This spring, buy an Xbox 360 Elite and get “Halo 3: ODST” and “Forza Motorsport 3”

Today, Microsoft is shipping the new Xbox 360 Elite Spring Bundle, which offers more value than ever this spring. For the same price of $299, the Xbox 360 Elite console now comes with two highly acclaimed Xbox 360 exclusives: “Halo 3: ODST” and “Forza Motorsport 3.” The Xbox 360 Elite Spring Bundle is perfect for those who want a premium gaming and entertainment experience.
Developed exclusively for Xbox 360 by acclaimed developer Bungie, “Halo 3: ODST” lets players experience the fateful events leading up to the epic story told in “Halo 3” through the eyes of an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), as well as play the new “Firefight” cooperative multiplayer mode. Additionally, “Halo 3: ODST” contains the complete “Halo 3” multiplayer experience on a separate game disc, including all 24 multiplayer maps. As an added bonus, the “Halo 3: ODST” game disc grants access to the upcoming “Halo: Reach” multiplayer beta on Xbox LIVE, which begins May 3. Anyone who purchases the Xbox 360 Elite Spring Bundle will have the opportunity to join in this highly anticipated beta test on Xbox LIVE and experience a sampling of the multiplayer modes in “Halo: Reach,” which launches this fall.

The highest-rated racing game of this console generation, “Forza Motorsport 3” makes it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of the world’s most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. The “Forza Motorsport” online community is also alive and thriving, as players compete on Xbox LIVE, sell and swap their custom Liveries and tuning set-ups via their personalized Storefronts and the Auction House, and share videos, photos and paint designs with friends. And with new Game Add-ons releasing every month, this award-winning driving experience is only getting better in 2010.

The Xbox 360 Elite Spring Bundle includes a 120GB Hard Drive that offers the storage to download games, the latest demos, TV shows, movies, music and more straight to your Xbox 360 console through Xbox LIVE, and is available while supplies last.

We’re baaaaaack. We took a week of from The Goons because of some scheduling conflicts and the PS3/PSN problems from last week but we are back again this week to cover all the hot topics as always. Sobrguy has returned with a new PS3 Slim and a new HDTV so he’s feeling like a new man lol. We also have a special guest from Digital Gaming Underground Sanitarium. Peep the show we got a good you for y’all again. Read more to watch the show and download or stream the MP3. The MP3 download and stream are located under the topics.

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• What We’ve Been Playing
• Too Many Games, What’s A Purchase, Rental, Or A No No
• PSN Vs. XBLA (The Games Not The Services People)
• Should Sony Patch All PSN And Exclusive Titles For Trophies?
• Heavy Rain Sells 500K first Week
• Heavy Rain Impressions (Extreme Spoiers People So Skip It Or You Will Be Mad!)
• Should Publishers Hold Back Rental Releases For Games To Boost Sales?
• Activision Vs. Infinity Ward (Houston, We Have A Problem)
• No Modern Warfare 2 DLC Until The Drama Is Over
• PSP Go Not Overpriced After All
• God Of War III Predictions (I Lost, But I’m Still Gonna Enjoy The Game)
• Final Fantasy XIII Discussion
• MUCH MUCH MORE (You Know The Routine, Waaaay More)

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What’s up everybody, back again with another show. This is one of the longest shows I’ve done in a while so get ready for 2 hours of me running my mouth, again lol. I forgot to mention, no DLC for Modern Warfare 2 until the Activision/Infinity Ward situation is over and settled either in or out of court. The title says it all so do what you gotta do. Read more for the video stream.

(Update) Here is the download link to the the mixtape. I forgot to put the link up originally, sorry for the inconvenience.

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The End Is Near (You Can Have Your Fanboy Wars, I Don’t Want Them)
MAG Not Doing So Well
Activision And Kotick Part Ways With Infinity Ward Bosses (And It’s Gonna Get Ugly)
Joe Danger Coming Soon To PSN
Leave Uncharted 2 Alone Naughty Dog, Please!
The Eye Of Judgement PSP
How To Boost Game Sales
Socom Fireteam Bravo 3 Online
Halo Is Not The Game For Me (But It Will Continue To Sell Millions So Who Cares?)
Left 4 Dead 2 Is A Butterface (Fun But Ugly As Sin!)
Sony’s Secret Game Is…….
Sony Acquires Media Molecule
Why Do Exclusives Really Matter?
All PS3 Fats Implode…Oh Wait What?
SledgeHammer Games Making Call Of Duty In 2011
Heavy Rain Impressions
How Hard Is It To Turn On The Other Console (If You Even Have Another Console)
MUCH MUCH MORE

Since the game launched, the Hustle Kings team has been watching with interest how the game has been received and where you guys think it can be made even better. After weighing up a lot of commentary from the community and how we’ve seen the game played online, we’re gearing up to release our first title update for the game. First out of the gate, we’ve added some amazing new features that will greatly enhance your experience with Hustle Kings, as well as some general updates to the game as listed below:

• General improvements to game stability
• In-game Voice Chat
• In-game Video Chat
• Game Launching from PlayStation Home
• More stats for the loading screens
• The sound effect for the chalk has been turned down
• Chalk can now be used by pressing the R3 button as well as shaking your SIXAXIS
• Free Play mode
• Blue chalk only online rooms
• Online: Opponents are now allowed to change view while watching the player at the table
• Online: The player that breaks is now randomly chosen
• A new, “minimal” aim line
• Dampening effect on the pockets, to stop accurate high powered shots from always bouncing out of the pockets
• Small adjustments to the fine tune aiming to make it easier to use

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Soon after this update is out and you’ve had a chance to experience it all, we have more features coming via the PSN Store. First up will be the Time Saver Pack which is aimed at the Hustle Kings player who wants to experience everything the game has to offer, but doesn’t have the time to unlock all the items. This pack unlocks all the cues, avatars, balls, and the unlock packs from the in-game Hustle Kings Store.
If that weren’t enough, we’ve then got not one, but two awesome freebies to give away! Two bizarre and challenging Crazy Tables Packs are heading your way soon, adding a whole new dimension to your game when you want a fun challenge aside from regular pool. To whet your appetite check out these pics of the tables.

Crazy Tables are coming soon and they’ll be absolutely free! We’re already hard at work on even more exciting content for Hustle Kings for release later this year. If you haven’t already downloaded Hustle Kings, be sure to grab it today and start enjoying first-ever billiards simulator made exclusively for the PlayStation 3.

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For those of you headed out to pick up your copy, we’re happy to announce that FINAL FANTASY XIII for PS3 offers an exclusive bonus offer for FINAL FANTASY XIV. Some of you may remember the announcement we made at our E3 press conference last June, but just a reminder that PS3 will be the only console you’ll be able to play FINAL FANTASY XIV when it launches in 2010.

Players who purchase a copy of FINAL FANTASY XIII for PS3 will receive a FINAL FANTASY XIV secret in-game item and be able to enter for a potential opportunity to become a beta tester for FINAL FANTASY XIV for PS3.

Included inside copies of the initial production run of FINAL FANTASY XIII for PS3 are Campaign Codes printed on a special SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS Point Card. Players can register at SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS and receive a code to unlock the special FINAL FANTASY XIV limited offer.

For additional details on FINAL FANTASY XIV, check out the official website and be sure to stay tuned to the PlayStation Blog for much more to come on the game this year.

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A lot of viewers around the world have been watching as Valve hinted towards adding Steam support for mac users. Well guess what folks it’s official. Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve’s gaming service, and Source, Valve’s gaming engine, to the Mac.

Steam and Valve’s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.

“As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients,” said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. “The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services.”

“Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac,” said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. “Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play.”

“We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation,” said John Cook, Director of Steam Development. “The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.”

Portal 2 will be Valve’s first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows. “Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step,” said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead. “We’re always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac.”

Support for the Mac in Source and Steamworks is available to third parties immediately. Interested developers should contact Jason Holtman at jasonh@valvesoftware.com.