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Another week of lent is in the books. Unfortunately I’m still feeling relatively the same as last week. However I’ve been more active this past weekend which made it much easier. This weekend I was out of the house and occupied so it didn’t give me any time to be bored and tempted to play [...]

After one whole week of avoiding video games, I have to say it’s beginning to weigh on me. I’m hoping this is just the hump at the start and the rest is down hill.
Mostly I’ve been having to deal with some stress build up and some boredom. It’s surprisingly hard to work all day and [...]

Today begins the first day of Lent. I’ve been blogging about giving up video games for Lent for a couple weeks now and the time has finally arrived where I do it for real. Last night I didn’t have time to get in my last hours of gaming so I guess I kind of started [...]

*UPDATE – This roster update is now available (02/20/2010).
To recap, the latest Madden 10 roster update removed this years retiring players from the game completely. This includes Kurt Warner, Bertrand Berry and Junior Seau. The roster update created an uproar in the Madden community being the first time players were removed for retirement in the [...]

The infinite care package glitch has now been taken care of. Start up the game while connected to Xbox Live to download the patch.
All is well in the world of Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer… Until someone finds a new annoying way to exploit the system.
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In preparation for my 40 days without video games I’ve won the Madden 10 Super Bowl, won the NBA 2k10 Championship and defeated Ares in God of War. Of course I didn’t actually beat the games from start to finish in the past week but I cleaned up the games I was almost done with. [...]

If the infinite care package glitch has become the bane of your existence then you’re just like me. Luckily for us Infinite Ward has dealt with the exploit and has issued a patch that is now under Xbox 360 certification. This will be the second fix on this same issue. It turns out the glitchers [...]

The last Madden 10 will be released for Xbox Live and PSN tomorrow (Feb 6th 2010) in time for the big Colts vs Saints game. As you know EA Sports has slacked off this year with their roster updates. In the 20 weeks of NFL football only 12 Roster updates have been released. A couple [...]

Earlier today the demo for Sega’s new Alien Vs Predator game was released on Xbox Live and PSN. The Demo features a multiplayer deathmatch on one map.
Last year when this game was announced I was excited to hear that Alien Vs Predator was receiving a reboot. The production team is introducing a brand new story [...]

Originally dated for a February 4th release, the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Demo got an early start by launching late last night (1/27) on Xbox Live. EA has openly expressed that Bad Company 2 is their response to the Modern Warfare 2 phenomena. The first Bad Company was actually pretty good but never garnered the [...]