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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.

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!

  Personally, I thinks it's a really refreshing change from Split/Seconds' short but great gameplay and Blurs' frustrating single player. Actually, it's nice to have new, good racing game after a while of waiting for one. First of all, the graphics are fantastic. I believe it uses one of DICEs' engines, and with great succes: Seacrest County is a very colourful and beautiful place. It really captures the US's west-coast area as they intended. The game runs smoothly too.

I think the photo mode is a great addition (well, there was one in the first Burnout), and you can get some great looking screenshots. You can also grab them from here: http://hotpursuit.needforspeed.com/autolog/photos

I've taken too many for Autolog, so I've made myself s Flickr album for mine: http://www.goo.gl/wt8Kd

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

My very first impression was that the game is a total hassle! You have to type in the code on the manual to be able to play online, so if you buy the game 2nd hand or rent it, you will only have access to online for 2 days unless you buy an online pass. Not sure how much it costs, but it's EA's response to the 2nd hand market. It is probably a more effective way of making money from 2nd hand games then DLC alone! Not sure I like it, and it meant a further 5 minute delay before I was able to play NFS:HP!

 It's tooooottally coming out next week. *nods* Yup.

I never did quite get used to the handle of the cars and still maintaining speed in the demo. Though I suppose I was trying to play it like Paradise.

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!

Have an ISSUE and it's driving me round the bend.... regarding MOJO wristbands which I keep rabbiting on about on various social networking websites, my friends on facebook do not seem to understand my emphasis on this particular little item.

Yes I will accept I'm a little bit crackers, accept the fact that I have certain ideas about the World and the way things are.... at the end of the day (hate that statement) the World is what it is and my views are certainly not dissimilar to that of others, trust me :)

 But all I can say it's the Muttz Nutz, and the people working on it are it's handlers and they have a happy dog! And they make Barbara Woodhouse (may she rest in peace) look like clown herder!

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!