Microsoft announces Xbox One

Today Microsoft announced the Xbox One. The newest console for home entertainment. I say home entertainment because at least from the talk today, this console is definitely more integrated into all things home entertainment than before. Microsoft took the opportunity to talk about the console, controller and Kinect system in terms of specs. We also saw a glimpse at the larger entertainment features such as integration with live television programming and skype. Not much time was spent on games at this announcement. Figure they are keeping that for E3 in a few weeks. Infinity Ward did announce Call of Duty Ghosts at the event. Here is a trailer: And here is the Behind the Scenes on the game: We learned that EA is launching EA Sports Ignite on the Xbox One. Ignite is a new engine that has human-like intelligence for advanced decision making, as well agility to react like

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Microsoft to make an XBOX announcement May 21st!

Major Nelson just posted in his blog that #XboxReveal will be on May 21st! That’s right in 26 days, we’ll get a look at what Microsoft is thinking in terms of next gen. It may be a new console, it might be a new service…who knows? All I know is I will be online waiting for the announcements with you! It’s great that they will be streaming the announcements on Xbox Live. On Tuesday May 21st, we’ll mark the beginning of a new generation of games, TV and entertainment. On that day, we’ll be holding a special press event on the Xbox campus and we invite you to join us via the live global stream that will be available on Xbox.com, Xbox LIVE and broadcast on Spike TV if you are in the US or Canada. On that day, we’ll share our vision for Xbox, and give you a real

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Game Sales this week – April 15

Hi everyone! Everywhere I look it’s spring! Baseball has started, flowers are blooming and sometimes the sun is shining. I have this urge to wear pastels (which I’m going shopping for today). But Spring also brings rain showers. Those of us in So Cal have been experiencing a ton of rain lately! Well, alot for us. While I enjoy the sunny weather and heat, one of the better things to do on a rainy day is to sit inside with a good book or video game. In case you are opting for a video game, check out the new releases below and this week’s game sales! New Releases brought to you by GameStop! Deadliest Warrior Ancient Combat (PS3,360) Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention (PS Vita) The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (Xbox 360) and that’s about it. Now for the sales! Toys R Us Didn’t see any in

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GameStop offers Chance to Live Forever & win a 360

GameStop has hosted some pretty cool pre-order events but this one is pretty awesome. GameStop is giving gamers a chance to be immortalized in Max Payne 3′s Cemetery Multiplayer Map. The Map is a GameStop exclusive pre-order bonus and lucky fans will get chosen to get his/her name featured on one of three tombstones in the cemetery. Can you imagine taking people out in the multiplayer map and see your name on a tombstone? Pretty cool…well and maybe slightly creepy. But it’s a great way to get in a game! There have been two missions already, but we’re here to say it’s not too late! Mission 3 has started now and you have until March 11, 2012 to enter. Here’s how: To Enter: Mission 3 (March 6, 2012 through March 11, 2012) Visit GameStop’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/GameStop to watch the Max Payne 3 trailer and answer a trivia question

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Win an Xbox Mass Effect 3 beta code

We thought it was pretty awesome getting to see the new FemShep trailer earlier in the week. It only heightened our excitement to get out hands on Mass Effect 3. Well Santa Claus (Bioware) has sent us Mass Effect 3 demo codes just for GamingAngels readers! What a great Sunday right? You can enter using Rafflecopter form below. You can get extra code for your friends with a Tweet and a comment. After blowing your mind with the demo, come back here and let us know what you thought! a Rafflecopter giveaway You need javascript enabled to see this giveaway.

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This year’s Xbox 360 House Party led by new ‘Alan Wake’

Over on Xbox.com, a new House Party is on the way. This year’s one-game-a-week promotion looks to start off with something quite a few people have gotten excited about since its reveal at the VGAs — Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. This year’s House Party also features Warp from EA, Nexuiz from THQ Partners and Ubisoft’s long-awaited I Am Alive. Get a look at all of them in the trailer below.

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UFC is live on the Xbox Dashboard

I was pretty bummed when my Xbox Dashboard updated and the UFC tab had the old fight on it. Then reports came out that UFC application would not be updated until December 20th in time for the UFC 141. Even UFC posted about it! This may be only available to certain users, but I was able to get the UFC application working and found that it’s updated with all the latest fight information! Amazing videos about all the fighters in UFC 140. You can make your picks as well as see who your friends picked to win. Basically it’s my husband and I fighting to see if Mir or Nog is going to win this Saturday. Voting is easy and you get a plethora of information on the fighters. Not only the Tale of the Tape that shows all the measurements/age/history of the fighter, but also the last three fights

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Television: Officially coming to your Xbox 360

Yeah, you play your Xbox 360 on your television, but that’s about to be switched around — this holiday season, television is coming to your Xbox 360. Somehow. 40 television providers (in this case, it seems more like channels than actual cable providers, though Verizon and Xfinity are involved) from around the world are offering their entertainment services on the c0nsole to over 20 countries. Here’s a full list of entertainment partners, per Major Nelson: •    ABC iView – Australia •    AlloCiné – France, Germany, Spain, U.K. •    Antena 3 – Spain •    Astral Media’s Disney XD – Canada •    AT&T** – U.S. •    BBC – U.K. •    blinkbox – U.K. •    Bravo – U.S. •    BSkyB** – U.K. •    Canal+* – France, Spain •    Channel 4 – U.K. •    Channel 5 – U.K. •    CinemaNow (Best Buy) – U.S. •    Comcast – U.S. •    Crackle – Australia, Canada, U.K.,

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PAX Preview: Dead Island

Dead Island…  Zombies, buckets of blood, use everything you see on your path to kill the zombies, and a story to go with it.  What else do you want?  If you aren’t convinced already to get the game when it releases on September 6th, nothing I say will convince you.  What I can tell you is that I got a chance to play with the game at PAX Prime this year and my hunger for killing zombies grew instead of being sedated.  I had the pleasure of speaking with Doug Macleod, who is the project consultant for Dead Island and before we got to the questions and answers, the first things he said “Just aim for the head!”  I whack my paddle against the zombie, sending him down on the sand. “Now, get on top, crouch down and aim for the head!” he tells me, and I followed suit. As

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Review: Ms. Splosion Man

Rating: T (for Teen) Genre: Platformer Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Twisted Pixel Games Release Date: July 13, 2011 BUY I never had much of an opportunity to play Splosion Man, but I heard nothing but good things from everyone else who played it. Then I saw Ms. Splosion Man at PAX East this past March, and I got a bit more interested in the series. Ms Splosion Man follows Splosion Man’s female counterpart who is created during a mistake made by the scientists after the capture of Splosion Man. But it wasn’t the story that drew me to the game, it was the girly aspects added to the game (like looking for shoes) and the quips made by Ms. Splosion Man herself. The gameplay itself is pretty much the same from the first game. You need to splode in order to jump over obstacles, up walls and to exterminate

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