Final Fantasy XIII Screenshots Surface

A new Japanese book called CLOUD has been released and included some scans and images of FF13, FF13 Vs and FF13 Agito. The scans can be found over on SCRAWL's blog. The links to the scans are below.

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Gears 3 Christmas 2010?

The rumors of Gears of War 3 have begun even though Gears 2 isn't even 2 months old yet. The latest rumors claim that Epic are already busy developing Gears of war 3 and it will be ready for release Christmas 2010. Also rumors stating that Gears 3 will up the co-op ante a long way by including 5 player co-op campaign.

However don't get excited Epic have already shot down these rumors in a ball of flames saying they are complete nonsense and they will not be discussing Gears 3 as they are still developing for Gears 2. Expect DLC for Gears 2 next year I'd put money on it.

Fable 2 DLC Gets Set Date

The first Fable 2 DLC known as "Knothole Island" will be releasing on December 22nd it has been confirmed today. It was previously stated as being released tomorrow on the 12th however Lionhead of said that this was incorrectly published and the official release date is the 22nd.

Left 4 Dead Exploits Fixed Already

This week hackers found a way to exploit Left 4 Dead on the 360 in order to make changes to the games online play giving them an overall advantage. This began to get people worried that their online play would be ruined by these hackers. However this morning valve have released a server fix in order to stop these hackers and prevent it from happening from now on. Although how long will it be before they find another way? Here's a link to some of the Hacks in the game at work.

Left 4 Dead 360 Hacks

"Valve has released a server-side fix to deny the recently reported cheats on all dedicated Left 4 Dead Xbox 360 servers," states Doug Lombardi. "The fix is designed to halt the cheating behavior on the dedicated servers, which accounts for the majority of the co-op and Versus modes of play. A title update for those playing on user-hosted servers and/or via system link will be released in the coming days."

Hopefully NO Xbox live crash this Xmas

Remember last year come Christmas everyone was excited about their new 360 consoles and couldn't wait to get online and play Gears or FIFA with millions of others. However this was more difficult than they thought when due to the sheer number of new Xbox live users the entire service caved in on itself. As a result over Christmas few if any could connect to live and these problems persisted into the new year resulting in Microsoft having to dish out free arcade games to compensate people.

However all is well this year we hope and Microsoft are better prepared with their newly updated service and new Jasper Consoles. So lets hope it's alls well that ends well. As Aaron Greenberg (Group Product Manager for 360) assures us.

"We've built a lot of infrastructure, a lot of behind the curtain no one seed," he said. "This is something that Microsoft is good at.

"We are well prepared for the type of growth we expect this holiday."

"We will have people standing by, more people on hand than we've ever had before," he said. "Knock on wood we will hopefully not have any issues."

Endwar DLC Update!

Information on the achievements that will be added to Tom Clancy's Endwar have been released. The achievements are worth a total of 220 GS leaving 30 still available for Ubisoft to possible add more DLC int he future.

Stormbringer

15

Storm 10 enemy buildings.

Gates of Fire

20

Defended Capital in Siege 20 times in Theater of War.

Lonely at the Top

30

Win 100 missions in Theater of War.

Under Cover

30

Defeat 50 enemy units with infantry in cover.

Unit of Action

15

Play 30 2 vs. 2 matches in any game mode.

Super Soldiers

20

Have 12 units in your Battalion promoted to Legendary Rank in Theater of War.

Oppenheimer

20

Defeat 6 Hostiles with one WMD.

Casualties of War

20

Kill 200 units in multiplayer matches.

Down to Size

20

Purchase 60 unit upgrades in Theater of War.

Rorke's Drift

30

Win 20 missions without calling reinforcements in any game mode.

Fallout 3 DLC Revealed

Information on the new Fallout 3 DLC has just been announced by Bethesda. The DLC will be called "Operation Anchorage" and will expand Fallout 3 by about 4 hours. Details of the DLC are below;

Operation Anchorage Expansion - 800 Points
Release Date - January
Allows players to fight the Chinese Red Army in order to liberate Anchorage via an in game simulator.
- New Weapons
- New Armour
- Covert Ops Perk
- New Achievements.

This will be followed up later in the year with 2 more pieces of DLC known as "The Pitt" and "Broken Steel" dates are unknown.