The additional content for Grand Theft Auto IV is no longer exclusive to the Xbox 360. Tonight Rockstar announced that Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City coming to the PS3 and PC.

Episodes will hit stores on March 30th. Both of the individual expansions included in the bundle - The Lost and Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony – will be available digitally as well. The PC version will feature 32-player multiplayer and a video editor.

Microsoft paid Rockstar quite a bit of money for this content to be Xbox 360 exclusive. It was only a timed exclusivity agreement though so the PS3/PC release is not a big shock.

According to Bioware’s Ray Muzyka, the company had such a good experience making Dragon Age: Origins for the PlayStation 3 that they have more in store for the system.

“We’ve got a few titles in development for PS3 right now,” Muzyka said in an interview with Eurogamers, “As well as a few for 360, across the studios I manage.”

I’m sure you’re wondering what he’s talking about… could this be a PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2?  Or are we talking about something completely new and awesome? It is too early to tell at this time.

“I won’t say what they are, since not all of them have been announced yet,” Muzyka said.

One game that Muzyka did mention by name: Mass Effect 3.

“We haven’t formally announced Mass Effect 3 yet (though I can say that the team is working on the next installment in the trilogy now).”

Source: Eurogamer

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A demo for the upcoming destructible shooter, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been released. Although it doesn’t feature any of the single player from the game, the multiplayer aspect of the game is a huge component of this franchise, and now you can destroy AND completely total buildings, load up this demo and obliterate your way to victory.

The demo is out right now for Xbox 360 owners weighing in at 1.4GB on the Marketplace. But PS3 owners will have to wait until Feb 4 in Europe and Feb 11 in North America to get a shot at this demo.

God of War III March 16 :-)

January 28, 2010

ony Computer Entertainment has confirmed their long-awaited action game God of War III will arrive on the PlayStation 3 March 16.

A Sony public relations representative broke the news earlier on the official PlayStation blog.

Along with standard versions of the game, the publisher is releasing an Ultimate Edition, which will include a documentary, art book, additional combat arena challenges and a replica of Pandora’s Box.

God of War III follows protagonist Kratos as he scales Mount Olympus for a final encounter with Zeus. For more on the game, check out our hands-on preview

Tecmo’s third-person shooter Quantum Theory has a release date (okay, window) for North American Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners looking for, well, I guess something new to play.

The newly multiplatform “TPS” follows the Gears of War gameplay and aesthetic closely, adding in an AI-controlled co-op partner and an organic shapeshifting tower as the game’s battleground. Our most recent hands-on with the game didn’t exactly inspire us to start camping out for our own copies of Quantum Theory, but we’ll be interested to see how it has progressed since Tokyo Game Show.

Japanese Quantum Theory enthusiasts will get the game on March 25, but Tecmo Koei America is still withholding the exact date for those of us in America. Expect it not too closely to Final Fantasy XIII and God of War III, also releasing in March.

Fix Your Xbox 360 Red Lights With Number 1 Rated Xbox 360 Repair Video Guide! 60,000 Gamers Say Yes!

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You may remember when the Xbox 360 was launched about 3 years ago, some say that the amount of problems it has had with the hardware issues is because Microsoft rushed the launch to beat Sony and Nintendo to the market.

Whatever the case may be during the last 3 years the Xbox 360 has had its fair share of repair problems.

You can turn on the console and get the red lights of doom (3 red lights) and you may also have seen other errors like the 2 red light error, 1 red light and freeze ups and DVD drive problems as well.

Whatever problem you are experiencing it is down to the design of the motherboard and the fact that the console takes too much heat on the main chips.

These chips are called the CPU and the GPU and in layman terms the GPU deals with all the display like graphics and so on, and the CPU deals with all the number crunching.

Obviously when they overheat it is not good and you will need to stop the heat build up to fix it.

This is where a good Xbox 360 Repair guide comes in!

I mean you can send it back when you get any of these errors as alot of gamers do but they often find that they get the same thing happen again, bit more annoyingly is the fact that it can take 4 weeks for the repair and then you may have to pay out $140 to get it fixed.

So how does a good Xbox 360 Repair guide help?

Well there is alot of them out there but having done some research we looked for a guide that would give the complete beginner instructions so you can follow through even if you do not like technical stuff.

The guide we found was www.threeredlightsfix.com and it comes with complete video instructions for all errors and a full guarantee as well.

In fact alot of people have used the instructions in the guide to set up a profit pulling business on EBay buying up cheap broken Xbox 360’s and then reselling for big profits!

If you are suffering from the red lights it is worth a look!

Although the Xbox 360 came out in 2005–just four years after the release of the Xbox–it seems that Microsoft isn’t too eager to jump to the Xbox 720 (or whatever it will eventually be called).

Speaking at a briefing at CES over the weekend and originally reportedby the Guardian, Microsoft senior director of Xbox product management David Hufford said that not only is Microsoft not rushing to get to the next generation of consoles, but that the Xbox 360 has a lot more time left.

“I think it’s important to say that the Xbox 360 is the console of the long future for us,” Hufford told those in attendance. “There is no need to launch a new console because we’re able to give this console new life either with software upgrades or hardware upgrades like Project Natal. The Xbox 360 was designed for a long life, and I don’t even know if we’re at the midpoint yet.”

It’s an interesting take. Prior to Hufford’s comments, it was Sony that dominated the talk over a console’s lifecycle. Sony’s team has said on numerous occasions that the PlayStation 3 is the only console that will stay relevant for 10 years. And although the PS3 is currently trailing the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, Sony contends that when it’s all said and done, the PlayStation 3, thanks to its longevity, will win out during this generation.

But Microsoft has finally made it clear that it, too, believes that its console has the ability to stick it out. Project Natal should help Microsoft increase the lifespan of the Xbox 360. But after almost five years of availability, has the Xbox 360 really not reached its midpoint yet?

Xbox Natal Controller

Microsoft tonight announced it would start shipping its Natal gesture and voice controller for the Xbox 360 game console in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season.

Natal, named after a Brazilian city, lets players yell, jump, kick or wave their arms to control what happens in a video game, using a series of motion detectors, a camera and a microphone to capture what players are doing.

The Redmond, Wash., technology giantdemonstrated Natal last June in Los Angeles, but it did not say when it would start selling the add-on device.

Natal will work only with Xbox 360 consoles, not the original Xbox. Microsoft said it has sold more than 39 million Xbox 360s worldwide. Its Xbox Live online service, which can be accessed from consoles connected to the Internet, has drawn more than 20 million players, half of whom have tried out nongaming content offered on Xbox Live, including TV shows and movies, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds.

In his keynote speech, Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, said sales of consoles, games, peripherals and downloads from Xbox Live generated $20 billion for Microsoft and other companies since the company launched its first Xbox in November 2001.

No PSP-4000 :(

January 18, 2010

psps-4000-adThe Little Big Planet ad that mentions PSP-4000was really just a mistake. I know, those who were hoping a new PSP that’s not the PSPGo would be disappointed and yes a little reluctant to forget this boo-boo. For one thing, they still haven’t yet explained how the mistake was made. Anyway, it’s pretty official there is no PSP-4000 in the make, unless we’ll get more evidence that can justify more words about it.

While we’ve been off living our crazy lives, a dedicate community has been hard at work designing mind-blowing levels for LittleBigPlanet since pretty much day one. Developer Media Molecule has played all of the good, non-copyright-infringing ones and wanted to give props to the necessary guys and gals.

Media Molecule rounds up the best LittleBigPlanet levels photo

The 2009 Sackies, as they’re strangely calling it, gives recognition to the greatest LBP creations. It’s no surprise to see such levels as NeoGAF’s Little Big Contra, or that insane working calculator by Upsilandre, because they made headlines on most of the major gaming blogs upon public release.

Of course, there are videos to go along with the winners. You ought to avoid watching them if you hope to make anything productive in LBP ever again — they really are that good. Is it possible to indefinitely ragequit a game of this nature? I don’t see why not.

Voting for the year’s best level, which will be decided by you, hopefully after you’ve tried out every one of the candidates, is now open.