Banking Some Extra Points

Microsoft's whole point rebate idea for Winter of Arcade must have went well, as they've decided to do it again. Any person who buys at least 2400 points worth of arcade games or add-on content during the month of October will net themselves an extra 800 points. While this may not be much encouragement to make everyone spend more, it's a nice bonus for people like me who end up spending that much most months anyway (Sonic 4, The Writer DLC and Costume Quest pretty much cover it). Just remember if you DO spend over 2400 points, you won't recieve the bonus points until the end of November.

Writing An Ending

Just a quick reminder that the last piece of DLC for Alan Wake (The Writer) should be out some time today. In my opinion, Alan Wake still stands as my choice for game of the year, and i'm very interested to see how this final piece affects the story of the game. Keep an eye out for a review tomorrow.

Returning From The Future and Still Arriving Late

In news that is surely unrelated to the previous post (...right?) it seems DC Universe Online has been delayed from it's November release to a 2011 release. The delay is apparently to "address community feedback", so i guess they need extra time to iron out some bugs and finish developing it. Guess this will be arriving just in time for all the WoW players who manage to finish of Cataclysm then give up on it once more.

A New Age Is Upon Us

There is a world other than ours... A world of magic, of mythology, of warcraft. All World of Warcraft players know that Azeroth will soon tremble and be divided by an all mighty Cataclysm, but until now, we had no idea when that would be. Blizzard has finally lifted the veil on it's "you'll get it when it's ready" policy and announced World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be hitting shelves on the 7th of December. So if you've played WoW before, then grab your time cards and prepare your Death Knight (or whatever class you choose to play as) and if you haven't then now would be as good a time as any to give it a shot... whats the worst that could happen?

A Wealthy Inheritance

It's already been discovered that the rank's on Halo: Reach seem to have been capped off at Lt. Colonel grade 3 for now, but no-one actually believed that would be the top rank. Well thanks to MLG we now have an entire list of ranks and amount of credits needed to get there. Click 'Read More' for the full list, but for those wondering, the top rank is Inheritor and you'll need to amass 20,000,000cr to get there... yes, twenty MILLION. With me approaching Captain, that puts me at about 1% of the way there. Have fun grinding that out, and remember not to cheat, unless you want to end up like the 15,000 people in the previous post.

The Banhammer Strikes

Bungie has started to make true it's claims of not letting players cheat on Halo: Reach. Just days ago, Bungie performed a credit reset to 15,000 players, who were apparently using an exploit that allowed them to complete a challenge more than 20 times in one day via network manipulation. The affected players will lose all credits and progress, however will still hold their commendations and will need to redownload any extra DLC armour they had. Reach players be warned, Bungie is shining up its banhammer, and they WILL use it.

Hits and Misses

Everyone loves to have a bit of fun, even game devs. Lately the main source of fun for Xbox players has been Halo: Reach, and Bungie has stepped up to show everyone that it doesn't matter who you are, sometimes bad things just happen... but as long as its happening to someone else, it's always hilarious. Check out the video below for some hilarious fails, and some insane hits by Bungie employee's.

The Ultimate Of Ultimate Editions

I may be a bit biased in saying that Bioware is one of the best RPG creators, and Dragon Age: Origins is one of the best RPG's of recent years. Anyone who agrees with me will be interested in the now confirmed Ultimate Edition that will be hitting shelves at the end of the month and will include the original game, Awakenings expansion, plus all 7 extra DLC chapters (plus the feastday packs). If you haven't played the game before, or you have but don't have any of the DLC, i HIGHLY recommend you pick this up. The price tag looks to be set at around $100, so for no more than the standard price of a game, you'll get hours upon hours of fun, fighting and fantastic story.

It's Not Like Locust Have Watches

Gears of War 3 has officially been delayed. As much as we were all anticipating the final invasion this coming April, the game will now be released closer to the end of 2011. This also means we'll be waiting a few extra months to find out the fate of Carmine.

Forza Motorsport Shifts Gears

To Top Gear that is. Turn 10 and Top Gear (the BBC tv show) have entered into a long term partnership that will see Top Gear branding coming to future Forza Motorsport games, plus a heap of Top Gear related DLC coming to Forza 3.With the Ultimate Edition of Forza 3 coming out in October, so too will the first such piece of DLC, 'Stig's Garage Pack' will bring 3 more cars to the already massive line-up (Koenigsegg CCX, Lexus LFA and Mercedes Benz SLS-AMG) but personally i'm just wondering if the Kinect support for future games will include a Kinect controllable Stig :D