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PS3 owners have had access to Pieces Interactive’s Fret Nice since February 4 , leaving Xbox 360 owners nothing to do with their guitar controllers but play rhythm games. According to an announcement from Major Nelson, those Xbox 360 guitarists will be able to experience Fret Nice ’s new type of guitar heroism this Wednesday, Feb. 24, at a cost of 1,200 ($15). Fret Nice uses both the buttons and the tilt function of guitar controllers to move members of the Vibrant Chordblasters, as they fight against Hair B

Major Nelson has a dropped a partial February schedule for Xbox Live Marketplace content, including a particularly nice Deal of the Week. Specifically, next week’s deal, beginning February 15, will be Battlefield 1943 for only 800 ($10). If you’ve yet to pick up the game, $10 is definitely a good price

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Xbox Live Marketplace Feb. schedule includes $10 Battlefield 1943

Strategic war game buffs, take note: All of the Total War titles on Steam are receiving a massive discount this week, to the tune of a whopping 66 percent off. In fact, you can pick up the Total War Mega Pack , which includes Medieval II: Total War , Rome: Total War — including the Alexander and Kingdoms expansions — and Empire: Total War for $20.39. Additionally, the Empire: Total War Downloadable Content Pack , containing all the Empire content released thus far, is available for 10 percent off at $16.19.

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Total War games 66% off on Steam this week

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Tecmo announced via Twitter that Fret Nice , the musical platformer played with guitar controllers, will be available on PSN in North America this week. In its own tweet , developer Pieces Interactive said that a European release date would be “coming soon.” Now PS3 owners will be able to use those guitar controllers of theirs to do something other than play along to “Uncontrollable Urge” over and over again (what, you mean you don’t do that?) Specifically, in Fret Nice , players take control of the Vibrant Chordblasters as they travel through the world defeating Hair B

It’s not a good sign when Xbox know-it-all Major Nelson admits in his This Week on Arcade post that “information on the game is light, so here is what I was able to find.” However, we can’t blame him — we’d never heard of KrissX , this week’s new XBLA game, before today either. Apparently, the Blitz Games-developed , Konami-published puzzler tasks players with solving crosswords and unscrambling “over 3,500 jumbled words that will test your trivia knowledge and expand your own daily vocabulary.” We’re automatically apprehensive about games that try to sneak some education into our entertainment regimen — we’ll have to wait and see if KrissX is actually fun enough to deserve our 800 ($10). Sadly, we don’t think the game has anything in common with Kriss Kross’ other ludological outing . Someday, friends. Someday .

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This Wednesday: KrissX will make you jump, jump, solve puzzles

Considering there’s really nothing serious about it — some of the enemies have bombs for heads — we’re not sure how Serious Sam wound up with its name. It could be comic irony, or perhaps merely for its delightful sibilance. Honestly, we may never know

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This Wednesday: XBLA gets Serious (Sam)

We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Blu-ray each week. It’s Christmas! So we’re going to recommend a slew of holiday movies that might peel you away from your gaming loot, or TBS’ all-day Christmas Story marathon, AMC’s all-day National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation programming, or even the Spike TV Bad Santa all-day extravaganza

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JBO: Joystiq Box Office Holiday Edition, plus Joyswag!

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