Of course, it'd be nice if they didn't bury indie releases so it'd be easier to find.

NEW XCOM! NOT FPS! TURN-BASED FROM CIV DEVELOPER FRAXIS! HARD BEING COHERENT! BONERVILLE POPULATION HASNEY!!

A recent bug was discovered on the Xbox marketplace's website where the "Try Demo" option to download a game onto the Xbox 360 ended up becoming an actual purchase of the game if MS points were discovered on the account.

It appears the "Try Demo" button somehow became glitched which makes the server think a "Buy Now" has been requested instead of a demo option for a game. To make matters worse, the confirmation screen shown to users is the generic screen used for both options but doesn't state an actual purchase is being made instead of a demo choice.

Microsoft is aware of the situation and are currently working to fix the issue although no news on if affected accounts will be restored automatically or if Customer Service is needed. Microsoft also didn't state if the glitch was the result of the recent overhaul for the marketplace and dashboard for Kinect compatibility.

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http://www.giantbomb.com/news/nasty-...ood-news/3888/

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Daily Recap:
1) According to Bioware, the company has completly shifted away from developing single player games to now MMOs and multiplayer games with every future Bioware game to have multiplayer "shoe-horned" into it.
http://www.gamezone.com/news/multipl...-bioware-games

2) Warner Bros announce Gotham City Imposters has been delayed from its original release of January 10 to now a February 2012 release date although no official reason was given for the delay.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...stors-delayed/

3) Warner Bros also announced Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is currently in development by Travelers Tales and has a release date of Summer 2012 for all current platforms.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...oes-announced/

Sweet, I enjoyed the first Lego Batman game. Hope Azrael is in this one as well.

But all games should be FPS as it is a superio genre.

To be fair, with EA mandating multiplayer elements, is this even a surprise?

Don't really care anymore, since they seem to want to make stripped down shooters and WOW clones now.

Looks like basically LEGO Justice League. No Azrael in sight.

Yeah I figured as much, but I was more dreaming along the lines of the custom build characters from the original being held over into the second one as well.

If anybody's in wtf mode; the LEGO games are seriously good, even if they'll all basically the same. Hard to hate them.

They are fun but after a I think Indy I stopped playing because I have enough shit to play.

Yeah I played a few minutes of one of the Star Wars games that a friend of mine had and Batman and while fun I can definitely see it could get old.

In interviews with both the Associated Press and Zoomin Games, Shigeru Miyamoto reveals his current development plans involve a brand new "original title" along with his reactions from the incorrect news about his retirement.

Besides confirming development on Pikmin 3 for the Wii U and Luigi's Mansion 2 for the 3DS, Miyamoto also revealed he's is working on a third "undisclosed original title." While he didn't mention anything about the title itself, he did provide a hint of it won't have photo realistic graphics nor is it based on anything he's previously worked on.

In terms of the incorrect story about him retiring from Nintendo, Miyamoto was a bit shocked at how huge the reaction became especially the part about him splitting away time from developing games in order to mentor the younger developers in the company. He believes once he's finally ready to retire, the same characters and franchises he helped create at Nintendo will last well beyond his own lifetime.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/miya...original-title
http://www.gamezone.com/news/nintend...irement-rumors

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Daily Recap:
1) Capcom confirms the 3DS demo for Resident Evil Revelations will be arriving soon to the US and Europe with the US/Canada demo expected to arrive first.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...emo-confirmed/

2) The next Xbox console and PS4 are currently rumored to appear during this year's E3 convention with at least the next Xbox set to debut at CES 2012.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...appear-e3-2012

3) Sony has made Kaz Hirai, creator of the Playstation and Ridge Racer series, their new president of the company with Howard Stringer staying as a CEO of the company.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/ridge-...resident/3891/

Lego Harry Potter was pretty boring. Lego Star Wars and Andiana Jones were pretty fun.

I'd say it's easy to distinguish them.

I for one am outraged that we only got a paltry 8 years out of the XBox 360.

6 years... Crazy how fast that's gone by :/

Appalling!

XBox Live games are coming to non-Windows smartphones complete with achievements. Good for you, cheevo whores.

David Jaffe reveals some new info about the upcoming Twisted Metal game while also debunking a bunch of recent rumors floating as well.

While pictures of the game's kiosks in stores make it seem like it will support the PS Move and 3D capabilities, neither will actually be included in the game. There was some initial plans for 3D support but they didn't have enough time nor a large enough development team to actually work on the idea.

In terms of costs, it will take about double the sales of what Twisted Metal Black gained just to break even or about 1-2 million sales in order for future games in the series to get the "green light" status.

DLC will only be considered if the game sells well enough to create an actual demand for additional content due to the company having other projects to work on.

The game will also be the last game lead by David Jaffe as he has gotten tired of making combat games. It doesn't mean the series will go on hiatus though since another producer can take over if future games are approved.

Finally, no PS Vita version is being planned nor will the co-op include online play since its just local co-op for the story.

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http://mp1st.com/2012/01/08/twisted-...ry-local-only/

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Daily Recap:
1) Update to Kaz Hirai becoming the new president of Sony for 2012 as the company announced today they have not made the switch while Howard Stringer will stay as the company's president for the near future.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/sony-d...in-on-up/3895/

2) Microsoft reveals the lineup for the 2012 House Party on Xbox Live will include Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, I Am Alive, Warp, and Nexuiz.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...nd-i-am-alive/

3) Eleven more concert dates and locations have been revealed for the Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony show with tickets ranging between $50 to $100 based on seat location.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...tes-announced/

Seems weird to leave online co-op out in this day and age.

So what will the Xbox 420 cost at launch? Probably 500 or some shit.

It's being rumoured to be comparable to the current 360.

Will it? Who knows?

While last week the court case involving Interplay and Bethesda was settled last week, the details of the results over the use of the Fallout series were revealed today.

Interplay looses all current rights to the Fallout series in regards to their originally planned MMO game while Bethesda has announced they will be taking over in making the next game an MMO title.

Interplay did receive $2 million in compensation for the work already done but was much lower than they requested and were expecting to at least own the rights for the MMO game. They also are allowed to hold the rights to sell the original Fallout games (Fallout, Fallout 2 PC, and Fallout Tactics) until 2013 when Bethseda will gain full control over the older games.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/inte...t-mmo-bethesda

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Daily Recap:
1) According to Sakurai Masahiro, the upcoming Kid Icarus Uprising game for the 3DS will not have selectable difficulty levels but instead be using a similar system to the Max Payne games which altered based on how well or bad a player progressed.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/kid-...ulty-selection

2) id Software confirms earlier rumors of potentially large layoffs within the company but have not stated if the laid off workers came only from the Rage development team or if the upcoming Doom 4 team was affected by the cuts.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/id-sof...ontinues/3903/

3) Ubisoft announces Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will have a release date of May 22 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, the multiplayer beta for the console versions will start in April, and the PC version is set to arrive at a later date.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...soldier-dated/

Not news, but entertainment. A pretty rofl thread from the "Men Going Their Own Way" Forum about how much it sucks that there is a stronger female presence in video games.

How do you know these people?

'twas tweeted by Jim Sterling of Destructoid.

EA announces free DLC for both Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will be available to gamers who play the demos of both games. The only catch is to unlock stuff for one game, the other game's demo needs to be played.

EA did not mention which demo for Mass Effect 3 unlocks items due to the game expecting to have 2 separate demos with one for just single player and the other for multiplayer.

The demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a timed demo with a 45 minute timer for playing but doesn't start until after a user's character is created.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/ea-b...-and-reckoning
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Daily Recap:
1) New games were updated to Club Nintendo with the choices being Dr Mario Online RX for Wiiware, Majora's Mask for the Virtual Console, and Kirby's Dream Land along with Dr Mario Express for the 3DS eshop. The games will be available until January 31 as rewards.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/deal...ideo-game-sale

2) Sony announces the next PS2 Classic for the PSN Store will be Killzone 2 and has a release date of January 24 to go along with a $9.99 price tag for the digital download.
http://www.examiner.com/video-game-i...e-priced-dated

3) Update to Microsoft's 2012 Xbox House Party promotion as Alan Wake's Nightmare was announced to be available on February 15 with a new game on sale every Wednesday for the following three weeks.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rele...lan-wake-party

EA joins Tecmo in ridiculous pre-order/demo concepts.

So this pre-order promo is basically Dragon Age 2. Play that demo, unlock a weapon in the game. But you also had to subscribe to alot of newsletters and shit at EA to get even more stuff for the game.

Oh shit. Men are so oppressed.

Oh god, is that dumb.

KOA seems like a decent enough venture, but nothing's really popped about it.

I'm kind of hoping it's good but expecting it to suck.

Tecmo Koei reveals the contents of the collector's edition for Ninja Gaiden 3 although didn't reveal the actual price which is still expected to be around $99.

The set includes the game, an art book, a soundtrack CD, a figure set of Ryu killing an enemy, and a demo code to get the exclusive 4-character demo for Dead of Alive 5.

The DoA 5 demo can also be pre-ordered for the regular game at Gamestop or Amazon but only include 2 characters (different based on where pre-order was done).

The collector's set was also confirmed once again to only be available at Gamestop.

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http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/he...-bonus-screen/

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Daily Recap:
1) Based on an accidental leak by UK retailer GAME, a new Medal of Honor (sequel to the reboot MoH) and Need For Speed Game (NFS Hot Pursuit 2) are set to arrive later this year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...games-in-2012/

2) Nintendo confirms details about the Wii U will be slowly revealed leading up to the final re-debut of the console during E3 this year although no huge annoucements will be revealed until the show itself.
http://www.gamezone.com/news/nintend...ior-to-e3-2012

3) Sony announces the upcoming ModNation Racers: Road Trip for the PS Vita will only support online leaderboards for time trails and will not have support for online racers nor locl/ad-hoc races.
http://vita.ign.com/articles/121/1216411p1.html

For something that's killing the game industry, Gamestop sure gets a lot of love and goodies.

I work at an Eb up here in Alberta, and used game sales make up like none of our sales.

Each night we have to calculate the percentage of our sales for the day that were used. It usually comes out to 1 or 2 percent of our daily total.

Each EB Games is supposed to have thirty to fourty percent of it's total sales made up by used games, but none of the stores break past five to ten percent at most.

Edit: Basically what I'm saying is that EB/Gamestop isn't really killing the industry. If they sold a larger percentage then sure, but as it stands now, they're not really different than your Wal-Marts, Best Buys or Future Shops.

That's crazy it's dropped that low. I was a District Manager for that company about 4 years ago, and all of my stores (15) ran at least 27%; the the regional average (about 72 stores) was right at 30%.

Which region were you in?

Games don't get taken home to play. What are you talking about?

Minch takes a comment that was a swipe at the game industry attitude of damage to the games industry and turns it into a lecture as though they were in any way my real feelings on the matter.

Hooray predictability.

I was a part time employee at Gamestop once until I was fired for snorting coke off the surface of our game discs and I can tell you with aauthority that this has never happened!

Wal-Mart doesn't even sell used games.

I wasn't attacking you, I was just using your post as a launchpad to explain about how EB Games in my region works.

I know one around here does. Damn sure I've seen "preowned" stickers at at least one Wal Mart.