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Posted on 12 February, 2010 by xboxoz360


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UFC Undisputed 2010 Sydney event OXCGN’s Guitar Hero: Van Halen Review

Guitar Hero; Van Halen joins the ranks of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: Metallica as the next Guitar Hero installment that focuses on a particular band . . . more here….>

UFC Undisputed 2010 Sydney event OXCGN Get’s Physical – THQ’s UFC 2010 Media Event Sydney

It was an event which not only gave us the chance to see UFC Undisputed 2010 (MMA – Mixed Martial Arts) in action right before our very eyes . . . more here….>

Final Fantasy XIII Collectors Edition Unboxing OXCGN Final Fantasy XIII Collectors Edition Unboxing

It’s time! At last! Finally! Hooray! Final Fantasy XIII is finally here! It’s been a long wait since Final Fantasy 10 for a new true Final Fantasy game . . . more here….>

Heavy Rain PS3 Review Heavy Rain – OXCGN’s Steal It for 360?

Heavy Rain is Quantic Dream’s latest idea of turning an A Grade movie styled experience into an interactive, chair gripping adventure. While this is not a direct sequel to their . . . more here….>

Media Game Bashing again Media Game-Bashing: Channel 10 Jumps On Violence Bandwagon

Last night after some serious Heroes of Newerth 2v2 Noob Matches I stumbled across the Australian Xbox.com Forums to check out the threads that I had posted in to see . . . more here….>

Future of gaming content Games – Cheaper, Shorter, Episodic – Can We Influence The Future of Games?

Games are getting more expensive, and times are tough, and it’s getting harder to purchase every game you want. So how can we keep people playing and offer . . . more here….>

Wild Things Review OXCGN’s Where The Wild Things Are Review

Video games that tie into major film releases targeted at kids are a dime-a-dozen, but a video game aimed at kids based on a surreal movie not necessarily aimed at kids? . . . more here….>

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OXCGN’s Guitar Hero: Van Halen Review

Posted on 9 March, 2010 by commentator123


by I Commentator I

© 2010 Declan S

Get your copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen now!

Guitar Hero; Van Halen joins the ranks of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: Metallica as the next Guitar Hero installment that focuses on a particular band.

Having played all the renditions of both Guitar Hero and Rockband on the Xbox 360, it is hard to mask my initial disappointment at Van Halen.

Whilst both Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero have used the flashy new career mode system, which includes challenges that encompass all instruments and play styles, it is clear that Van Halen was produced before either of those games, because it reverts back to an old style which is similar to the other band specific games.

Whilst one set is full of Van Halen songs, the other is filled up with bands from other songs which include the likes of Queen, Tenacious D, The Offspring, The Clash, Yellowcard and more.

Eddy, Wolfgang, Alex, David . . . all here>

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OXCGN Get’s Physical – THQ’s UFC 2010 Media Event Sydney

Posted on 7 March, 2010 by GrathiusXR


UFC Undisputed 2010 Coming To A Cage Near You

by GrathiusXR:

©2010 Arthur Kotsopoulos – Community Editor

It was an event which not only gave us the chance to see UFC Undisputed 2010 (MMA – Mixed Martial Arts) in action right before our very eyes, but also a chance to hear a little about what it meant for the Ultimate Fighting Championship to be down under in Australia for the first time in its history.

After a little introductory speech by Don Gold (Executive VP of UFC) on how the UFC 110 Sydney Event was the 2nd fastest selling UFC pay-per-view in history of the sport, as well as how amazing it was for UFC Undisputed (MMA) to finally be in Sydney, Australia for the first time, then it was down to business on why we were actually there.

Let me get this out of the way now- UFC Undisputed 2010 looks absolutely amazing. How amazing? It’s like they skipped 2010 as a whole and went looking to make a game that was being developed for the year 2011.

Yes – it’s ‘that’ amazing!

For a yearly title when you look at it, it feels as if they revamped the whole game and started again from scratch to fix the problems that were in UFC Undisputed 09. It features new photo realistic visuals where fighters in game looked even more like their real life counterparts.

They sweat, they breathe, they stumble, they lean and fight exactly as they would if you were to watch them on TV. Much like Fight Night R4, UFC Undisputed 2010 has captured each fighter’s personality and fighting style.

• UFC Undisputed 2010 coming to a cage near you soon

UFC 2010 submission

UFC 2010 submission

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UFC Undisputed 2010 . . . >

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OXCGN Final Fantasy XIII Collectors Edition Unboxing

Posted on 5 March, 2010 by Shadow Wave

Final Fantasy XIII Collectors Edition

Un-Cloaked & Un-Boxed

by Shadow Wave

©2010 Ben Cadwallader

Just to show we love games, and are true gamers, here’s one of the teams recent acquisitions being unboxed for you, and his opinion on the quality and pricing of it.

We’ve done it before with several Collectors editions, which you’ll find links for at the end of this small item, and we’ll continue to do it, no matter what the platform.

So head over here and check out what the Collectors edition looks like all unpacked.

Final Fantasy Collectors Edition uncloaked . . . >

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Heavy Rain – OXCGN’s Steal It for 360?

Posted on 5 March, 2010 by Shadow Wave

Attention Xbox 360 Owners!

Is this one title that would have made all 360 owners wet?

by Shadow Wave.

©2010 Ben Cadwallader

Heavy Rain is Quantic Dream’s latest idea of turning an A Grade movie styled experience into an interactive, chair gripping adventure.  While this is not a direct sequel to their 2005 cult classic Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain further develops, refines and reinvents the game play formula building on Fahrenheit for the better.

Due the strong story in Heavy Rain this review will be as spoiler free as possible.  To put the story summary into one sentence would be: To find and stop the Origami Serial Killer. There you go, that’s more spoiler free than the back of the box.

• Heavy Rain – Suspenseful – Intense – Intriguing.

heavy rain teaser

heavy rain teaser

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• NB: Heavy Rain “Glitch vid” at end of ‘review’

Slither over to see more of Madison and Heavy Rain . . . >

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Media Game-Bashing: Channel 10 Jumps On Violence Bandwagon

Posted on 2 March, 2010 by GrathiusXR

Link between violent crime and games

‘greater than the effect of smoking on lung cancer’

by GrathiusXR:

©2010 Arthur Kotsopoulos

Last night after some serious Heroes of Newerth 2v2 Noob Matches I stumbled across the Australian Xbox.com Forums to check out the threads that I had posted in to see if there had been any replies. A gaming/violence thread came to my attention which I instantly thought was about another news website posting about a crime which somehow related to video games.

To my surprise it was actually a news piece Channel 10 aired last night which was the most useless utter garbage of a report I have ever seen in my entire life.

• Channel Ten’s coverage – Does Activision or Infinity Ward know of this?

Channel Ten Violentgames

Channel Ten Violentgames

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Responsible reporting – I think not . . . >

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Games – Cheaper, Shorter, Episodic – Can We Influence The Future of Games?

Posted on 23 February, 2010 by dkpatriarch

One that could actually work?

by dkpatriarch

© 2010 David Hilton

Games are getting more expensive, and times are tough, and it’s getting harder to purchase every game you want.  So how can we keep people playing and offer them more, but not have to make them break the bank to do it?

Jason DeLong, Senior Producer, EA Canada

The future for gamers’ games, games that are not motion-controlled or aimed at the casual market, seems bumpy.  The reason so many sequels are being made is a sort of insurance for publishers that minimal risk will pay better and fund the occasional new IP that will hopefully spawn its own sequels.

Making games for this generation is expensive.  If you don’t have a big crew and and a big publicity machine you are going to struggle.  Many smaller developers have abandoned traditional game-making and are instead looking at portable gaming consoles,  the Wii, downloadable arcade games, or iPhone apps (soon the iPad) as their way to make creative games that don’t need an army to make and ultimately will be profitable.

What do YOU think will happen with gaming . . . ?>

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OXCGN’s Where The Wild Things Are Review

Posted on 19 February, 2010 by belgavion

Will it drive you wild or just crazy?

by belgavion

© 2010 Gav Ross

Video games that tie into major film releases targeted at kids are a dime-a-dozen, but a video game aimed at kids based on a surreal movie not necessarily aimed at kids? Now things get interesting!

One wonders what the development team at Washington’s Griptonite Games must have thought when Warner Bros. handed them some rough art design sketches and a brief story synopsis for the upcoming film adaption by director Spike Jonze.

Written in the 60’s by Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are was a famously dark children’s story that was going to be hard enough to translate to screen, let alone into a game.

Oh where oh where have the Wild Things Gone…>

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