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Phew, we’ve been getting so much of Street Fighter IV love over the days that we just couldn’t bear to tear ourselves out of our game to do the stuff we were supposed to be doing – you know, like, the reviews and contests and all that jazz. With contests raining down every which way at The ANGRY Pixel over the last couple of days, we decided that the best thing to help ourselves and our brain-frozen readers if we ran a (oh god!) trivia contest. So, who amongst you are well versed with your Street Fighter lore? ‘Coz we’ve got one of our resident Transformers-loving, smooth-talking, ass-kicking Street Fighter fan to come up with a list of questions designed to leave you scratching your head as you figure out the right answer. So, what are you waiting for, head on over to our cooler-than-Daddy McCool Street Fighter IV Launch Center to get your shoryuken on, there’s prizes to be won! Chop, chop!
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And the fight is finished! We’ve thought about this long and hard and we’ve finally decided upon the winners of our Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack contest, which entitles two lucky blokes to download the upcoming Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3 (costing 800 Microsoft Points) for the awesome price of free! We received well over fifty entries for just two codes, and we selected these two images because, well, they were just so damn artistic, something that we feel wouldn’t be out of place even on the back of the Halo 3 box! Without further ado, I give you your winners, Brett Sams (GT: A pIastic bag) and Paul Hoang (GT: jEEborz). Take it away, guys!
Art by Toonrama
Whee, looks like February was a great month for kicking off our extensive coverage of all the hottest video content available on the Internet. With over 80+ high-quality, 720p HD videos that we put up on our YouTube channel (or as we like to call it – TAP TV), we’re off to a great start in providing the latest hi-def game videos to our readers, including hot, exclusive footage from Resident Evil 5 and Wanted: Weapons of Fate and a veritable feast of videos including footage from The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Halo Wars, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising, Street Fighter IV, not to mention, the first trailers for games such as Dante’s Inferno, Battlefield 1943, God of War III, Dead Rising 2 and a whole lot more.
So, here’s a complete list of all the videos that are available for your viewing pleasure right now on our video channel. And oh yeah, if you liked the videos and appreciate our effort in getting these to you as soon as they hit the internet, drop us a comment and subscribe to our video updates to stay on top of the latest content to hit the gaming circuit.
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After having finished playing The Lost and Damned and working to get a review out, there I was, thinking about what our next contest should be post-Killzone 2 and our upcoming Street Fighter IV announcement. Rummaging through HBO, we decided that we’d hit up our contacts at Microsoft India to see if we could do a Halo Wars contest, with us giving out a couple of copies of Halo Wars and codes for the Halo 3 Mythic Pack, which you’d have gotten if you swiped your charge card pfhor the Halo Wars Collector’s Edition.
So imagine my surprise when I get an email late afternoon with two codes pfhor the Mythic map pack to give away to our readers. After the initial shock and spending 20 minutes fighting a sudden selfish desire to keep one of them pfhor myself, we now have two codes to give away to our “dear” readers. (Gah!) Quite obviously, we’ve never had the habit of just throwing our prizes away, so yeah, you’ll have to work your fat ass pfhor your codes, typical TAP style. That’s right, no soap-box / toothpaste commercial inspired contests, no “figure out the uber-secret message in bold in our earlier reviews” and most definitely, none of those “be the first to email us and tell us you want to have our babies.” Nuh-uh!
OK, so, not a lot of people made it to the Street Fighter IV launch party at The Living Room last week. Probably because they were busy spending quality time with their friends and loved ones, telling them how important they are when you’re living life at 120 mph. Or they were probably in bed, sipping on a cup of hot coffee, or pounding on a controller, or maybe both. (Ahem!) Oh, I remember now! It was because it was on a freaking Friday evening where the Satanic bosses at our workplace were going, “Just a couple of more hours before these in-bred SOBs go home for two days to nurse their bruises and their egos, so let’s push them harder. And yeah, send that database warehousing tub-o’-lard into my room. I’ve got a couple of fluggaenkdechioebolsen reports that I wanna go over with him!” (WARNING: That linky’s totally NSFW, so beware. And kids, stay away for your own good, at least until you’re older!)
But anyway, that was Street Fighter IV, so let’s talk about Killzone 2. You’ve read about it. You’ve seen all the videos. Maybe even participated in a few forum wars about how it’s the next best thing to hot garlic bread and cheese dip. Well, now is the time to check it out for yourselves. If you were one of the unlucky few who still hasn’t got the game or the fence-sitter minority, The Living Room is the place to be this weekend. Starting tomorrow, gaming folks who manage to wander over to The Living Room in Bangalore after 1 PM will get to spend three days in the company of the numero uno shooter for the PS3, Killzone 2. Like Niko Bellic hoped, maybe this time, things will be different. Or whatever, I don’t know, click on the ad for more details. Me, I have just one question – “Will there be Red Bull?”
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Welly, well, well! Looks like contest season has started again here. For all those folks that had their brians (yes, that was deliberate) aching from all the disuse, here’s something that should get those little grey cells firing wildly. Say hello to our Killzone 2 contest, where five lucky blokes will be able to snatch up aKillzone 2 artbook (yes, the same ones you’d have gotten if you got your press kit or placed your Steelbook copy order at GI), a Killzone 2 cap that should serve for protection from the harsh sunlight (if this contest were held on Helghan, we could have given you gas masks, but you’re on Earth, so tough luck!) and a nifty skin to deck out your PS3 and profess your love for all things Killzone 2. Without further ado, happy hunting, and oh yeah, don’t forget to check out our ossum-possum review of Killzone 2 while you’re tearing your hair out! 
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After complaining for months about not getting any love down south in Bangalore from Milestone, we finally got ourselves a nice little launch party for Street Fighter IV this Friday at The Living Room, where fans of the game could just sit back and kick their friends’ butt every which way with punches, kicks and focus moves. In fact, the party was so awesome that we completely didn’t manage to attend it! Don’t ask us why, because it mostly involves our associate editor busy rowing the slave boat and getting whipped good at work. As for me, well, I originally wanted to say I couldn’t make it because I had a brain tumor and had to get it checked out, but if I do, I’ve been promised that I’ll get my neck snapped by Milestone’s friendly neighborhood PR liaise, Payal, who loves nothing more than keeping us on track and, err, “mothering us” to make sure we do what we’re supposed to and don’t go around doing naughty things, like eating sand, spilling cooking oil all over the floor and breaking embargoes. (Ooh, look, Jill Valentine’s dead!)
Very few games have snuck up behind me and bit my head off the way Dead Space did last year. A game that everyone had mediocre hopes for quickly became the poster child for creating an atmosphere of horror that permeated every pixel on the screen. And when videos rolled out last week about how Dead Space was originally meant to emerge on the Xbox, tongues started wagging about how the game, when made on the Wii, could actually turn out to be very interesting.
As if to answer a bunch of unvoiced questions, we get a new press release and a trailer earlier today informing us that Dead Space: Extraction is headed to the Wii sometime later this summer. While we’re not sure exactly what percentage of the trailer is in-game and what’s CG, what we’ve seen of the Xbox presentation is enough to convince me that the Wii version could definitely prove to be enough fun to crap my pants all over again.
According to the press release, Extraction is set on the Aegis VII mining colony and presumably runs parallel to the animated comics -- before the USG Ishimura shows up and events of Downfall and Dead Space play out. As the necromorph infestation spreads through the colony, players will get to use the unique motion control capabiilties of the Wiimote, combined with a first-person (yes, you read that right, first-person) perspective to take the necros apart one bloody limb at a time.
And honestly speaking, after checking out the animated comics, Downfall and having walked a mile Issac’s shoes thrice already, I just can’t wait to get on the colony and kick necro butt. The only sad part is, I just know that the poor girl is probably going to get her pretty little head lobotomized by one of them crawling Necro-creating bat-creatures at the end…
Whoo boy, it’s raining bikers by the dozen this week on Xbox LIVE! First up, we get all new biker outfits so that we can doll up our avatars as angry biker dudes and chicks, just to proclaim our love for all things GTA IV. And as of today, the most anticipated expansion for which Microsoft paid Rockstar $10 million is out now for all of us to enjoy. The Lost and the Damned, featuring Johnny Klebitz as he takes his Hell’s Angels party across the dark underbelly of Liberty City, is now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 1600 Microsoft Points a pop, which kinda works out to around a thousand bucks.
And the best part of all? Not only do you get to blitz around Liberty City, but if you’re one of the first 800 lucky guys to download it in the country, you’re going to net yourself a cool 1000 Microsoft Points! For free! Available across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and India, this promotion lasts until the 28th of this month, so there’s really no reason why should deny yourself some GTA lovin’ and some free points on the side. More information on the promotion is available here.
When it released, Braid blew the entire world away with its art and some of the most amazing, innovative gameplay mechanics anyone had ever seen. And the fact that it snuggled comfortably into the Microsoft Xbox 360 exclusive stable all this time didn’t make the PC gamers all too happy, especially considering the PC version kept getting pushed back with each passing day.
Not anymore. According to Stardock software, the PC version of Braid is coming to their Impulse digital distribution platform come March 31, 2009! According to the pre-orders page on the ImpulseDriven site, the game will cost $19.95, almost $5 more than the Xbox LIVE Arcade version does, which should probably start another rant from the PC camp, but hey, at least you didn’t have to invest in a console, right?