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    Posted on July 29th, 2008

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    Decent games coming to Xbox Live Arcade in August

    Microsoft have announced they are to release a number of anticipated games onto Xbox Live Arcade this summer. Anyone downloading and giving any of the trial versions a go will be entered into a prize draw to win 100,000 Microsoft Points and an Xbox Elite amongst other things. Check out Xbox.com for more detals on the [...]

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    Posted on July 29th, 2008

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    Tom Clancy’s HAWX delayed. Gets 2009 release

    Tom Clancy’s HAWX for 360 and PS3 has been pushed back to a 2009 release. The game is now slated to release sometime between January and March 2009. Tom Clancy’s HAWX is flight sim/arcade game set in the Clancy universe. The game was given an impressive demo over at Gamespot during their live E3 coverage. [...]

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    Posted on July 29th, 2008

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    Ghostbusters in limbo. Has no publisher

    Concerning news today for everyone looking forward to the Ghostbusters game which was supposed to be released at the end of this year. In details announced today regarding the merger of Activision, Blizzard and Vivendi/Sierra Universal studios, Ghostbusters along with a number of other forthcoming games did not make it onto the list of games to [...]

  • Culture, News

    Posted on July 24th, 2008

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    Retro Fusion 08 photos

    Photos from Retro Fusion 08 are now starting to appear online. There’s a forum thread over on Retro Gamer which is collating links to various albums. Take a look here.

  • Culture

    Posted on July 24th, 2008

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    Angry Nerd takes on Batman games

    The Angry Video Game Nerds latest video take a look at Batman games through the ages. Part one starts with Batman The Caped Crusader for the Commodore 64 and moving through to Batman Forever on the SNES.
     

  • News

    Posted on July 23rd, 2008

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    Giant Bomb explodes

    Kind of. Ex Gamespot employee Jeff Gerstmann has launched his new site GiantBomb.I’s been ran in blog format for the last few months with a heavy emphasis on reviews but has now morphed into a more feature rich site with forums and the like. Joystiq caught up with co-founder Ryan Davis about the launch as well [...]

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    Posted on July 23rd, 2008

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    Halo 3 regains Xbox Live top spot

    Major Nelson has revealed on his blog that Halo 3 has regained the top spot from Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox Live charts. GTA IV had it’s turn in first position but was quickly overtaken again by Call Of Duty 4 within a few weeks. We did have a look around to find [...]

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    Posted on July 21st, 2008

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    Sonic And The Black Knight announced for Wii

    SEGA today confirmed the release of a new Sonic game called Sonic and the Black Knight. Coming exclusively to the Wii in Spring 2009, the game follows on from the story of Sonic And The Secret Rings and is said to bring Sonic “into the world of Arthurian legend offering the worlds most infamous blue [...]

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    Posted on July 21st, 2008

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    Mystery of Nintendo E3 Wii mind control headset solved

    All of us here at ButtonBandits HQ got rather confused this weekend regarding the content of Nintendo’s E3 08 press conference. First off Andy Nuttal &  Alex Trowers (ex Bullfrog) at Fusion 08 referred to a Wii mind controller when asked about Nintendo’s E3 presentation. Next up, speaking to ButtonBandits staff member Frosty on Virgin Radio’s Iain [...]

  • Culture, News

    Posted on July 21st, 2008

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    Retro Fusion coverage

    So then, we attended Fusion 08 this weekend in England’s very own Leamington Spa. The event was a weekend of beer mixed with Retro MAME arcade cabinets, 16 bit consoles, 8 bit consoles, BBC Micros and even a Nintendo Virtual Boy. While not exactly retro there was even a 8 player local Xbox 360 network [...]