XBOX 360 news

A new trailer has emerged for upcoming Xbox 360 DLC package, ‘The Lost and Damned’ which is due out on the 17th February.
gives us just over a minute of teaser footage showing off some of the graphics and characters that you will be encountering, including a brief cameo for GTA IV hero Niko.
The game will follow the story of character Johnny Klebitz, a member of the biker’s gang ‘The Lost’ which featured in the original Continue reading »

, we're re-envisioning what
was," Rockstar VP of Development Jeronimo Barrera tells me. He goes on to explain that while Liberty City returns in all its impressive glory in this first Grand Theft Auto 4 downloadable episode for Xbox 360 -- from its skyscraper-lined corridors to the scores of virtual people going about their virtual lives -- the story takes on a new direction. Rather than following the tale of an immigrant and having the player discover Continue reading »

Anyone pondering whether or not to skip work to play Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned just got an extra incentive. Today, Microsoft announced that, to help hype the first of two 360-exclusive expansions, it would let purchasers play the game's new online modes on Xbox Live for six days at no cost. Typically, the ability to play online on XBL is limited to "Gold" subscribers who pay $49.99 per year, with non-paying "Silver" subscribers Continue reading »

too seriously and you'll probably miss most of what it's up to. It's a game, of course, but it's also a biting, unremitting satire. Juvenile-seeming to some, sure, with its lewd and frequently misogynist humor, but no less a scathing sendup of American culture when you strip the top layers away. It's a mirror, but one held up to our silly instead of our serious side. A parody of parodies. A bad-boy-burlesque. That it even offends other satirists (who Continue reading »

20 February 2009 -
While the idea of PC based add-ons for your favourite games may be as old as the hills, extra content for console titles is still in its infancy. It’s down to those talented folk at Rockstar who seem intent on brining the option right to the fore, with The Lost and Damned.
An exclusive add-on for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned promises to offer a brand new way of looking at Liberty City. Now Continue reading »

Though January was a gangbusters month for the US game industry--which minted a recession-defying $1.33 billion--it wasn't that big on the release tip. However, the third week in February will see two of the year's biggest games hit store shelves--in one case, literally.
, the current-console-generation reboot of Capcom's classic fighting series will step into the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 rings on Tuesday February 17. Anticipation for the game Continue reading »

Retailer Amazon.com this week began offering a
with the advanced purchase of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360.
, customers who pre-order The Lost and Damned will receive an Xbox Live 3-Month Gold Card at no additional cost.
is a new expansion download for GTA IV. It requires the original game title.
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Amazon this month is selling the Xbox Live 12-Month Gold Card at $38.99, down from Continue reading »

has been announced for Xbox 360 release on Feb. 17, 2009. Rockstar Games released
in April of 2008, and gamers have been looking forward to expansion packs ever since.
is available for both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but Microsoft has been trying to gain some ground on Playstation GTA players by creating Xbox 360 exclusive expansion packs. Take Two Interactive was chosen to create two downloadable expansion packs and “The Lost and Damned” Continue reading »

The waiting is finally over. Today is the day that Xbox 360-owning Grand Theft Auto IV fans can get their hands on the first set of downlodable content.
For the sum of 1600 MSP, you can pick up "The
Damned," which features a new main character and plot that intersects with the storyline of Grand Theft Auto IV; new missions that offer an entirely fresh way to explore Liberty City with new multiplayer modes, weapons and vehicles; and additional Continue reading »

a while ago, we decided to dive futher into gaming. That's why I met up with one of my friends, and asked him if he could loan me the best game he had for his XBox 360. Maybe I should have been a bit more specific, I thought, because when he came over, before I knew it, he shoved a Japanese RPG in my console. This would be my first foray into the strange, magical, and disturbed world of the Japanese RPG. Read on for a review of Lost Odyssey.
Let Continue reading »

interview with Capcom's Keiji Inafune.
Dead Rising and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition are a tricky pair of titles for Capcom. Both originally billed as Microsoft exclusives,
, while
. That, despite
.
For the next installments in the two franchises, Capcom is apparently focusing on a multiplatform release from the get-go. Speaking to Japanese gaming magazine
and translated by GameSpot), Capcom's Keiji Inafune told the gaming news outlet, Continue reading »

After Capcom hinted and teased last week about an exclusive title trailer hitting the Microsoft games console it was unleashed today on Xbox Live Marketplace.
The trailer itself is seven minutes long and is in both English and Japanese as well as an exclusive Q&A Lost Planet 2's director Kenji Oguro and an intro by producer, Jun Takeuchi.
In the two years since the original Lost Planet was released on the Xbox 360 a prequel called Lost Planet: Continue reading »