Lumines Live! Available on Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays is making some extra noise this week. The highly anticipated music-puzzle action phenomenon, “Lumines Live!” can be yours starting tomorrow, Wednesday, October 18, from 0800 GMT (1:00am PDT) on Xbox Live Arcade. The newest addition to the blockbuster franchise from Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Q Entertainment comes packed with puzzles, modes, exclusive music videos and full online multiplayer play over Xbox Live. The game even has an exclusive feature that records high score gameplay in the Time Attack Mode which can be downloaded and played back by any other player.

Lumines Live! Available on Xbox Live Arcade - Xbox

IGN: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Trailer, Videos and Movies

IGN: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Trailer, Videos and Movies

AMAZING NEW CRYSIS SCREENSHOTS AND COMPARISONS!!!

Sorry for the caps, but you'll soon see that this news post is 100% worthy of caps. I personally can't believe how good these graphics are. I think someone should make a mirror because this site won't last after all the diggs it's going to get. Crytek is my hero!

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Pictures of the back of the Wii box

The wonderful team at Wiixors was nice enough to let me know of some pics they grabbed from a local EB Games. They snagged some pics of the Wii retail box, and it has some interesting info!

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GameTap now in Canada, other locations planned

GameTap, the subscription, all-you-can-eat game download service is expanding into Canada and other international locations. Beginning today, Canadian gamers can pay $6.95 USD each month and are also eligible for the current $59.40 USD promotion for a full year. GameTap plans a bigger worldwide rollout in 2007 ...

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Xbox 360 September Performance Stats

Microsoft is on target to selling over 10 million Xbox 360 units worldwide by the end of the holiday period.

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Microsoft Completely Remodels Game Store, Xbox Style! (Photos)

GameStation (UK) is a multiplatform gaming store akin to GameStop here in the US, and apparently the one in Birmingham is huge. Alex was walking in to purchase a DS game when he noticed that there was green everywhere. Downstairs, there were twelve 360 demo kiosks on the bottom floor...

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Xbox 3 Already Being Planned

Hey fanboys! Want to get your panties in a bunch? Start right... NOW:

Microsoft EMEA veep Chris Lewis says the company is already working on its next next-generation console because "we have to".

Preliminary work is already under way, he told UK games site Kikizo.

"You can't sit back on your laurels in this business - the consumer won't let you, the developers certainly won't let us. So that's happening right now," he said.

The research and development practices of the console division are "no different than any other part of Microsoft" though, he insisted.

The news that Microsoft is already working on an Xbox 360 successor won't come as much surprise, mind - having been last to market with its first Xbox, the company was first to market in the next generation.

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PLAYSTATION®3. to use Firefox as browser

Under basic agreement with SCEI, Terra Soft was granted a unique opportunity to develop and bring to market a complete Linux OS for the Sony PLAYSTATION 3. In development of Yellow Dog Linux v5.0, Terra Soft integrated and enhanced code from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Sony Group, and Fedora in order to offer the following:

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IGN: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Review 9.0

The preview builds for Double Agent were tough to get a good read on because so many little things hadn't gelled yet. But the final retail versions, which we played, show Double Agent's full promise. The game came together. The layers of animation boast an excellent looking and moving Sam Fisher. Ubisoft uses an array of color schemes and shows them off in all sorts of beautiful-looking levels. The Shanghai team perhaps uses too much high-dynamic range and bloom lighting, but the game still offers stunning visuals as exemplified in the icy underwater passages of Okhotsk, the scenic views of Shanghai, and the war-torn streets of Kinshasa.

All sorts of improvements have been made to level design, AI, gameplay mechanics (which are simplified yet still require skill), and a meaningful storyline punctuated with directed moments. While some may argue the point, the new Mercs Vs. Spies mode is good fun and should prove to have legs on Xbox Live. The game still loads slowly and it slips below 30 FPS in both single and multiplayer (in fact there is already an auto-update patch to eliminate the MP lag). But overall, Double Agent is a major leap forward for the series and, at least in my opinion, gets better and better the more I play it.

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GameTap now in Canada, other locations planned

GameTap, the subscription, all-you-can-eat game download service is expanding into Canada and other international locations. Beginning today, Canadian gamers can pay $6.95 USD each month and are also eligible for the current $59.40 USD promotion for a full year. GameTap plans a bigger worldwide rollout in 2007 ...

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Crysis for Consoles? - CryEngine2 Will Support the Xbox360 and the PS3

Some refreshing new information about CryEngine2 has emerged. It's official that CryEngine2 will support Next-Gen consoles, but does that mean Crysis will be ported? Well no it doesn't, but it is certainly a possibility.

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Sony: Blu-Ray on PS3 has "nothing to do with movies"

While responding to criticisms of the storage technology being used primarily to push Sony's movie format war, Harrison defended: "It's got nothing to do with movies ... we need Blu-Ray to supply the kind of data that PS3 games use."

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How to make the Playstation 2 display 1080i

With a software trick the PS2 can display other video modes like 720p and 1080i making it have the same resolution as the Xbox 360.

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