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Learn how to harness the power of the  Thu’um and other voice commands using the capitalised words in the following guide:

When Kinect is Disabled RB: Shout/Powers
When Kinect is Enabled: RB: Enabled Dragon Language Shouts LB+RB: Shout/Powers

Main Gameplay:

Only useable during main gameplay

QUICK ITEMS – Opens Inventory Menu
QUICK MAGIC – Opens Magic Menu
QUICK SKILLS – Opens Skills Menu
QUICK MAP – Opens Map Menu
QUICK SAVE – Quick Saves
QUICK LOAD – Quick Loads
NEW SAVE – Saves into a New Save Slot
PAUSE GAME – Pauses the Game
Shouts

Only usable during main gameplay. There are two things to remember for Kinect Shouts.

First you need to have the shout unlocked to the level that you want to use before the Kinect will allow you to do it, i.e. if you haven’t unlocked Fire Breath, saying the shout in English or Dragon Language will do nothing.

Secondly, you can say the shout in English or Dragon Language.

1. English Language – available without holding RB. You can say the name of the shout, e.g. UNRELENTING FORCE, which will trigger the highest known level of the shout.

2. Dragon Language – only available when holding RB. You can say one, two or three words in the Dragon Language of the shout which will trigger the corresponding level of shout.

UNRELENTING FORCE or FUS RO DAH
DISMAY or FAAS RU MAAR
BECOME ETHEREAL or FEIM ZII GRON
WHIRLWIND SPRINT or WULD NAH KEST
ELEMENTAL FURY or SU GRAH DUN
CLEAR SKIES or LOK VAH KOOR
FIRE BREATH or YOL TOOR SHUL
DRAGONREND or JOOR ZAH FRUL
CALL OF VALOR or HUN KAAL ZOOR
CALL DRAGON or OD AH VIING (no 1st or 2nd level variations of this shout)
ANIMAL ALLEGIANCE or RAAN MIR TAH
AURA WHISPER or LAAS YAH NIR
DISARM or ZUN HAAL VIIK
MARKED FOR DEATH or KRII LUN AUS
FROST BREATH or FO KRAH DIIN
STORM CALL or STRUN BAH QO
KYNE’S PEACE or KAAN DREM OV
SLOW TIME or TIID KLO UL
THROW VOICE or ZUL MEY GUT
ICE FORM or IIZ SLEN NUS

Favourites Menu & Hot Key Equipping

Only usable in the favourites menu, assign <hot key command> set the selected item to the spoken hot key.    <hot key commands> can be any of the following:

Health Potion
Magicka Potion
Stamina Potion
Poison
Sword
Mace
Axe
Dagger
Bow
Shield
Dual Wield Left
Dual Wield Right
Soul Trap
Great Sword
Battleaxe
War Hammer
Fire Spell
Frost Spell
Lightning Spell
Ward Spell
Ritual Spell
Bound Weapon
Summon Spell
Armor Spell
Calm Spell
Frenzy Spell
Healing Spell
Light

Follower Commands:

ALLY <actioncommand> tells the ally to activate the thing your looking at, as if you entered command mode and selected it.

FOLLOW/FOLLOW ME – Ally follows you
WAIT/WAIT HERE – Ally stays where they are
TRADE/ITEMS – Opens the teammate menu
OPEN – Ally opens the container/door you’re looking at
STAND – Ally stands in the spot you’re looking at
RETRIEVE – Ally picks up the item you’re looking at
ATTACK – Ally attacks the NPC you’re looking at
INTERACT/USE – Does a generic interact command with the ally. Same as if you entered  command mode and pressed A. What the ally does is dependent on what you’re looking at.

Items Menu:

After opening ITEMS, the following commands open the corresponding catagories:

FAVORITES
ALL
WEAPONS
APPAREL/ARMOR
POTIONS
SCROLLS
FOOD
INGREDIENTS
BOOKS
KEYS
MISCELLANEOUS

After opening any of the above sub-menu categories, you can use the following to sort your items:

SORT BY NAME – Sorts the item list by name, increasing. If the list is already sorted by name increasingly it sorts decreasingly.

SORT BY WEIGHT – Sorts the item list by weight, decreasingly. If the list is already sorted by weight decreasingly it sorts increasingly.

SORT BY VALUE – Sorts the item list by value, decreasingly. If the list is already sorted by weight decreasingly it sorts increasingly.

CLOSE MENU – Closes the menu

the Barter & Container Menu share much the same voice control options

Magic Menu:

After opening MAGIC, the following opens the menu to the corresponding category:

FAVORITES
ALL
ALTERATION
ILLUSION
DESTRUCTION
CONJURATION
RESTORATION
SHOUTS
POWERS
ACTIVE EFFECTS/EFFECTS

Character Menu:

After opening CHARACTER, the following opens the menu to the corresponding category:

ITEMS
MAGIC
SKILLS
MAPS

Map Menu:

After opening MAP, the following centers the camera on the corresponding location:

WINDHELM
FALKREATH
DAWNSTAR
MORTHAL
SOLITUDE
MARKARTH
RIFTEN
WHITERUN
WINTERHOLD
PLAYER/WHERE AM I – centers camera on you
WAYPOINT  - centers camera on marker set by you, if applicable
QUEST MARKER/QUEST – centers camera on active quest target. Saying it multiple times will cycle through targets.

Skills Menu:

After opening SKILLS, use the following commands to center the camera on that skills perk tree:

ONE HANDED
TWO HANDED
ARCHERY
BLOCK
SMITHING
HEAVY ARMOUR
LIGHT ARMOUR
PICKPOCKET
LOCKPICKING
SNEAK
ALCHEMY
SPEECH
ALTERATION
CONJURATION
DESTRUCTION
ILLUSION
RESTORATION
ENCHANTING

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Ice Age: Continental Drift the game will come out on all major platforms, when this happens you would assume that it would be a “Better with Kinect” title as developers tend to be lazy and just add a bit of Kinect Stuff.  Fortunately this is not the case and Ice Age: Continental Drift is a full on Kinect Required title.

The game is for all ages so it’s  a mini game collection. There will be 10 different events like:

• Glacier Hopping
• the Prehistoric Plumber
• Bob-Smashing
• Coconut Slingshot

You’ll get medals as you complete events and there is a head to head multiplayer mode and leaderboards.

Ice Age: Continental Drift is out on 10th July 2012

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Aftermath is a government park after a tsunami. There’s seaweed and wreckage everywhere, and the main play space sits under a huge cargo ship which was deposited on top of a building during the storm. The area floods and quakes during gameplay, as the whole thing is teetering on the edge of falling into the water below. This has gameplay implications as it is difficult to aim during the quakes, and difficult to be stealthy while splashing through the water.

Artillery starts out looking like an ordinary military base, but during gameplay a storm kicks up. Lightning begins to flash on the horizon and eventually a tornado develops and sweeps near the play space. Dust and debris are kicked up making it difficult to see, and the buffeting winds can mask your approach.

Cove is a small port that the Stranded have taken over and turned into a little village. The map is very open with long lines of sight, but there is a really, really heavy layer of fog that masks just about everything. There’s a really nice sniper nest inside a central ship, but the sniper’s form is silhouetted by the low angle light shining through the fog.

Jacinto was a beautiful city, but huge stalks have popped up through the buildings and flooded the entire area with imulsion. Half of the map is dead and crumbling, with imulsion fumes hanging in the air. To make matters worse, the drizzle that is present when a match begins quickly develops into a heavy rain storm that impedes visibility and lines of sight as water starts sheeting off the buildings.

Raven Down is a very small crossroads that is blanketed in a blinding snow storm. A Raven helicopter has crashed in the storm, and crashed through an elevated train on its way down, so there’s train wreckage to deal with as well. The snowstorm ebbs occasionally, but is more often so heavy that it’s difficult to see more than a few meters ahead at any given time.

During Horde and Beast mode there will be  special weapons hidden in the maps  called “Elemental Cleavers.” The cleavers do different types of damage, for example an Imulsion cleaver explodes on impact or the Snow cleaver can gust an icy breeze at an enemy and stun them from a distance . You will also be treated to 4 character models Mechanic Baird, Savage Grenadier Elite, Commando Dom & Savage Hunter and 7 new weapon skins. Two of the weapon skins, which were designed based on community feedback, will need to be unlocked. There is also 250 gamerscore points added with this DLC.

Thanks to player suggestions and feedback the game mode Guardian will be making a come back with the “Forces of Nature” DLC.

GT.TV’s Geoff Keighley talked with Epic Games Producer Rod Fergusson about the DLC on last night’s episode of GT.TV. You can view the video in it’s entirety HERE.

The Forces of Nature DLC will be 800 MS Points and Gears of War 3 Season Pass holders will get the content free when it launches on 27th March 2012.

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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.

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The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack will be available for download on January 24 for 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE and £7.99 on PlayStation Network and Windows PC.

In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of his legendary mentor, Altair, on a journey of discovery and revelation. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilise the region.

In addition to Ezio’s award-winning story, the acclaimed online multiplayer experience returns, refined and expanded, with more modes, more maps and more characters that allow players to test their assassin skills against others from around the world. The latest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga also includes revolutionary gameplay, allowing players to manipulate the construct of Desmond’s memories and the Animus, to decipher the mysteries of his past and gain insight into the future.

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Some of our Troops are so used to playing commercial games they tend to lose concentration unless MoD simulations look equally realistic. This has become an important issue at the MoD, who are turning more to digital simulations to help prepare soldiers for duty.

Thousands of troops sent to Afghanistan have been trained on Virtual Battlespace2, a spin-off from a commercial game that can, for example, test their responses when they come under mortar attack from insurgents.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. New recruits expect training simulations to be of the same quality, forcing the Ministry of Defence to improve its own war games

Though the military stresses that these games only supplement traditional methods, it reflects the way technology is transforming military training. With budgets being squeezed across the MoD, simulations are also a comparatively cheap way of giving troops a “virtual” taste of what they might come up against in a warzone.

Another idea involves issuing RAF trainee pilots with tablet computers such as iPads, to save the cost – and weight – of printing bulky flight manuals that need to be regularly updated and cost £1,000 a student.

The scientists and engineers at MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Portsdown, Hampshire, are at the heart of the developments. Andrew Poulter, the technical team leader, said the military was trying to keep up with the advances that have helped turned computer gaming into a hugely lucrative global industry. Bestsellers such as Battlefield 3, Killzone 3 and the Call of Duty series have taken this genre of video games, known as “first-person shooters”, to a new level.

“Back in the 1980s and 1990s, defence was far out in front in terms of quality of simulation,” said Poulter. “Military-built simulators were state of the art. But now, for £50, you can buy a commercial game that will be far more realistic than the sorts of tools we were using. The truth is, the total spending on games development across the industry will be greater than spending on defence.”

Poulter is in charge of Project Kite (knowledge information test environment), which has been tasked with putting the MoD back in the forefront of simulation training, in part by buying-in technology from the big gaming companies.

The key to successful virtual training is for the simulation to be realistic enough for people to be properly “immersed” in what they are doing.

“Certainly, there is a level of computer games experience in recruits. So the plots have to be realistic and the image generation has to be high quality. A lot of the older systems can be very clunky. If you put someone behind a block display, it is harder for them to be completely immersed.” But though the commercial games “may look graphically beautiful, they have to be entertaining rather than realistic”.

Poulter and his nine-strong team will adapt the software so that the weapons perform as they would in combat “The weapons need to be credible. If they fire a rifle and the bullet travels three and a half miles, then that is not right. If they are steering a vehicle, then that has to be right too. Realism is more important than entertainment. Levels of immersion are very important.”

The MoD is using a variety of simulations, from drills to put out a fire in an aircraft to what to do if a vehicle in a convoy gets hit by a roadside bomb.

There are specific Afghanistan simulations, designed to give troops an idea of the tough environment they will find in one of the small forward operating bases in Helmand, and the drills they need to use if they come under attack.

Putting training simulations on tablet computers could be the next big shift in training. It would allow sailors, soldiers and aircrews to practise techniques wherever they wanted to. “Virtual Battlespace is quite good fun, and we want trainees to want to do training,” said Poulter.

“It is certainly a lot more fun than going through lists of checks and box-ticking.

“We want them to think ‘I would quite like to do a bit more of that kind of thing’. So they might spend 10 minutes [on a simulation] after reading papers in the morning, or in their spare time.”

Cost has also become a pressing issue. “If they have already learned some core skills in a simulation, there is less to learn during live training, which is much more expensive and may involve aircraft, tanks, and live round explosions.”

Poulter said a commander who came back from Afghanistan told him that two soldiers in his unit had drilled themselves so much on Virtual Battlespace2, he was sure the training had saved their lives when they came under fire. “It has been invaluable. It is being taken seriously. It’s not just a game,” said Poulter.

Award Winning Tactics  - Earn at least one Onyx medal

It’s wise not to attempt this alone, so make sure you have a full team i.e. 5 players this will give you a fighting chance especially considering you are not only against the enemy but also the time is ticking away.

Map selection is crucial, I personally like Trenches but Checkout is also a good strategic choice.

To begin with most players should choose the explosive ticker this helps store up the cash for bringing in the big beasts later, try having someone playing as a wild ticker or wretch, the wild ticker can take down the fortifications to allow the explosive tickers through and the wretch is useful for jumping over spikes or getting that quick final kill as time runs low.

Once you pass level 5 the Savage Drone is a good choice, he starts off with a Retro Lancer  so is good for charging the enemy also have whoever has reached tier 2 beasts play as the Kantus (only 1 person needs to do this) they can then heal the other team members.

Beast Mode Tiers

Hopefully by the time you reach wave 12 you will have saved up a fair amount of cash as you will need to purchase the tier 4 beasts. Wave 12 is basically Onyx Guards who can only be executed a close range and Heroes.  1 or 2 players should use a Berserker to knock down & destroy as many of the fortifications as possible and hopefully a lot of the enemies too. The other players would be best using Savage Drones & Explosive Tickers.

Here is the attractive skin you get to unlock also

Savage Theron

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“The problem is we don’t want people to experience the game through a crappy YouTube video with a 320×200 resolution, or something like that,” Troedsson told VideoGamer.com. “We want people to see this game in the great HD way that we want people to see it, of course.”

“I’d follow that up by saying that they don’t have to worry. The game is going to look really, really good on 360 as well, and we want to show them that now and up until launch.”

Addressing those who have already seen the footage, Troedsson added: “I would ask them a question, and that is, ‘How can you even make that judgement by looking at the quality of those videos?’ – which I’ve seen, by the way.

“I’d follow that up by saying that they don’t have to worry. The game is going to look really, really good on 360 as well, and we want to show them that now and up until launch.”

Troedsson also responded to concerns about the lack of Xbox 360 footage for the game thus far.

“I mean, we have to select which platforms we’re going to show it on, and there might be a lot of reasons behind it, but I don’t think people should worry about the 360,” he explained. “We do have the beta coming out very shortly now, we haven’t got the final date but it will be coming out in September, then people can play it themselves on 360 and hopefully can see that it looks and plays really well on 360.”

Good news for Xbox 360 gamers then, but we’ll hold out until we see the Xbox 360 version before getting too carried away.

Hear more from Troedsson by checking out the complete Battlefield interview.

Battlefield 3 will be released October 28 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Source: http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/battlefield_3/news/battlefield_3_on_xbox_360_looks_really_really_good.html

For the next 5 days Amazon say that this is whats instore….

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- Sony TVs at half price

- Coronation Street Golden Anniversary Collection DVD at less than half price

*All discounts from RRP or Amazon.co.uk selling price

Customers can keep track of all the deals by visiting www.amazon.co.uk/blackfriday

The offers on Amazon.co.uk will take the form of ‘Lightning Deals’with a limited quantity of an item being offered at a discount for a short period of time. Once that quantity has been reached or the time limit elapses, the ‘Lightning Deal’ will end. There will be more than 200 great deals available over the five day period.

What is Black Friday?

Black Friday (sometimes Green Friday) is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Depending on the source, the term dates either from the 1980s or back as 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, the day after usually occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. On this day many U.S. retailers open very early, with most of the retailers typically opening at 5AM or even earlier, at midnight.
The day’s roots may have originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Others claim it was part of mid-1980s anti-consumerism backlash, when people took a pledge to “blackout” that day – staying home, rather than shopping.