Brand New Podcast

Next Level Gamers is a brand new weekly video game podcast brought to you by the people behind this site Just Honest Game Reviews. The podcast aims to bring honest yet funny opinions about all the latest video games, be that review, news or features. One of our main aims is to create a community of gamers who are all equal, this means anybody is free to game with the people on the podcast, there are too many podcasts who don't connect with their listeners and we aim to change this.

If you want to game with the host of this exciting and popular new podcast add this gamertag on Xbox Live - Xtrem3KilleR (X,K,R are capitals) and I look forward to gaming with you soon.

Please give it a listen and give them all so important 5 star iTunes reviews.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/next-lvl-gamers-podcast/id525183508

Site News

Good news and bad news regarding the site. 

Bad news is that the site will be taking an hiatus until the 1st of July where it will come back stronger than every with daily features and a more concentrated focus on reviews and will also feature guest writers. So thank you all that have followed me on the site and I look forward to writing for you again in a couple of months time. 

The reason for this site "holiday" is that I am on placement over the initial summer period and following this I will be moving house so I am busy constantly and have no free time. Once I'm in my new house the site will be coming back stronger than ever.

The good news though is that during this period I will still be hosting the brand new "next level gamers" podcast which can be found on iTunes and at this link .. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/next-lvl-gamers-podcast/id525183508

Please listen to the podcast which is a weekly podcast and dont forget to leave those all important 5 star iTunes reviews. 

Thank you

Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse Coming "This Fall"

After a partial leak from online retailer Amazon the games publisher Activision have acknowledged the existance of the new Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse game and on top of this have implied a "fall" release.

" The hilarious Griffin family and their friends from Quahog are coming to gaming consoles this fall in an all-new Family Guy video game from Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and Activision Publishing Inc"

"Back to the Multiverse, the title will offer gamers an interactive Family Guy experience inspired by one of the most popular and notable episodes in the series' history"

As hinted in the press release the game will feature many assets from the TV show, including the writers and cast.

New Podcast

This blog is about to get its own podcast, the amount of views that the blog has been getting has motivated me to set up this podcast. The podcast will be called Next Lvl Gamers and is fully independent and set up by me. Your views have made this possible and I thank you for that. 

If you have any questions for the podcast please email them to nextlevelgamerspodcast@gmail.com

 

Microsoft Against Day One Digital Releases

In the light of speculation of how digital downloads will affect the next generation of consoles or if they will become more prominent in this generation Microsoft has come out and down played digital downloads. They have essentially said that they dont want games releasing on their games on demand system at the same time they are released in stores. 

Speaking to MCV Microsoft's UK product manager Pav Bhardwaj stated that their main focus is still retail 

"We don't do Games on Demand on day one, we focus on boxed retail for day one, That's where our focus has always been and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. We release a game roughly six months after it arrives at retail at full ERP. That's our model and we'll be sticking to that. It's a successful model, so why change something you don't need to? 

"The customer has the choice of going to retail on day one if they really want to buy a particular title, or to wait a couple of months and buy it full price from the Xbox Live marketplace. It's a successful part of our business, we're very pleased with the growth and it continues to do really well. Clearly there's an audience out there who are happy to purchase a product at full ERP six or so months after [its retail release]."