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Can anyone tell me about hard drives for the 360?

I've heard that I can install the games that I have on disc, onto a hard drive, is this true? I don't mean downloaded games (my 360 isn't online and won't be, for the foreseeable future) or saved games, I mean the actual game to be played without using the disc..

If that's the case, roughly how big is the file per game? I know some games will obviously be larger than others but just an approximation would do. Of the games I have, on disc, Midnight Club, Fable 2, Lost Odyssey and WWE R vs S 2009 seem like they would be largest.

I recently bought the HP Pavilion p6243w-b desktop computer and asked around about weather or not the sims 3 or other PC games will work on it. The answer was mostly no, because of the graphics card. Does anyone no of a good graphics card that I could buy that will allow games to work good? I just started PC gaming now so I'm sort of clueless about this stuff right now.

Graphics Card:
Integrated graphics using nVidia GeForce 6150SE
Also supports PCI Express x16 graphics cards

Processor:
AMD Sempron LE1200 processor - 2.1GHz

Power Supply:
250-Watt

Hard Drive is 320 GB, 3.0 GB of memory and comes with Windows 7.

Alright, so I'm buying a PS3 this christmas and I was wondering if anyone could recommend me any good games to buy...

I already have Uncharted 2 and Final Fantasy XIII (which I am aware doesn't even come out until March) on my list but I can't really think of any other games to buy. I was going to buy Assassins Creed 2 but that was before my brother bought it for his 360 and I would buy RE5 if I hadn't already played the majority of the game on a friends PS3. So does anyone have any ideas?

Here's what I like:
RPG's
First person shooters
Action/Adventure
Fighting
Puzzle

If anyone could recommend anything to me it would be a great help :)

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While this doesn't do much for us here in the States, those of you in the UK will have the chance to check out Stuart Hazeldine's thriller Exam in theaters this Christmas. While we haven't really learned much up until now, below you'll find the synopsis and trailer for the flick that doesn't seem to have much of a push (no official website?). That's not all that encouraging.

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After playing at this years UK FrightFest, Gabe Ibanez's Spanish thriller Hierro is heading to Spain this january. Beyond the break you'll find the official Spanish trailer for the pic starring Elena Anaya, Kaiet Rodriguez, Jon Arino, Miriam Correa and Mar Sodupe. Lucky there's no dialogue. After believing she spotted her son in a traveling caravan, a distraught mother returns to the island of El Hierro, where son disappeared three years previously.

Greetings! I'm the one who posted MONTHS AND MONTHS ago about looking for tiny dice. XD Well I finally found some and made some jewelry! What I have up are my leftovers, anything that didn't sell at Youmacon is up for sale in my selling journal, catstered_sales. I plan on making a bunch more polyhedral dice jewelry after the holidays (ie once I actually have money to order dice ^^*). Anyway, click the preview image below to go to the post! Lots of earrings, a few bracelets, necklaces, and decorative pins available.

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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/27/splash-damages-brink-wants-to-change-your-mind-on-multiplayer/

Are you one of these folks who don't even realize there's a "multiplayer button" in your first-person shooters? After spending hours with the single-player campaign, you shelve the game and press onward, eschewing time with multiplayer for other, more solitary experiences? Splash Damage head Paul Wedgwood wants to change your attitude, telling Eurogamer in an interview that his studio's upcoming FPS Brink will do just that.

"It's our goal from the outset to incidentally teach people to be good at multiplayer shooters while they're playing our single-player shooter," he says. Apparently, Brink will offer in-game rewards (double XP, for instance) to players willing to take their game online. "At a certain point in the game we say to them, 'Why don't you just try co-op and see how you go? For this next mission we're going to give you twice the number of experience points if you play co-operatively with somebody else.'" Thankfully though, he assures the internet-less among us (how are you reading this?!) that there's plenty of game in Brink without having to go online. "Your experience through it, imagining you have no internet connection should, for us to have achieved our goal, be as compelling as any other triple-A shooter." We'll find out if his plan works when Brink arrives sometime next year.

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The wait is (supposedly) over come January 1st, 2010 when Paramount rings in the New Year with a new evil child movie. After sitting on the shelf for years now, the studio is hoping to release Case 39, which stars Renee Zellweger (lemons anyone?), Jodelle Ferland (the creepy kid from Silent Hill) and Bradley Cooper (the reason the movie is probably finally getting released - The Hangover). Below you can check out a whole new batch of stills from the film directed by Christian Alvart (Pandorum). It centers on an idealistic social worker (Zellweger) who saves an abused 10-year-old girl from her parents only to discover that things are not as they appear.

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When it comes to MMO news and special features, Joystiq sister site Massively.com has you covered. Whether you're looking for info on the hottest new MMO, or you're just curious about an old favorite, you'll find it at Massively. Check out our biggest features of the week:

	Massively's Black Friday MMO sales guide The holidays are officially here (if you're a retail chain, then they've been here for about a month) and so it's time to start looking for deals to give to either your MMO-playing loved ones or, well, yourself! Shopping can be a pretty big hassle, especially if you're not accustomed to hunting for the best deals. So, we've gone and outlined the season's new releases, as well as some places you can hope to find sales in the coming weeks.
	Anti-Aliased: Boobs and you This week's topic is one that's near and dear to my heart. Well, it's near to my heart, at least, and I mean that quite literally. It's also a perfect topic for today's holiday! I mean, who doesn't like to talk about large breasts on Thanksgiving? (Score one for the terrible synonym.)
	Space combat! Star Trek Online community Q&A answers It's a little late due to the impending Thanksgiving day gorging, but we've got your second wave of community answers for space combat in Star Trek Online! As this week lands us on a holiday, we'll be putting up the next post for your third wave of questions on Monday, November 30th. For now, we hope you enjoy the answers given by Al Rivera, senior game designer on Star Trek Online.

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Does anyone know if the HP Pavilion p6243w-b desktop computer will work well for gaming? I mostly want to play Sims 3 on it.. if not, is there anything I can do to improve it (add video card,ect) I have no idea about any of that, so need some help! I'v always played console games like ps3 and stuff so not sure about PC gaming.

Oh and the Hard Drive is 320 GB, 3.0 GB of memory and comes with Windows 7.

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If you've got room in your heart for one more thing to be grateful for, may we recommend these adorable Resident Evil inspired grenade plushies (via Sprite Stitch)? Yeah, these exist and it just warms the cockles of our heart. We can't help but dream about how great these crafty items would look hanging on our belt next Halloween (or during our inspired cosplay sessions). If only we knew how to sew!

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It's very easy to roundly dismiss a game that most people don't think is very good -- heck, we do it all the time. But we think before you make with the lambasting, you should have to read a postmortem article, like this one on Gamasutra from 8monkey, the developer of Darkest of Days.

Where many terrible games just appear to be rush jobs, the folks working on Darkest of Days (which hovers between a 45 and 52 on Metacritic, depending on platform) seem to be a nice enough group just doing the best with what they had (which, of course, was not enough money, time nor manpower).

A compelling postmortem isn't going to make Darkest of Days a better game (it's a long ways off from that), but maybe it'll make us all slightly nicer people.

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Okay, this really isn't for myself, but for my husband.

Are there any "newer" online fighting type games out for the PC that are... cheapish? (Say $20 or less.)
Even an older one would be alright if the price was right and it has a good amount of people online.

From what I've gathered, he's wanting something that MAYBE has real content, but can go online and he can just fight real people. (Sort of how Cod: MW is set up. Note: I know Cod: MW2 is out for the PC, but he wants to get that for the 360 eventually.)
*adding* Mostly something along the lines of a FPS.

I remember telling him about Dragon Age: Origins because of all the rave reviews here (& bc I want it) and he was very interested, but when we were in the store he was being fickle about the fact it doesn't look like there is any online play. Since there are a lot of sales going on right now/today, I figured I'd see what I could find out here. :)

If all that makes sense. ^^;

Normally I can look up games for myself easily, but his play style differs from mine. And I pretty much suck at picking out games for him. (We only play a handful of the same games.)

Thanks in advance!
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Life is meaningless and full of pain.

Suddenly it seems a thousand years ago when the G-Men were 5-0 and dominating. What the hell happened? Clearly I can't leave the country during football season. My teams just seem to fall apart without me.

Maybe some of you already know about this, but they're having some amazing sales over at Steam for a few days only. KotOR is on sale for only $2.49 and a LucasArts package with a whole ton of games (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Monkey Island) for only $49.99 (normally $129.99). I myself couldn't pass up the deal on the latter...and I'm sure there's a ton more on sale if you look around.

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Something's always struck us as kind of ... off about the title Aliens vs. Predator. For one, there are "colonial marines" up in there, mixing it up. More confusing, though, is the fact that both "Aliens" and "Predators" are, in fact, aliens. [And aren't all of them predators? - Ed.] At least Sega is keeping our minds diverted from these recondite questions with the latest multiplayer footage (found after the break).

Aside from trotting out a handful of European game writers who all tell the same "This game is SO awesome" story, we're treated to a smattering of gameplay snippets from all three sides of the equation. We're only left wondering one thing after watching them - if you can play as a predator against eight colonial marines, who would ever choose the marines side?

[Thanks, Ikarop]

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I have another God of War 3 Demo Code. Again, first one who sees it, gets it.

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Q-Games and Nintendo had a recent partnership in the release of Digidrive, but it doesn't seem like they're letting their relationship cool off any time soon. According to a new OFLC rating, Q-Games is developing -- and Nintendo is publishing -- a game called Reflect Missile. No platform was announced, but the safe money's on either a DSiWare or WiiWare release.

Now, let's get to determining exactly what a "Reflect Missile" is. Is is just, like, a really shiny missile, in which one might see themselves? Or is "Reflect Missile" a command in weird, broken English? For instance, "Captain Douglass, reflect [that] missile?" Or is the command being issued directly to the missile itself -- "Reflect, Missile!" The possibilities are as endless as they are nonsensical.

[Via GamerBytes]

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Hustle means to work energetically, to push, or to be aggressive in certain endeavors (e.g., playing a sport or conducting business). When used with a subject it means to urge, coerce, push or force to move (e.g., hustle something out of the way).

They had a second, stand-by offense ready to rush to the line after each practice play, forcing the regular Dallas defense to hustle and make snappy personnel replacements. (NY Times)

He embraces the persona of the guy from the streets who had to hustle his way to the top, the little guy — 5-foot-6 at most — who couldn’t rely on innate genius to get his famous shots. (LA Times)

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