Want a chance to win two custom, hand painted and very limited edition Red Dead Xbox 360 controllers? Join Rockstar today February 10th for the Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition multiplayer event on Xbox LIVE and enter on the multiplayer events page. Even if you don’t win the grand prize, 20 runners-up will win a t-shirt, playing cards and stickers.

Triple XP will be on all weekend, and it kicks off with the multiplayer event. Rockstar are activating the extra XP for both Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network.

A live video stream and chat will accompany the sweepstakes on the multiplayer events page, so you’ll be able to see and talk about the action even if you aren’t able to play.

OFFICIAL ROCKSTAR GAMERTAGS

• RedDeadDev3 (Live video streaming)
• RedDeadDev4
• RedDeadDev5
• RedDeadDev6

HOW TO FIND ROCKSTAR
Start up multiplayer from the main menu. This will place you into a Free Roam lobby. Add one of the Gamertags above as a friend, and while you’re waiting to receive an invite check out the chat and live stream on the multiplayer events page. Also feel free to play through a few rounds with other players.

HOW DOES FREE ROAM WORK?
Free Roam is the hub of your online experience. Supporting up to 16 players, Free Roam allows you to explore with your friends and enemies, take out the gangs of outlaws launch into more structured gameplay using the markers placed around the world. Rockstar will be forming posses and then heading into several game modes across all of the original multiplayer and the downloadable content during the evening.

To form a posse, press the ‘Back’ button and use the menu. This menu gives you several gameplay options and access to the list of players in your session.

FORMING A POSSE
To start the game, invite your friends, form a posse and find Rockstar, follow these steps:

1. From the main menu, press ‘Start’ and then enter ‘Xbox LIVE Multiplayer’ by pressing the ‘X’ (blue) button.

2. Once in a Free Roam lobby, press the ‘Back’ button to open the in-game multiplayer menu.

3. Press the ‘RB’ button and then the ‘Y’ (yellow) button to ‘Invite Friends’. Invite at least one friend into your posse using the ‘A’ (green) button.

4. Once your friends are in the game, press the ‘Y’ (yellow) button again to return to the ‘Players’ menu and select them with the ‘A’ (green) button to ‘Propose New Posse’ or ‘Send Posse Invite’.

5. Once you and your friends are ready to go, start up the game mode Rockstar are currently playing. This can be found in the chat as the event rolls along.

As stated, pay close attention to the chat to know what game mode Rockstar are currently playing.

this will be available in stores on March 9^th on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC with a SRP of £29.99 (€39.99).

DiRT 3 Complete Edition will see DiRT 3 expanded with 12 new routes across two locations, new cars and a range of liveries (via download on PC) to deliver the definitive version of the ultimate off-road racer.

The extensions are:

The Monte Carlo Rally Pack – eight breathtaking Rally stages featuring dramatic climbs, descents and hairpins of snowy mountain roads. Race through the Alps and conquer the legendary Col de Turini pass.

The X Games Asia Track Pack – four new routes set across two new tracks in Shibuya, the neon heart of central Tokyo, where spectacular mud-spattered Rallycross circuits weave beneath towering skyscrapers.

The Power and Glory Car Pack – stars five cars including the BMW M3 Rally, Lancia Delta S4, Ford Focus ST Rallycross, Scion tC and Chevrolet Camaro SSX Concept, each with a range of liveries.

The Mud and Guts Car Pack – features five cars available for single-player, split-screen and online multiplayer events. Race the Lancia Stratos, Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2, Citroën C4 Rallycross, Saturn Sky and Ford Mustang GT, each with a range of liveries.

The Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack – access the Ford Escort Mk II, a 70s rally classic with five liveries.

The Ken Block Special Pack – features a customised and upgraded Ford Escort Mk II, an Open Class Rally car sporting a killer Ken Block livery.

The Mini Gymkhana Special Pack – access the mid-engined Mini Cooper S Gymkhana, customised and tuned to become an outrageously responsive Gymkhana car.

DiRT 3 itself features over 50 years of iconic rally cars to be raced through the snow, rain and dirt. Powered by the award-winning EGO Engine, the game delivers incredible graphics, damage and weather in solo, online and in split-screen. From the forests of Michigan to the infamous roads of Finland and the national parks of Kenya, gamers take on a wide range of disciplines including Gymkhana, Rallycross, Landrush, Head 2 Head and Trailblazer, plus the most amount of Rally content in the series yet.

There’ll be more packs like these on the way offering more Coliseum Battles to tackle and more characters to add to your team. Serah’s Azrael bow is also available to buy today as DLC for 80 Micrsoft Points, exclusively for Xbox 360 players. You can purchase the Opponent: Lightning & Amodar pack now for 240 Microsoft Points here. Also it will be available  for £1.59 on the PlayStation Network when it’s released tomorrow (8th Feb 2012).

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• ·         Check Point Race
• ·         Mosh Pit which is destruction derby mode
• ·         Boost Me Up which is pickup collection by performing various stunts
• ·         Gang Wars which is team derby mode
• ·         Find Your Mate which is escorting your mate to the safe zone from an enemy dominated place
• ·         Plant Bomb which is planting and diffusing a bomb in enemy category
• ·         Territory Control

Players unlock new stages and rewards as they progress through the campaign based on times they have achieved, as they compete in one of 10 environments including the Stadium, Arena, Black Market, Junk Yard, Factory and Ship. Each new stage offers a new objective to be completed from surviving the onslaught attack of enemy vehicles in mosh pit to completing a set of stunts as you compete against the stop watch in check point. Later stages include planting and defending a strategically placed bomb and escort missions.

While there have also been a large number of lightcycle games developed for every platform imaginable in the past, with Positron the aim was to design a new experience. It should also feel familiar but offer new and interesting challenges and game modes to challenge the player. One of the first design decisions that was made was to stay away from the boring open arena gameplay. While that is still included as a mode in the game, there is also have much more complex layouts and even include a level editor so the player can design their own levels which are dynamically built from a simple 2D pixel-map (a video of the editor in action will be posted this week).

Retroburn also said that the visual style of the blocks in the game world was designed to be simple, cover a large portion of the screen and use as few polygons to render as possible. We also wanted to show reflections of the world geometry, bikes and trails too. In early builds we would render two copies of everything, one translated beneath the ground plane and one above providing realistic looking reflections. As development continued we wanted to optimize this as much as possible and we now use a number of tricks to render the world in a much more efficient manner which even the Windows Phone 7 devices can handle with full reflections.

The bikes themselves have been designed to look fast, with minimal texturing. The game will launch with three bikes included and we intend to add more content as time progresses. The trail effect is relatively simple, nothing too special there but we did add in a few particle effects for sparks under the bike’s wheels while driving. This made the bikes feel grounded and provided a consistent visual effect to help make the scene more lively.

The chase camera went through quite a number of iterations before we reached the current version. During testing we accidentally changed some settings of the camera and thought it looked cool when turning that we got a side-shot of the bike. We kept this in the current camera with an elastic snap-back to the bike’s tail. This gives a unique cornering animation which looks cool as you go swerving around the corners on the map.

Overall we’re now very happy with the way Positron looks and feels. While this video was only intended as a VFX Preview there is so much more to the game than you’re seeing here and we will be showing that in a few upcoming gameplay videos later this week. We hope you like the video and please do comment or leave feedback.

Here is the video/trailer.

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Source: http://retroburngames.com/press/positron_vfx_preview_trailer_in_more_detail

No smokes, no shotguns, only Torque Bow pickups and single shot Snub. Just like last week, the Snub is loaded with just one shot capable of popping heads! Don’t forget to use the Thrashball Drone if you’re on the Locust team. There are only a few days left to play with this exclusive skin.

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Robert Bowling creative strategist at Infinity Ward confirmed the MW3 patch 1.08 for Xbox contains:

• improved lag comp
• theater fixes
• YouTube uploads are now 100x faster
• nerf to Striker (pellets reduced to 6)
• buffs to all other shotguns (9 pellets)
• all akimbo weapons nerfed (rate of fire reduced by 50%)
• fix to an issue that prevented some users from receiving prestige token after prestiging

It will require 5MB of space for download. Presently the patch is solely intended for the Xbox 360 however Infinity Ward has stated the PC and Playstation 3 versions will follow soon. “The PS3 version of the patch had PS3 exclusive updates that delayed it slightly” stated Bowling.

This exciting offer, which is also available on new releases, Soul Caliber V, Darkness 2 and Tekken 3DS, will also include selected pre-owned titles and gaming accessories.

Anna-Marie Mason, Marketing Director at GAME said:

With 2012 set to be another great year in gaming, we’re committed to offering customers the best value possible on the fantastic titles out there through competitive pricing, our trade in scheme and offers on games. Our ‘Fun for a Fiver’ trade-in deal is a really unique way for customers to experience their favourite games for less and we encourage gamers to get in early to take advantage of this great offer today.

Here is just some of what you could get with this great offer.

New Releases – all £5

- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Xbox360/PS3) – £39.99, released 3rd Feb 2012
- Soul Caliber V (Xbox 360/PS3) – £37.99, released 3rd Feb 2012
- The Darkness 2 (Xbox360/PS3) – £39.99, released 10th Feb 2012
- Tekken (N3DS) – £34.99, released 17th Feb 2012
- Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (N3DS) – £27.99

Pre-Owned – all £5

Xbox 360
- Resident Evil 5 – £9.99
- Battlefield: Bad Company – £7.99
- Need for Speed: Shift Racing – £7.99

PlayStation 3
- James Cameron’s Avatar – £12.99
- Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction – £12.99
- Assassin’s Creed 2 – £9.99

Nintendo DS
- Big Brain Academy – £9.99
- High School Musical: Makin’ the Cut – £9.99
- Mystery Case Files MillionHeir – £7.99

Nintendo Wii
- Sonic & The Secret Rings – £9.99
- High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance – £7.99
- Mario Strikers Charged – £7.98

For more information on this offer and all trade in initiatives visit the GAME website.

Virtual City allows players to construct their own city, developing it into anything from a suburban utopia to a bustling metropolis. To accomplish this, players must build houses, set up industrial buildings, create mass-transit systems and entertain their city’s residents with parks, cinemas, stadiums and events. Players must also manage production chains to transport goods and services to the areas that require them and trade with neighboring cities. They must provide city services such as health care, public safety, waste collection and recycling in order to keep their city’s residents happy and healthy. While progressing through the game, players must balance time, income, environmental factors, population and happiness in order to succeed, while dealing with various political and economic crises and natural disasters.

Key Features:

• 50 Challenging Levels in 5 Settings: Colorado, California, Michigan, Montana, New York
• 18 Distinct Mission Scenarios
• Over 50 Types of Buildings
• 25 Types of Goods to Transport
• Trade and 7 Production Chains to Master
• 16 Special Achievements to Earn
• Tons of Upgrades and Buildings to Unlock
• Free Play Mode on 5 Large Sand Box Maps
• Game Center Support

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