A free playable demo for The Darkness II, the sequel to the critically acclaimed 2007 release The Darkness, is now available on Xbox Live. The demo weighs in at 1.40 GB.
Content:The Darkness II DEMO Price: Free Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: Embrace the Darkness and download the demo. Become Jackie Estacado and master your demons as you experience the thrill of Quad-Wielding: slash, grab and throw with your Demon Arms while simultaneously firing two weapons.
The Darkness II is currently scheduled for release February 7, 2012. Browse through all of 360-HQ's previous coverage including trailers, news, screenshots and more by visiting the games database/hub.
The demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, an upcoming single-player role-playing video game that allows players to unlock two items for use in Mass Effect 3, is now available for download from Xbox LIVE.
Content:Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Price: Free Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving. Build the character you’ve always wanted and continuously evolve it to your style of play with the revolutionary Destiny system. Choose your path and battle through a master-crafted universe featuring some of the most intense, responsive, and customizable RPG combat ever.
The demos for both Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Mass Effect 3 will unlock in-game items for the other game. Check out the official debut trailer just below and add the game to your wishlists.
Xbox Live accounts that have been recently hacked all have a common factor linking them together - FIFA 11 and FIFA 12.
The Xbox 360 has been big hit for many years, taking the lead in many of the products, games and software that has been released since its arrival. The Xbox 360 has also built a good reputation for its development and success in being able to keep hacked consoles from accessing the internet. Although the Xbox 360 has been a big success for many of its dedicated gamers, there has been a few unfortunate cases where Xbox Live users have had their accounts hacked due to serious security issues. Reports of these issues have been made since October 2011 and is now causing serious concern for both Microsoft and their customers. Xbox Live accounts that have been hacked into all have a common factor linking them together - FIFA 11 and FIFA 12. Even if the Xbox Live member has never played FIFA, it shows up on their account as a recently played game with associated downloadable content.
Here is an example of what is happening, quoted from a case which has just recently occurred;
I am now among the many Xbox gamers that has my account under lock down from Microsoft for fraud investigation. January 1 I received 2 emails from Paypal indicating I had just made 2 purchases from Microsoft, one for 79.99 and one for 49.99. Immediately I logged into xbox.com to look at my xbox account only to discover I no longer existed. I then logged into Paypal and disputed the charges and removed Microsoft from the auto-pay agreement (this was a smart move as they would have spent more I'm sure).
Next I turn on my Xbox, and sure enough I have no live account anymore. I then call Microsoft Live support not knowing what I would get since it was New Year's day and also a Sunday. I actually did talk to a person and they took my console information and basically told me they would submit it to Microsoft Fraud investigation and at that time my account would be locked. Also that I would get an email with a code for 30 days of live service.
Some articles posted on IGN, Joystiq, and G4TV in early October 2011 quote Microsoft is saying that this is not a widespread problem, even though many have commented on the articles saying the exact issue described in the story has happened to them. To this day, people’s accounts are still being hacked.
When the Playstation Network shut down due to hacking, the story was covered by every mainstream news outlet very quickly. In contrast, even though these Microsoft hacks have continued for over three months there has been little formal recognition of the issue by Microsoft or news media. The only information available has come from Xbox users posting articles or comments on gaming websites and forums.
Microsoft reports that they take their security seriously and that they are working with individual users to get their accounts back to normal. They even suggest that Xbox users follow the Xbox LIVE Account Security guidelines located Xbox.com’s website to help prevent any further issues that may occur. Although this is only a temporary fix to the problem, Microsoft will have to ensure further work is done to help prevent this problem over a long term basis.
The latest downloadable content for Gears of War 3, the Fennix Rising Map Pack is now available on the Xbox Live Arcade. With this new map pack, you will receive five brand new maps: Academy, Anvil, Depths, The Slab & Escalation as well as 250 more gamerpoints and four new multiplayer characters; Recruit Clayton, Savage Marauder, and new variants of Thrashball Cole and Savage Kantus.
The cost to purchase Fenix Rising Map Pack is 800 Microsoft Points.
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Choplifter HD, the 21st-century remake of the classic franchise, is now available for download from the Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 MS Points. Check your region for availability.
Content:Choplifter HD Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up and coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team. Pilots will be trained to command a variety of helicopters with offensive capabilities including missiles and mini-guns, as well as a very vocal co-pilot. Combining reality with elements of fantasy, the more than 30 rescue missions will range from captured military prisoner extraction to saving survivors of viral outbreaks.
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Amy, a survival horror stealth video game developed by VectorCell and published by Lexis Numérique, is now available from the Xbox LIVE Arcade. The game is priced at 800 Microsoft Points. Check your Xbox LIVE region for availability.
Content:AMY Price: 800 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: The city is infected! Walking corpses sniff the air, flaring out anything still alive. There is only one thing keeping you from running for your life. A special little girl holds your hand… You’re not going anywhere without her. AMY offers you a tense, innovative and immersive experience in survival horror gaming. Play two original characters who alone are desperately fragile, but united become a force capable of confronting the denizens of a living hell. Get ready to become infected.
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