Tekken 6 Online Patch To Be Released Thursday

NAMCO have recently announced that on Thursday 26th November an Online patch will be released for Tekken 6 on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

This online patch will fix a few problems (mainly the slow response time when pressing buttons during matches) aswell as adding new features such as showing your opponents signal strength.

In case you are wondering this fix that is due out later in the week, is not the same patch that is rumoured to update Scenario mode to online co-op (instead of offline co-op only). The scenario mode update patch is expected to be released later in the year.

Regarding the recent fix that is due to appear in Tekken 6's Online mode later in the week, here is a complete list of "update features" upon what it will change in the game:

• Improved input response: improvement of the game's responsiveness to button / command inputs

• Selectable search priorities for ranked matches: players will be able to set search priorities for opponents in ranked matches based on comparable rank or connection quality as well as location

• Optimized data transmission between fighters and spectators: fight data will be optimized in order to reduce the bandwidth load on the host’s console

• Signal strength bars: the signal strength bar will reflect connection quality more accurately

• Chance to cancel match: players will be able to cancel the match before it begins once the opponent's signal strength has been displayed on ranked matches.

With these "newly" updated feature and fixes the online aspect of Tekken 6 should become more enjoyable and playable then ever before.

Playstation Video Store Goes Live In UK

I recently recieved an e-mail from the "Sony Newsletter" saying that there "Playstation Video Store" service is now officially up and running.

Basically the PSN Video Store (for short) is to rival a variety of online "digital" movie purchasing stores such as "Zune Video" on Xbox Live and Itunes Video.

The major difference (so i have read) between the PSN Video Store and XBL Zune Video Store is that all purchases on the PSN Video Store are ONE-OFF-ONLY payments and you get to keep the video. For example "Angels & Demons" on the PSN Video Store costs around £11.99 to buy, with this you can transfer it to your PSP or possibly even your PC and transfer it to other portable video devices - not to mention keep it on the PS3 and watch it like a normal DVD (or HD fBlu-ray film).

This seems like "superb" news espically compared to the XBL Zune Video Store where all videos (mainly movies at the moment) are RENTED out for a week for around 560 MS, which is around £4.50.

To Celebrate the launch of the PSN Video Store, Sony are offering everyone (and anyone) who purchases "Angels & Demons" from 19th November to 30th November a FREE Download of "The Da Vinci Code" (usual price is £6.99) - So thats two great films for one superb price.

For more information regarding the PSN Video Store click on this link here.

Playstation 3 - 3.10 Firmware Update Goes Live

The latest Playstation 3 Firmware update, 3.10, officially went live this morning and one of the major features that has been added to the Playstation 3 is facebook.

Xbox Live went live with facebook, twitter and last.fm support earlier in the week, but 2 days later sony have now responded with their version of the facebook application.

At this moment in time the "facebook" on the PS3 only allows users to update their "Trophy status, PSN Store purchase information and recent gaming event information", users will not be able to post messages on the wall or view friends photos - this all has to be done via the main "facebook" website, which now looks more realistic and better than it did on the previous PSN Web browser.

Other small changes that are included in this firmware update is that "thumbnail photos" can be sorted into different layout, such as vertical (like previously) or in rows of 5 - which makes it easier to view alot of photos at once on screen. Also the background colour of your PSN Gamertag can be changed colour, as before it was a dull grey, but now you can customise is so your friends know exactly which person you are on their list. The last update is that "POLISH" is now an officially suported language on the Playstation 3 console.

For more information regarding this 3.10 Firmware update on the Playstation 3 check out a preview of it on the playstation blog here.

Band Hero - The Complete Export Track List

Most of you will probably find this rather old news, but id like to mention it anyway seeing as Band Hero isnt one of the "popular" Xbox 360 (and PS3) titles this holiday season.

As most of you are aware you can import previous Guitar Hero games into Band Hero, well you can also export Band Hero to be used in Guitar Hero 5 (and possibly future Guitar Hero games). Now the process is exactly the same as importing/exporting music into Guitar Hero 5.

The only difference is that around 62 tracks (out of 65) from Band Hero can be exported into Guitar Hero 5 and it only costs 400 MS, which is slightly different to the 480 MS points that i previously read about.

Either way since i had recently completed the main "story smode" of Band Hero i decided to import the songs into Guitar Hero 5 and i was welcomed with a nice 2.2GB Download, so while waiting i found the "track list" of songs that are imported into Guitar Hero 5, which are:

• "ABC" - Jackson 5
• "American Pie" - Don Mclean
• "A Million Ways" - OK Go
• "Angels of the Silences" - Counting Crows
• "Back Again" - Parachute
• "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett
• "Believe" - The Bravery
• "Black Cat" - Janet Jackson
• "Black Horse And Cherry Tree" - KT Tunstall
• "Bring Me To Life" - Evanescence
• "Dirty Little Secret" - All American Rejects
• "Don't Speak" - No Doubt
• "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" - Culture Club
• "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
• "Fascination" - Alphabeat
• "Gasoline" - Airborne Toxic Event
• "Hands Down" - The Dashboard Confessional
• "Hang Me Up to Dry" - Cold War Kids
• "Happy Together" - Turtles
• "Honky Tonk Women" - Rolling Stones
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
• "If You Could Only See" - Tonic
• "In a Big Country" - Big Country
• "I Want You to Want Me" - Cheap Trick
• "Just A Girl" - No Doubt
• "Kids" - Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue
• "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas
• "LES Aristes" - Santigold
• "Let's Dance" - David Bowie
• "Lifeline" - Papa Roach
• "Lips Of An Angel" - Hinder
• "Love is A Battlefield" - Pat Benetar
• "Love Story" - Taylor Swift
• "Naïve" - Kooks
• "Ocean Avenue" - Yellowcard
• "Our Lips Our Sealed" - The Go-Go's
• "Paralyzer" - Finger Eleven
• "Pictures of You" - The Last Goodnight
• "Picture to Burn" - Taylor Swift
• "Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
• "Put Your Records On" - Corinne Bailey Rae
• "Rio" - Duran Duran
• "Rockstar" - N.E.R.D.
• "Santa Monica" - Everclear
• "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5
• "Steal My Kisses" - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
• "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" - Fallout Boy
• "Take a Picture" - Filter
• "Take Back the City" - Snow Patrol
• "Take What You Take" - Lilly Allen
• "The Adventure" - Angels & Airwaves
• "The Impression That I Get" - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• "Turn Off The Lights" - Nelly Furtado
• "Walking On Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves
• "Wannabe" - Spice Girls
• "Warwick Avenue" - Duffy
• "When I'm Gone" - 3 Doors Down
• "Whip It" - Devo
• "You Belong With Me" - Taylor Swift
• "YMCA" - Village People
• "You Had Me" - Joss Stone

These songs, with the 85 songs that are already on the Guitar Hero 5 Disc, allow me to choose from over 140 different songs, and since i have previously imported Guitar Hero Smash hits and downloaded Guitar Hero DLC - i now have over 220 songs to play from - which is alot of music.

Xtival Weekend Returns!

Xtival Returns with "Xtival '09 Winter" and is expected to commence on 27th November 2009.

"What Does this mean?" you ask, well the main "popular" reason is that EVERYONE gets Xbox Live for FREE for the whole weekend, so all your friends that have XBL Silver Accounts can now play online and see what its like to play with us "Gold Members" of the Xbox Live Community.

Not only that other special events (which will be announced closer to the date) will take place. Special Events include random prize giveaways and online tournaments for popular games such as Halo 3 (ODST), Gears Of War 2, Modern Warfare (1 & 2) and Fifa 10.

Obviously the only way to "win it" is to be "in it", so check the official Xtival Website here every so often for the latest and up-to-date news regarding the Xtival '09 Winter Event.

Previous "Guitar Hero" Exports do work in Band Hero

Band Hero was released onto various consoles nearly a week ago and while most are currently enjoying the game (or maybe switched over onto Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the process) the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions of the game do allow previous downloaded songs from Guitar Hero World Tour , not to mention having the option of importing (yet again) the songs from previous guitar hero games, including the recent Guitar Hero 5.

Just like last time there is a charge for importing Guitar Hero 5 songs into Band Hero (and have mentioned this in a previous blog post a few weeks back), the reason for this post is that previous "imported" content such as Guitar Hero Smash Hits & Guitar Hero World Tour can be "re-imported" into Band Hero for FREE!

Basically if you have already imported the Guitar Hero World Tour & Smash Hits setlists into Guitar Hero 5 you can "re-download the activation key" (so to speak) inside Band Hero to activate the songs for play in Band Hero - at least this way it makes the game more "rock-ish" - and playing more (aswell as favourite) songs is always a good thing.

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Now Available On Xbox Live Marketplace

Valves latest "Zombie-Survival-Coop-game" is due to be released within the coming months and to celebrate the Left 4 Dead 2 Demo (which was previously only available to people who pre-ordered the game) has now gone live on Xbox Live Marketplace.

The Demo weighs in at a "huge" 1.69GB, which according to some, is abit more than the pre-order demo which weighed in at 1.67GB.

The Demo (at the moment) is only available to GOLD Subscribers, so for silver members you will have to wait a few weeks before you can download it.

According to xbox360achievements.org the demo will feature gameplay from the "parish Campaign" not to mention new zombies, special infected bosses and some cool new melee weapons - however the only way to find out, for sure, is to download the demo today!