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Xbox Live Subscriptions Costs Going Up

Bad News: Major Nelson announced this morning that subscription costs for Xbox Live for One, Three, and Twelve month terms are going up. Major Nelson, for the uninformed, is the alias of Larry Hyrb, Xbox Live Director of Programming. You can read the details of the pricing here. Basically a one [...]

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Red Faction Battlegrounds Announcement Trailer

Some of the more fun parts of Red Faction Guerrilla were driving a car into a building to knock it down. Or hopping in a mech and wrecking the crap out of enemy soldiers forming on your position.
THQ realizes this and has a dandy Xbox Live Arcade and PSN game called Red Faction Battlegrounds [...]

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Keep Playing: SHOOT 1UP!

With very little cash in hand you can find interesting games hidden on Xbox Live. If you’re not ready to spend $15 on a “Summer of Arcade” title, this is probably your best bet for low budget gaming!
Shoot 1UP is available in the Xbox Live Indie Games channel for only 80 points, thats a [...]

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Play against the developers of War for Cybertron then take part in Double XP weekend

XBox.com has news that some of the Game Developers from High Moon Studios will be online tonight (7/29) from 9PM EST until Midnight, playing mutliplayer matches on War for Cybertron. Dev Gamertags will be
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so send an invite or friend request to one of these gamertags to get in on the action!
This weekend will also play [...]

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$20 Game of the Week: Castle Crashers (Xbox 360)

As seen on our game night last week!
Castle Crashers is a tongue-in-cheek throwback to old school beat-em-ups like Golden Axe and Double Dragon. It was developed by The Behemoth, the people behind the similarly zany Alien Hominid. Taking control of one of four characters, you (and up to three more of your friends [...]

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Powet Game Night – 2010.06.12: Castle Crashers

Get ready, Poweteers! Its time to crash some castles and rescue some princesses!
On Saturday, June 12, 2010, Powet.TV staffers will be logging in to Castle Crashers on XBox Live and we ask all of you to join us for some fun. We will be starting around 7PM EST and continue on until there is noone [...]

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Sonic 4 delayed, but with new platforms announced

Ok, Sonic fans, this isn’t the news you were hoping to hear, but Sega has announced that Sonic 4 Episode 1 has been delayed from its previous summer 2010 release to ‘late 2010′. The reason given was basically to give the development team more time to tweak and fine tune the game. Also announced were [...]

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Cool Beans: Halo Reach & Retrospective

In this special Cool Beans episode of the Powetcast we chart the Halo series from when none of us were playing to when all of us can’t get enough!
Join Zac, Zero, aDam, and Sean as we reflect on the drama, joy, and pain of Halo’s story and online multiplayer. Jetpack [...]

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