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The Star Wars Universe with ease, force lightning, throat chokes, using the force to pull ships out of the sky and weapons out of troops hands Nuff said. Star Wars 1 Halo 0

It's that time again, when I get emailed a big schedule consisiting of all the bits and bobs making their way to the Xbox Live Marketplace this week and next week. This week sees Grasshopper's sexy shmup Sine Mora coming to XBLA, as well as some retro-tastic 3D plaforming with Rayman 3 HD. You can also get your hands on the first Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC collection for 1200 Microsoft Points, and the Xbox 360-exclusive Nemesis Mode for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (check out our verdict here!). And there's the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Legend of Dead Kel add-on and the Gears of War 3 Forces of Nature Map pack also available today. It also looks like Saints Row: The Third's Trouble with Clones DLC will be coming out this week and Worms: Ultimate Mayhem is getting more customisation stuff. And finally, there's BioShock 2 deals this week and some racing bargains next week. There's more where that lot came from too. Check it all out below. Xbox Live Arcade •Sine Mora (Microsoft Studios) - 21-Mar - 1200 MSP •Rayman 3 HD (Ubisoft) - 21-Mar - 800 MSP Game Add-Ons •Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 1 (Activision) - 20-Mar - 1200 MSP •Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Nemesis Mode (Capcom) - 20-Mar - 320 MSP •Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Legend of Dead Kel (Electronic Arts) - 20-Mar - 800 MSP •Gears of War 3 Forces of Nature Map Pack (Microsoft Studios) - 27-Mar - 800 MSP •Saints Row: The Third The Trouble with Clones (THQ) - 20-Mar - 560 MSP •Worms Ultimate Mayhem Customization add-on (Microsoft Studios) - 28-Mar - 400 MSP Deal of the Week BioShock 2 (2K) - March 20-26 •Minerva’s Den - 400 MSP (50% off) •Rapture Metro Pack - 400 MSP (50% off) •Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack - 200 MSP (50% off) •Protector Trails - 200 MSP (50% off) •Big Sister Outfit - 160 MSP (50% off) •Bouncer Big Daddy - 160 MSP (50% off) •Bouncer Big Daddy Helmet - 80 MSP (50% off) It's All About Speed - March 27-April 2 •Forza: American Muscle Car Pack (Microsoft Studios) - 320 MSP (50% off) •Forza: November Speed Pack (Microsoft Studios) - 400 MSP (50% off) •Forza: December IGN Pack (Microsoft Studios) - 320 MSP (50% off) •Forza: January Jalopnik Pack (Microsoft Studios) - 400 MSP (50% off) •Joe Danger: Special Edition (Microsoft Studios) - 600 MSP (50% off) •Daytona USA (SEGA) - 400 MSP (50% off) •SEGA Rally Online Arcade (SEGA) - 400 MSP (50% off) Special Sales •THQ Sale (THQ) - March 20–26 - 50% off certain items •Games on Demand Sale (Microsoft Studios) - March 27–April 2 - Up to 30% off Demos •Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure Games on Demand •Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Square Enix) - 20-Mar •Kinect Sports (Microsoft Studios) - 20-Mar •Gears of War 3 (Microsoft Studios) - 27-Mar •Two Worlds II (ZUXXEZ Entertainment AG) - 27-Mar Avatar Marketplace •Modern Warfare 3 Collection Update (Activision) - 20-Mar •Dance Moves Collection (Microsoft Studios) - 20-Mar •Halo Update (Microsoft Studios) - 27-Mar •Trials Evolution (Microsoft Studios) - 27-Mar •adidas Originals 4 Collection (Konami) - 27-Mar •Zoo Animals (Microsoft Studios) - 27-Mar Zune Marketplace •Moneyball - 20-Mar •The Thing - 26-Mar •The Big Year - 26-Mar •Puss in Boots - 26-Mar

well the BBC iPlayer is now on xbox live, so time to catch up on Top Gear & Eastenders

Oh dear, here we go again. EA has announced the latest batch of server shut-downs, effectively calling an end to multiplayer activity on a bunch of titles. Some of these required a payed Online Pass. Across all formats, servers for a total of 11 games are being shut on April 13th, seven of which are on Xbox 360. These include Burnout Revenge, FIFA 10, The Godfather II, Need for Speed ProStreet and The Saboteur. Rather worryingly, some of the listed games have only been available for a short time and quite a few require pre-owned purchasers to dish out extra for Online Passes. That means that despite generating revenue directly from these titles, specifically for their online components, the publisher has still chosen to halt support. Spare Parts has been available for around 15 months, while MMA has been in shops for approximately 18. EA has gone on record to state that they only pull server support for titles once the player base dwindles below a certain point. They haven't been specific about what that point is. April 13, 2012 - Online Services Shutdown (All Formats) •BOOM BLOX Bash Party for Wii •Burnout™ Revenge for Xbox 360 •EA Create for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 •EA Sports Active 2.0 for PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 •EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp for Wii •FIFA 10 for PlayStation Portable and Wii •The Godfather™ II for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 •MMA for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 •Need for Speed™ ProStreet for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 •The Saboteur™ (loss of The Midnight Club access) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 •Spare Parts for PlayStation 3 Xbox 360

Hmmm, most emotional moment, recently getting the they came to hear me beg achievement in Reach, that took me weeks, to the point where I cannot play that level anymore because if I hear emile say race you too her 6 again I will kill someone. Jedi or Sith

Hallelujah glad you decided to stay

Rocket. What keeps you coming back to this forum?

Yes ive also smashed a controller in rage. what size are your feet?

One, the shout box would never be removed, it was emphasising a point. Biggles, it happens its forgot about, today is a brand new day.

You know those Recruit Pack thingys you can buy in Mass Effect 3's multiplayer, filled with weapon perks, items and other unlocks? Well this weekend you can unlock a special 'Victory Pack' in the first N7 Challenge Weekend for Mass Effect 3's co-op multiplayer mode. Entitled 'Operation Goliath', your goal is to flush out Reaper reinforcements, namely those nasty turian-krogan hybrid brutes, and inflict heavy casualties upon the shock troopers to score some points for the Alliance, gaining some more all-important Galactic Readiness in the process. From now until Monday, March 19th 5am PST, you can take part in the community event in Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, and beating the goal will unlock the Victory Pack, whereas extraction from a Reaper-held zone on Silver difficulty or higher will grant your squad the 'Commendation Pack'. In this pack, you'll be randomly awarded one of the N7 weapons from the N7 weapons pack included with the Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector's Edition. If the community manages to kill a million brutes during the event, every player will automatically earn the Victory Pack. So what are you waiting for?! Get brute-killing, now! Reward packs will be granted on Tuesday, March 20th and will expire after seven days

Even to this day, the debate still rages on about whether Halo: Reach’s armour abilities were game changers or merely an evolution of Halo 3’s equipment system. In terms of direction for Halo 4, 343 Industries’ Creative Director, Josh Holmes, says that with Halo 4 they’re looking to “dramatically reinvent the Halo multiplayer experience” and when it comes to armour abilities, they’re looking to evolve the system Reach introduced. “Our design goal was really to dramatically reinvent the Halo multiplayer experience,” said Holmes, “and do that in a couple of different ways, certainly in ways that impact the core experience – the moment to moment – but also the surrounding experiences in different modes of play that we offer to players.” “Sure, but what about the armour abilities?” I can hear you scream. Fear not, we screamed that too and Holmes noted that what they have in store for Halo 4 is an “evolution” of what you experienced in Halo: Reach. “For us, we really took a hard look at Reach and I think it’s important to note that the way we utilise abilities in this game is very different, much in the way that armour abilities were an evolution of the equipment system in Halo 3. The abilities that we have in our game are an evolution of what we experienced in Reach.” So, it’s an evolution of an evolution, right? Regardless, we’re intrigued. Any thoughts as to how they can do it? Answers on a postcard... or at least in the comments below. Yeah, actually, that’d be easier, do that.

Mayh3m, this is post of the year! Never has a truer post been made, maybe as AD says its time we clamped down more in the shout box, or even removed the shout box? As it seems some members are using it for nothing bit abuse

ZB come back soon you will be missed

Capcom has lined up some free DLC for the upcoming Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The new mission sees a Spec Ops team entering Raccoon City to determine the source of the virus outbreak. Playing as a member of that team, you’ll have to take on opposing team members from the Umbrella Security Service, as well as zombies and Bio-Organic Weapons. What’s more, as the storyline takes place between the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3, and seeing as you’ll be playing as Spec Ops, you’ll get to re-visit the moment Jill Valentine encounters the Nemesis. Cool. The free DLC hits North America on April 11. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, meanwhile, hits the US on March 20 and Europe on March 23

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Staff Response nobody put me Bob

Batman’s back and this time he’s brought along a whole heap of super-powered friends with him. Plus voice acting, an open-world Gotham City hub, suits, abilities, powers and customisation options. There’s tons of new stuff! We were shown a tasty little snippet of LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes recently and it’s looking ace. For a while now the LEGO games, for all their charm and charisma, have been treading water. The series that redefined kids games has ploughed a happy little furrow. The LEGO Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter titles were all decent enough, but it was time for a change. In creating a follow-up to the best-selling LEGO videogame of all time, Traveller’s Tales looks to have refreshed the formula. Batman 2 could be exactly what the series needs. Once more, you take control of Batman and Robin, but this time you can also join forces with Superman and a whole host of Justice League heroes to stop the Joker and Lex Luther from executing their dastardly plans. At the heart of it all is the open world area. Acting as a kind of mission hub, Gotham is nicely realised. Though it will contain weather and day/night cycles, we saw the city at dusk, beneath a brilliantly moody sky, with sheets of rain pelting down on the little plastic fellas below. It looks lovely. Once in the city, you can take control of Batman, using your grapple hook to scale the heights of Gotham or jump in the Batmobile to screech around the streets. And yes, you can take down pedestrians. It’s just like GTA in that regard, the only difference being that you leave a trail of tinkering LEGO studs, rather than blood and crumpled corpses. Take to the skies as a flying character like Superman or in the Batwing as Batman and it looks like even more fun. Playing as Superman our demoer soared up above Gotham’s roofs and swooped down under bridges in what seemed like the most glorious exercise in freedom. Completely free-roaming, it genuinely looks great. We’re promised the Batboat at a later date too. Lead by a LEGO brick trail through Gotham, you have to grapple and jump and battle your way to the next mission. Some areas will be blocked off, almost Zelda-style, to certain characters, meaning that you have to unlock more of your super-chums to progress. Thankfully, there’s a whole bunch to choose from, around 50 in total. We caught glimpses of The Flash, Wonder Woman and The Green Lantern, amongst others The missions themselves look largely familiar. It’s still your job to battle through environments bopping baddies on the nose and destroying objects to collect LEGO pieces, before using them to construct a new set of stairs or a lift to reach a new area. It’s lost none of its charm, with Batman and Robin mugging their way through fights amusingly. Mixing things up a little are suits and abilities. Batman’s Power Suit, for example, allows him to reach electrified areas that would otherwise be blocked off, while also powering up disused machinery. Robin’s Hazard Suit, meanwhile, can suck up water and other liquids then squirt them out through a canon to distinguish fires and such. Similarly, each superhero has special powers for you to take advantage of. Superman can freeze and push objects out of the way with his Super-Breath and heat and cut through objects with his Heat Vision. Again, you can use these abilities on the innocent civilians of Gotham if you wish. A nice but naught touch. While none of the various puzzles look particularly hard (it’s still a kids game after all), it’s the variety afforded by the open world, the abilities and the suits that impresses most. Besides, Traveller’s Tales greatest strength has always been pacing. With plenty to see and do in Batman 2, there’s no reason to suggest that skill has abandoned them. In addition to all this, Traveller’s Tales has also teased a character creation tool. We weren’t shown this feature, so we don’t know how it works or how it will fit into the game itself, but we’re promised the opportunity to create unique superheroes with customisable characters. It’s an intriguing prospect. Perhaps the most interesting new addition, however, is full voice acting. In previous LEGO games, characters made the odd noise, but never really spoke. In LEGO Batman 2, everyone will be chatting away. Traveller’s Tales would not reveal to me who the voice talent is, indeed they only showed one line of dialogue throughout, from the Joker. A full reveal is promised later, but if the line wasn’t delivered by Mark Hamill (who plays the Joker in the animated Batman series and Rocksteady’s Arkham titles), then it’s someone who does a convincing impression of him. Encouraging stuff. The only slight worry about this addition is that it could narrow the imaginative possibilities of the game. When characters are essentially mimes, it allows you to paint in the gaps, to allow your imagination to flesh out the character in a way that pleases you. Full voice acting gives that power to the author. But it’s a nit-picky concern. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes looks to be a great addition to the series, with a decent mix of familiarity and freshness. The saviour of kids games has lost none of its power to delight. It’s a welcome return. LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes is slated to release this summer And heres the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGVbt-Qmb8 <courtesy of x360a>

duplicate thread - same as the our vid thread you posted 30 minutes ago

1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 FIFA 12 4 Battlefield 3 5 Halo: Reach 6 Modern Warfare 2 7 Mass Effect 3 8 Skyrim 9 NBA 2K12 10 Gears of War 3 11 GTA IV 12 Forza Motorsport 4 13 Madden NFL 12 14 NHL12 15 FIFA Street Demo 16 Saints Row: The Third 17 Halo 3 18 Mass Effect 2 19 NBA 2K11 20 Call of Duty 4 <courtesy of majornelson>

There’s a new patch for Skyrim on the way which will fix a load more bugs and bring a handful of new features. As detailed on Bethesda’s official blog, the highlights of the patch - beyond the stuff that gets the game working better - are the new kill moves and animations, plus a new kill cam designed to show them off! There’s a vid below showcasing all this, and if you scroll down you’ll find the full patch notes. Skyrim Update 1.5 rolls out “soon.” New features: New cinematic kill cameras for projectile weapons and spells New kill moves and animations for melee weapons Smithing skill increases now factor in the created item's value Improved visual transition when going underwater Improved distance LOD transition for snowy landscapes Bug fixes: General crash fixes and memory optimizations Fixed issue with Deflect Arrows perk not calculating properly In "A Cornered Rat," the death of certain NPCs no longer blocks progression Fixed issue where Farkas would not give Companion's quests properly Fixed crash when loading saves that rely on data that is no longer being loaded Followers sneak properly when player is sneaking Fixed issue with weapon racks not working properly in Proudspire Manor Arrows and other projectiles that were stuck in objects in the world now clean up properly Fixed issue where "Rescue Mission" was preventing "Taking Care of Business" from starting properly Fixed issue where certain NPCs would fail to become Thieves Guild fences Fixed issue in "Diplomatic Immunity" where killing all the guards in the Thalmor Embassy before starting the quest would break progress In "Hard Answers," picking up the dwarven museum key after completing the quest, no longer restarts the quest Killing Viola before or after "Blood on the Ice" no longer blocks progression Fixed issue where Calixto would fail to die properly in "Blood on the Ice" In "Waking Nightmare" fixed occasional issue where Erandur would stop pathing properly Fixed issue where letters and notes with random encounters would appear blank Fixed rare issue where dialogue and shouts would improperly play Lydia will now offer marriage option after player purchases Breezehome in Whiterun Fixed issue where if player manually mined ore in Cidhna Mine, jail time would not be served Fixed rare issue with skills not increasing properly Fixed issue where the Headsman's Axe did not gain proper buff from Barbarian perk In "A Night to Remember" it is no longer possible to kill Ysolda, Ennis or Senna before starting the quest Fixed issue with the ebony dagger having a weapon speed that was too slow Fixed issue with "The Wolf Queen Awakened" where backing out of a conversation with Styrr too soon would block progress The third level of the Limbsplitter perk now properly improves all battle axes Fixed a rare issue where Sanguine Rose would not work properly In "Tending the Flames" King Olaf's Verse will no longer disappear from explosions

There may be plenty of evidence floating around suggesting that development of the next Xbox is underway, but Microsoft are in no hurry to announce the console itself. Today they’ve moved to deny the rumours suggesting that the Xbox 360’s successor will be revealed at this year’s E3. “While we appreciate all the interest in our long-range plans for the future, we can confirm that there will be no talk of new Xbox hardware at E3 or anytime soon,” a Microsoft rep has stated. “For us, 2012 is all about Xbox 360-and it's the best year ever for Xbox 360. The console is coming off its biggest year ever-a year in which Xbox outsold all other consoles worldwide. In fact, says the rep, “Xbox 360 didn't just outsell other consoles, it also outsold all other TV-connected devices like DVD players, as well as digital media receivers and home theatre systems. “And in our seventh year, we sold more consoles than in any other year-defying convention. “This year, we will build on that Xbox 360 momentum. With Halo 4, Forza Horizon, Fable: The Journey, and other great Kinect games on the way, our 2012 Xbox lineup is our strongest ever. Microsoft also restated their commitment to the entertainment apps delivered by the platfor, saying, “This year, we will deliver more TV, music, and movie experiences for Xbox 360 - as we'll make it even easier to find and control your all entertainment.” “And this year, Xbox games, music, and video are coming to Windows 8 so people can enjoy their Xbox entertainment wherever they go.” So there you go, a robust denial. Not just a “we don’t comment on rumour or speculation,” but a lengthy statement of intent. A u-turn now would be embarrassing, right?

my favourite saying of all time is out of Batman the Movie. Jack Nicholson (The Joker) says it to Michael Keaton (Batman) and it is... 'Never rub another mans rhubard' still makes me laugh now