It’s the 19th of November people, that means the NXE update will be in your face at some point today. According to my time zone calculations, you should be prompted to install the update at around 10AM GMT, but don’t quote me on that.

Give the New Xbox Experience a spin and drop a comment in this post with your initial impressions. Let me know what you think of Microsoft’s new Avatars, or how easy you find the new interface for navigating. I’ve already posted my impressions from the beta, so now let’s see what the rest of the community thinks.

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Let me explain the simple premise of this sweet indie game. You are a skeleton guy wearing a monocle bouncing around on a pogo stick. Your objective is to use said pogo stick to squash vampire pigs and various other animals. Yeah, I never thought I’d be writing this in a news post, but then again it wouldn’t be the first time I believed that.

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Word has been travelling around regarding the player who already reached the level eighty cap on Wrath of the Lich King recently. Yet more surprising is the fact that all the new PvE instances have been beaten by the joined forces of two guilds; Nihilum and SK Gaming, and it hasn’t even been a full week since the expansion’s release.

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Eurogamer helps answer this question for you by conducting some ultra scientific experiments for the welfare of gamers everywhere. If you’ve been on the fence about how useful HDD installations really are, then their article will help lay your concerns to rest. As you will no doubt notice from the results, some games really make a difference with HDD installations where as others will not be worth the hassle.

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The NPD Group released some interesting results to Edge regarding where gamers use their portable systems the most. 79% of the people polled claimed they use their portable systems at home far more than they do elsewhere. This is something I myself can admit to doing, as various factors lead me to playing my PSP and DS in my home instead of taking it with me when going to work and such.

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Not long left for this beast to be unleashed. Capcom recently announced the American and European release dates for the upcoming Street Fighter IV. I had many chances to play this game during the London MCM Expo and I milked every chance I had, SFIV still plays and feels like a Street Fighter game, so don’t let the new visual direction turn you away.

You can expect to see this on store shelves for the PS3 and 360 on February 17th for Americans and February 20th for Europeans. The console versions will have some extras compared to the arcade one, most important of these additions is new characters such as Cammy. If you’ve been in the mood for a fighting game lately, this is the one to keep an eye on.

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Battlefield Heroes developer EA DICE announced recently that their upcoming free to play online shooter has been delayed once again. They originally intended on releasing this for summer 2008, which obviously didn’t work out so it was moved to late 2008, which again clearly isn’t happening either. It doesn’t seem like there’s a solid date for the game at the moment but they aren’t planning to re-open the beta until early 2009.

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As some of you may or may not know, I’m quite a Killzone enthusiast. The first Killzone was pretty generic in the eyes of many, but I still played through the game several times and enjoyed messing about on the multiplayer back when the PS2 was king. So it comes as no surprise that I follow up on Killzone 2, and man am I excited every time I watch multiplayer beta gameplay.

Check the full post to see three gameplay videos of the multiplayer beta and see if Killzone 2 will replace Resistance 2 as the PlayStation 3’s most popular online shooter. Oh and yeah, the person playing in the videos is awful but try your best to ignore that fact.

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When it comes to keeping their game alive, Criterion are doing a great job in terms of content. Continuing this trend is the upcoming ‘legendary cars’ pack. This pack will consist of four cars – the Cavalry Bootlegger, Manhattan Spirit, GT Nighthawk and the Jansen 88 Special which pictured above. The Jansen is the first of these four to be revealed and holy shit does it sound awesome, if the other three are anywhere near as epic then count me in.

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God this demo owns. I keep replaying it over and over, trying higher difficulty settings, playing about with the various weapons and so on. The Source engine may be getting a little old in terms of visual appeal, but that doesn’t stop it from creating a great atmosphere with solid gameplay. I get the feeling that anyone who hasn’t yet taken an interest in Left 4 Dead will change their mind upon playing this demo, mainly because the mechanics of the game work a lot better than I even expected.

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