Red Bull as a brand is no stranger to gaming appearing in many games over the years from WipEout on the PlayStation 1 to Guitar Hero 3 and many many in between. So when the marketing guys at Red Bull heard Sony have a new system that will allow 3rd parties to create spaces and promote their products you can bet they were among the first to knock on Sony’s door and say we’ll have a piece of that thanks very much.

So what exactly is an energy drink going to bring to home? Well Red Bull sponsor more events then i can list, they run many of their own and have chosen to throw in the Red Bull Air Race as their gaming link. The Red Bull space will have a tropical island feeling to it and you’ll get to fly a plane in a game based on the Air Race. Many people have jumped to the conclusion that this will be homes very own Flight Simulator but it’s more likely to be a 2D game either side scrolling or like Pilot wings on the SNES running on a now familiar Arcade Cabinet. Newer games in home have featured rewards so at a guess (and remember this is a guess) you can possibly expect the following prizes to be included:

* Red Bull T-Shirt
* Red Bull Air Race Plane Statue
* Virtual Can of Red Bull (product placement at it’s best, people putting cans in their apartments and clubhouses)
* A pair of wings that can be worn by your avatar (Red Bull has been claiming for years that it gives you wings, so now faced with the possibility of actually being able to do this, will they go for it?)

Like i said, these are just guesses but they’re also pretty likely ones based on past prizes and red bulls promotional campaigns.

For the last year or so all DLC for Burnout Paradise has been completely free and applied using game updates rather then optionally downloaded, all that is a bout to change… In 2009 Criterion games will be releasing a number of DLC packs for the residents of Paradise City and so far none of them are free. The latest news from the team is that the DLC pack formally known only as “The Island” which was intended to be a free update will now be premium content. However if their previous DLC packs are anything to go by them it’ll be definately worth a few quid and will most likely be snapped up eagerly by anyone still playing the game.

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Black Mesa is a Half-Life 2 Mod based on the original Half-Life released 10 years ago. Unlike Half-Life: Source, Black Mesa is not just the original game running on a new engine, the team behind it have remodeled many of the enviorments, the characters, weapons and rewritten the game almost completely. It’s the same Half-Life we all love and know, with major enhancements both visually and technically.

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ASUS have launched the G71 series – featuring the world’s first Intel® Quad Core™ gaming notebook to add to an existing range of powerful devices specifically designed with gamers in mind. The G71 delivers a truly dedicated gaming experience within a highly portable package, focusing on providing the clearest audio and the most exhilarating graphics performance.

The Quad Core™ Concept
The ASUS G71 is the world’s first Quad Core™ gaming notebook, powered by the Intel Core™ 2 Extreme processor QX9300. The removal of Overspeed Protection allows the G71 to reach extremely high levels of performance through overclocking, pushing the boundaries of conventional computational processing power and allowing extensive user multitasking.

Superior Gaming Performance
As a notebook designed for the most hardcore gamers, the G71 (Quad Core version) boasts an array of high performance components, including:

• 17” Crystal Shine high brightness display with super fast response time of 8ms
• NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT GDDR3 512MB graphics card
• 4 GB of DDR2 1333MHz SDRAM memory
• Dual hard disk drives 500GB (250GB x 2)
• Blu-ray drive for total entertainment
• Webcam and Bluetooth for great connectivity and communication

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LEGO Batman: The Videogame has won a prestigious Children’s BAFTA Award for Best Videogame 2008. The game faced competition from Mario Kart Wii, Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Guinness World Records: The Videogame.

Developer TT Games was snapped up by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2007 and has since had a hugely successful 2008 seeing the release of LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman: The Videogame.

“We’re absolutely delighted; it’s a very special accolade for the whole team” said TT Games head of production Jonathan Smith.

“To get this acknowledgment, here in our home country of the UK, to be acknowledged by the British Academy for the work that everyone’s done on LEGO Batman, was really thrilling.”

Spencer Crossley, head of videogames UK at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment said, “We extremely happy for everyone at TT Games. They have brought to life two great brands through fantastic game play and lots of humour which works perfectly for children.”

LEGO Batman: The Videogame is the latest game from the award-winning team behind the LEGO Star Wars series of games. With trademark LEGO fun and charm, the game takes you into the world of the ultimate crime-fighting hero. LEGO Batman: The Videogame brings the one-and-only Caped Crusader to life in a completely original storyline. Players will take control of the Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin, to fight Gotham City’s most notorious criminals including The Joker, The Penguin, Catwoman, Scarecrow, Killer Croc and many more. The criminals have broken out of Arkham Asylum and are set to wreak havoc on the city.

Colour Cross - DS - Rising Star Games
Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 - PC - Lighthouse
Brain Challenge Deluxe - PS3 - Ubisoft
Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World - PS2 - Atari
Dragon Ball: Origins - DS - Atari
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon - DS - Nintendo
Igor The Game - DS - Deep Silver
Igor The Game - PC - Deep Silver
Igor The Game - Wii - Deep Silver
Junior Brain Trainer - DS - Avanquest
Prince of Persia - PS3 - Ubisoft
Prince of Persia - X360 - Ubisoft
Safecracker - Wii - JoWooD

That’s right, the site is all set up and working, there have been a few tweaks to the site to make life easier for everyone:

> The comments on this site are handled by our forums, to post comments you must be registered for the forums. This is to stop auto accounts being created using an exploit in WordPress and also allows more options when posting replies.

> Search is powered by Google, this is because google has the power to search both the main site and the forums at the same time. The search box at the top and our resutls page will be styled more in the coming days to fit in better with the look of the site. and the search feature will be intergrated into the forums at the same time.

> We’re Multiplatform again! initially this relaunch was going to be a PlayStation only site, but due to popular demand it will return to its multiplatform roots.

We’re still working to improve the site and it’s features in every possible way and work will begin on content from Wednesday today and tomorrow will be used more for those last few tweaks and rebuilding of our contacts database, it’s been a while so i hope they remember us ;)

I would like to say hey to JL and papabear who found their way back to us in record time! JL posted a welcome back comment on the inital “hello world” post created by the wordpress install while i was still getting used to the admin panel the first time i seen it! the new site was not even live 20 mins at that time… and papabear was the first original long time member to find his own way home and get settled in on the forums! Welcome home guys, word is spreading and the others should be here soon ;)

EA have announced that later this month life will get easier and more stylish for those in Dead Space, now the packs to make life easier are more then welcome to some, but why would anyone pay money to have “Hot Rod Flame” paint jobs on their weapons this and other cosmetic only packs are rediculos and add nothing at all to the game experience. Stupid packs aside though, there are some interesting ones offering increased firepower and armor, now these will sell… Full details below.

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Rockband clocks up yet another full album Details below:

MTV Games and Harmonix announced today that Foo Fighters’ best selling album, The Colour and the Shape, will become the seventh complete album to join the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content.

Selling more than 2 million copies in the US alone, The Colour and the Shape is the most successful album from the alternative rock band and includes hit singles “Monkey Wrench,” “Hero” and “Everlong”. With “Everlong” already featured on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack, the DLC album will include the following tracks:

1. “Doll”
2. “Monkey Wrench”
3. “Hey, Johnny Park!”
4. “My Poor Brain”
5. “Wind Up”
6. “Up in Arms”
7. “My Hero”
8. “See You”
9. “Enough Space”
10. “February Stars”
11. “Walking After You”
12. “New Way Home”

The Colour and the Shape will be available for download starting November 11, 2008, for the Xbox®360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and November 13, 2008, for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Pricing will be $19.99 (1600 Microsoft Points) for the album, or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track.

With the release of this album Rock Band fans will now have access to 14 solid tracks from the Foo Fighters – “Learn To Fly” was already featured on the original Rock Band soundtrack. All 14 tracks can be played in Rock Band 2’s different modes including Quickplay where the album itself will be called out in its own subheader, and Tour Challenges, where users will be prompted to play through all Foo Fighters tracks in a standalone setlist.

The Colour and the Shape joins the growing list of Rock Band albums in the DLC music catalog, which includes Mötley Crüe’s Dr. Feelgood, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Rush’s Moving Pictures, Megadeth’s Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?, Pixies’ Doolittle, Judas Priests’ Screaming For Vengeance and The Cars’ The Cars. With the addition of the Foo Fighters album there are now more than 400 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at http://www.rockband.com/music).

PlayStation 3:
Guitar Hero World Tour (Activision)
Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon (THQ)
Legendary (Atari)
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (Atari)
Tom Clancy’s EndWar (Ubisoft)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (THQ)

PlayStation Portable
PES 2009 (Konami)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (THQ)

PlayStation 2
SingStar Singalong With Disney (Sony)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (THQ)