Through the division of Portuguese Eurogamer come to know, in fact quite a surprise that a demo of Bulletstorm is about to get on Internet services to which the title is intended. It appears that the production in development at People Can Fly and published by Epic Games will be playable in demo starting next January 25th on Xbox Live and PlayStation 3. This file should allow access to the mode called "Echo", one of three planned by the developers.

Major Nelson announced XBL sales for both Activision and EA last week. Today is the first day of the Activision sale; the sale ends on January 17th.

Game Add-ons

Call of Duty: World at War
• "Map Pack Bundle" - 1000 MSP
• "Map Pack 1" - 400 MSP
• "Map Pack 2" - 400 MSP
• "Map Pack 3" -400 MSP

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• "Variety Map Pack" - 400 MSP

Call of Duty 3
• "Call of Duty 3 Valor Map Pack" - 200 MSP
• "Call of Duty 3 Bravo Map Pack" -200 MSP

Call of Duty 2
• "Call of Duty 2: Skirmish Map Pack" - 200 MSP
• "Call of Duty 2: Invasion Map Pack" - 200 MSP

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
• "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock 1 Track Pack" - 800 MSP
• "My Chemical Romance Track Pack" - 300 MSP
• "The Rocky Horror Picture Show Track Pack" - 220 MSP
• "Linkin Park Track Pack" - 480 MSP
• "Soundgarden "Telephantasm" Album" - 720 MSP

Guitar Hero 5
• "Rock 1 Track Pack" - 440 MSP
• "Megadeth Track Pack" - 220 MSP
• "Avenged Sevenfold Track Pack" - 220 MSP
• "Disturbed Track Pack" - 220 MSP
• "Fall Out Boy Track Pack" - 220 MSP

DJ Hero 2
• "Hit Makers Mix Pack" - 320 MSP
• "Electro Hits Mix Pack" - 320 MSP

DJ Hero
• "Jay-Z vs. Eminem Mix Pack" - 320 MSP
• "David Guetta Mix Pack 01" -320 MSP

Transformers: War For Cybertron
• "Map and Character Pack #1" - 400 MSP
• "Map and Character Pack #2" - 400 MSP

XBLA Games

• Assault Heroes 2 - 400 MSP
• Assault Heroes - 200 MSP
• Carcassonne -400 MSP
• Arkadian Warriors - 400 MSP
• Golf: Tee It Up! -400 MSP

Xbox Originals

• Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex - 600 MSP
• The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning -600 MSP

Unfortunately, although everything on this list is listed on the Xbox dashboard, the discounted prices of some of these items are not reflected in the marketplace yet. I would advise checking back later if the price is not yet discounted.

Here's a link to the Games Marketplace for those of you who can't wait to start downloading.

Electronic Arts will unveil Battlefield 3 this March.

The publisher confirmed to the media it will host an unveil event for the game on Mar. 1, 2011, taking place during the week of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Additionally, EA says it will also have new game announcements as well as hands-on time with many upcoming titles, including: Shadows of the Damned, Alice Madness Returns, Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, and Crysis 2.

Those who purchased the Limited Edition of Medal of Honor this past fall received an invitation to the Battlefield 3 beta. Details about the beta's release date have not been announced.

Battlefield 3 is expected to ship in 2011.

During the CES 2011 in Las Vegas Microsoft has officially Kinect Avatar, the new Xbox Live service that will provide a number of unusual features to note the happy owner of the device Kinect. During the conference, also the CEO of Redmond Steve Ballmer confirmed what was already enough in the air, namely that the company's intention would be to extend the compatibility of peripheral devices to the PC world, which also support seemed already established since the official announcement of Kinect then instead be set aside at a later time. Despite this, Ballmer explained how the data is not yet official, referring to a forthcoming proclamation that will not be long in coming.

The practical service Cerberus network, introduced by Bioware with the debut of Mass Effect 2 will cease to update since January 24th, unless reappear at two different times of 2011.

In fact, as announced by the same software house, the Cerberus Network will be reactivated about a week before the distribution of the new DLC, of which unfortunately we have not news, and the first two weeks of landing on the official market of the much Mass Effect 3 - Chapter Three conclude definitively that the saga - which in fact sanction and rehabilitation of the service.

As each year draws TorrentFreak its annual rankings on the most pirated video games over the past 12 months, taking into account the activity data collected on various online websites dedicated to torrents.

By far, the most downloaded game in 2010 Call of Duty: Black Ops with 4,270,000 downloads in total, an amount that is even more impressive when you consider that the game was released only in November this year and has therefore reached that share in only 2 months of online presence.

The remainder of the three rankings are based on PC, Xbox 360 and Wii and it is clear as the first platform is rampant in a significantly higher piracy, so even the fifth position on the PC (StarCraft II) was much higher than the top positions of Wii and Xbox 360, respectively, see Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Dante's Inferno at the top. Here are the rankings:

PC

* 1. Call of Duty: Black Ops - 4.270.000
* 2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - 3.960.000
* 3. Mafia 2 - 3.550.000
* 4. Mass Effect 2 - 3.240.000
* 5. StarCraft II - 3.120.000

Wii

* Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 1.470.000
* Wii Party - 1.220.000
* Donkey Kong Country Returns - 920.000
* Kirby's Epic Yarn - 880.000
* Red Steel 2 - 850.000

Xbox 360

* Dante's Inferno - 1.280.000
* Alan Wake - 1.140.000
* Red Dead Redemption - 1.060.000
* Halo Reach - 990.000
* Call of Duty: Black Ops - 930.000

Other than the Grinch, this could contribute to represent one of the worst Christmas malice, somehow related to entertainment.

The police of the U.S. Department of Charlotte-Mecklenburg has arrested a man accused of stealing and reselling the console from a mental hospital, specifically the section Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Center in Levine.

These consoles were intended for young patients afflicted with cancer and admitted to the hospital. As far removed from the Christmas spirit there can be, it seems.

PlayStation gamers, the time has come for you to join Commander Shepard in his fight for the lost! After earning over 70 perfect scores, over 50 awards and having explored countless galaxies and uncharted worlds, Commander Shepard and the Normandy will make their long-awaited debut on the PlayStation Network with a Mass Effect 2 demo in North America today and in Europe tomorrow. The Mass Effect 2 demo marks the first time the highest-rated game on Xbox 360 and PC, and one of the most critically acclaimed interactive entertainment franchises of all time, will be available on the PlayStation 3.

In the demo, players will step into the role of the heroic icon of the Mass Effect franchise, Commander Shepard, giving them a chance to experience three of the game's most memorable, action-packed missions that have helped make Mass Effect 2 G4TV's Game of the Year, the Xbox 360 Game of the Year from the Spike Video Game Awards, IGN.com and Gamespy.com, and over 15 other Best of 2010 awards to date. This includes the game's shocking and thrilling opening sequence, the investigation of a planet whose inhabitants have disappeared and a mission to help recruit one of the most memorable characters in the franchise, Mordin Solus, to your squad.

Mass Effect 2 on PlayStation 3 will ship to retail stores in North America on January 18, 2011 and in Europe on January 21, 2011 and will include six hours of bonus DLC missions, including the critically acclaimed and award-winning Lair of the Shadow Broker, making it a terrific value. Mass Effect Genesis, an interactive comic from Dark Horse Comics and BioWare, will also be available through the Cerberus Network, an in-game online interface that allows gamers who purchase the game new to receive free content. The interactive comic will help give players a high level overview of the events of the original Mass Effect, giving them the option to make critical choices that will affect their storyline in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, launching simultaneously on all three platforms for the first time in the franchise's history in Holiday 2011. For those who do not purchase the game new, Cerberus Network codes will be available for $10 on the PlayStation Network.

Gears of War 3: unlockables for free by those who have already played other titles from Epic Games

Through its official Twitter profile, Cliff Bleszinski is dressed as Santa Claus to deliver virtually so many beautiful gifts X360 users who have behaved well with him and his Epic Games.

According to CliffyB good, in fact, who in recent years has played other titles such as Shadow Complex Epic Games, Unreal Tournament 3 or the previous two chapters of the adventure of Marcus Fenix, but also those who will follow in the coming months Ishi Sato Grayson and Hunt in the crowds fantasy universe Bulletstorm splatter, you can enjoy in a totally free in a series of unlockable content for Gears of War 3.

Congratulating course with the guys at Epic Games for the initiative, and hope that these gifts will prove at least somewhat useful in terms of purely gaming (preferably a shotgun or a sad sweater for your avatar?), there I leave remembering that Gears of War 3 is scheduled for release in Autumn 2011 exclusively on Xbox 360.

After the announcement by Epic Games on the fact that within the title will Bulletstorm this code to access the multiplayer beta of Gears of War 3, came further clarification. In fact, Mike Capps of Epic stated in an interview that the playable demo would arrive on the market from next April, so as to leave enough time for some players to try the new shooter (Bulletstorm, out since February 2011), while the other would be equally useful to obtain feedback on the experience a long line of the new chapter of Gears of War, to finally present a very polished title with the launch set for next November.