Here’s a few quick words for the Too Human nay-sayers out there. The game is fun! That’s right, it’s fun. And that’s coming from someone who hates the word fun, because it’s usually a cop out word used when no real opinion is going to be offered up or more than likely because it’s way to easy to use the word fun. So what’s this all about? It’s about giving this game a chance.

Too Human does one thing really right and that’s one thing it alt to get right above all else. It makes you feel like a F-ing badass not some of the time, but all of the freaking time. Sliding along the floor toward one group of enemies to give them a beat down only to turn around and do the same to the group behind you, then knock the next group up in the air to air juggle them with your pistols can’t feel any better. Hearing what the “group think” is doing to this game’s reputation is despicable. Sure, it has some faults much the same as every other game ever made. The camera can get unwieldy at times and the menu system for upgrading your skills and equipment can be confusing to say the least. After saying that though, much of it’s faults can easily be over looked as you take Buldar through each environment kicking all kinds of ass.

If anything, it’s nice to know now that I’m not alone. I’m not alone, am I? I had second thoughts about picking this game up on Tuesday so I waited until Wednesday night. If not one day, don’t wait forever, because you’ll be missing out on some great “fun”.

-William “thewilleffect” Bell-

The greater gaming community is what we are and should be about here at The Xbox Domain as Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play Charity has been going strong for several years now and its no better time than now to help the cause. Announced by Platform Nation is a 50 hour gaming marathon with all donated proceeds being giving to the Child’s play cause. The Live feed of the event can be viewed on Ustream.tv can be found here on August 14th. It will also be featured on the front page of Ustream.tv.

Seattle, WA – August 5, 2008 – Platform Nation has announced a unique charity drive, dubbed Playapalooza ‘08, to take place August 14th, 2008. Playapalooza—a 50-hour gaming marathon—will be conducted in support of nationally recognized children’s charity, Child’s Play, which provides video games to hospitalized children throughout the world.

Participants in Platform Nation’s Playapalooza ‘08 will play a series of games in timed 30-minute increments, with the gameplay streamed live on Ustream.tv. Each segment will feature text overlays with information about the games and their donors. Games to be featured in the event have been donated from a number of prominent publishers throughout the industry. The event will last for 50 consecutive hours of play and feature as many as 100 games.

At the close of the event, all donated games will be collected and the proceeds given to Child’s Play during a public event at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington.

Platform Nations announces charity gaming marathon [Platform Nation]

-William “thewilleffect” Bell-

*Tumbleweed Rolls By*

Released this morning was a brand spanking new update for our 360’s and it didn’t add any neat-o features. What did you expect? A summer dashboard update? Pish Posh.

Xbox 360 System update now available(no new features) [Major Nelson]

-Michael “Thrills Killa” Pacheco-

So, who’s in the mood for a platformer/puzzler? Released today on the Xbox Live Arcade is the indie darling “Braid” which music simply lulls me to sleep. I haven’t tried it yet, but that music is so relaxing. The game is worth 1200 Microsoft Points so spend wisely young grasshopper.

-Michael “Thrills Killa” Pacheco-

What? No Shaving Cream?

After receiving less than stellar reviews, Atari has released a demo for Alone in The Dark. The demo clocks in at 1.35 GB in size. Even though i’ve had friends tell me how sloppy A.I.T.D is, I still want to give it a spin.

[Via Major Nelson]

-Michael “Thrills Killa” Pacheco-

About Damn Time!

Some good news for you Bad Company gamers. EA is rolling out the free “Conquest Mode” update this Thursday, August 7th for. Four of the current multiplayer maps will host the upcoming mode. This update comes just in time because I was getting pretty sick and tired of Gold Rush.

[Via 360 Rant Rave]

-Michael “Thrills -Not Dead Yet-Killa” Pacheco-

If you head on over to Bungie.net at the moment of this writing you’ll be graced with the above image with a few rotate messages. What it means and/or what its for is yet unknown. Is it a countdown? “Whatever it is” being absent from the Microsoft Press Briefing is a weird one for sure. Until the cloak is removed, your guess is as good as mine.

-William “thewilleffect” Bell-

E3 2008 Microsoft Press Briefing

Fallout 3
Resident Evil 5 (Dated for March 13th 2009 )
Fable 2 (Dated for October 2008 )
Gears of War 2 (Dated for November 7th 2008 )

Movie and TV content featured

A New Dashboard is featured with Avatars
Geometry Wars 2 shown for the first time to be available next month
New Galaga shown for the first time and to be available next month exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade
Portal Still Alive on Xbox Live Arcade with new test chambers and achievements
Xbox Community games montage is shown
Netflix Partnership announced with no additional cost if you have a Netflix account already
Share your Netflix que with your Live Party

More titles are headlined for Xbox 360 (Mention of GTA IV downloadable count for later this year)
New Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts trailer is shown
New Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise trailer is shown

Scene it? Box office Smash! shown for the first time
Your in the Movies is announced and is coming this holiday exclusively on Xbox 360, plus demoed live on the stage with Dan Mattrick. Several of the Vision Cam enable mini games are demoed on stage

Music/rhythm action Games are highlighted
80% of all song downloads attributed to Xbox Live only
Guitar Hero World Tour highlighted on Stage
REM 3 song track pack will be downlaodable from their album
Metallica and Van Halen is also mentioned

“Lips” is finally shown for the first time with its new microphone
Sing karaoke from your own collection of music

Rock Band 2 shown on stage (Coming this September)
84 track set list shown off (All master tracks)
Guns N’ Roses Highlighted
Bob Dylan Highlighted
AC/DC Highlighted (finally in a music game)
20 bonus tracks will be downloadable this fall for free
Rock Band 1 tracks will be exportable into Rock Band 2 (not disc swapping needed)

Square Enix RPG’s are highlighted
September 2nd is the release date for Infinite Undiscovery
Star Ocean coming spring 2009
The Last Remnant will be released on Xbox 360 first this holiday November 20, 2008(New footage is shown)
Lastly a mysterious trailer for ? Here’s the “Oh Shit” moment for RPG fan’s: Final Fantasy 13 will be coming to the Xbox 360

* Of note: No mention of what Bungie is up to or anything from Halo Wars even though it is at the show.

-William “thewilleffect” Bell-

To help support the fine folks/friends over at Gamertag Radio, we will be hosting their GTR Vision stream along with many others consisting of briefings/conferences by MS, Ubisoft, Activision, EA, Konami, and more tidbits of goodness.  As a major point of interest “turn on” the cam feed today at 10:30am pt/1:30pm est for a showing of the E3 2008 Microsoft Press Briefing from the view of Gamertag Radio. No need to stray away to those so-called bigger sites, because independent media is cool like that.

-William “thewilleffect” Bell-

The time has come for Too Human to put up or shut up. Influence from Silicon Knights head Denis Dyack or any forum need not matter (more on that in the future). Does Too Human have a chance of surprising gamers as BioShock did last August? Does that really matter? Are you still reading this? If so, what are you doing, go download the demo already.

Content: Too Human
Price: Free
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions except Japan
Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) BLOOD,LANGUAGE,MILD SUGGESTIVE THEMES,VIOLENCE] Step into the world of “Too Human,” the third person epic action game from renowned Canadian developer Silicon Knights. As the cybernetic god Baldur, players are thrust into the midst of an ongoing battle that threatens the existence of mankind. In “Too Human” an ancient machine presence has forced the god’s hand. Baldur is charged with defending humanity from an onslaught of monstrous war machines bent on the eradication of human life. Size: 1.09 GB

Demo: Too Human [Major Nelson]

*Two additional videos after the break

-William “thewilleffect” Bell-

Too Human Skill Tree Commando

Too Human Co-op Battle Cries