Fancy some free and legal multiplayer shooting action? Then get over to Steam and download Alien Swarm, which lets you team up with three friends to blast some alien bugs. The game is powered by the source engine, which is also the brains behind Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead. Check out the trailer then get downloading!
Microsoft finally revealed the price of Kinect – and it’s not pretty at £130 and $150 in the USA. For the past couple of months, US retailers had made listings with the $150 price tag, but Microsoft said that these were not real prices, leading many online to think that the real price would be much cheaper. Back in 2008 after it was first shown to the public, there was even speculation the RRP would be around £60.
The £130 unit comes with Kinect Adventures, and there will also be a £250 bundle with a new Xbox 360 console that comes with 4GB memory to download games and make saves.
Kinect is due to hit stores in November, and we await Nintendo to announce a Wii price cut to take the wind out of Microsoft’s sails.
Will you be buying?
Blizzard have caused a storm of outrage with the news of RealID on their forums, which means members of their official forums will have to ditch their online aliases and start posting under their real names. The company says that this will stop a lot of abuse as posters will see that they are abusing real people and not an anonymous username. Folks are outraged over privacy issues. One poster didn’t seem to mind as some of his family even found it hard to find him on Facebook – then this happened to him. Another forum member has started a website filled of publicly found information on Blizzard employees, found when doing searches with their real names.
Would using your real name on a forum stop you from trolling, or would it make you more worried when you get into debates with other posters? Is this another warning that we should be more careful about what information we put about ourselves online?
Summer is not just about sport, BBQ’s and drinking outside, it is also about Xbox Live Arcade games. Microsoft have announced the lineup for this year’s ‘Summer Of Arcade’ promotion with five big downloadable releases competing for your MS points. All the games cost 1200 MS Points (around £10.20 RRP), but if you buy 3 you get 400 back and if you buy all five you get 1200 giving you 4 games for the price of 5. The games and dates are:
Limbo – July 21st
Hydro Thunder – July 28th
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair – August 4th
Monday Night Combat – August 11th
Lara Croft & The Guardian Of Light – August 18th (preview here!)
You wait ages for a new Final Fantasy game and then two come along in the same year. MMO Final Fantasy XIV will be available to buy this year – if you are a PC owner. The game hits the PC in September, with the PS3 version arriving much later in March 2011, which is a bit of a shame for the fans who eagerly entered their registration codes packed in with Final Fantasy XIII to get into the BETA. Now while the game is officially out on September 30th, you can get in a week earlier if you stump up the cash for the Special Edition – very clever Square-Enix. Read on to find out what is in the special edition, and how you can get involved in the July PC BETA.
