Ultimate Games Sale Preview

Next week, the Xbox Live Marketplace will kick off their “Ultimate Game Sale” and they sent over this list of upcoming titles that are scheduled to be on sale. There will be different titles on-sale at different times during the week, and while I don’t know exactly what will be on sale when or for how much, I’ll tweet out details and make a blog post each time a new groups of titles goes on sale. Here’s the full list of titles that will go on sale over the course of next week:

Assassin’s Creed 3
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands 2
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
Bulletstorm
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Crysis
Crysis 3
Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga
Dragon Age Origins
Far Cry 3
Far Cry Instincts Predator
Forza Horizon
Gears Judgement
Hasbro Family Game Night 3
Hitman Absolution
Kinect Sports 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes
Lego Lord of the Rings
Mass Effect
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Rising: Revengence
Monopoly Streets
Perfect Dark Zero
Prey
Rockstar Table Tennis
The Orange Box
Tomb Raider
Witcher 2
WWE 13 GonD
X-com: Enemy Unknown

Sign ups for the Xbox Live 2012 Fall beta is Open AGAIN

Microsoft had opened Sign-Ups for the Xbox Live Fall 2012 beta update Again . We still don,t know whether this happened by accident or not but anyway if your not in then GO GO GO !

Thanks to A friend for the info

Here is the link : https://connect.microsoft.com/XboxLIVEUpdate/Survey/NominationSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=14514&ProgramID=7776

Angry Birds Trilogy Comes to Consoles in HD

At E3, Activision teased Angry HD on Consoles . Now and According to IGN We know it is Angry Birds Trilogy and it's "built from the ground up" for HDTVs, according to Rovio's Executive Vice President of Games Petri Järvilehto. .

"You can think of the game as the ultimate collector’s edition," he said. "There are new cinematics, extras and other entertaining content. In addition all of the existing material has been uprezzed and re-treated for the high-resolution and big screen."

The game will be released as a retail game unlike its iOS brother .Angry Birds Trilogy bundles the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio on one disc or 3DS cartridge. Järvilehto wasn't ready to say if players would get access to the free level packs iOS and Android players received, but he did say that there would now be individual leaderboards for each level.

"The backgrounds have been animated, we've added lighting modes, reactive backgrounds, the list goes on and on," Järvilehto said. "We believe that there are a lot of people on the consoles who appreciate a great casual game play experience. This is a game that resonates across a wide audience on many platforms."

Angry Birds Trilogy will support Microsoft Kinect, PlayStation Move and StreetPass on the 3DS. Järvilehto is happy to be bringing the birds to a brand new market this holiday.

"There have been so many fans asking to be able to play the game on their home console with their friends and family, and so far we haven't been able to offer anything to them," he said. "Now we're finally able to have a great high quality experience on those platforms."

Source : IGN

Content Coming Soon to Xbox Live

Here is a look at some of the upcoming content scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.*

See the blog post I’ll make for many of these for pricing and/or regional availability and follow me on Twitter for updates.

Xbox LIVE Arcade	Release Date	MS Points
Quantum Conundrum (Square Enix)	11-Jul	1200
Zuma’s Revenge! (PopCap)	11-Jul	800
Dungeon Fighter Live (Microsoft)	13-Jul	800
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD (Activision)	18-Jul	1200
Game Add-ons	Release Date	MS Points
Babel Rising: Sky’s the Limit DLC (Ubisoft)	11-Jul	240
Mass Effect 3: Earth Multiplayer Expansion (Electronic Arts)	17-Jul	FREE
Deal of the Week	Discount Dates	Price
Bethesda	10-Jul to 16-Jul
Oblivion Shivering Isles		1200 (50% off)
Oblivion Knights of the Nine		400 (50% off)
Fallout 3 Mother Ship Zeta		400 (50% off)
Fallout 3 Point Lookout		400 (50% off)
Fallout 3 Broken Steel		400 (50% off)
Fallout 3 The Pit		400 (50% off)
Fallout 3 Operation: Anchorage		400 (50% off)
Ubisoft	17-Jul to 23-Jul
Might & Magic Clash of Heroes I’m the Boss! DLC		120 (50% off)
Scott Pilgrim Knives Chau DLC Pack		80 (50% off)
RUSE Pack of the Rising Sun		400 (50% off)
RUSE The Chimera Pack		280 (50% off)
Special Sales	Discount Dates	Price
Microsoft Studios Arcade Sale	10-Jul to 16-Jul
Toy Soldiers Cold War		600 (50% off)
Hydrophobia		200 (50% off)
Section 8 Prejudice		600 (50% off)
The Splatters		400 (50% off)
Hydro Thunder Hurricane		600 (50% off)
Games on Demand	Release Date	Regions Included
Portal 2	10-Jul	WW
Zumba Fitness Rush	10-Jul	NA, CL, CO only
UFC Undisputed 3	17-Jul	No JP, Korea,
Blackwater	17-Jul	NA & Western EMEA only
Otomedius Excellent	17-Jul	No EMEA, ANZ,  Korea
Avatar	Release Date
Avatar Garage   (Xbox LIVE)	10-Jul
Bellator MMA  (MTV)	10-Jul
Quantum Conundrum  (Square Enix)	10-Jul
Halo 4 Update  (MGS)	10-Jul
Minecraft Update  (MGS)	10-Jul
Vampire/Werewolf Update  (Xbox LIVE)	10-Jul
Battlestar Galactica (Xbox LIVE)	10-Jul
Batman Dark Knight Returns Update  (WB)	20-Jul

*As with all game related releases, dates, prices and availability are subject to change and vary by region

Fez Patch is LIVE ! (UPDATE 2)

UPDATE 2: Microsoft has  pulled the update so it wont affect users who still didn't download the patch:

CRISIS SEMI-AVERTED! Microsoft has pulled the patch out of LIVE for now, so at least the problem won’t affect new users. We’re trying to find out what happened and fix it as soon as possible. Like, in less than two months. YAY GAME DEVELOPMENT!

UPDATE 1 : Strangely, a problem was found in the patch which was not noticed by MS here is Polyton's Statement and Fix about the Patch :

UPDATE : BAD NEWS EVERYONE.
There is an issue that seems fairly widespread where the save file can be seen as corrupted by the game after installing the patch. We’re floored that this wasn’t found in testing.
For the moment, deleting your system cache should resolve the issue, but if that fails, there is no known workaround.
We’ll keep you updated on the situation.

Original Story : According to Polytron site the long awaited  Fez update is live ! Here is there official statement with list of updates:

UPDATE IS LIVE
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
The title update (MS lingo for “patch”) is OUT NOW!
I’d like to thank everyone that emailed us with their problems, without your help this would’ve taken a lot more time and would’ve been generally more painful. And sorry if I haven’t answered every single one of you, sometimes I just had nothing to add or it just fell through. We got a LOT of emails.
You can view the complete list of fixed issues after the break!
Please note that some of these fix descriptions contain spoilers, so you may not want to go through them if you haven’t completed the game.

Major issues
Save file unusable if saved inside one of two village interiors (4-cube wall village)
Save file unusable if saved at the top checkpoint of the lava challenge level, or attempted to use the “jetpack” cheat in this level
Save file unusable after playing for a long time (usually in a new game+) in certain areas of the game (crash within a minute)
Crash when rotating view on a ledge inside the library interior
Crash when attempting to open a blank spot in the artifacts inventory, after collecting the tome
Clock tower framerate slows down to a crawl if system date is too far in the past or the future
Able to escape out of closed interior rooms by rotating near objects, which can cause an infinite death loop
Changing profile might corrupt the save file
Crash on fake reboot at hexahedron encounters (note : measures were taken to fix this, but due to its random nature we can’t know for sure that it’s gone; testers haven’t encountered it!)
Performance improvements
Frame dropping when auto-saving, especially when save device is not the hard drive
Frame dropping while using rotating platforms, time switches, valves and watchers
Poor performance when black holes are on screen
Poor performance in the industrial levels with platforms on railings
Blockers
Infinite death loop if player gets sucked by a black hole near sewage water
Infinite death loop when pulling up from a ledge into a black hole
Infinite death loop when waiting in a space where a destructible block respawns
Inaccessible big parting waterfall doorway even if waterfall is parted, when coming back to it later on in the game or in a “new game+”
Inaccessible secret door if player collects 4 owls, goes to the statue but exits the level too early
Stargate door now two-way, which allows player to return back to the zu village instead of being forced to watch the ending
A certain valve/water height setup in the first sewer level makes sections of the level unattainable
Bumpers would randomly stop working for view rotation
Rare crashes
Crash if player enters the door behind the big parting waterfall too quickly
Possible crash when exiting an exterior level which has water
Possible crash and gltiching sound when holding onto rotating platform and falling
Possible crash and inconsistent behaviour with the “security question” puzzle room
Disconnecting controller in main menu may make the pause menu overlap it, which causes a crash when viewing credits
Upgrading the trial mode to full version from the upsell screen with video and selecting “Continue” could freeze the game
Graphical issues
In-the-sky level transitions visual issues with clouds moving sporadically and disappearing
Map graph does not update properly or nodes/connections disappear while browsing
One face of the “code machine” tetris rosetta stone doesn’t display
Clock tower : player collects anti-cube while falling to his death, camera gets stuck in zoomed-in mode
Jetpack causes graphical issues in the hexahedron encounters
Rotating groups active in first person view, which can cause camera oddities
Opening the inventory cube while using a warp gate or walking to a doorway causes graphical issues
Bell spins violently and disappears if standing idle near it for a very long time
Misdetection
First person view ability retained wrongfully when starting a clean new game from a “new game+”
Finishing with 64 cubes without having gone through a 32 cube ending doesn’t grant the first person view
Finishing the game with 33+ anticubes wouldn’t trigger the achievement(s)
Leaderboards not posting when not connected to LIVE, and would never post again
“Secret solved” jingle plays every time you input a secret code, even if it’s already been resolved
Exploits
Leaderboards should cap at 209.4%
Anti-cubes and golden cubes should cap at 32
Infinite cube collection with the bell tower
Player was able to go through the secret owl door without having talked to the 4 owls
Localization issues
“carte de trésor” -> “carte au trésor” in french localization
All instances of “oe” did not appear in french localization
Sound issues
Birdsong loops don’t pause when opening the map or inventory screen
Several sound effects retouched/added
Credits are missing music when viewed during a cutscene