemies affected by a Siren's Thoughtlock ability may now be damaged by other players.
• Fixed an issue where players could sometimes lose their third and fourth weapon slots. Characters who have already lost these slots will be repaired the next time they are loaded.
• Fixed an issue where players were sometimes unable to pick items up after another player had bulk-picked-up a nearby item.
• Fixed an issue where players could occasionally be unable to connect to one another if one of them had recently been in DLC that the other doesn't have.


The patch is ready and will automatically update to your system when you start up the game.

Minecraft Gets Updated to 1.8.2 This Month with Pictures and Videos

The creators for the title, Minecraft, announced recently that a new patch would soon be on it's way. As we wait for version 1.8.2, screenshots of new enemies and video including gameplay of the new patch has been released. We seen several enemies in the video including silverfish, a cave spider, and the Endermen. We've included the video and some screenshots below. We will let you know as soon as the official release date for the patch is announced.

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FIFA 13 demo is out today!

EA Sport's next installment in the extremely popular soccer series, FIFA 13, is soon to be released worldwide. The demo has been released today on the Xbox 360 and PC in America and the UK. Playstation 3 user's will be getting the demo later today after the PSN update is released. FIFA 13 will be released on September 25th, 2012.

Capcom announces upcoming DLC for 'Resident Evil 6'

Capcom announced today, that they will be releasing exclusive DLC for the Xbox 360, for the future installment in the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil 6. The DLC will include three different playable game modes called Survivor, Siege and Predator.

Survivor mode takes an interesting twist on the classic solo and team-based versus matches. When you are killed as a human, you will respawn as an enemy character. As one of the enemies, you can kill two human characters to respawn back into one of the human characters.

In siege mode, players as human will be protecting a NPC character, while the opposing enemy team attempts to kill the NPC.

Predator assigns an enemy plays as the fearsome B.O.W., Ustanak, who tries to eliminate all human players. The game ends when Ustanak has killed all the remaining humans, or the humans kill Ustanak, or make it to the end safely.

Capcom also announced to keep looking forward to other future DLC including new maps for the add-on game modes. Resident Evil 6 is expected to release on October 2nd, 2012.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 review

This was actually one of the first Tom Clancy title I've ever put more than just a few hours into. For some reason, when I had seen the original trailer for it, I knew this would be a game I would enjoy. After putting it hundreds of hours into RSV2, needless to say, I was hooked.

When you first start the game up, you get to design your own character, with the ability to use Xbox Vision to map your own face into the game. The character customization is incredible and very detailed. As you progress through your ranks, the more you can customize your character. You have over 100 different articles of clothing/armor to unlock, as well as plenty of weapons to choose from. Each set armor changes how your character moves by affecting his speed and agility. As you progress your rank, other options become available. Your "level" or "rank" carries throughout single player mode and multiplayer mode.

I find the story to be fairly decent in this game, though I've learned never expect too much from shooters. You command a squad of four throughout different scenarios based in the city of Las Vegas. As you continue throughout the story, you find yourself growing a bond with fellow team mates.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 includes many modes to play on. First off, you have the single player campaign mode, in which you play a leader of your squad, and go through several missions of saving Vegas from the terrorists. You have the option of playing campaign mode by yourself, or with a friend through Xbox Live or on the same console. Second, you have the Terrorist Hunt mode. In this mode, you get to choose from several maps, and you (or you can have a friend through Xbox Live) get to go throughout the map, trying to clear all the terrorists without dying. You are able to choose the map, the difficulty, and how many enemies are on the map. Third, you have the multiplayer mode, in which is my personal favorite. On this mode, you can play up to 5 game types with up to 16 people all around the world. Your rank system from single player mode carries over here, so you still gain ranks as you kill people in this mode.

The graphics aren't the best of all the games out currently, but they still hold up pretty decent. At times, I have to change the brightness of my television, because certain parts of the levels are so dark. Occasionally, weapon and character graphics do not load up immediately, causing very undetailed characters at the start of matches.

Still to this day, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is one of the best games I've yet to play on the Xbox 360. The multiplayer experience that the game delivers you is unlike no other, giving you the truly feeling of being a part of swat team.

Saints Row 3 Season Pass is 50% off today

Xbox.com announced today that the season pass for THQ's hit game, Saint's Row 3, is 50% off today. The season pass is already a discounted bundle of all the games DLC, but now you will be able to pick up the season pass for 800MSP ($10.00). Go check it out on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The four DLCs included in the season pass as listed:  

• Nyte Blade Pack
• Genki Bowl VII
• Gangstas in Space
• The Trouble with Clones

They also note to purchase the season pass through the in-game store, so you are not charged twice for your purchase. Check out our other posts about the Saint's Row series.

'PES 2013' release date is revealed

As soccer fans have been patiently waiting, Konami announced on the PES13 website, that the official release date for Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 in Europe is September 20th, 2012 on Windows, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3. A whole new control system, "PES Fullcontrol", has been developed for the title, which will give you full control of you every pass and shot.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 will also be released on the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and the Sony PSP. No word on the USA release yet. Keep checking back for more information.

September Giveaway!

This month we've decided to do a game giveaway, but to make this a little special, we are gonna ship Halo 4 for Xbox 360 to you as soon as it releases on November 6th. This will be a free giveaway, and since we are a site that is trying to grow a community, all we ask is to do a couple of supporting steps to enter the giveaway.

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The contest ends September 30th. We will announce the winner on October 1st.

Microsoft releases video of Halo 4 map called 'Exile'

Halo 4 is approaching us soon, and I'm sure every Xbox 360 player is very excited to see what is has to offer. Halo 4 will be the eighth installment in the Halo series, and the first one not created by Bungie. If you don't know, the company behind this installment, 343 Industries, is actually made up of a handful of ex-Bungie employees. Microsoft released a video earlier today showing us some 3vs Capture the Flag on one of the new maps called Exile.

Halo 4's official release date is November 6th, 2012.

Also check out the new trailer over at WebProNews