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July 6th, 2011, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft hopes to boost Kinect sales in Japan with games that are familiar to Japanese players.
Microsoft's Japanese Xbox 360 General Manager Takashi Sensui admitted today in a press conference (reported by Andriasang) that the motion-sensing Xbox 360 add-on, which has sold 10 million units globally since its November 2010 launch, did not sell to expectations in the Japanese market.
He hopes to give the device a new push this year with IPs that are familiar to Japanese players, along with titles that appeal to core gamers.
At the Tokyo Game Show last year Microsoft announced a number of Japanese-made Xbox 360 exclusives, some of which support Kinect.
These include Codename D, Haunt, Project Draco, Rise of Nightmares and Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor.
The Xbox 360 has suffered a difficult time in Japan. Last month Microsoft announced it had finally managed to shift 1.5 million Xbox 360 units in the country. It launched there in December 2005.
Xbox 360 hit the million mark in Japan in March 2009, after three years and three months on shop shelves. The extra 500,000 sales took another two years and three months to notch up.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...boost-in-japan
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July 6th, 2011, 21:28 Posted By: wraggster
An article at the Opposable Thumbs blog examines the Xbox Live Indie Games economy, finding that developers are having trouble making enough money to justify continued work with the platform. Quoting:
"If you want to publish a console video game, there's no easier route than the Xbox Live Indie Games program. But while it's relatively easy to get your game on the service, it's hard to get it noticed. There's a lot of junk on XBLIG, so much so that a group of developers banded together at the end of last year to promote quality indie titles. There have been success stories—like the recently released FortressCraft, which managed to sell 16,000 units on the day of release—but they're not exactly common. So with virtually no promotion, and with average earnings of just $3,800 per title, why do developers continue to create games for the platform? ...virtually all of the developers we spoke to are considering moving on from the platform. But all seem to view their experience as valuable, which in the end is part of the point of XBLIG: it's a place where virtually anyone can make a game that can be played on a console. Devs just need to know what they're getting into."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/0...-Profitability
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July 4th, 2011, 23:20 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.emucr.com/
NestopiaX v1.1 is released. NestopiaX is a NES emulator for the XBOX. This is a port of the pc NES emu nestopia and is now the best NES emu on XBOX. It also plays the famicom disc system games at full framerate.
Updates and changes:
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was not working properly **FIXED
Family Circuit '91 was not working properly **FIXED
Fixed partially broken support for mapper 163. COntra 100 in 1 and 168 in 1 now work properly
Bus conflicts issue resolved: Free Fall (prototype) and Secret Scout (prototype) now work
Added new entries to the xml database for ips patched games. (thanks to plasturion)
the following games should now be playable:
1.) Getsufuu Maden (J) [T+Eng1.0_RPGe]
2.) Dragon Ball Z-Kyoushuu! Saiya Jin (j) (T+eng 1.01 Red Comet)
3.) Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (J) [T+Eng1.00_Vice]
4.) Cat Ninden Teyandee (J) [T+Eng.10_Vertigo]
5.) Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun (J) [T+Eng1.02_Vice]
6.) Wai Wai World (J) [T+Eng1.00_Demiforce]
7.) Wai Wai World 2 - SOS!! Paseri Jou (J) [T-Eng1.00_Vice]
Alpha Channel Preview Bug fixed ** thanks weinerschnitzel for the link to fix :
Level FLip filter implemented. Now selecting the filter to "none" will flip all levels
backwards. Enjoy all your faves now backwards. (Thanks to plasturion)
Added an option to flip the default controls while playing flipped levels. You can find them
in controller options. NOTE***the ini will save what control you pick. so for the time
being you will have to change back your control options manually when you decide to revert back normal controls. todo: will fix in next release or at least, try to.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4okdo8m1qmkcn04
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July 4th, 2011, 22:29 Posted By: wraggster
Researchers from Cornell have used AI to create a system based on the Kinect that can recognize what you are doing — cleaning your teeth, cooking, writing on a whiteboard etc. In a smart home it could be used to offer help: 'Would you like some help with that recipe, Dave?' Or it could monitor patients or workers to make sure they are doing what they are told. The study also reveals that there is probably enough information in how activities are performed to recognize an individual — so providing yet more biometrics. There are clearly a lot more things that we can teach the Kinect to do with machine learning than just gesture recognition.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...at-Youre-Up-To
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July 4th, 2011, 17:10 Posted By: wraggster
In a recent interview Microsoft Game Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer has revealed that the two companies spoke about Crytek going first-party.
"The first time we met with [Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli] and the team was around seven or eight years ago, and we started talking about what it’d mean for them to become first-party," Spencer told OXM.
"And it was a process of what do you guys want to do, what’s unique for us, and they were just going to do Crysis, and they’d just come out of Far Cry, and we said we’ve probably got enough military future shooters, so go do that."
He also spoke about Kinect, and said that Crytek was excited by the motion control technology. Crytek has been using it for Ryse, a hack and slash game set in ancient Rome that’s also a Microsoft exclusive.
"Then they came up with this idea around Ryse, and now they’ve really fallen in love with Kinect, and it’s a perfect marriage for us."
Recently Crytek denied rumours that it was already working with Microsoft’s next, unannounced console.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...st-party-talks
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July 4th, 2011, 15:31 Posted By: wraggster
It seems like the folks over at the Flying Machine Arena are finally starting to catch on -- those quadrocopters are going to kill us all. Thankfully, after teaching them to juggle and tap out some tunes, the researchers came to their senses and put the flying machines on a Kinect-controlled leash. Instead of flitting about autonomously, the four-rotored nightmares are directed by a puppeteer waving his hands. Movement is controlled by the right hand, while raising the left one tells the copter to do a little flip for its master's amusement, and a commanding clap makes it sit down like a good little pup. Best of all, if you don't give it any arm-waving instruction it just hovers and waits until you tell it otherwise. On further consideration, maybe we haven't been creating our own murderers, but a new man's best friend -- after all, they don't eat much and can't chew up your remotes.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/04/q...safer-already/
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July 4th, 2011, 15:29 Posted By: wraggster
Hard to believe that Microsoft's been offering consumers the ability to customize their Zune purchases for the better part of four years now, but as they say, all unbelievable things must one day face reality. Er, something to that effect. Without so much as a heads-up, the designers in Redmond have apparently decided to shutter the Zune Originals storefront. As of this weekend, no new orders for highly personalized Zunes are being taken, with interested Earthlings encouraged to throw creativity to the wind and opt for a mass produced alternative within Best Buy or Walmart. So, you're looking at two tidbits of import: if you placed your Originals order at 5PM PT on July 1st, you likely have quite the coveted device headed your way, and if you ever needed evidence that Microsoft was making WP7 its next Zune, well... you're welcome.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/04/z...erage-and-unc/
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July 3rd, 2011, 23:33 Posted By: wraggster
Youtube user [programming4fun] got a Kinect for father’s day and with just a little bit of code, came up with a 3D display using only a Kinect. Instead of the usual Kinect hacks like computer vision or playing Mario, we think the ‘Holographic display’ for the Kinect is one of the most useful implementations of the Kinect we’ve seen.
The build uses the Kinect SDK. The end result is a lot like the Kinect snowglobe we covered earlier, only instead of custom acrylic domes and a projector, this build enables pseudo-3D on any display. The hack works by having the Kinect track the users head. From that, it’s pretty simple to display a projection of a 3D model.
The system only supports a 3D display for one person, although with shutter glasses, that could be could be doubled. [programming4fun] says he’s thinking about adding anaglyph 3D – while the effect on video is pretty amazing, he says it’s not entirely convincing in real life.
We talked to the extremely modest [programming4fun], and he says the build isn’t technologically impressive at all. We’d disagree with that assessment because interfaces requiring movement have been around since 1963 and they still haven’t caught on for a wide audience. While there have been a few motion controlled devices that have worked well, most of them have been pretty bad. The Kinect 3D display seems like it would have some utility with a Microsoft Surface type device.
[programming4fun] says if there’s enough interest he might be convinced to clean up his code and create an installer. Check out the video after the break.
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/02/3d-di...ct/#more-47539
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July 3rd, 2011, 21:20 Posted By: wraggster
Xamphear released JTAG Content Manager 1.3:
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What This App Does:
* Browse 360 files on your PC by their real info, like game name and package title.
* Upload files (XBLA, DLC, GOD, Avatar, Title Update) to your console over FTP with a single click. Files are automatically uploaded to the right folders.
* Drag and drop files to other applications, if you'd prefer to use your own FTP client.
* Organize a messy folder of downloaded content into 1 of 4 different directory styles. Restore the original filenames for XBLA and DLC files.
* View the MediaID of Title Updates and GODs so you can match them, and search JQE and XBUC for matching TUs.
* View the MediaID of ISO files. (Requires abgx360)
What's new/fixed:
Size column on upload screen. Fixed size labels on upload screen, all
sizes listed in MB now. Fixed bug in abgx360 detection. Fixed bug that
caused error messages when selecting files and uploading in some regions.
More accurate speed during uploads. Time remaining and progress percentage
added to window title and tray icon. Other bug fixes.
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/...FEoXkMbXbN.php
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July 3rd, 2011, 00:18 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft announced today that on July 11th, their Games for Windows marketplace will be merging with its console equivalent. According to a spokesman,
"All of the same content from GamesForWindows.com will be available on Xbox.com so members of communities across Xbox 360 and Games for Windows can purchase and get details on their favorite games, all in one place. All account information will remain the same and community members can still take advantage of their Xbox Live profile in their Windows games and stay connected to friends who are playing on the PC."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/0...g-With-Xboxcom
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July 2nd, 2011, 01:44 Posted By: wraggster
xamphear releases a new version of its Windows application to: - Exploration of 360 files from your PC showing their real information (as the name of the game or the title of the package). - The upload files (XBLA, DLC , GOD, Avatar, Title Update) on your console via FTP with a single click. The files are automatically uploaded in the correct folders. - Scan the contents of folders on the hard disk 360 and index them in a database during the scan to see if these files are already on your 360, even if your 360 is off. - Drag and drop files to other applications, if you use your own FTP client. - Restore original file names and XBLA DLC. - View MediaID Title Updates of GOD and to compare . Search JQE XBUC or to compare silent. - View MediaID ISO files. (Requires abgx360 installed)
http://x360.gx-mod.com/modules/news/...p?storyid=3420
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July 1st, 2011, 22:40 Posted By: wraggster
It's not just Apple's App Store striding past milestones today, Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has also rounded a notable marker in its development. Specifically, it's now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it, though that figure's up for debate as the other WP7 apps tracker still lists the total at just under 25k. The main point is that the WP7 ecosystem is growing, and faster than previously at that -- it took until the end of March to accrue 11,500 apps, a span of five months from its launch, whereas the last 13.5k have come in the brisker period of three months. Provided this acceleration continues, and there's no reason to expect it'll slow down with Mango on the horizon, Microsoft's mobile OS reboot promises to be in pretty competitive shape in time for its first anniversary -- a notable feat considering how far behind WinMo had fallen. Perhaps RIM can use this as an instructive example?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/01/w...apps-speeding/
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June 30th, 2011, 14:04 Posted By: wraggster
In Belfast a High Court judge has ordered a 13 year old to surrender his Xbox to the authorities. The boy was charged with a series of robberies and in the bail application the judge asked the boy what he owned that meant a lot to him. The teenager said it was his Xbox games system. The judge told the youth that the surrender of the Xbox would show him what it was like to have something he really valued taken from him.
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06...Surrender-Xbox
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June 30th, 2011, 00:19 Posted By: wraggster
As rumoured earlier this month, Microsoft has confirmed that its Kinect peripheral is more accurate now than it was at launch.
Xbox senior product manager David Dennis told Eurogamer that some of the software shown off during its E3 show demonstrated the improvements it has made to the add-on.
"Yeah," he said. "I think like we showed at E3, like Kudo showed with Kinect Fun Labs – a lot of that tech is the advancements we've made in the accuracy, the tracking... being able to show finger tracking in the sparkles demo he did.
"You saw too with Ubisoft's gunsmith demo [for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier] he was using his hand to fire in the firing range mode. I think that's the kind of thing we're going to continue to iterate on."
Although he wouldn't offer specifics, Dennis insisted that Microsoft aims to continue to update both Kinect and the 360 itself in the coming months and years.
"That's the beauty of Xbox. We've been doing that with Xbox 360, starting three or four years ago - continuing to deploy new software updates to improve the functionality, like enabling finger tracking and voice search, and also to bring new partners like Netflix on.
"These [updates] are very deliberate and planned and programmed," he added. "There are already people working on things for next year and the year after inside our secret bunkers, and we'll continue to bring amazing stuff that consumers love."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...than-at-launch
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June 29th, 2011, 03:23 Posted By: wraggster
Had an extremely busy end to last week and didnt get anymore of the old sites back online but today sees the reopening of our Xbox 360 Site at http://xbox360.dcemu.co.uk/, the site like all our sites has every xbox360 news item from the moment the console was announced and all the hacking, homebrew and gaming releases over the years.
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June 29th, 2011, 01:43 Posted By: wraggster
Core gamers left cold by Microsoft's Kinect-heavy E3 presentation will come around eventually, the platform holder believes.
When Eurogamer asked Xbox senior product manager David Dennis if it was disappointed at the mixed response to its press conference earlier this month, he insisted naysayers may well change their minds once they get a chance to try out the titles it showcased.
"I think it was as we expected," he explained.
"We showed amazing core game experiences and we showed great Kinect experiences. Both social/casual Kinect experiences as well as stuff like Rise of Nightmares and Ryse which we think are certainly going to appeal to the core.”
Dennis then likened the response to Microsoft's 2010 show where, he argued, critics scornful of its Kinect reveal were ultimately won over when the device eventually hit the shelves.
"It's similar to last year where some of the core gaming media walked out of E3 a little sceptical about Kinect and said 'I'm never going to do that'. But a lot of them also went and bought Kinect and said 'Oh my god, I love it, I break it out when I'm having a party, I play with my girlfriend, finally I can play with my kids.'
"I think people have embraced Kinect and we think that a lot of what we showed at E3... whether people fully understand it now, as we open up more and more over time and explain and let people get hands-on, we think people are going to love it."
Microsoft used its E3 presser this year to show-off a bevy of new Kinect titles, including Kinect Sports 2, Kinect Fun Labs, Ryse, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, Disney Adventures and Star Wars Kinect, alongside a sprinkling of more traditional 360 fare, such as the Halo: Combat Evolved remake, Gears of War 3, Tomb Raider and Mass Effect 3.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...e3-performance
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June 29th, 2011, 01:35 Posted By: wraggster
The NPD Group has released a set of charts highlighting sales in various video game categories over the last few years. Of particular interest is a graph representing online-capable sales between 2006 and 2010. The Xbox 360 leads in the category, with online-capable game sales consistently doubling that of PlayStation 3 since 2008. The Wii reached roughly half of the PS3's online-capable sales in 2008, though that number declined through 2010.
When it comes to points cards used to purchase games and downloadable content online, the Xbox 360 trounces the competition with sales growing steadily every year. Sales of Sony's PSN cards seem to be on the rise, however, while Wii Point card sales have remained relatively flat.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/28/np...-games-as-ps3/
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June 29th, 2011, 00:58 Posted By: wraggster
Calibur11 has announced the coming arrival of its custom Xbox 360 Gears of War 3 "Bleed Out" vault. Pictured above, the vault features a controller cradle, grim graphics and an illuminated "Crimson Omen" icon. The icon will actually interact with Gears of War 3, glowing red whenever players are downed within the game (to which you should be paying more attention).
Presumably to convince people that it's a good idea to encase their Xbox 360 in plastic, each vault will also include a chance to win a life-size suit of COG armor (pictured here). Retailing for $90, the vault will be available when Gears of War 3 launches later this year.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/28/en...gears-3-armor/
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June 28th, 2011, 15:18 Posted By: wraggster
Surreal64 XXX CE B5.5 is released. Surreal64 XXX CE is a Nintendo 64 emulator for the XBOX. In actuality, it is a continuation of Surreal 64, which was a port of three existing emulators for PC. Those emulators included 1964 0.8.5, Project 64 1.4, and UltraHLE.
Surreal64 CE is a continuation of the Surreal64 project where Team XXX left off. Originally developed by oDD and Lantus, Surreal64 included ports of three Win32 based Nintendo64 emulators including 1964, Project64 and UltraHLE. Our goal is to improve Nintendo64 emulation on the XBOX
with the addition of:
- New or updated N64 emulators
- New or updated video, audio and RSP plugins
- Improved controls
- a user friendly and skinnable GUI
Surreal64 XXX CE B5.5 Changelog:
Added:
* Native 720p output for all video plugins and the launcher
* Full Screen Anti Aliasing modes up to 4x
* VSYNC setting to eliminate tearing
* Save state previews
* Paths for Saves and Screenshots
* Mupen64plus updated JttL audio plugin (still testing)
* M64p HLE RSP plugin (Hacktarux & Azimer)
* HLE RSP plugin (Hacktarux, Surreal CVS)
* New setting UseRspAudio
* Rom history which auto-selects the last rom at launch
* Option to toggle background music for the launcher
* Launch current rom using Y from the emulator settings menu
* Temporary messages (as known from Surreal 1.0) for launcher and all video plugins
* UltraHLE mem settings to ini - Ultra Code Mem/Ultra Group Mem
* Favorites for rom list from Surreal 1.0 (BLACK = list all/favs, WHITE = add/rem fav)
* Skin.ini for many new skinning features
* XMV Video support
* Real Time Clock support for 1964 (thanks to Shapyi and zoinkity)
* EmuXtras Synopsis by MegaMan(?)
Changed:
* Music Manager so that it plays more than one wma file (LEFT THUMBSTICK = next track)
* Deadzone now calculated as a percentage of total range
* Load/Save State text to reflect date created
* Paging methods now user defined setting in Launcher
* Max Video Mem so that 0 is auto (keep to 2MB free)
* Set VertexMode default to 2 (hardware)
* Stripped non audio SDLx code from JttL
* Toggling menu items in Launcher/IGM does now also work with DPAD/LEFT THUMBSTICK
* Expanded ingame debug info output
* Control Config Panel reorganized to better fit an image panel
Fixed:
* Mempak issue (still needs work - UltraHLE is still missing)
* Rice Video 5.60 fog reverted to that of Rice Daedalus 5.10
* Screenshot name problems
* Switching paks in menu issue
* Countless ini fixes for all Rice plugins, PJ64, 1964 (BIG thx scorp316)
* GoldenEye crashes if 4 players were facing each other in multiplayer (UltraHLE)
* Minor core (1964) and dynarec (1964/PJ64) optimizations
* Increased volume for launcher and all sound plugins except Basic Audio (missing source code)
* Several missing boxarts
* Squished boxarts
Other:
* Consistent PAL and NTSC definitions
* Added libSDLx source from HuntsVegas
* Moved all OSD code into a single file
* Added Build.bat
* Added Profile, Profile_FastCap, and Release_LTCG configs
* Changed all projects to have unique GUID's
* Switched launcher ini parser to simpleini
* Mem Decommit from 1964/PJ64 to UltraHLE for IGM
* Added Doom 64 1.1 to boxarts (rename of existing)
* Added GoldenEye:X to Surreal.ini
http://www.emucr.com/2011/06/surreal...ce-b55_23.html
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