My Xbox 360 red ringed this weekend. The launch-day bought box started sporting its new look after booting cold, rather than during a marathon session of Puzzle Quest.

Reports say 30% failure rates are estimated, but using the ultra-scientific testing pool of people I know, this brings the failure rate per capita to a respectable 100%.

Cardboard coffin: en route.

If you’re still holding your breath for FF13 to come out this year, and marked down 2008 as the year you lose your petal to almost-real anime ladies, then loosen the belt buckle around your neck and squeegie the red x’s off of your social-life calendar.

Final Fantasy 13 probably, maybe, most-likely, my sources point to no, won’t be making it into the year of our lord 2008.

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Marvel breaks ties with EA. Fighting game fans around the world rejoice. Follow the link for full story.

In a statement sent to GameTap from Marvel, the company said that the move “will not affect Marvel’s ongoing plans to release fighting games based on the Marvel properties in the future.”

You know what to do Capcom, now get to it! Think of all the milking you can do with Marvel vs. Capcom on XBLA. Milk me for my money Capcom, I’m begging you.

Being out with a flu bug makes my rant meter worse so to keep my pent up rage from hitting a poor unsuspecting Nintendo fanboy I took the day off. Which ended up a good thing considering the interesting discussion I had last night at the NeoGaf forums about the Video Game Rental industry. We were lucky enough to have some industry people weigh in on the discussion about video game rentals and if they were bad for the developers and publishers, or not. Those in the industry were pretty quick to say the video game developers (publishers) were being hosed.

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Just saw this over at IGN.

Many months ago publisher 2K Games and developer Firaxis jointly announced that a Wii build of Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution was underway alongside Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS incarnations. However, 2K Games confirmed to IGN Wii today that the Wii iteration of the real-time strategy game has been put on indefinite hold.

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It has basically been confirmed, almost definitely, pretty sure, mostly that FFXIII will be out this year. I just wanted to make sure that Ponn was made aware of this “practically confirmed” news, which has been said to come from the proverbial horses mouth, as seen here:”HERE.” That is all, Thunderpudd out!

Crack open a fresh case of hair gel and prepare to spike your coiffe all the way up. The Magic Box has a ton of FF13 and versus scans showing a plethora of characters and environments.

There don’t appear to be any plot centric images but none-the-less, spoiler warning ahoy:

FFXIII

EfEfEx-eye-eye-eye Versus

So…. How ’bout that DMC4 starring Shooty McStabby?The new demo (or old, if you had a peek at the E3 demo) is split into two sections: an adventure style, exploration level capped at 10 minutes and a mini and full-on boss fight capped at the point where the fire belching boss Berial murders you with a sword the size of lower-Manhattan.
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If you remember the fiasco that surrounded this device last year, then you may be wondering why anyone would want to associate themselves with that name. But one man feels that he is honor bound to deliver on the promises made to investors and potential consumers, and will carry the weight of that task like Atlas himself.

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There’s no doubt that I love BioShock. The story, the game play, the general fun without my anger pushing me to traject a controller through the window when I hit a block I can’t pass. Just an overall great game. It was also fun for my fiance, as she prefers to sit and watch over playing the games herself. The story and environment was enough to keep her enthused. It actually takes over portions of our life outside of the game as well.

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