The E3 conference this year is going to be following the format of previous years (the better years) where exhibitors have large

booths and demo the great stuff coming this year. The conference is scheduled to take place June 2 thru the 4th and is closed to the public so be sure to

watch damngamer for the latest news! If you look at the left side of the site you will see a new couintdown for each conference. We hope to have our live blog

pages up soon, so please keep checking back for more information.

This weeks game is a little late as Ive been pretty sick but better late than never. So here we go.

Hexothermic 

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550149/

Hexothermic was created by David Webb and is one of the few games supporting multiple languages. The Game contains 4 game modes, leaderboards for local games, and awards. The game costs 200 points which is a fair deal considering what you get. This game contributes to microsoft's promise of creating a youtube of video games on Xbox Live. So have some fun and check out Hexothermic on Xbox Live Community Marketplace!

Follow the link above to get more info and possibly purchase the game!

Starting next week DamnGamer.com will begin featuring Xbox Community Games (XCG for short). In the coming weeks we will be expanding our XCG coverage so until then stay tuned for our weekly XCG Game of The Week!

Now that the New Xbox Experience is here, Xbox 360 owners with access to the Marketplace may purchase Premium Themes - themes for the new, updated dashboard. The only problem is: there aren't any previews for the themes, which cost a (whopping) 250 Microsoft Points! Well, thanks to the members of the gaming forum NeoGAF, you don't have to spend your precious points on a theme you've never seen before. Hit this link for preview images: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=342627 (Warning: LARGE images, may take a while to load)
 
Xbox Live's Director of Programming, better known to our users as Major Nelson, responded to several comments on his blog asking for previews of the themes, saying "I agree on the ability to preview. I have told the team we should do this." So, it does look like we'll be getting "official" previews of the themes eventually, but for now, it's up to the community.

 Bungie had been hinting on a new project for some months now, and the rather brunt pull from Microsoft from E3 had added fuel to the fire. At 7:07 am PST a short teaser was released and the wait was over...so to speak. We're still in the thick of questions and more are being added to it. What are these huge buildings, why are these ships falling toward it, and just what does this...Keep it Clean...thing mean?

 Several people are already saying that it might be a Halo 3 expansion since they meantioned it, some people think that its an campaign expansion (Which would be so freaking sweet.) Others are thinking that it might be a prequal to Halo in general. Whatever it is I'm sure Bungie will deal out the most awesome game of the year hands down.

UPDATE: This is actually a Campaign Expansion for Halo 3. If you read the text on Xbox Live Marketplace it says the following "High Action and deep mystery await players in this new Halo 3 Campaign Experience. Prepare to drop!"

As the one year anniversary mark fastly approaches for the king of all games, Halo 3, levels of suspicion among various Bungie fans have skyrocketed in the past 24 hours. Earlier today, a few members from the Bungie forums noticed the above popup notification while booting up Halo 3. Now, the above WASN'T supposed to be shown until tomorrow, but Halo fans (once again) got lucky, and went flying to Bungie.net in search of the teaser trailer. Upon visiting the Bungie homepage, the infamous Superintendent appears again, bearing a new countdown, which is set to expire at 7:07AM PST, on September 25th 2008. Although there is no confirmation on what will happen when the clock hits zero, most watchers can only assume that a new title will be revealed.

Source: Halo3Planet.com

Hostile Tactics Gaming Network CounterStrike 2008 Finals!

Starting off this year's HTGN CounterStrike 1.6 5v5 finals is team dirtyMoves in the Central/Open division.Team dirtyMoves will be going up against the KeystoneLite Warriors, on the map de_dust2. Official match time is 10PM EST / 9PM CST. Come and see us at dirtyMoves.net for more info!

At first look this game reminds me a whole lot of a kiddi-fied version of James Bond mixed with a bit of Magyver. You pick up different objects and use them to create a vehicles to suit your purposes throughout the game.

The plot to the story involves defeating the evil witch

Gruntilda (aka Grunty), who has set up a showdown with the games main characters. Claiming to have created a game world where the showdown takes place. Banjo must defeat each challenge given to him by Grunty. While Grunty tries to stop him by every way she can think of which will probably involve some...evil methods.

The game is more of a possible 'if you can imagine it you can create it. There are over 100 parts you can use to create the vehicle you which to build. Yet its okay if you don't want to build cause there are the objects there that are already built for you.

It'll be able to be used in single player or multiplayer.

Release Date for November 14, 2008

There isn't much information has been released. Although we do know that anything created for the Ps3 and Xbox 360 is going to have good graphics.

Yes, you heard me right. Mercenaries 2 is promoting their new game by giving away free gas in LA at a mobil station. Employees dressed up like the Mercenaries from the video game and giving away tons of galleons of gas to unknown people, some of which I'm sure know nothing about the video game... but hey, they do now, because they filled up at Mobil in LA. Lucky them!

The gas station is located on Beverly Blvd.

Click Image to enlarge.

Well, we've got a box (from the same team that doodled the Halo 2 and Halo 3 art, no less). That's a start. Unfortunately, we're no closer to nailing down a release date for Halo Wars. The "first half of 2009" is where the date stands.