Worms Battlegrounds is Xbox One's Game For Gold

If you are an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, you are able to pick up Worms Battlegrounds free during the month of December! Worms is a very popular series that has been around for quite some time now. Worms Armageddon is the first Worms game on the Xbox One.

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.

Sonic CD Coming to the Windows Phone

Around the same time, Sonic CD, was released for the Xbox Live Arcade, there were rumors and a couple screenshots of the game coming to Windows Phones. Over a year later, SEGA has announced that Sonic CD will be available for Windows 7 & 8 mobile devices on November 14th, 2012. No word on the price tag yet, but you can pick it up on the Xbox Live Marketplace for only 400 Microsoft points.

See screenshots after the jump.

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.

Xbox Live Marketplace Deal of the Week - Bioshock

I am impressed with Xbox Live's Deal of the Week. You'll be able to pick up Bioshock and Bioshock 2 this week for only $9.99 each. This is a very impressive deal! If you have never played any of 2K Game's Bioshock series, you should give them a try. Bioshock has one of the most interesting stories out of any game on the Xbox 360. You will also be able to pick up any of the DLC packs for Bioshock for 400MSP each.

Check out Xbox Live's Deal of the Week

DLC Trailer for Fruit Ninja Kinect appears

Get ready Fruit Ninja fans! Halfbrick Studios' Fruit Ninja Kinect seems it will be receiving another DLC pack in the future. A trailer was released showing what looks like a Halloween themed DLC for the very popular Xbox 360 Kinect game.

Fruit Ninja Kinect was released last year in August, and has created quite a fan base since then. You will be able to purchase the "Trick or Treat Bag" DLC on Wednesday, October 24th for 160 MSP (not bad, eh?) in the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Check out the trailer below...

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.

Chicken and Food

Banjo-Kazooie - Jiggy Guide

Since the Nintendo 64 classic, Banjo-Kazooie, is availabile on the Xbox Live Marketplace, here's a guide to collecting all those jiggies! Be sure to check out our other guides.

Golden Axe Walkthrough

Since the release of the original Sega Genesis title, Golden Axe, is now avaialabile on the Xbox Live Marketplace, we figured we would release our guide for it. Please continue after the break to view the guide.

Battlefield 3 expansion pack "Armored Kill" launch trailer released

EA and DICE released a trailer for their upcoming expansion pack for Battlefield 3. Check out the trailer below:

Double XP weekend for Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Ubisoft has announced on the Assassin's Creed Facebook page that they will start a double XP weekend on December 16th at noon EST and end on Monday morning at 3 A.M.; so get your double experience while you can!

Also, be sure to check out the recent DLC, "Ancestor's Character Pack" which includes four additional characters to play with, and additional achievement for each one of them.

Gears of War 3 and Battlefield 3 DLC drops! Plus Xbox Dashboard Update

This week Microsoft launched their new dashboard update for the Xbox 360. This update brings a whole new feel to the Xbox's dashboard while making it easier to browse using the Kinect. The update brings in the App Store which should continue to grow bringing apps like YouTube, Bing, and NBA TV (plus many more..) straight to your Xbox 360. Along with the title update, two downloadable content packs for two games dropped today:

Gears of War 3 - Raam's Shadow DLC

This is the first campaign DLC ever released for a GoW game. The DLC is packed with a brand new story based on E-Day (which was right before Gears of War 1), which let's you for the first time play as the horde's General RAAM, which if you're a huge gears fan like me, you'll be extremely excited about this.
Multiplayer fans also receive six multiplayer skins, which include the members of the Zeta squad and you will also be able to play as General RAAM also. Also included is the Chocolate Weapon skin. For the achievement hunters, an additional 250 gamerscore will be added.

Battlefield 3 - Back to Karkand DLC

Purchasers of the limited edition version of Battlefield 3 will receive this map pack for free. The Back to Karkand DLC includes four new maps (Strike at Karkand, Wake Isle, Gulf of Omen, and Sharqi Peninsula), 10 new weapons, and two new vehicles.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 is on the way

It seems that Sega is going to make another installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The game, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 has recently been rated by Korea's Game Rating Board which usually means the game is only a couple months away! I'm definitely excited about this!
Keep checking back for more updates on this title, read more for screenshots.