Musical legend Grandmaster Flash, the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument, is coming to DJ Hero, joining Eminem, Jay Z, and the list of other DJs who will appear as in-game characters and who have created mixes exclusively for the award-winning game.  Along with contributing two never-before-released mixes, Grandmaster Flash lends his voice and DJ know-how to the game’s tutorial level, schooling players on the game mechanics and the turntable controller.  To top it off, FreeStyle Games created an exclusive mix using two of Grandmaster Flash’s original creations – “Boom” and “Tap.”

Check out and get ready to play as one of the founding fathers of hip-hop and experience his amazing turntable talents in Grandmaster Flash’s Herbie Hancock “Rockit” vs. N.E.R.D. “Lapdance,” which is embedded below, and Grandmaster Flash “Here Comes My DJ” vs. Gary Numan “Cars,” which is embedded above.

New Weapons
• Sentry Gun: Defend your position with this deadly guardian.
• Electro Magnet: Attract or repel deadly metallic explosives with this unique item.
• Bunker Buster: Use this vertical missile to dig out enemy Worms that have snuck away!
• Buffalo Of Lies: The Donkey’s nemesis, this Trojan Buffalo will cause havoc!
• Super Bunker Buster: Devastating below ground charge!

New Features
• All new high definition, widescreen artwork based on the original Armageddon artwork.
• Reworked audio-visuals throughout, including all new sound-fx.
• Fire! Persistent fire eats and burns away the landscape. Hot stuff!
• Crazy Crates! Start with basic weapons and shop as you go!
• Fort Mode! Start teams on your own bases.
• Rope Racing mode.
• Massively enhanced & improved game physics & laugh out loud reactions.
• Speedier, more direct gameplay.
• Speak your mind! Massive variety of comedy voice sets with many all new.
• All new crazy achievements.
• All new extensive customisation, Worm Hats, voices, graves, dances, colours, forts!
• Uses NXE Avatars to reflect game status in game!
• All new Single Player adventure combines death matches and puzzles.
• Win tokens in the all-new 30 chapter single player campaign to win prizes in the game SHOP, unlock new landscapes, voices, hats and more.
• Enhanced CPU AI for more challenging single player games.
• Improved online handling, including host migration for network play.
• All new leaderboards and leaderboard objectives.

New Levels
• All new landscapes graphical types modelled on the original Armageddon style. Battle in Medieval England, Cheese Moon, Construction site and more.
• 130 base landscape styles (compared to just six on original) for diverse play levels.
• Vertical Levels! Play on tall, narrow strips or caverns as well as traditional ‘wide’ levels.
• Mix combinations of landscape type, style, your own game rules and more to create thousands of possible levels and hundreds, if not thousands of hours of replay value.

‘Worms 2: Armageddon’ is available for 800 MS Points and is rated E10+ by the ESRB.

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Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)

1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty: WaW
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Gears of War 2
5. GTA IV
6. FIFA 09
7. UFC 2009 Undisputed
8. Left 4 Dead
9. Fallout 3
10. [PROTOTYPE]

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)

1. Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers
2. GAROU -MARK OF THE WOLVES-
3. Castle Crashers
4. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
5. Worms
6. Sonic The Hedgehog 3
7. UNO
8. Hasbro Family Game Night**
9. MEGA MAN 9
10. Wolfenstein 3D Arcade

The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.
**Combined sales of all Hasbro Family Game Night titles

Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)

1. Halo 2
2. Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3. Counter-Strike
4. Fable
5. Splinter Cell Chaos
6. Conker: Live Reloaded
7. Star Wars: Battlefront
8. Doom 3
9. Guilty Gear XX #Reload
10. SW: Republic Commando

Top Community Games (Full Versions purchased)

1. OfferName
2. RC-AirSim
3. myFishtank
4. A Perfect Massage
5. Illusions 360
6. DrumKit
7. Rumble Massage
8. A Morons Challenge
9. Golden Royal Hold’em
10. Constructor360

These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Community Games, full versions purchased during the week.

COD: WAW Map Pack 2

• super_rad83
• Paul Battani
• erage2772

Texas Cheat ‘Em

• fisicoalex
• Wriggy
• Freuds_Cigar

[Email address fixed, thanks Wriggy. -Dj]

Here is your chance to create a weapon for Army of Two: The 40th Day! From June 23, 2009 to July 12 2009, participants can submit their ultimate weapon at the game’s official website (http://www.armyoftwo.com) for a chance to have it included in a future EA game.

To enter the contest, gamers will need to submit an image of their weapon and a brief 200-word description. Please click on the game’s official website to view the contest rules (http://www.armyoftwo.com/weapondesigner/rules). Once gamers submit their designs, the images will be posted to the site for the community to vote on. Starting on July 20, 2009 the top weapons will be reviewed by the development team who will then pick the two best designs.

More about Army of Two: The 40th Day – The ultimate two-man private military team of Salem and Rios return in Army of Two: The 40th Day, where they must fight to survive a carefully orchestrated series of catastrophes that are dragging the city of Shanghai to the brink of disaster. The game has been built from the ground up with a focus on an incredible cooperative experience. A bigger playbook of features and a new arsenal of co-op moves are available to both players to perform at any time, opening up fresh strategies and choices. The result is a bigger, deeper, more organic and immersive co-op experience that lets players put their best two-man tactics to use whenever and wherever they want.

Make sure to also post your creations here, so our audience can vote on them!

Legendary storyteller, game designer, programmer and producer Ron Gilbert has created countless classic video games, including the seminal LucasArts works Maniac Mansion and first two installments in the Monkey Island adventure series. His more than 20-year career in the games industry encompasses co-founding three game studios, creating the famous SCUMM scripting language and being inducted into the Computer Game Hall of Fame. He is currently creative director at independent development studio Hothead Games in Vancouver, Canada.

“This is an unbelievable moment for us,” commented Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo. “I wasted an entire family vacation one year trying to figure out how to win that stupid spitting competition.” Gilbert joins an illustrious group of past PAX keynote speakers, including noted geek icon Wil Wheaton and innovative game designer Ken Levine.

In addition to the highly anticipated keynote address, numerous panels and game demonstrations, Omegathon and The PAX 10 independent games showcase, PAX 2009 will offer attendees an unparalleled musical experience with performances from Freezepop, Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, Paul and Storm, Anamanaguchi and Metroid Metal.

The achievements reveal some of the new additions to the game, including Co-Op mode, the 34 possible bowl trophies you can win, and the new Season Showdown competition. Do you have what it takes to collect all achievements? The full list embedded below!

NCAA Football 10 comes out July 14, with an early demo available now on Xbox Live

Achievements	Gamerscore
Give Him 5 Minutes Chew up the last 5 minutes of a game on a single drive to preserve the win (excludes co-op).	20
Crash the Party Earn an invite to a BCS game in Dynasty Mode with a team from a non-BCS conference.	15
Will You Ever Learn? Intercept 2 passes in an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game (excludes co-op).	15
Helping Your Own Cause Scoop a fumble on defense and take it to the house in a Dynasty or Exhibition game (excludes co-op).	10
Ball…Ball…Ball… Jar the ball loose with a User-Controlled Hit Stick tackle (excludes co-op).	10
On Lockdown Hold the opposition to under 100 total yards in an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game (excludes co-op).	20
Getting In On The Fun Take an interception back to the house in an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game (excludes co-op).	10
Red Zone Shutout Complete an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game without allowing a TD from the Red Zone (excludes co-op)	5
and Loaded With Player Lock on, return an interception for a TD (excludes co-op).	15
Put Two On The Board Force a safety in Exhibition or Dynasty Mode (excludes co-op).	15
Protecting The House Pitch a shutout by holding your opponent to 0 points in Exhibition or Dynasty Mode (excludes co-op).	20
I’ll Take My Trophy Please Play and win a conference championship game in single team Dynasty or Road to Glory (excludes co-op)	10
I’m Outstanding Win the Heisman Memorial Trophy® in single team Dynasty Mode or Road to Glory Mode.	25
Freshman Phenom Win the Heisman Memorial Trophy® with a Freshman in Road to Glory or Dynasty Mode.	25
Reach Out and Crush Someone Join or Host an Online Dynasty.	30
National Champions! Play and win BCS National Championship game in single team Dynasty or Road to Glory (excludes co-op)	30
Sip Some Texas Tea Develop a new pipeline state in single team Dynasty Mode.	25
Mr. February Have the #1 ranked recruiting class in a season in single team Dynasty Mode.	30
What Competition? Win the 1st year SEC championship with a team moved from the Sun Belt in single team Dynasty Mode.	20
Closing Out Strong Play and win a bowl game in single team Dynasty Mode or Road to Glory Mode (excludes co-op).	10
We Are Family Win a game using only Family Play Controls in an Exhibition Mode game (excludes co-op).	10
4th Quarter Comeback Win a Dynasty or Exhib. game when down 14 to start 4th qtr (excludes co-op)(Min Difficulty: Varsity)	30
One for the History Books Play a game that gets designated as an ESPN Instant Classic (excludes co-op).	10
Big Fish In A Small Pond Become a 5-star Road to Glory prospect.	20
Running With The Ones Become a Starter in Road to Glory Mode.	10
King of the Conference In Road to Glory Mode, earn a spot on your conference’s All-Time leaderboard.	35
The Best of All-Time In Road to Glory Mode, earn a spot on the NCAA All-Time leaderboard.	50
Big Man on Campus In Road to Glory Mode, earn a spot on your team’s All-Time leaderboard.	25
Keep Them Guessing Gain 200 rushing yards and 200 passing yards in the same game (excludes co-op).	20
Bustin’ Loose Break a run for 49 or more yards in an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game (excludes co-op).	10
Bombs Away Complete a pass for 50 or more yards in an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game (excludes co-op).	10
Big Time Player Be the hero and win a game by taking the lead as time expires (excludes co-op).	15
Pick-Free Do not throw any interceptions in an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game (excludes co-op).	15
Red Zone Perfection Complete an Exhibition or Dynasty game with a Red Zone Efficiency rating of 100% (excludes co-op).	15
Hear the Pin Drop As the away team, get into the endzone in the first 30 seconds of the game (excludes co-op).	15
Trifecta Score a receiving, rushing, and passing touchdown with one player (excludes co-op).	15
Taking Care of Business Win an Exhibition or Dynasty Mode game by 21 points or more (excludes co-op).	10
Russell High School Champ Play and win the Russell High School Championship Game in any state.	40
Can You Believe It? Return a missed field goal for a touchdown in Exhibition or Dynasty Mode (excludes co-op).	25
You Got A Reciept For That? Take a punt or kickoff back to the house for a touchdown in Exhibition or Dynasty (excludes co-op).	10
Set ‘Em Up, Knock ‘Em Down Score a TD when running a play that is 100% setup (excludes co-op).	20
That’s How I Roll Achieve an Overall Level of 10 in the Season Showdown competition.	45
Mad Skillz Achieve a Skill Level of 10 in the Season Showdown competition.	40
Good Sport Award Achieve a Sportsmanship Level of 10 in the Season Showdown competition.	40
Strategery Achieve a Strategy Level of 10 in the Season Showdown competition.	40
You Gotta See This Upload a Video or Photo Highlight.	20
Fill The Trophy Case Win all 34 bowl trophies (including National Championship) in Dynasty or Road to Glory modes.	45

This weekend from Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28, Silver Xbox Live members can enjoy the “1 vs 100” game, that is normally reserved for Gold members. This offer is only available for one weekend, so make sure to set a reminder starting tomorrow.