Game Downloads

Earlier this year, Microsoft stirred up a small hubbub when they announced they would be delisting some Xbox Live Arcade titles that met certain criteria of underperformance -- slow sales, bad reviews, etc. But at the Tokyo Game Show earlier this week, Xbox Live corporate vice president John Schappert told IGN that won't be the case. Rather, Schappert said Microsoft has only ever "set parameters by which we can delist," but insisted they wouldn't move forward on limiting the size of XBLA titles offered.

Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classifications strikes again. According to a listing picked up on by NeoGAF (via Kotaku), it appears as though THQ has stepped in to publish 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, after the game was dropped by Activision earlier this year.

There's a lot to look forward to in the upcoming New Xbox Experience -- set to launch on November 19 -- but for those who own Xbox 360s without a hard drive or a 256MB memory card, you may have to go through a few headaches before you can download it. Speaking to Xbox360Fanboy, Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb revealed that the full download size of the NXE will be 128MB, which will make it too large for a "small percentage" of 360 owners sans hard drive.

They're about to unleash the crazy here in Anaheim at the first (as far as I know) BlizzCon Q&A-only panel ever. Ryan Scott and I are at ground zero, liveblogging the comedic highs and incoherent lows as wild-eyed attendees rush the stage and lob question after question at the tragically heroic Blizzard staff.

The absurd setup seems so obvious, you have to wonder how no one got around to doing this sooner -- Activision has announced Secret Service, a new "tactical first-person action game" that, naturally, puts the players in the role of a secret service agent who must protect the country's leaders when Washington, D.C. comes under attack by "extremists" on Inauguration Day.