The deal of the week this week should be good news for fable fans such as myself that hasn't picked up the knothole island DLC. Hurry up and jump on this reduced price for an add-on for an amazing game.
Microsoft announced that this week's Xbox Live deal is the Knothole Island game add-on for Fable II. Normally available for 800 Microsoft Points, this premium download for Fable II can now be purchased for 560 Microsoft Points. Below is the official description for this DLC:
Discover new quests, locations, characters and more in the premium Knothole Island download. Meet Gordon the submariner in the Bowerstone docks, where you'll be showered with unique gifts to entice you to the mysterious island. There you will embark on new adventures, fight new creatures and find Albion's rarest weapons, clothes and potions. You will also be able to check your standing in over 50 new Leaderboards on Lionhead.com. If you have the Knothole Island (Premium) pack and want to play co-op in any part of Albion, your co-op partner must have the Fable II Knothole Island (Free) or (Premium) pack. To enjoy the complete Knothole Island experience in co-op play, both players must download the Knothole Island (Premium) pack.
News-Source:: PlanetXbox360
(Can you believe this crap!) Our poor pals in Australia just cant catch a brake when it comes to games that have a little blood or some foul language, so in a land ware no one knows what a bad word is and violence dose not exist the government has decided for you that you will never know.
Gamepolitics reports: Australia's federal government said yesterday that it plans to block access to websites which host and sell games with content edgier than what is allowable under an MA-15+ rating. The unprecedented censorship policy will apply to Australians of all ages.
As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, a spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy (left) said that the filtering scheme willl apply to downloadable games, Flash games and websites which sell boxed copies of MA-15+ games via mail order.
Colin Jacobs of Electronic Frontiers Australia, an online users' lobbying group, criticized the plan:
This is confirmation that the scope of the mandatory censorship scheme will keep on creeping. Far from being the ultimate weapon against child abuse, it now will officially censor content deemed too controversial for a 15-year-old. In a free country like ours, do we really need the government to step in and save us from racy web games?
Mark Newton, described by the SMH as an ISP engineer, told the newspaper that the plan could affect online-only games like World of Warcraft and Second Life as well:
That [online games] exemption [on content ratings] is the only reason why multi-player games with user-generated environments are possible in this country; without it, it'd only take one game user anywhere in the world to produce objectionable content in the game environment to make the Australian Government ban the game for everyone.
The HQs own Dartht33bagger had spotted the fact that you could not download any content from XboxLive right after the full day of down time for maintenance, seems that the net was just buzzing about the deal and Microsoft got right on it.
To conferm that XboxLive is now up and running full speed Major Nelson said "The issues around accessing Xbox LIVE Marketplace content are now resolved." so relax and start downloading guys.
I'm sure you have all noticed that the gamer tags are not working and that you cant seem to log on to Live and i am here to assure you that it is not a malfunction in any way, this is scheduled maintenance so don’t panic and your beloved Xbox Live will be back up and running in 24 hours.
What ever you do don't panic and start reading or doing a bunch of educational stuff as i am sure one or two of you may know you can play most 360 games off line.
This is the perfect time to visit the 360-HQ games database or forums and get involved with our other HQ users.
Oh lord it is on and in an all new map pack that will have 10 new Achievements, three new multiplayer maps, Banzai, Corrosion and Sub Pens how can you go wrong for only ten bucks US or 800 MS points?
This is your official HQ heads up and since i will be playing it all day i don't think you will get a second warning tomorrow.
Are you sick and tired of going to your PC just to brake out the MS points to money converter to figure out just how much your spending on your downloadable content, if so your going to want to read this article by G4TV and find out why you can delete your currency converter soon.
G4TV reports: Microsoft has (finally) announced plans to let gamers buy content on Xbox Live with actual currency as opposed to Microsoft Points. Live is also rolling out a community rating system, so gamers will be able to offer their option, in star-form, on every piece of content the service offers, as well as a new avatar award system.
The actual currency purchases will launch with Microsoft's new Games on Demand service announced at the company's E3 press conference. The service allows the purchase of full-size, AAA games through download. So there is no real reason to ever leave your couch again. If, for some reason, you like paying in points instead of money, that option will still be there for you to enjoy.
Microsoft is also rolling out a new marketplace for avatars, in case you want to spend real money on fake clothing and accessories. Along with the purchasable avatar good, a new avatar award system is coming, where players will be given avatar-related rewards for in-game actions. This is totally separate from Xbox Live's achievement system, in case you were wondering. Way to increase the fake self-esteem with even more useless indicators of gaming prowess, Microsoft!
I've hated Microsoft Points since the launch of the system. We already have a system of "points" for determining the worth of goods and services: It's called "money." I'm glad that Microsoft is finally telling us what things are actually worth, so we don't have to convert an imaginary currency just to buy a damn game. As for the download of full-games: Love it. But yo know who hates it? Traditional, walk-into-the-store retailers!
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