Category: Xbox
Preview: Nickelodeon’s VicTORIous: Time to Shine
D3 bringing Victorious to the Kinect and DS, let’s break out the sleepover jokes!
Preview: Ben 10 Galactic Racing

Publisher D3 is coming out with a new Ben 10 racing game. This Mario Kart inspired racer puts a lot of variety to a proven formula to keep it interesting. If you squint you can almost see the turtle shells.
Best…Stop?

Beginning September 12, Best Buy will be changing the way they reward their customers with a revamped reward system that seems…very…familiar…
Battlefield 3′s Weapon Customization
The Battlefield 3 Alpha has been released to a select few, and while in the wild, we got a sneak peek at what the Alpha build will have to offer.
Avatar Kinect Out Today!
Xbox’s avatar based communications and social entertainment experience is out today. Avatar Kinect will be available to both Gold and Silver accounts up until September 8, after that the service will be Gold subscription only. To celebrate the release of Avatar Kinect, Microsoft gave comedians 90 seconds with Avatar Kinect to see how funny they can be. With your help to choose who is the funniest of the comedians, you get a chance to win a Xbox 360 Kinect bundle. Voting starts July 28, all you have to do is head over to Xbox’s Facebook page to vote!
Not One, Not Two, But Three…

After much debate on who would grace the cover of this year’s entry into the 2k Sports’ NBA series, three were chosen and it took us all by surprise. Read more inside after the jump.
Gunstringer Out In September!

Twisted Pixel has announced Gunstringer, the marionette, western gunslinger, that’s controlled with the Kinect game will be hitting stores and not XBLA on September 13! The $40 game will hit store shelves in North America, Australia, New Zealand and Asia on September 13, and September 16 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Gunstringer will be bundled together with Fruit Ninja, another Kinect game valued at $10. That’s two games for the price of one (in some way, shape, or form)! But wait there’s more! Along with the two games, gamers will also get DLC entitled “The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles” in which you battle “the time-traveling son of Wavy Tube Man.”
Pre-orders for the game from certain stores will get you two tokens for avatar props from the game!
Freddy’s Back!

Freddy Krueger is back, and this time in video game form. The fourth DLC for Mortal Kombat will include Mr. Nightmare on Elm street himself. For $4.99 or 400 MP’s, or free for you season pass holders you can download Freddy next month on August 9th. All that’s left to wonder is when Jason Voorhees will show up with his big ass machete and hockey mask.
R2D2 Xbox 360 and White Kinect Bundle Announced at Comic Con!

To pay homage to Star Wars Microsoft will be bundling R2D2 with Kinect! Well not the actually R2D2 (wish it was the actual though), a Xbox 360 modeled after the little robot that could. The console will have R2′s sounds and look, along with a white version of the Kinect, Star Wars Kinect, Kinect Adventures, and a 320 gig hard drive. Also what would R2 be without his side kick C3P0? The controller that comes with the bundle will be modeled after the worry wart of a robot, can you say bling bling? The bundle will be on sale in the fall but pre-orders should be expected to start today. Pre-orders for the bundle will be priced at $449, force powers and light saber not included.
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Announced
There’s been a lot of speculation whether Marvel vs Capcom 3 was going to get some new additions to their list of fighters and it seems that it’s actually true! Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 has a window of being released in November with a bunch of different characters, a different mode, and fully rebalanced. Read on for more information like Pre-order goodies!





