Play in Style - Gamer Style
Nintendo is finally giving back to it’s loyal customers with Club Nintendo. If you sign up now you can get up to 1250 stars that you can swap for goodies such as games, animated wall papers, plush toys and even the Super Mario Galaxy sound track. You can earn stars by playing games and taking survey’s there is one survey that will extend your DS and Wii warranty.
There are two snazzy DS bundles up for grabs this “Black Friday”. Nintendo are releasing the Ice Blue and the Mario Red DS packs in time for the 28th of November in the US which is great news.
Over at JJ Games they’ve posted up the pictures below of video gaming pumpkins/Jack-o-Lanterns and just in time for Halloween!
There are some crazy pumpkin designs here and I still have my pumpkin to carve so I’m getting some good ideas too:
8 Bit Mario
Rockstar have confirmed that there will be trophies added to the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto 4 and that there are indeed zombies running around Liberty City and the infection is spreading!
Edge have reported that Valve have confirmed to them that there is going to be a Left 4 Dead demo available for the PC and for the Xbox 360 and that the release date for that demo will be sometime in November - information we didnt know before. Of course, the full game is also released in November, on the 17th of the month.
Managing director of Valve Software, Gabe Newell spoke to Edge and explained that the demo will be released as part of the $10 million ad campaign for Left 4 Dead, it’s much anticipated zombie shooter game.The demo will be taken from the No Mercy campaign and can be played by one to four players, Newell said.
It doesnt come out until next Tuesday but, an Engadget tipster has already sent them a bunch of photos from his ‘unboxing’ of a PSP-3000 Ratchet and Clank Entertainment Pack. The lucky gamer just happens to work in Best Buy and one of his staff perks is being able to drool over the newest version of Sony’s PSP before October 14th.
The much anticipated Xbox Dashboard revolution is coming our way on November the 19th, the date is confirmed! That’s the date we say goodbye to the old Xbox 360 dashboard and hello to the new Xbox experience complete with avatars to pimp out and express yourself with (I’ve just looked at my own Mii and I hope the Xbox avatars are a little more ‘pimped’ and a little less ‘plumped’ like my weird little Nintendo Mii is!).
Hands up if you are as excited as I am about the new dashboard! I like the current set up on my 360, the blades are fine with me but, I’m looking forward to the new system too, keeps the 360 ‘fresh’ and funky!
Here is the link to the Microsoft press conference at the Tokyo Games Show as reported by Joystiq.
Microsoft, who are currently out selling the PS3 with sales of their Xbox 360 console in Japan, are releasing a new 360 bundle in an effort to seemingly ‘cash in’ on the popularity of The Last Remnant game in the country.
The Last Remnant bundle will contain a 60GB Xbox 360, wireless controller, DVD remote, the Last Remnant game, an original Last Remnant faceplate, and a premium sound track CD and will cost around $331 when it is released on the 20th of November in Japan.
The Last Remnant is also due to be released on PS3 in the future.
An unknown problem has caused the servers for LittleBigPlanet Beta to crash, leaving many users to face not being able to connect at all or lag that makes using LBP virtually impossible.
Following on from our previous story on Nintendo’s DSi, we now have the first photos of the DSi.
As you can see, the location of the on/off button has changed, the side the LEDs were on has also changed with an added LED for Wi-Fi.
While design wise it doesn’t look much different, this could be a good thing as it looks great.
Today Nintendo have announced the DSi, the newest DS model. What the “i” stands for, is unclear at the moment, but I’d say it stands for “improved”. The DSi is greatly improved over the DS Lite when it comes to features.
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