Coffee Stain Studios announced today that "Sanctum 2", the only true hybrid of tower defense / first-person shooter that enables up to four player cooperative play, is now available for download on Xbox LIVE and PC. The XBLA version weighs in at 796.71 MB and will cost you 1,200 MSP (14.99).


Players take the role of an elite soldier whose mission is to protect the Cores from hordes of mysterious alien creatures while playing as one of four distinct classes, all with their own unique abilities. KEY FEATURES: • Tower Defense – Build mazes with towers to stop the enemies from destroying the Core. • First-Person Shooter – Don’t just let the towers do everything, participate in the mayhem yourself. • Seamless Multiplayer – play up to four-player online co-op. • More than 15 maps to strategize and cause chaos. • Revamped weapons and towers from Sanctum that prove to be even Bigger, Badder, and Better on the battlefield.


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Price: 1,200 Microsoft Points (14.99)
File Size: 796.71 MB
Download: marketplace.xbox.com
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Major Nelson announced today that "Twitch" - one of the most asked for apps on Xbox LIVE - is now available to download for Gold subscribers in the U.S. Watch an exclusive broadcast following the May 21st #XboxRevealed event next week on the new Twitch app.


Twitch is one of the largest platforms for the live streaming of games, with more than 800,000 people streaming gameplay and over 34 million people watching online at Twitch.tv. And now, with the Twitch for Xbox LIVE app, Gold subscribers in the U.S. will have access to 300 of the most popular streams from the service. Users can view top channels by popularity or individual game and the dashboard features curated channels, tournaments and shows happening now.


In addition to launching the app today on Xbox 360, Twitch will also host an exclusive broadcast following the May 21st #XboxRevealed event next week. I’ll moderate the broadcast live at 3p ET/12m PT live via the new Twitch app on Xbox 360 and also online at www.twitch.tv.

Check out the app today by downloading it from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and tune in next Tuesday for the live broadcast.

Official Site: www.twitch.tv
News-Source: majornelson.com"

Treyarch and Activision announced today that the latest double XP weekend for "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" officially started today Friday, May 10 at 10 a.m. PST and is expected to continue until Monday, May 13 at 10am PST. Earn twice the XP all weekend long!


“It’s the perfect excuse to stay home this weekend, grab your favorite snack and drink, and get ever closer to becoming a Prestige Master,” says Treyarch.

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Pocketwatch Games' MonacoMONACO: What's Yours is Mine, the new single player/co-op heist game, where players assemble a crack team of thieves to infiltrate and loot the ridiculously wealthy, is now available to download via the Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1,200 MSP ($14.99)


Assemble a crack team of thieves and execute the perfect crime. Sneak, steal, and run for your lives in single player or with up to four friends in local or online co-op. Find out why it won the 2010 IGF Grand Prize and has been described by Rev3Games’ Anthony Carboni as "quite possible the best co-op ever."


Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
File Size: 394.64 MB
Download: marketplace.xbox.com
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A leaked memo allegedly sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox says the next Xbox will, in fact, work offline. The same also states that the next Xbox will sport an HDMI input, to allow cable boxes to be hooked up for live TV viewing.


Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say "yes," but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently; the next generation Xbox has been consistently rumored to require a permanent network connection. It won't.

According to an internal Microsoft e-mail sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox, "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet." It continues, "There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

The quotation also implicitly confirms another rumor: the next Xbox will sport an HDMI input, to allow cable boxes to be hooked up for live TV viewing. Our sources tell us that the console will be able to provide TV listings and similar information.

How far this offline support will extend still isn't clear. It could take the form of a fully offline mode akin to that on the Xbox 360 (insert optical disc, install game, play, all without an Internet connection) or it could be more like Steam (install and activate online but enable subsequent offline play once this has been done)."

The Walt Disney Company and Electronic Arts has announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines.


Under the agreement, EA will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres, while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.

“This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come,” said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. “Collaborating with one of the world’s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.”

“Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,” said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. “Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed."