Capcom has announced today that the demo for Steel Battalion Heavy Armor is now available on XBOX Live. This game is exclusive to XBOX 360 consoles that have Kinect in them, so if you have the motion sensor technology, you will probably enjoy it. With Steel Battalion Heavy Armor you experience the true feeling of war by taking control of a Vertical Tank and getting introduced to your fellow crew members in the first two levels of the game.
Plays games, DVDs, and makes identity theft easy!
Many of you have probably traded or sold consoles before. Maybe the system wasn’t getting enough use, so off to eBay or Craigslist it went. Maybe you decided you like the games on the PS3 better than your 360, so you traded it in to Gamestop so you can pick up some new hardware. Maybe you sent it to an internet celebrity in hopes of them running over your old console with their car on YouTube. Whatever the reason, this news is going to scare some of you: it looks like it’s possible to grab your information such as address, name, and credit card info from your old 360′s hard drive.
Ashley Podhradsky from Drexel University in Philadelphia recently experimented with some common tools and applications on the Internet with a refurbished Xbox 360 console. After doing a little poking, she was able to easily grab the previous owner’s name, address, and credit card information. ”Microsoft does a great job of protecting their proprietary information,” Podhradsky said. “But they don’t do a great job of protecting the user’s data. Anyone can freely download a lot of this software, essentially pick up a discarded game console, and have someone’s identity.” She then goes on to recommend that you make sure to wipe your hard drive clean before you get rid of your system, saying that without wiping the hard drive the consoles are similar to Windows systems when reformatted: saying the data is erased, but with some poking and prodding is able to be resurfaced.
Or you could always go my route and smash the console with a life size version of Cloud’s Buster Sword. It’s fun AND protects your information!
Microsoft is giving Xbox Live users 300 Microsoft Points, but you’ll have to earn them, of course. While I usually shy away from promotions — mainly because they ask too much from consumers — Xbox Live’s Triple Play offer seems easy enough and pretty rewarding.
You can apparently win 300 MSPs if you do any one of the following during the month of April:
Gaming
Entertainment
Social
This offer only lasts through April and applies to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are registered for Xbox Live’s Rewards program (you can sign up here). I’ve already been taking advantage of the Rewards program in which I’ve been earning 20 MSPs a month for completing monthly surveys (albeit, the points don’t get deposited until 100 MSPs are reached). Getting points solely with this method is a slooow process, but it looks like the Triple Play offer will be speeding things along nicely.
Triple Play offer [Xbox LIVE Rewards, via Beef Jack]
The first DLC for Asura’s Wrath will become today on the Playstation 3 and tomorrow March 28, 2012 on the XBOX 360. The downloadable content comes with two fully animated episodes that reveal more of the epic tale. In addition to that there will more awesome dlc in the coming weeks with Episode 15.5: Defiance, which is schedule to release on April 3, 2012. These downloadable contents 160 Microsoft Points or $1.99 if you are using a Playstation 3.
Below you can see the full trailer of the Asura’s Wrath DLC
Ea will be shutting down some of the servers for their older games, which includes titles like The Godfather 2, Burnout Revenge on the Xbox 360 and many more that you can see in the list below. Usually when EA does this it means that those games are not as popular as they were when they came out, which means that about 1 percent of gamers will be affected by this. You can click here to see the whole list go games.
