Category: Games

  • Reduced Priced DLC on the Marketplace

    From now until the end of October, Microsoft is having a sale on select DownLoadable Content on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson announced today that content for Oblivion, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Forza 2, Guitar Hero 3 and Beautiful Katamari have been discounted 25-60%.

    While I already have the Shivering Isles, 1600 is well worth picking it up if you have not already.
    Hit the jump for the full details from Major Nelson

    DLC Pricing on MajorNelson.com

  • How to Get Your Girl To Game

    There was an interesting article on Kotaku over the weekend about Girls and Games. At the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle over the weekend, a group of girl gamers gave a Q&A Forum about getting more women to play video games.

    Some of the ideas are informative, and some of them just reinforce particular stereotypes about women (they don’t know what to do with a lot of buttons… they like Barbie’s Horse Adventures…).  But for those of you guys out there who feel that games are important enough to you that you want to share the hobby with your girlfriend/wife, I’d like to offer some tips of my own.

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  • PAX – Details on Far Cry 2

    Well, PAX is underway, and the goods are starting right away too.

    This Far Cry 2 video gives you a little taste of the world of FC2. In all it’s grit and glory.

    Fix you’re car? Fix your arm? Fix your own sandwich too?

    Sweet.