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patch release will tire the hell out of your boxer


Another downside is that you can't message with your Live friends and you can't actually go into the games they played to see which achievements they've unlocked While some of this stuff is bound to be added with future builds, the dev says that messaging is right out. e on Microsoft, it's time you step up to the plate and deliver that Live replica Omega 3534.74 watch Anywhere experience you talked about years ago. Fight Night Round 4's next DLC delivers four fighters, rivalry matchups, and "old-school rules," which I assume means a brain-pulping 15 rounds
Its next patch release will tire the hell out of your boxer if you don't fight smart Continuous punching, weaving and haymakers all have higher endurance cost, spamming your block ruins your ability to perform a perfect block, and no nutshots can be replica Omega 2262.50 watch thrown if one user is in a stun state, both eliminating cheap knockdowns (and cheaper recoveries). You can see the full list at the end of this video The patch (free) and the DLC (800 Microsoft points/$9. 99) are out in early December.
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Left unsaid is how this fits with Microsoft's edict last year that all iPhone/iPod Touch apps pertaining to Xbox Live be offered for the super-low price of free For now it's $1. 99, a nominal-enough fee if you just have to have the capability replica Omega 95 1267.75 watch Otherwise, keep an eye on it, this might attract attention from Redmond Or, if Microsoft insists that it go for free, it might get pulled
So then you might want to buy it now Who knows. 360 Live [site via Joystiq]I've been pouring over all of the games and applications pouring into the iPhone App Store since it launched It's actually a sort of OCD nightly ritual I'm not sure why I'm so obsessed with them and I rarely buy any. Since day one, one of the apps I've been on the look out for replica Omega 95 1358.79 watch was the inevitable Xbox Live app It only makes since that someone would throw together a little program that allows gamers to check out their Xbox Live friend's list when they're on the go Today such an app popped up.
The good news is that for 99 cents iXboxLive allows you to check out your buddy list, see what they are doing, their gamer pic, score, reputation and location You can even see a list of their recent games, including a breakdown of gamerscores and when they last played the title. The bad news, well the bad news is pretty significant. The developer replica Omega 4841.50.31h watch says that because of limitations created by using the Microsoft Xbox Community Developer SDK, the program doesn't actually retrieve your Live buddy list

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DBfH started off its third annual fund raiser with 88 hours of driving booked by pre-event donations Subsequent donations added another two full days, no small feat considering each successive hour had to be "bought" by donors committing 6 percent more than was raised in the previous hour. The team collected more than 10 "points" replica Omega 4677.60.37 watch although the actual final score wasn't reported One hundred thirty-six hours computes to 17 points overall but the bus crashed at least once
The game tows a crashed bus back to its point of origin in real-time, but the DBfH guys just restart the game rather than wait it out, because the point is for them to actually be driving all of that time. Last year's drive netted about eight points, I think Remember, the replica Omega 1395.79 watch big joke of Desert Bus was that one completed eight-hour trip ticked up your score counter (a five-digit odometer) by just one. Congratulations to LoadingReadyRun, its many sponsors, and all who gave to the cause. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
The new 360 Live is more functional and packs more features than previous attempts at remote Xbox Live control over your iPhone, but it comes with a cost $1. 99 However, a year-old Microsoft policy might reduce that to $0. 00 360 Live automatically retrieves your friends list when you sign into your Xbox Live account with it; organizes replica Omega 1841.74.41 watch and groups your friends the way you'd expect to see them on a console; lets you change and update your Gamer Profile info and, most usefully, allows you to send and receive messages over XBL, even to multiple recipients.

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According to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, a large number of Modern 2 players on PC were banned over the weekend for using cheats in multiplayer matches. He says around 2500 Steam accounts were targeted That's a lot of cheaters for a game being played on controlled servers over Steam. Then again, it's a proportionate number; 2500 may replica Omega 4610.32.02 watch sound like a lot, but for a game as big as Modern 2, it's probably a small percentage of the overall market.
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