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This Tuesday (November 17, 2009) Microsoft unleashed a new update for it’s Xbox 360 system.

The new update includes the ability to use a bigger screen, a clearer picture and accessibility from the comfort of your living room couch.

To access all this cool stuff, you need an Xbox live membership, and of course an Xbox 360 system. All these updates are available now, and you should see it right when you log onto your profile.

Here’s the breakdown…

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The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood is the newest episode in the Tales of Monkey Island by Telltale games. In the beginning, Guybrush is being hauled back to Flotsam Island, courtesy of the backstabbing Morgan. Once there, he is summoned to court to face charges for various thing he is accused of doing. Of course, each accusation is false and you must now break out of jail and get yourself free of all charges and avoid the violent hanging that awaits you.

Oh, and you also have to cure the island of the pox as well.

You will see a familiar face in this game taking the form of the prosecution. I won’t name names but let’s just say you will see plenty of loud jackets and flying arms.

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With the rising success of Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed and Assassins Creed’s 2 (which comes out November 17, 2009 for Xbox 360 and PS3), Spike TV will be premiering in high-definition ,Assassins Creed: Lineage, a live-action and CGI short movie based on the video games.

Lineage takes place just before the events in AC2. It revolves around Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, the father of main character in the second game, Ezio, and provides a little insight on the back story of first game and the premise of the next.

The film was developed by Ubisoft’s Hybride Technologies, the visual effects company that worked on movies including 300 and Sin City.

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Forget Trick or Treating and Haunted Houses, stay home this Halloween and play some frightening game with your best friends! Of course, it would be better if you knew the best games to play.

So here you are, a list of some particularly spooky games you can play this Halloween, assuming you can get ahold of them. These should be enough to tide you over this long Saturday. There of course are many more survivor horror games on the market, but these are some personal favorites. Perhaps you and your friends should wear a costume while you play, to really get into the spirit of the holiday…

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Wallace and Gromit have been making people laugh with their crazy inventions and silly antics for many years. In fact, this Wednesday, November 4, 2009, will be their 20th anniversary, the day their first animated short A Grand Day Out  came out.

In honor of their anniversary, Telltale games is releasing all four of the Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures episodes on Xbox Live on November 4, 2009.

You can follow the wacky inventor and his faithful canine sidekick through the four adventures, from fighting off super sized bees that were bred for massive honey making, to running Wallace’s indoor beach hotel. Or from saving all the stray dogs in the neighborhood from a the mean Mr. Muzzle, to trying to keep ownership of a prestigious golf club.

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We all enjoy the Wii action and sport games for their realistic feel, well Penguin Unlimited, maker of some great gaming accessories, is coming out with three different bundle packs that utilize the MotionPlus accessory. The bundles include Samurai Sword, Golf Club, and Tennis add ons.

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I love role-playing games. They are definitely my favorite type of video game. I love that you can visit villages, do side quests and work along with some crazy people.

Unfortunately, there are some elements that I just hate including level grinding, hard bosses and un-skippable cut scenes, just to name a few.

Here’s a look at some of the best and worst aspects that both feed and frustrate my enjoyment of role-playing games.

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Ole! To all you football fans, I-Imagine Interactive’s Football Genius: The Ultimate Quiz for Xbox Live is all about the European type of football, soccer (so don’t confuse the title with American football).

As the title suggests, it is a quiz game all about the sport of soccer and it’s players. It covers everything about the sport: all the players past and present, all the countries, the cups, the coaches, everything. If there is something to know about the sport, it is in this game. 

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Hit it again Sam! Season 2 of Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space by Telltale games is coming out for Xbox Live today (Wednesday, October 14, 2009).

Sam and Max are freelance police who team up and take on strange cases including a demon-possessed Santa and an emo vampire amassing an army of rave-loving zombies. With Sam’s smarts and Max’s snarky attitude, the duo is unstoppable. Each crazy tale is told in five adventure-style episodes.

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If you are a fan of those old space adventure games like Asteroids, then you will love Coreplay’s Ion Assault.

It’s a new arcade game available through Xbox Live where you can battle space aliens and other creatures while shooting at any and all asteroids that may be blocking you. The game takes place on one screen where you fly your ship, spinning around to shoot an aliens or any space debris that is in your way. As you destroy different things you earn power ups including augmented speed and a bigger radius for which to collect destroyed particles.

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