Lumines Live! To Get New Song And Add-on Pack

"Q Entertainment today announced that the self-produced Genki Rockets' song Heavenly Star," now available as a downloadable iTune song, will hit Xbox Live Marketplace as part of the "Heavenly Star Pack" in January 2007.

Lumines Live! hit the Xbox 360 Marketplace October 18 to mixed reactions, thanks to its mixture of great gameplay and unfortunately deceptive packaging. Q Entertainment's game felt unfinished, as several modes prompted gamers to buy add-on packs to "complete" them.

Q Entertainment didn't reveal a price for the Heavenly Star Pack. However, IGN learned today that Microsoft and Q have listened to gamers' complaints about its pricing structure and may sell it for cheap come the New Year. The song is purchasable for US$0.99 or 150 yen on iTunes."

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This is riduculous. The game should NOT have came out unfinished. And now they want you to pay even more just so you can have the full game. Talking about pulling an EA on it's customers.

Lost Planet To Be Improved Greatly By Patch At Lunch

Some of the improvements from the demo:

• Private slots can be set by host.


• Invite friends to a match.


• Number of players in a room will be displayed next to name of the room.


• Players will not be kicked all the way out to the main menu if they try to join a full game.


• New button allows players to refresh the match list without going out to the main menu and selecting Quick Match again.


• Players will now go to a post-game lobby at the end of a match, not kicked back to the main menu.


• The ability to replay a match with the same group without leaving the post-game lobby.


• Cycling maps on replayed matches when map selection is set to Random.


• Text size on the team selection screen will be greatly increased when using non-HD resolutions.


• When manual team selection is set to ON, players will have 20 seconds to form teams.


• The time limit on each match will be maxed out at 60 minutes, instead of the current unlimited time.


• A player's custom match criteria will now be saved.

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Some very nice additions in there, the text in the multiplayer was so hard to read. It's very nice to see some game developers using demos to improve the final product.

Gears Of War Sells 2 Million Copies In 24 Days

"Microsoft announced today that Gears of War has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. This third-person shooter is also breaking new records on Xbox Live with more than 1 million unique gamers engaging in 10 million online gameplay sessions and unlocking an impressive 7 million achievements. In addition to being the most playable game on Xbox Live, Gears of War has driven new subscribers to Xbox Live, with paid registrations per day increasing more than 50 percent since the game’s launch. "

2 million. Already. Wow. It deserves it though, it is such an amazing game.

New Halo 3 Trailer To Hit Marketplace, Brutes Playable!

"On December 20 a new Halo 3 video will be available on marketplace. It’s a seven-minute video that will be released next week. It highlights the emergence of the Brutes as playable characters in the game. It touches on their skills, origins, and how they are being created. It has about two and a half minutes of gameplay footage."

I'm sort of worried how they are going to balance this. If they are playable in Multiplayer, it might be a big risk as it could completly change the multiplayer. Only time will tell. Role on December 20th...

Rainbow Six:Vegas Patched For 360

According to the Ubisoft forums, the patch includes the following fixes:

"-Getting stuck at briefing screen when joining a match in progress
-Fixed a coop crash when failing a mission numerous times
-Fixed an exploit where observers received same kills as host in terrorist hunt
-Fixed a intermittent coop crash in map Factory
-Fixed a disconnection bug when host changes map
-Fixed a bug with live camera that forced a reboot.
-Fixed an issue with max players not being related to recommended players for maps.
-Added better feedback in the game search menus.
-Fixed a bug with the siege specialist achievement.
-Fixed players crashing when using shield and entering a game with shield restricted.
-Fixed a rare crash when starting a coop story game
-Fixed a bug that made the shield become invisible in certain circumstances.
-Fixed a display bug with weapons disappearing while using shield
-Fixed a crash while using the Live Vision Camera
-Fixed a display bug with the canister in retrieval staying visible after being taken.
-Fixed a random crash for clients in COOP games.
-Fixed a display error that showed 14 players instead of 16 for dedicated servers.
-Fixed a bug with score limits not working properly.
-Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented grenades from being used at game start.
-Fixed a crash through the world bug related to starting COOP games while playing Terrorist Hunt.
-Fixed a crash through the world bug in Casino COOP.
-Fixed a bug with invalid recommended players in COOP maps.
-Fixed a lockup in COOP mode related to clients joining a game late.
-Fixed a bug where a dedicated server set for 16 players only accepted 14.
-Added better feedback in the game search menus
-Remove proximity voice chat from team games.
-Adjust TerroHunt XP based on density setting:
- Fixed bug regarding voice chat - Now voice chat works for all players
- Fixed a crash where clients crash when host change map or quit the game before they have time to load lobby
-Fixed a crash when clientnt selects Option/ Map name either in the lobby or In game
-Fixed a bug related to the infiltration specialist achievement
-Fixed a bug where when score limit is 10 a game does not end when canister is deposited
- Fixed a bug in splitscreen:Crash when player 2 Press ready before player 1 in the login profile menu
- Fixed a bug where game occasionally crashes on boot at the Title Screen.

General

-Fixed some localization errors in Spanish"

Alot of fixes there, most of them could (and should) have been sorted about before the launch of the game. Nothing worse than an incompleted game.