Get Bankshot Billiards 2, Frogger, and Hardwood Spades on the cheap

Microsoft announced today there will be a special discount for this coming Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday. From September 26 to October 2, Bankshot Billiards 2, Frogger, and Hardwood Spades will be available for a 25% discount. Bankshot Billiards 2, which normally costs 1200 Microsoft Points, will go for 900 Microsoft Points, and Frogger and Hardwood Spades, normally costing 400 Microsoft Points, will go for 300 Microsoft Points apiece.

Bankshot Billiards 2 features nine modes of play, including 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Cutthroat, Euro 8-Ball, 14.1 Continuous, 3-Ball, Trick Shots, Time Trial, and Golf. Frogger is a modernized version of the arcade classic. Finally, Hardwood Spades is multiplayer card game with customizable backgrounds, card faces, card backs and tables.

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Following the demise of the World Series of Video Games, IDG World Expo announced today that Major League Gaming will have a special event at the Entertainment for All Expo. MLG will create a special post-season tournament exclusively for E for All, which will take place after its championship tournament in Las Vegas. MLG’s E for All tournament will have pro and amateurs players, along with an interactive feature for the audience called “Get Better First,” and thousands of dollars in cash prizes. “We are thrilled about the opportunity to bring Major League Gaming to this high-profile event,” said Matthew Bromberg, CEO of Major League Gaming. “It’s important for all of us in the video game community to support this great new way of reaching consumers and to showcase the phenomenon of top-flight competitive gaming.”

“We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: E for All is about one thing – games, games and games. Competitive gaming is a central part of that game experience, and we couldn’t be happier to team up with Major League Gaming to allow E for All attendees to participate in the excitement and energy of competitive game play with some of the best, most talented gamers in the field today,” said Mary Dolaher, CEO, IDG World Expo. “Whether you’re a casual gamer or a seasoned player, the MLG tournament will keep you on the edge of your seat with incredible action and amazing game play.”

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Following the demise of the World Series of Video Games, IDG World Expo announced today that Major League Gaming will have a special event at the Entertainment for All Expo. MLG will create a special post-season tournament exclusively for E for All, which will take place after its championship tournament in Las Vegas. MLG’s E for All tournament will have pro and amateurs players, along with an interactive feature for the audience called “Get Better First,” and thousands of dollars in cash prizes. “We are thrilled about the opportunity to bring Major League Gaming to this high-profile event,” said Matthew Bromberg, CEO of Major League Gaming. “It’s important for all of us in the video game community to support this great new way of reaching consumers and to showcase the phenomenon of top-flight competitive gaming.”

“We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: E for All is about one thing – games, games and games. Competitive gaming is a central part of that game experience, and we couldn’t be happier to team up with Major League Gaming to allow E for All attendees to participate in the excitement and energy of competitive game play with some of the best, most talented gamers in the field today,” said Mary Dolaher, CEO, IDG World Expo. “Whether you’re a casual gamer or a seasoned player, the MLG tournament will keep you on the edge of your seat with incredible action and amazing game play.”

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The Pinball & Arcade Supershow is just around the corner Sept 21 & 22 in Herrin Illinois!  The show will contain over 100 arcade and pinballs and be filtered with vendors from all over the world showing off their goodies!  Leave your quarters behind but bring your hobby attitude cause this show is shaping up to be one to check out!

Visit: http://www.supershow.popbumper.com

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Steve and his friends in the SC3 group tossed another arcade/retro night party this week and it was a blast! There were about 30 arcade games setup on freeplay the entire night, a section covering various console gaming through the years, Nintendo’s Wii, the Room of Doom for Guitar Hero, a mini-swap meet, pizza and more!

I spent a good majority of the evening talking and meeting new friends and faces. The guys from End Game Radio came out and did some interviews at the party. I also had a mini-challenge going on with arcade gamer champ Paul Dean on which we picked 5 games to challenge each other at for bragging rights! As always Steve and his SC3 posse were there in full force wearing their spiffy tshirts and hosting a fun event overall that is growing from meeting to meeting!

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Rock Band, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Need for Speed ProStreet were just a few of the latest games being shown at the 4th annual Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Wash. Nearly 40,000 people attended this year’s festival, which features tabletop, PC and console games from over 40 game publishers like Microsoft, Sony and Ubisoft. A few well-known figures were also at PAX ’07, including actor Wil Wheaton and the Frag Dolls. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino previews some of the most anticipated games shown at the event, and also talks about the UK’s love for the Nintendo Wii, the new and visually-improved Playstation 2 and the return of Nokia’s “N-Gage.”

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Conspiracy Entertainment announced today that they have secured the publishing rights to Dragon’s Lair. The company will bring Dragon’s Lair to the DS as part of this deal, in addition to Space Ace and Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp. All of the above titles will be developed by United Coders.

“This is such an important gaming franchise it left its mark on a generation,” said Lead Programmer & Executive Producer, Hans Olsen of United Coders. “People still recall when they first saw Dragon’s Lair and having to pay an incredible 50 cents per play! We talked long and hard with the original creators of Dragon’s Lair – Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and Rick Dyer – they were so impressed with our vision for these titles, that we now have these gaming gems to bring to this new format.”

Dragon’s Lair DS is due to ship in early 2008 with Space Ace DS and Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp DS to follow later.

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Classic Gaming Expo 2007 – Robert Welkner (COIN-OP TV) interviews Walter Day (Twin Galaxies), Todd Rogers (Beat The Champ) and a look at OlderGames.com and Arcade In A Box products. This episode features comments from people that were in The King of Kong about the film and others like Chasing Ghosts and High Score.

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