Weekly update: Before the Storm

As most people know, next week is E3. The holiest week to the gamer. As such Big things are going down. But first this weekend.

This Weekend's Survival Saturday is Left 4 Dead 2.

In other news, Team Fortress 2 is having a free weekend on Steam. Totally free. Just have to spend the time too download it. However you will have to pay for it on monday if you want to play it afterwards.

Next Week several things things are going on. The XBLA has a ton of sales. Here's the rundown.

•A Kingdom for Keflings - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Alien Hominid HD - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Banjo Tooie - 800 Microsoft points (33% off).
•Bionic Commando Rearmed - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Bomberman LIVE - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Braid - 800 Microsoft points (33% off).
•Castle Crashers - 800 Microsoft points (33% off).
•Castlevania Symphony of the Night - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Contra - 240 Microsoft points (40% off).
•Crystal Defenders - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Magic the Gathering - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•N+ - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Panzer General - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Portal: Still Alive- 800 Microsoft points (33% off). (though $10 seems like the price it should be at all the time to me. -SCP)
•TMNT: 1989 Arcade - 240 Microsoft points (40% off).
•Uno Rush - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).
•Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment - 800 Microsoft points (33% off).
•Zombie Apocalypse - 400 Microsoft points (50% off).

(Bold inticates a game recomended by another clan member)

Also next Wednesday the Overlord Mass Effect 2 DLC releases for 560 points (or $7 USD).

Finally Gears of War 2 Has a Triple EXP week next week on top of the current Double EXP month. That should be around 900 exp per horde wave on Normal. That is, unless they screw it up like they did over winter break (*knocks on wood.)

Survival Saturday: Left 4 Dead 2
Next Survival Saturday: Gears of War 2 (All Fronts)
Halo 3 Double Exp Weekend: Prepare to Drop
Left 4 Dead 2 Mutation: Room for One


Afterword: Some Rockband 3 screens hit xbox360achievements.org this morning, including some of the keyboard play, which looks to be a full keyboard. Oh, and also the new guitar controller will double as a fully functional electric guitar and a controller.

Here's the announced tracks:

2000s
•Combat Baby -- Metric
•Dead End Friends -- Them Crooked Vultures
•Get Free -- The Vines
•Lasso -- Phoenix
•Me Enamora -- Juanes
•Oh My God -- Ida Maria
•Portions of Foxes -- Rilo Kiley
•The Hardest Button to Button -- The White Stripes

1990s
•Been Caught Stealing -- Jane's Addiction
•In the Meantime -- Spacehog
•Plush -- Stone Temple Pilots
•Walkin' on the Sun -- Smash Mouth

1980s
•Crazy Train -- Ozzy Osbourne
•Here I Go Again -- Whitesnake
•I Love Rock and Roll -- Joan Jett
•Just Like Heaven -- The Cure
•Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
•The Power of Love -- Huey Lewis and the News
•Sister Christian -- Night Ranger

1960s-1970s
•Bohemian Rhapsody -- Queen
•Break On Through -- The Doors
•Crosstown Traffic -- Jimi Hendrix

(thank you xbox360achievements.org! Go there for more info.)