January Awards

Added 01/30/2007 by Dakota Grabowski

Game of the Month: Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Lost Planet is Capcom’s second release on the Xbox 360 (excluding Street Fighter II on the XBLA). Capcom is finding great success on the Xbox 360 and Lost Planet continues the streak of quality games. Following Dead Rising, Lost Planet caters to the North American crowd with intense boss battles and gun warfare. With download content already released, Capcom is insuring gamers replay value for Lost Planet. Look forward to Lost Planet sequel news in the future.

Xbox Live Arcade Game of the Month: Heavy Weapon
With five releases on the Xbox Live Arcade, Pop Cap Games is assuredly becoming one of the top developers for the platform online. Heavy Weapon, a shooter, includes an intense cooperative mode for gamers to jump online with. With graphics and gameplay that is reminiscent of Metal Slug, Heavy Weapon is a sure-fire hit on the Xbox Live Arcade. It’s a safe purchase with the attractive co-op mode and 19 single-player missions to traverse through.

News Article of the Month: 2 New FREE Gears of War Maps
“New downloadable content for the Xbox 360 exclusive “Gears of War" is on the way and what better way to celebrate the New Year than to meet friends new and old online and greet them with the sounds of a chainsaw? Sponsored by the Discovery Channel, the complimentary new content will be available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace early Thursday morning, January 11.”

This is/was big news for gamers worldwide. Gears of War usurped Halo 2 for the most played game on Xbox Live. With new content, this guarantees countless hours of gameplay on top of the ridiculous fun one can have with Gears of War. If Epic Games continues to deliver new content, Halo 3 will have some tough competition for the hottest game on Xbox Live when it releases. One question remains though – Can we see a few new game modes implemented?

User of Month: Oasis
The ‘User of the Month’ award is presented to the user that is the most active on our forums and presents intelligent opinions on the board. Some may ask, “What’s the big deal?” I’ll tell you the big deal, at the end of the year, all User of the Month winners are placed into a pool for the ‘User of the Year’. This winner of this prestigious award earns a prize package from TalkXbox for being so dedicated to the website.

For the month of January, we’d like to present the award to Oasis. Oasis has been gaming since 1995 and his game of choice is Halo 2. If you want to challenge Oasis in a game of Halo 2 on Xbox Live, his gamertag is ‘Oas1z’.