Upgrade Your Xbox 360’s Hard Drive on the Cheap

PCWorld:

“Microsoft expects you to pay close to $200 to upgrade your Xbox 360’s hard drive from 20GB to 120GB. That’s about $150 more than a 120GB SATA drive actually costs. But with this slightly tricky hack, you can save a bundle while boosting your game console’s storage capacity to hold more music, video, and other media files.”

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L4D2: Scavenger Mode

RPS:

“Valve have sent word of a fourth game mode to be included in Left 4 Dead 2, called Scavenger Mode. It’s like this: “Scavenge mode challenges players to compete in round-based games of up to 8 players (Survivors vs. Infected). The Survivors must battle both the Infected and the clock as they collect gas cans to refuel a generator located in each map. Every can the Survivors pour into the generator scores their team a point and adds time to the clock.” Needless to say, the infected have to stop them. Just as interesting, perhaps, is the confirmation of previously discussed Ai Director 2.0, who will have “the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players’ performance.”

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2K Games Gives BioShock 2 Street Date

1UP:

“2K Games has finally taken the wraps off of the new BioShock 2 release date. The company announced today that the game has been set for a worldwide release on February 9, 2010. The announcement was pretty sparse, since the rest of the press release details the two separate stories in single and multiplayer modes, and doesn’t cover anything we haven’t heard before. The game was initially pushed back to 2010 to “perform better in the marketplace,” which we take to mean 2K wanted to avoid Modern Warfare 2. But the extra time is also letting them put on a bit more polish, and the game should be better for it. “

Check Out the First GTA4: Ballad of Gay Tony Trailer

“The second expansion pack for Grand Theft Auto 4, The Ballad of Gay Tony, has finally made its trailer debut today. Rockstar’s latest trailer shows off much of what you can expect to see in the game, including parachutes, an attack helicopter, cage fighting, a guy with no pants, explosions and racing on a golf course — with you in a golf cart, naturally — and a helicopter lifting a subway car right off the tracks. Parachutes look to be especially interesting and should make navigating the rooftops of Liberty City’s skyscrapers much easier.

The Ballad of Gay Tony is releasing on October 29 for 1,600 Microsoft Points ($20) on the Xbox Live Marketplace and in disc form (bundled with the first GTA4 expansion, The Lost and the Damned) as Episodes from Liberty City for $40.”

Fan Made Music Video: A Zombie Infested World is Wonderful

/gamer: “Someone decided to edit a music video together of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” but used the game Left 4 Dead for inspiration. If you watch the video with a group of people, there won’t be a dry eye in the room.Make sure you watch out for 1:00 minute mark when the lyrics talk about a rainbow — totally a beautiful thing.

Valve, take note. You should definitely do something like this for the next trailer for Left 4 Dead 2.”

Sony Unveils Smaller, Cheaper PS3 Slim

OK, it’s definitely on my Christmas list now…..

DVICE:

“If you’ve been waiting for the PlayStation 3 to get cheaper before you jumped on board, your wait is over. Sony just announced the new PS3 Slim, a 120GB PS3 that slims down the form factor of the console while also slimming the price down to $299. It’s 33% smaller and 36% lighter than the original, and it’ll be available the first week of September.

Don’t need a smaller console? The old, fatty PS3s are still available while supplies last, with a price drop on those guys to be announced tomorrow.. All PS3s still stand up as the best Blu-ray players around, so now seems like as good a time as any to upgrade your movie discs.”

Xbox Live Update has arrived, everything is going to be alright

Engadget:

“It was almost a little cruel of Microsoft to offer its Xbox Live Update preview program so widely — sure, all your stupid friends had the update, with their fancy new avatar clothing purchases and their cutesy little shared virtual Netflix screenings — but there was you, updateless, sitting all alone, trying to squeeze out a few more experience points in Call of Duty while you held back the tears. Well, your wait is over. The newly improved Xbox 360 dashboard is live for everybody. Games on Demand, User Ratings, Avatar Awards… it’s all there. Just ripe for the picking.”

Crash Course: Valve announce new downloadable Left 4 Dead campaign

Offworld:

“Valve has just announced the latest round of DLC set for the original Left 4 Dead with Crash Course, a new campaign due in September that will “bridge the gap between the end of the No Mercy campaign and the beginning of Death Toll” — with “new locations, new dialogue from the original cast, and an explosive finale.”

Valve says that while the campaign will work in both co-op and survival mode, “the primary goal of “Crash” is to deliver a complete Versus mode experience in just 30 minutes, resulting in a streamlined version of the game’s existing Versus campaigns,” and will include “a recharge timer for infected teammates… and item spawn behavior has changed for more balanced gameplay.”

The new campaign will be available as a free update for PC players, and will cost 560 Points for Xbox 360 users.”

New Aliens vs. Predator game – Marines Trailer

Can’t wait for some LAN action!

San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC): Halo Anime Trailer