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Is it time for us BurnoutAholics to start getting excited again? Could a new instalment of our favourite gaming series be on it's way?

This was a recent tweet from Alex Ward "All prepping a presentation on our next game." Which on top of other tweets from CG team members like "Not long to go till I get back to Criterion to work on "next project" :-)" from Tad Swift, is getting me a little bit excited!

Yesterday I found out about 2 free games available on Xbox Live Arcade. Doritos Crash Course and Harmsway.

Harmsway is a racing game with a twist, half the players are on turrets around the course shooting at the racers as they drive by.

Doritos Crash Course is very much like the TV show Wipeout on your Xbox! A crazy obstacle course, where your Avatar falls in the water if you mess up... which you will! This had me laughing more than any video game for a long time!

Featuring new cars, new events and new achievements!

See the trailer here:

http://youtu.be/bD7F9-LX3SE

No news on the price yet, but hopefully it will be affordable. Let us know what you think? Personally, it seems a bit early for DLC already, I'm still nowhere near to completing my careers!

We finally got our limited edition Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit's on Thursday, after a very long pre-order period.

Today the new Xbox dashboard update hit and along with the updated Xbox.com, Xbox is fully Kinectified!

I used to be the first to admit that I don't cope with change well, but I was thinking about this today... after days of being frustrated with Xbox.com and weeks of being annoyed about the update as I have been in the preview program... and I have concluded that it's not change that I don't like, but change for changes sake!

I was one of the last gamers to play Burnout 3: Takedown on Xbox Live on the 15th of April 2010. I am proud that I was there at the very end.

As well as taking photo's of the Burnout leaderboards before they vanished forever, I took some other photo's too!

On the last day of Halo 2, Bungie put some messages on screen thanking us for playing and giving Halo 2 the send off it deserved.

Here are a couple of screens of the messages from Bungie: Last Day of Halo 2 Online

As BabyGirl is having a nap, I have a wee bit of unplanned Xbox gaming time! So, what to play?

I just received my own copy of Blur, having ordered it for a bargain price from Play.com. I also believe I have Halo Reach sat in front of me, in a brown envelope addressed to Xandu.... so I can't possibly open it and play it first can I???

Yesterday MS announced the first price rise for Xbox Live subscriptions, this only affects a few types of Gold Memberships and only a few regions, so don't freak out with OMG The Price of Live has Gone UP that SUCKS!... check the details here;

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/08/30/price-change-for-xbox-live-gold-subscription.aspx