Halo Reach Game Night 9.18.10 is in effect! Sign on to Xbox Live now to play with us!

Keiji Inafune, Capcom evangelist, announced at Tokyo Game Show 2010 that there would be new DLC for Dead Rising 2. Where the wildly popular Dead Rising 2: Case Zero provided an prologue to the story of the game, Case West will be an epilogue featuring the protagonist of both the first and second games; Chuck Greene and Frank West. Case Zero was downloaded over 500,000 times after its release setting a record for most bought DLC to date.

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When we took the camera to the Halo: Reach launch, we had no idea what would happen. We almost didn’t get the game! Thankfully we met some cool fans, and had a great time in line.

Don’t miss out on our Halo Reach Game Night this Saturday 9.18.10. Xbox Live Gold is free this week and we’re going to try to get as many credits as possible so we can unlock the best armor for our Noble Spartans!

Did you miss us? We’re back with the most epic episode yet: Scott Pilgrim vs. Duke Nukem, Other M, Fringe, Inception, Grimlock, Poker Night at the Inventory, and Bioware DLC! Who will win?

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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 year subscription was $50, will now be $60.

The $50 annual cost has been in effect since 2002 when the service launched

Here is the good news: Price change doesn’t go effective until November 1, 2010. You have plenty of time to renew or go buy a subscription card at the current rate. As a matter of fact, as of the time of this writing, a one year card is a little less than $40 on Amazon. Heck, if you’re already an active subscriber, Microsoft themselves will renew you for $39.99 via a Price Lock Loyalty program.

Before we all go nuts, some things to keep in perspective: The price increase is $0.83 a month, which is far less than inflation. This price change comes into effect 5 years after this generation’s game systems jumped from $50 to $60 priced new games. Nintendo and Sony may offer free alternatives with online play, but it would be hard to argue that Microsoft hasn’t set the standard and has a far more robust service.

Halo 3 had a pretty great ad campaign, including a short film by District 9 director Neil Blomkamp showing the “Landfall” of Master Chief after the events of Halo 2. Halo 3 ODST followed suit last fall. Then this spring there was a Halo Reach beta test commerical. Yes, an ad for the beta.

But this one takes the cake. Not as deep on story, but its full of action. Its not hard to imagine a Halo movie now after all this.

You can see more abstract shorts on Remember Reach.

Preordr HALO REACH on Amazon to get a $20 store credit on your next game!

You might be reaching a point of unrecoverable fatigue with the deluge of preview footage involving Halo Reach.

But just watch this video once. You’ll recognize that voice, and suddenly this story starts to get pulled in a direction you might not have expected.

Preorder Halo Reach and get a $20 gift credit towards your next Amazon Games purchase!

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 dollar!

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