We are proud to announce and congratulate  Judith A Wallace of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio as she has won herself an XBOX 360 copy of  Battlefield 3 as she requested. We were waiting for her confirmation reply and are happy to of heard from her and will be shipping her copy first thing in the morning. If you are a Twitter follower or an Email subscriber the fun isn’t over just yet as we still have one more game to give and that is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 when it comes out.

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If you are waiting to win Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3  the official winner will be announced on November 8, 2011. Only Twitter followers and email subscribers are eligible to win in our giveaway. No purchases necessary.

If you are a Playstation plus subscriber you will be happy to know that the good folks over at Sony are giving away 10 free games to those subscribers. One of our favorite games, Plants Vs. Zombies will be free on the PSN, so if you are a subscriber go ahead and take advantage of that. Below we have the list of games as well as the list of games that will be discounted and even 3 themes that will be free to PS Plus members.

Pricing may change soon, so check them out as soon as possible.

Free PSN Games and DLC:

• Plants vs. Zombies – 9/6
• Astro Tripper – 9/6
• Altered Beast – 9/6

Free Minis:

• Bashi Blocks – 9/6
• Jellypops – 9/13
• Street Smarts – 9/27

Free PS one Classics:

• Jet Moto – 9/6
• Resident Evil Director’s Cut – 9/20 (2 weeks)
• Resident Evil 2 – 9/20 (2 weeks)
• Resident 3 – 9/20 (2 weeks)

Full Game Trials: BulletStorm – 9/13

• Saint’s Row 2 – 9/20
• Bolt – 9/20
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 – 9/27

Discounts & Sale Offers:

• Alpha Mission – Minis – 20% off – 9/6
• T.N.K. Iii – Minis – 20% off – 9/6
• The Impossible Game – 25% off – 9/6
• Vanguard Ii – Minis – 20% off – 9/6
• MotorStorm Apocalypse Premiere Pack Bundle – 30% off – 9/13
• Cubixx HD – 30% off – 9/20 (1 Week)
• Resident Evil 4 – 50% off – 9/20 (2 Weeks)
• Resident Evil Code Veronica X HD – 50% off – 9/27 (2 Weeks)
• Armageddon Riders – 40% off – 9/6 (2 Weeks)

Lucasarts PSP PSN Sale – 50% off PSN Sale Price – 9/13 (1 Week)

• -Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes PSP
• -Star Wars: Battlefront II
• -Star Wars: Battlefront Renegade Squadron
• -Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PSP
• -Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Apprentice Mission Pack
• -Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Character Pack 1
• -Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Character Pack 2
• -Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Hoth Mission
• -Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Tatooine Mission Pack

Free Themes:

• Plus Exclusive Clouds Dynamic Theme – 9/6
• Cow Abduction Dynamic Theme – 9/20
• Armageddon Rider Dynamic Theme – 9/27 ( 1 Week)

Free Avatars (One Week Only)

• Armageddon Rider – Armageddon Rider Avatar – 9/6
• Armageddon Rider -Collider Zombie Avatar – 9/6
• Armageddon Rider – Fast and Deadly Avatar- 9/6
• Armageddon Rider – Hot Rod Avatar – 9/13
• Armageddon Rider -Logo 1 Avatar – 9/13
• Armageddon Rider – Logo 2 Avatar – 9/20
• Armageddon Rider – Zombiemower Avatar – 9/20

Media:

• Qore Episode 40, September 2011 – 9/6 – Early Access

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If you are a Facebook user you will probably enjoy this new game by Zynga the folks that brought you Farmville, Citiville, and Mafia Wars. Available sometime today you get to play a game that will be pretty similar to that of Cityville, but with a war twist in it that will have you build a military base where battles will be fought. If you are interested in playing this keep checking the link below until they put the game up.

[Game Link]

Anyways check out the details below courtesy of the Playstation Blog.

This package will be made available to all existing registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users in North America (US and Canada), and will be made available shortly after we have fully restored the service. More specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live.

All PlayStation Network customers can select two PS3 games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

For PSP owners, you will be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

• LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
• ModNation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

• A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
• 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
• Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
• Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
• Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
• To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game

I’m personally going for inFamous and probably Dead Nation on the Playstation 3 and for my PSP chances are that I will be getting Little Big Planet (PSP) and Mod Nation Racers, but then again I may end up getting either Pursuit Force or Killzone Liberation that are very tempting. I guess time will tell on my end, but yeah that is what you PSN users in North America will be getting.

[Playstation Blog]

To read the Press Release click on .

SEATTLE, Washington – May 16, 2011 — PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual games, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Amazon to offer its first Android games to the U.S. market, exclusively on the Amazon Appstore for Android  during two different two-week periods.  As part of the agreement, Chuzzle® will be available beginning tomorrow through May 30, and will be followed by Plants vs. Zombies™ for Android during a second exclusive offer later this month.  The games will be entirely FREE for the first day of their availability, after which they’ll be available for purchase and download for a list price of US$2.99 each.

“Our relationship with Amazon is pivotal to PopCap’s overall strategy in bringing a growing roster of mobile titles to the ever-widening base of smartphone users,” noted Giordano Bruno Contestabile, PopCap’s senior director of global product and business strategy for mobile.  “By making these titles available on the Android platform, we’ll significantly extend the reach of our top franchises to legions of new mobile customers and gaming fans alike.”

“PopCap is a brand synonymous with great mobile games, and we’re thrilled to offer our customers Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies for Android exclusively through the Amazon Appstore,” stated Aaron Rubenson, category leader at Amazon.

Chuzzle for Android features great, on-the-go gameplay action, including:

• Four different modes providing infinite level configurations and virtually limitless game play:
  • Classic Mode: the original Chuzzle in all its glory
  • Zen Mode: stress-free, endless play without levels, locks or other constraints; the player’s progress is indicated by colorful markers that appear as higher thresholds of popped chuzzles are reached
  • Mind-Bender Mode: a different sort of Chuzzle puzzle in which players slide rows and columns of chuzzles to make specified patterns
  • Speed Mode: standard Chuzzle action – only faster (and harder!)
• Trophy Room: your own personal “Hall of Fame” with more than twenty different trophies to collect and admire!
• Scrambles: instantly shuffles all chuzzles on the board anytime you run out of options/moves; in the mobile version of the game, players can earn and save up to five scrambles at any given time, earning an additional scramble every 150,000 points

·         Dynamic Level Generation: ensures each game is different no matter how many times you play

Beta testers out there get your war on by playing the closed beta of the game we know as Troy. This game looks promising and if you are a fan of this style of genre you may get a kick out it. You will be fighting for the great countries of Greece and Troy. The game seems to have a good storyline and for some reason it reminds me of God od War 3 only if it had multiplayer in it. Below you can see the links of where you can get more information and sign up for the beta.

[Sigh up for the beta] [System Requirements] [Read about the Story]

Well it looks like PC gamers will still get a chance to enjoy All Points Bulletin as the game once again as it is coming back and you can have early access to the beta. Head on over to GamersFirst APB site that and enter your email that will get you on the list to test the beta. You will then need to make a GamersFirst account that way it will even your odds to enter and get early access to this awesome GTA style game that quite frankly looks great.

Links

• Sign up with your email on this link
• Sign up for a Gamerfirst Account

Read more info on the beta

End of Week 8 Update : Steps to Join the Beta

Closed Beta Steps – easy now, tricky later

So today’s post is going to be short, but somewhat information dense. I will start keeping things short since we are now completely in the thick of getting this game to the finish line.

To register for the beta, we have decided to take a pretty “simple” route in order for you to take the first step;

(1) simply submit your email here: http://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/ in the “stay up to date” box. Make sure you give us one that we can actually reach you on – and not the 14 minute email variation .
(2) Create a GamersFirst account (preferably with the same email, though not required)

That’s it at the moment is the actual first required sign-up step (simple – eh).

But then it gets a little trickier. About 2 weeks before the closed beta (which probably means on or about the first week in February), you will receive an email sent to the address you submitted above. That email will have a unique link where you will go to activate your beta request. In order to do so you will be asked to submit a lot of additional data, among other things your DxDiag (if you don’t know that is, then you might not be a great closed beta candidate) and some additional information about you, as well as about your system and your own background as a gamer. Once we have verified the data, we will then send you back your actual beta key. If you feel like you don’t want to share the additional data being asked of you, you can always back out of the process, and just ask to be notified about the Open Beta when that’s ready instead.

So far we have received about 20,000 emails that have registered their interest in the game at the above location, and we do expect that about 10%-20% of players who sign up for the email notification will in fact fulfill all our closed beta registration requirements.

Our goal is to have a closed beta with approximately 6,000 – 8,000 fully registered and confirmed players, which roughly means we’d expect to see 800 players online at peak times during the closed beta, which would be sufficient to test all the various system components before going in to the bigger Open Beta.

So why are we gathering this extra data, and why have a Closed Beta in the first place?
The question of “why have a closed beta” came up in a previous series of blog replies. It might seem obvious to us why we want to run the game with a limited audience as first pass. But happy to clarify.

For one thing, there are several components that have been updated since the game went dormant. Among them are the Vivox voice over IP libraries, the installation and unpacking components, and there will be some new components we need to test in order to see what might be normal vs. “abnormal” gameplay (you know what I am referring to ). As part of this process it’s critical we gather data on as many diverse machines and systems as possible. Thus we need to get as many normal, common, uncommon, unusual, strange, weird and just plain odd system configurations into the beta as possible. If we don’t think we have sufficient “diversity” in systems we would need to seek out more closed beta testers (though at this point that should not be a big problem).

The second main goal will be to test some of the new balance and progression systems. They will not at first be extremely different than what they were during the original run of the game, however, these progression changes are now “starting their journey” toward incremental change for the real long term (and we hope – improvements), so we need to see how people interact with them during the game run.

What do you “Get” for participating in the beta?

In return for giving us a bunch of extra data, and taking the survey when you sign-up for the beta (and then spending hours in the game) we plan to give you something lasting. As a thank you to our beta testers we expect to give away a token that shows you were a beta tester back in the day. Trust us, we will not forget who you were

Finally – what about those pre-existing characters and accounts from the old game?
First of all NO PRE-EXISTING ACCOUNTS will be part of the closed beta. During the closed beta you will create throw-away accounts. That’s the purpose of closed beta.

So this topic is one we will come back to later on, before Open Beta, but at the moment we are trying to allow players to reclaim “lost and found” items as part of the Open Beta (maybe in the “San Paro Lost and Found Department?”).

Not all details are finalized for this (since it’s really not part of the first beta) – but a few things are pretty clear at this point, and I am happy to share them (though it’s possible some will have to be modified down the line);

• YES - we plan on letting players of the original APB game reclaim the original content (ie characters etc.) that existed at the time the game shut down, since that data is considered “game content.” This would give you most (if not all) customizations, gear, and character names back that you had during the first run of the game.
• NO - we are likely to NOT give you back all the progression data (though some, but this particular point will be explained in much more detail before Open Beta since part of the changes to the game itself relate to progression).
• YES - you will need to create a NEW user account (a G1 account that is) before you can reclaim your characters, which means you have to basically sign up and agree to the new terms of service that govern the use of all G1 accounts (ie your old RTW account cannot sign you in to the game or anything else)
• NO - we will NOT have any of your original payment data on our side, and therefore you also will have no RTW points or cash-equivalent credits. We simply have no information about anything you bought via EA, Digital River nor Steam. So we will have no idea what you did or did not purchase back during the original run of the game. No point in asking us. We simply don’t know. If you tell us you spent a bizillion dollars we might feel really sorry for you. And the best sad story might very well win you some sympathy and recognition from our development team. But we simply don’t have the data (nor the money) from whatever happened back then. Remember, that company simply does not exist any longer. I know I am going to have to repeat this information many times
• and finally it’s LIKELY - that you will be able to “patch-up” to the new game from the original installation. This gets a little bit tricky due to how patching is handled – but it at least appears plausible. Therefore, at least keep any old installations of the game around if you have the space on your drive, since it will save you a lot of content download time. However, we will get back to you before launch to verify this last part.

So, we will continue working hard to keep everyone informed, and I hope the above info has given you guys some additional clarity this week. More info to come next week!

Back to work….