If you haven’t gotten your hands on a beta key for Bizarre Creations’ upcoming racing game Blur, you will soon be able to gain access to the beta very soon. Bizarre Creations has announced that the Blur Beta should be going public on the Xbox 360 on April 6th. Unfortunately, the Blur Beta will be exclusive to the Xbox 360, so PlayStation 3 and PC gamers will be left out of the excitement until the retail release.
This is what Bizarre Creations said regarding the exclusive Xbox 360 beta: "We only needed it on one platform because all we wanted to do was gather data about how people are using the cars, the power ups, the tracks, and to be honest we can get that data from one platform."
Blur will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on May 25th in North America and May 28th for Europe.
Source: Shacknews
UPDATE: You can now download the demo here from xbox.com.
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Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) is no game from Activision Blizzard. The Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) has been created by Activision Blizzard to help veterans with job placement and training. CODE was established to help raise public awareness of the challenges veterans face in returning back home to work in civilian life.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics states more than 500,000 unemployed veterans between the ages of 18 and 64 currently live in the United States. Activision Blizzard also notes: "Amid the greatest economic uncertainty since the 1930s, today’s veterans by some accounts endure a jobless rate that is nearly twice the national average."
Activision is using proceeds from their Modern Warfare 2 game to help fund the Call of Duty Endowment program and raise awareness for this issue facing veterans.
To learn more about CODE and help on today’s Veterans Day, you can make a donation at the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) website at callofdutyendowment.org.
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Having a tough time finding all the hidden messages in The Conduit? Part of the fun of playing The Conduit is tracking all the messages down, but it could be frustrating if you missed one or two throughout the whole game. Here are the locations of all of the hidden messages. There are 42 hidden messages throughout The Conduit. Mission 2 doesn’t have any hidden messages (since you aren’t equipped with the All Seeing Eye in that mission) and the final mission, Mission 9, doesn’t have any hidden messages either.
See all the hidden messages to be found in The Conduit here (with video clips).
You can get an idea of where the messages are located by playing a video clip, available for each mission. The hidden messages are listed in the order they are found in each mission, so that should help you find any you may have missed.
If you want to get the last cheat unlock, "Fiery Death," and see the final art gallery (Gallery 6) showing the unused locations of The Conduit, you’ll still have to track down all the Data Disks in addition to finding all of the hidden messages.
Now decipher what it all means…
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Pay a visit to PlayStation Home soon. There’s a free Chamber apartment available from the Mall’s Estates Shop. It’ll only be available until May 21st, then it’s gone for good. It’s a pretty unique pad, with fire pits that you can switch to waterfalls. At the center is a large tree. The tree has a doorway to the PS Home’s Central Plaza on one side and the other side is the tree’s head that follows your movement.
Sony also released a new promotional video for PlayStation Home. Watch it below and see if you can catch a hidden code. Caught it? Look around 0:26. It’s a redeemable code that you can enter in the PlayStation Store. That gets you a Goldfish hat (for male characters) and a Shark hat (for female characters). You’ll probably come across people wearing them in PlayStation Home!
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We know most of you may have already heard the slipped news on the upcoming Wii release of Dead Space. Today came the first hint of it from the official Dead Space website. The hint came in a form which should be familiar to Dead Space vets, as alien coded markings on a wall. Because I am fluent in the alien code, or obsessed on finding out more on the Wii release, I managed to translate it. The image above, from the Dead Space website’s blog, translates to: “The End Will Be Set In Motion”.
“Motion” likely refers to the Wii game, but could the Wii game be some kind of conclusion to the original Dead Space game? Nothing concrete just yet, but keep a lookout on deadspace.ea.com. Hopefully a press release is just around the corner!
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