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US gamers set on grabbing a copy of the superb-looking Borderlands 2 can get themselves the 'Creature Slaughter Dome' download if they go with GameStop.

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The video below was release by retailer's showing off the exclusive DLC, which plonks players in a arena with a switch that sets loose all manner of hostile beasts. You simply fight to survive while earning XP and sweeping up a load of loot that you keep. Pre-orders in general will also get you the Mechromancer character class download as son as it available...which they believe it will be in November.

The current video below shows off the pre-order content.

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Gears of War Judgement first look at the new game mode Free-For-All. Two new videos of the game made in action. Can't wait!

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Two new free titles are coming to Xbox live. They wont be part of the silver service of Xbox live and wont be a cost to Xbox Gold subscribers.

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Microsoft has taken its time to introduce free-to-play gaming on

In Skyrim's new DLC you will be able to buy land and customize your property. You will just have to read below to see what i am talking about.

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Skyrim: Hearthfire is officially the next DLC pack for The Elder Scrolls 5.

Hearthfire will include a few features we didn't know

Keep reading to see all of the ways you can build your own estate.

I can't really image these features were what gamers were expecting but I think Heathfire will add much more than this trailer mentions. Basically, I haven't given up on zombies. Although for only 400 MS points this might just be Horse Armor all over again. I really hope Hearthfire isn't House Armor!

Skyrim: Hearthfire will be released on September 4, 2012 for 400 MS points. No information on a PS3 or PC release date has been given.

Call of Duty has released Hardened Edition of Call of Duty Black ops 2. The Edition will contain several features such as, Nuketown Zombies.

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A couple of photos of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 special editions have been revealed, and they look very impressive. As you can see from the above (leaked) image, the big item is the Dragonfire Drone, a remote control aircraft. It comes in a care-package like plastic case. Other than that, the "Care Package" contains everything that's included in the

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Care Package and Hardened Edition:

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Gears of war is adding a new game mode to the series "Free for all". The new game mode will be playable at Pax Prime this week. An amazing edition to the Gears of War series.

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Epic Games and developer People Can Fly are adding a new multiplayer mode to Gears of War: Judgment called Free-For-All.

As you would expect by the name, this multiplayer mode ditches team tactics in favor of sheer personal survival. The mode is playable at PAX Prime this week, with two maps on display (description direct from Microsoft/Epic):

GONDOLA - The Coastal Villa Apartments are part of the exclusive Halvo community located in the prestigious Agora foothills. Residents enjoy a host of interior upgrades, and each unit features an ocean view from a private patio or balcony. This quiet, gated community is located only a short gondola ride from the renowned shops and businesses of our active and thriving coastal community.

LIBRARY - The Alexiy Desipich Memorial Library is not a library in the traditional sense, but rather an archive of important documents surrounding his life, career, and personal interests. An avid historian, politician, and philosopher, Desipich is most remembered as the father and creator of the Austere Canon, the basis for the Coalition of Ordered Governments, which was shaped around eight guiding principles: Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith, and Humility.

Gears of War: Judgment comes out on March 19. For more info on the game, check out our

The enhanced-for-PC Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition version will arrive on console on October 26, Namco Bandai has confirmed.

The digital PC edition, which is out now via Styeam, features new content set 100 years before Dark Souls. Mysterious passages open in Darkroot Basin, and these lead to brand new areas, tougher enemies, new NPC's, fresh weapons and gigantic bosses to fight. You'll have to progress up to a certain point to access them, a bit like Mass Effect's downloadable missions.

If you already own the regular game on consoles, you'll be able to just grab the new content via a rebranded 'Artorias of the Abyss' download pack for $14.99.

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The complete list of achievements that have been released. Go ahead and look, you know you want to.

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If you want an early, sneak peak at steampunk-steal game Dishonored, the achievements have hit the internet-webs. Of course, if you have any interest in keeping your

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The first two chapters in depth on Resident Evil 6. Leon, Helena, Jake, Sherry and Chris and Piers Campaigns. Looks to be a pretty good Resident evil game even though i am not a fan of it.

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In our E3 issue, we went in-depth into the first two chapters of each of the main protagonists from Resident Evil 6’s campaign. Now we delve a little deeper into the game’s opening chapters.

Prologue

The game's prologue picks up somewhere in the middle of Leon and Helena’s campaign. The two are outrunning helicopters and explosions right off the bat, taking only a few moments to rest and show off the new health system. Instead of pausing the game and diving into the menus to grab an herb, you now convert herbs into tablets to consume on the fly like Tic-Tacs. Before converting an herb to tablet form to heal an injured Helena, Leon decides to administer it the old fashioned way. He applies the herb off-screen, and one of Resident Evil’s greatest mysteries remains just that. How do herbs work?

Things pick up quickly once Helena is all healed and within moments the two are shooting and punching zombies, and re-enacting the scene from Independence Day where the dog outruns the giant cascading fireball explosion of cars in the street. They get onto a helicopter, but the pilot has been bitten and Leon has to take over the controls and simultaneously shoot at the new pilot-zombie while steering a helicopter as it begins to play a game of chicken with a monorail train. It’s crazy and never gives Leon or Helena a chance to catch their breath. It’s an exciting way to begin Resident Evil 6, and it looks to be indicative of the pacing of the rest of the game.

Leon and Helena

After the explosive prologue, you can begin with any campaign you like. We’ve already seen how Leon’s and Helena’s begins. The President of the United States gets zombified, and Leon has the unenviable task of taking him out. Helena claims that everything is her fault and she will reveal why once they check out a mysterious temple. The President was on a college campus when he became a zombie, and Leon and Helena fight their way out of the campus and onto the streets. The action moves quickly, and in many cases moving forward without wasting precious ammo on enemies was preferred. The city is going to hell in the wake of the zombie apocalypse. It’s reminiscent of what happened in Raccoon City. Along with zombies and rampaging building fires, Leon and Helena have to dodge out of control motorists. They make their way to an ammo store where a group of people have been holding off the horde. The gunshop owner lets everyone upstairs once he deems it safe, but not before one of the survivors decides to steal his girlfriend’s gun and loudly proclaim that he can make it on his own. He doesn’t.

Without any breaks for even a cut scene, the group makes their way up through the building and into a bus. They’re all set to head to the temple, but a giant monster stands in front of the bus preventing forward momentum. After lots of zombie shooting and an extreme thinning of the once large group, the bus heads toward the temple.

Of course, the bus crashes and flips right outside of the temple’s cemetery, as buses are prone to do during zombie apocalypses. Leon and Helena fight their way through the cemetery, tracking down a key to enter the temple, but not before fighting off a huge wave of zombies right in front of the door. Once inside the temple, I took part in my only puzzle sequence throughout my entire six chapter playthrough spread across the three campaigns. I used the laser sight on my gun to activate switches, shot at targets to open doors, and deactivated statues with crossbows all to open a secret door to head to a gigantic secret facility below the temple. Helena promises Leon that he only has to do one more thing before she will tell him everything, a promise she makes at least three more times as you progress further and further underground.

Eventually, Leon and Helena make their way to another underground facility that is below the facility that’s underneath the temple where Ada Wong makes her first appearance. For possibly the first time in her life, she is dressed appropriately for combat, a mistake she doesn’t make in subsequent campaigns.

There is a revelation about Helena’s motivations before the end of the second chapter, but it is still unclear as to why everything is her fault, despite her repeated claims that she will reveal everything with each completed task. There is also a strange revelation about Ada Wong that I won’t spoil here, and there is at least one minecart sequence. Leon and Helena’s first two chapters inspire the most interest for continued play. I am most curious in what is going on with those two.

Read on to find out more about the first two chapters of Jake and Sherry's campaign.

Jake and Sherry

Jake is a mercenary, as it is established in the first moments of his campaign. His and Sherry’s campaign open with Jake applying a shot to himself. His mercenary teammates are doing the same thing, except they have an immediate allergic reaction to the shot turning them into rabid monsters. Jake attempts to converse with one of his recently turned mercenaries saying they should be asking for more money. The teammate growls in reply violently attacking Jake, who takes him out easily using hand-to-hand combat. Every character begins with handgun and a subweapon – except for Jake. His subweapon is his fists. He is able to pull off stronger melee attacks outside of the ones that every character can use with the R1 (RB) button.

In the chaos, Jake finds Sherry, who informs him that his blood holds the key to curing the bioterrorism virus that is plaguing the Earth. Jake ponders his worth for a moment, and agrees to lend his blood for $50 million. The only thing Jake cares about is money. The two spend more time fighting real humans than zombies as they make their way to Sherry’s recon point. On the way, the two meet the Ustanak; the giant menacing, seemingly indestructible half-monster, half-robot super soldier. All Jake and Sherry can do is outrun him and blow up the destructible barrels he happens to stand next to.

Allow me to take this moment to compliment the explosive barrels in Resident Evil 6. They offer some of the most impressive, awe-inspiring explosions I have ever had the privilege of witnessing in a video game. If there was an award for best explosive red barrel, Resident Evil 6 would win.

Before taking off into the air and heading to home base, Jake and Sherry meet up with Chris and his fellow BSAA soldiers. Anti-air guns are preventing takeoff and it’s up to Jake, Sherry, Chris, and his partner Piers to take care of business so Sherry and Jake can leave. Also, there is the largest monster I have ever seen in the history of Resident Evil meandering around the city. This is one of the sequences where campaigns intersect and the game opens up to four-player cooperative play. Everyone has to work together to defend Finn, the BSAA explosives expert, while he sets charges on the anti-air guns, all while fighting the gigantic monster as he stomps around the city block. Just as Finn finishes up with the charges, a second giant monster shows up just to complicate things further. Thankfully, by this time you have air support to drop bombs on your four-story tall enemies, but Jake still has to jump from the roof of a building onto the monster’s head in order to perform a quicktime event and expose his weak spot.

Resident Evil 6 is rife with quicktime events. You either put up with them, or you hate them, but they always offer very cool, often gruesome animations to reward your violent control sticking waggling and timed button pressing.

Jake and Sherry finally get into the air, but only long enough for Sherry to make a phone call to confirm that Jake’s asking price can be met. Just when you’re about to relax alongside Jake and Sherry, the Ustanak rears his ugly masked face, and starts taking the plane down from the outside. Despite the best efforts of Jake and Sherry, the Ustanak wins taking down the plane, but not before Jake is able to grab the single parachute available on board to share with Sherry as they plummet to the snowy grounds below.

Once on the ground Sherry realizes she dropped important data that needs to be found. The data is contained on three USB drives, and you are free to explore the wide-open environment to track them down. While you come across many enemies during your exploration, and even a drivable snowmobile (which plays a larger role later), this is the slowest Resident Evil 6 got during my time with the game. Meandering around the snow is quiet, and the lack of visibility created a creepy, harsh atmosphere.

After finding all the missing pieces, Jake and Sherry regroup at a cabin to get out of the oncoming snow storm. It’s here that Jake shows his humanity. Every dialogue experience with Jake has been a series of bland quips and action-movie one-liners, but in the cabin he shows concern for Sherry in non-romantic way. Their rest is short lived (a problem every character in Resident Evil 6 is constantly running into), as soldiers blow up the cabin’s walls and Jake and Sherry are forced to flee both soldiers and a landslide. The snow-mobiles from earlier become very handy escape vehicles as snow cascades the environment behind them.

The two press on, only to run into the Ustanak yet again. This time the Ustanak is in a cave, quietly searching for his prey with the help of bugs that can give up your location if you run across their line of sight. As you dodge the Ustanak and quietly sneak up on his recon bugs, you make your way to a giant drill that becomes the ultimate weapon to destroy the Ustanak. It takes a multitude of quicktime events, but you aim the drill squarely at the chest of the Ustanak pushing him through multiple walls until he appears to be dead.

Jake and Sherry emerge from the cave to see their destination city off in the distance, and suddenly Ada Wong appears inappropriately dressed with a very revealing dress in the middle of the snow. She has a scarf, but her back and most of her chest are entirely exposed. She must be freezing.

She reveals to Jake that he is the son of Albert Wesker, a motivated but very dumb man. Jake appears to have no idea who she is talking about, and the Ustanak emerges from the cave with a giant drill-shaped hole in his chest. He knocks out both Jake and Sherry at Ada’s command, and the chapter comes to a close.

Read on to find out more about the first two chapters of Chris and Piers' campaign.

Chris and Piers

Chris’ campaign seems to lean the hardest on strictly third-person shooting. Through the entire first two chapters of Chris’ story, I never once had to solve a puzzle or do any kind of meaningful exploration. Chris and his partner Piers made their way through a series pathways filled with enemies and cover points. As near as I can tell, Chris’ mission is always to enter an area, clear it out of enemies, and then blow up the aforementioned area. If he gets out before the bombs come through, then he is having a good day. In the BSAA, executing the mission is the main priority, even if it means incidentally killing your best solider.

Chris’s story begins in a bar, with a plastered Chris who has forgotten important elements of his past. His partner Piers is there to bring him back to the BSAA, and his first return mission is in Lanshiang, China where a deadly C-virus outbreak has occurred. Chris, Piers, and a handful of other BSAA agents make their way through the city fighting infected J’avo, saving hostages, and narrowly escaping collapsing buildings. The mission causes Chris to remember what he fought so hard to forget, and what comes next is a memory of a previously forgotten mission.

The scene opens with Chris promising his fellow soldiers that none of them are expendable, and none will be left behind. He takes a moment to check up Finn, the explosives expert and newest member of the team to make sure he is doing okay. The group makes their way through a Eurpoean city, fighting infected c-virus soldiers, gigantic monsters, and blowing up bridges after they have been cleared of enemies.

During the course of their mission, the BSAA runs into Jake and Sherry. The sequence mentioned above involving the gunships and the gigantic monster has to be replayed entirely. You are playing as a different character, but the scenario is exactly the same. It would have been nice to be able to have this sequence relegated to a cutscene since I already played it, but it doesn’t look like that's an option.

After taking care of Jake and Sherry, Chris, Piers, and his fellow BSAA agents move to a new area, an abandoned science research facility. The group runs into Ada Wong, who claims to be an employee of the facility. Chris doesn’t know Ada, so he accepts her claim but tells Finn to keep an eye on her. The group makes their way into the heart of the facility with Ada as a tour guide.

It doesn’t take long for Chris’ suspicions to be rationalized, because Ada manages to separate Chris and Piers from the rest of their group. It would be a spoiler to reveal why Ada split up the BSAA agents, but it has a lot to do with why Chris became the drunken emotional wreck seen in the beginning of his campaign.

Resident Evil doesn’t feel like the tense horror game it used to, and while that may be disappointing to many, that doesn’t mean that the new direction of the series doesn’t stand on its own as a polished action game. Shooting zombies and monsters is still an intense experience, and there are still surprises everywhere, even if they aren’t monster dogs jumping through windows. Resident Evil 6 is coming October 2, and while the series is feeling more and more like a third-person shooter, and less and less like a terrifying horror experience, it’s still a blast to play. I am looking forward to finishing out everyone’s story.

EA has revealed the release date for the Battlefield 3: Armored Kill update, and it's complicated. You could see it as soon as September 4 or as late as September 25, depending on your platform of choice and membership status.

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As you know, EA offers a special Battlefield 3 premium membership, which costs $49.99. If you've sprung for the service and you're playing on PlayStation 3, you can get the download on September 4. PC and Xbox 360 players get it a week later, on September 11. All premium members get the Armored Kill update at no additional cost. Otherwise, you can pick up the Armored Kill content on PS3 on the 18th, with the PC and Xbox 360 versions hitting on the 25th. It's individually priced at $14.99/1,200 Microsoft Points.

If you haven't yet picked up the game, you may want to wait until September 11. That's when the Battlefield 3: Premium Edition is due out, which includes the full game, a premium membership, and additional unlocks to help get new players up to speed. It'll set you back $69.99.

Two teams allegedly agreed to split the cash earning no matter who won. Both teams disqualified. I find this very unsportsmanlike conduct.

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The top two League of Legends teams were disqualified at the MLG Summer Championship for collusion. Team Curse NA and Team Dignitas had already secured the top spots going in to the grand final but instead of choosing to play out the games in a standard manner they made two very bad decisions.

The two teams first raised eyebrows when they chose to play in the unconventional format of All Random, All Middle, to "entertain fans" rather than play in a traditional format that is normally seen in tournament play. What made matters worse was that the teams allegedly agreed to split the prize money of $32,000 regardless of who won the match.

According to Major League Gaming, this clearly violated MLG’s Official Pro Circuit Conduct Rules which state, "competitors may not intentionally Forfeit a Game or conspire to manipulate Rankings or Brackets." Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, agreed with MLG's ruling and as a result, MLG disqualified both teams, denied them all of their prize money, and announced that both teams will not be receiving any Circuit Points towards the North American Regionals.

"Both teams have agreed that the disqualification was warranted. While there is some contention over the exact nature of the actions taken by Curse NA and Dignitas which led to the disqualification, both teams, as well as MLG and Riot, agree that any collusion, or anything involving not playing a tournament match to win, warrants disqualification," said MLG.

Following MLG's announcement, members of both teams quickly issued apology statements to MLG, Riot, and the fans. You can check out Team Curse's statement below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXOpt86zVJ0&feature=player_embedded

Before anyone tries to defend either team, consider what would happen if MLG allowed this kind of behavior. At the end of the day, the whole point of the tournament is to determine who is the best player or group of players in the world. If they allowed this once, they'd have to allow it for everyone which would completely ruin the tournament. MLG is trying to legitimize eSports, and just like in real sports, there can only be one champion so why should it be any different here?

The following skins are now available for the Xbox 360. Skins include Gears of war, spider man and several others.

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Microsoft released a second round of Minecraft Xbox 360 skins. The new batch includes 45 skins total, such as Spelunky Guy, Marcus Fenix, and Zoey from Left 4 Dead.

The pack costs 160 Microsoft points. Check out the full list below:

1. Enderman Man – Minecraft

2. Pig Man – Minecraft

3. Sheep Man – Minecraft

4. Naked Sheep Man – Minecraft

5. Spider Man – Minecraft

6. General Akamoto – Skulls of the Shogun

7. Otus – Owlboy

8. Meat Boy – Super Meat Boy

9. Agent Cobalt- Cobalt

10. Zapp – Gamma Bros

11. Buzz – Gamma Bros

12. Glorg – Glorg

13. The Player – Retro City Rampage

14. Spelunky Guy – Spelunky

15. Green Knight – Castle Crashers

16. Orange Knight – Castle Crashers

17. Blue Knight – Castle Crashers

18. Red Knight – Castle Crashers

19. Marcus Fenix – Gears of War 3

20. Skorge – Gears of War

21. Anya Stroud – Gears of War

22. Damon Baird – Gears of War: Judgment

23. Joanna Dark – Perfect Dark

24. Joanna Dark (dress) – Perfect Dark

25. Joanna Dark – Perfect Dark Zero

26. Elvis – Perfect Dark

27. Juno – Jet Force Gemini

28. Vela – Jet Force Gemini

29. Lupus – Jet Force Gemini

30. Horstachio – Viva Piñata

31. Pretztail – Viva Piñata

32. Fizzlybear – Viva Piñata

33. Bill – Left4Dead

34. Louis – Left4Dead

35. Francis – Left4Dead

36. Zoey – Left4Dead

37. Hunter – Left4Dead

38. Boomer – Left4Dead

39. Witch – Left4Dead

40. Agent Level 5 – Crackdown 2

41. Pilot

42. Sailor

43. Pirate

44. Ninja

45. Elf

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Adding 4x official servers, answering the fans call. Tired of getting kicked from rented servers? Well, now you don't have to deal with that.

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DICE has boosted the number of official

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The upcoming single-player download content for Mass Effect 3 explores the origins of the Reapers. Leviathan introduces new characters, weapons, and upgrades. It's due out this Tuesday for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC for $9.99.