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Crackle Joins the Xbox 360 Entertainment App Lineup

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Today Sony Pictures Entertainment announced the immediate availability of the Crackle App for the Xbox 360 Console.

The Crackle App allows you to watch full length Hollywood movies for free and is available in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. There is no charge or membership fees related to this service however, . . .

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Modern Warfare 3 Update Eight Hits Xbox 360

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Infinity Ward has released title update number eight for Modern Warfare 3 on Xbox Live, introducing a range of tweaks and performance improvements.

These include improvements to host disadvantage / lag compensation, theatre fixes, increased speed of YouTube uploads from 32k to 256k, reduced fire rate for all Akimbo weapons, shotgun rebalancing . . .

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Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Demo For Xbox 360 Kinect (video)

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Here’s a video demo of Electronic Arts’ upcoming “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13,” showing the game’s first version with full Kinect support and can be played completely without a controller. This is achieved with a mix of Kinect gestures and voice controls.

Also new to the game are online country clubs that . . .

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Beware Of Fake Halo 4 Beta Codes Circulating The Web

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Apparently some emails are circulating the web with fake codes for a Halo 4 Beta. The folks at 343 Industries quickly cleared up the matter via twitter. Content editor David Ellis posted this recently on twitter.

If you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 . . .

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Xbox Live Now Offers Local TV Networks in Germany and Canada

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Xbox Live is continuing to expand it’s worldwide expansion of media content by going “local” in Germany and Canada. If you live in those two countries you can expect to see Astral Media’s Disney XD and Real Sports / Maple Leaf Sports rolling up on your console starting today, while German gamers . . .

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Mass Effect 3 With Kinect and a Demo Incoming (Video)

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Mass Effect 3 is easily one of the most anticipated games of 2012 and Electronic Arts just announced that a demo for Mass Effect 3 will be available beginning February 14, 2012 on Xbox Live. The demo will also be one of the first pre-launch demos to support full voice recognition functionality . . .

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