Quite a few of the readers are Narutards so I figure this is pretty relevant shit. If you’re not into Japanese cartoons or Japanese cartoon pornography, then firstly shame on you and secondly you may ignore this post. So as the title says; Dattebayo will stop fansubbing Naruto “permanently” from January 15. For those of you who live under a rock but still watch Naruto somehow, Dattebayo is the primary source of Naruto fansubs and from what I hear they’re also attention seeking twits, but rumours aren’t always true. Read on for details on why you shouldn’t commit suicide upon reading this news.

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Part of the reason why I haven’t updated a lot recently is due to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. I picked this up for the PC last week and have been hooked ever since. Red Alert 2 has a lot of special memories for me and I was very relieved to see that EA hadn’t butchered the game or the great soundtrack for that matter. Now you too can give it a spin via the marketplace as the demo features one campaign mission for the Soviets and Allies along with an interactive tutorial. It’s a shame they didn’t let you play online multiplayer as they had with the Tiberium Wars demo, but hey it’s better than nothing.

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The first Gears of War 2 patch was recently released which supposedly fixes the waiting times for matchmaking sessions. That alone would have been a good enough fix, but EPIC have also said the patch will improve how stats are collected for Gears of War dot com, plus resolve an issue where players couldn’t access campaign when Xbox Live was down.

I haven’t had a chance to check the patch out myself yet, so if you’ll be on it today drop a comment with how much of a difference this new patch makes to matchmaking times. Considering that there was a time where I waited 30 minutes for a Wingman match and it couldn’t find enough players, I’m not going to smile until I see the improvements with my own eyes.

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Just a quick heads up that Bungie have decided to rename their upcoming expansion game to Halo 3: ODST. This makes sense I suppose since you do play as an ODST but am I the only one who thought Recon just sounded cooler to say? I imagine Bungie have some tricks up their sleeve to get people interested in this expansion as it draws closer to release, which is pretty much why I’m following the title even though I only occasionally play Halo 3 nowadays.

Also, hit the jump to read about how Halo: ODST goes open-world.

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Epic has shared some very intriguing statistics with the community and I believe they’re interesting enough to post up for you guys. One piece of info that caught my eye is the fact that the Shotgun is the most lethal weapon in the game with the most kills. Considering how every fucking noob is crying their ass off over how weak it is, you’d think it wouldn’t be so frequently used. Apparently the Lancer is too strong, so why isn’t everyone whoring that instead of sticking with the shotgun they believe is so weak? I detect large amounts of bullshit. Hit the jump for the statistics.

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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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