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December 22nd, 2009, 22:04 Posted By: wraggster
Activision and Treyarch are offering up all 12 Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer (and zombie) maps as a special bundle.
"We're happy to bring the CoD:WaW community a great deal today - the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack Bundle is now available in the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store," says developer Treyarch.
"The pack includes Map Packs 1, 2, and 3 - making it a total of 12 DLC maps (9 Multiplayer maps, and 3 Nazi Zombie levels)."
Double-XP has also been turned on to "celebrate our DLC and the holidays - it will run through the new year. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays from everyone here at Treyarch!"
The only downside is that us Euro PS3 owners will ahve to hold tight until January 7. "Apologies for that delay!"
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS
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December 22nd, 2009, 16:07 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released today:
track listing
Van Halen:
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
And The Cradle Will Rock
Atomic Punk
Beautiful Girls
Cathedral (Solo)
Dance The Night Away
Eruption (Solo)
Everybody Wants Some!!
Feel Your Love Tonight
Hang ‘Em High
Hear About It Later
Hot For Teacher
I’m The One
Ice Cream Man
Jamie’s Cryin’
Jump
Little Guitars
Loss Of Control
Mean Street
Panama
Pretty Woman
Romeo Delight
Runnin’ With The Devil
So This Is Love?
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
Spanish Fly
Unchained
You Really Got
Me Guest Acts:
Alter Bridge – Come To Life
Billy Idol – White Wedding
Blink-182 – First Date
The Clash – Safe European Home
Deep Purple – Space Truckin’
Foo Fighters – Best Of You
Foreigner – Double Vision
Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom
Jimmy Eat World – Pain
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache
Lenny Kravitz – Rock And Roll Is Dead
Queen – I Want It All
Queens of the Stone Age – Sick, Sick, Sick
Tenacious D – Master Exploder
The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
Weezer – Dope Nose
Yellowcard – The Takedown
description
Guitar Hero is back and you get to rock with the ultimate party band, Van Halen! Experience the hot licks and scissor kicks that made Van Halen the legends they are today. 25 epic Van Halen tracks, three scorching Eddie Van Halen signature solos, and 19 guest acts give fans the most comprehensive arena rock set list to date.
With over 80 million albums sold worldwide, Van Halen is one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Led by Eddie Van Halen’s revolutionary guitar playing and David Lee Roth’s unique brand of showmanship, the band has cemented their place in the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame since they dropped their self-titled album in 1978. Van Halen is one of only five rock bands that have had two albums sell more than 10 million copies in the United States.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-3ekj.html
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December 22nd, 2009, 16:01 Posted By: wraggster
n Japan (like in many places in the world!), there is a strong culture of selling back used games and hardware.
Japan especially is quite good about keeping instruction manuals and boxes in pristine shape as many who purchase gaming goodies do so with intent to sell back in the future.
For retailer TSUTAYA, the Xbox 360 does not appear to be part of that future.
A "wanted" list for the Japanese retailer lists the Wii, PS3, DS, PSP, PS2 and the Xbox 360. Then there is the dreaded asterisk that notes, "We are not buying Xbox 360 consoles". It should be noted that TSUTAYA is not buying back Xbox 360 consoles from customers hoping to sell their used machines and that there is no reason to believe that TSUTAYA will stop carrying the hardware.
http://kotaku.com/5431926/japanese-r...back-xbox-360s
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December 21st, 2009, 20:25 Posted By: wraggster
When Matt and I demoed Project Natal at E3, we were both pretty impressed. But there was one tiny quirk that we both noticed: lag.
I say "quirk" because it wasn't some sort of painful, game-ending problem. But when steering with a virtual wheel during the Burnout demo, both of us noted that the controls weren't quite laser-responsive. Yes, the system was accurate, but an ever-so-slight delay to the movement caused us to question whether it could be used for hardcore gaming apps.
Now, Jon Burton, director of Traveller's Tales (makers of all those LEGO titles), has confirmed that "Lag on the input and lack of physical buttons is really going to restrict the kind of games that can be done [for Project Natal]."
Burton believes that Sony's very different motion controller (which blew us away in terms of response and sub-millimeter accuracy) holds more promise.
From what I can tell at this stage, not having used Sony's controller yet, I do think that Sony will succeed where Microsoft fails—aiming in an FPS will probably work better on the motion-controlled PS3 than it will a 360 with Natal. But I still think Natal has a lot of promise beyond motion control alone, namely that you could use a standard 360 controller AND Natal to have a camera track your head while an analog stick aims the gun.
Burton's comment is just more confirmation that Sony is making the ultimate Wiimote and Microsoft, for better or worse, is banking on the ultimate EyeToy. Meanwhile, I can only expect Nintendo to complete this ouroboros by licensing the current 360 controller along with Halo franchise rights.
http://gizmodo.com/5431245/project-n...al-flaw-is-lag
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December 21st, 2009, 20:18 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft is considering the introduction of avatars that actually look like their users, judging by a patent application for "Avatar Individualised by Physical Characteristics".
The aim is to eliminate the "artificiality" of Avatars in order to encourage users to do some exercise, and also to make it easier for people to tell whether other players look the same as they portray themselves.
The patent application (reported by Eurogamer) says: "An Avatar generator for a virtual environment reflects a physiological characteristic of the user, injecting a degree of reality into the capabilities or appearance.
"Thereby, many of the incentives of the real world are replicated in a virtual environment.
"Physiological data that reflect a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming Avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication.
Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise. Physiological data that reflect the health and perhaps also mood also improve social interaction in virtual environments.
"People seeking to meet and become acquainted with particular types of people are not thwarted by the artificiality of Avatars," the patent adds.
This data can apparently be "gleaned" from a third-party health repository, a healthcare smart-card or a physiological sensor such as those for blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar levels and so on.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...e-their-owners
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December 21st, 2009, 17:31 Posted By: wraggster
cdv Software Entertainment USA is pleased to announce that the Divinity II – Ego Draconis demo is now available in North America on Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC! The sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG Divine Divinity, Divinity II - Ego Draconis transports players back to the wide-open, war-torn world of Rivellon and the demo allows gamers to get into the action before the game comes out January 5, 2010.
The Divinity II – Ego Draconis demo give players an early peek at groundbreaking features rarely seen in an action RPG, like Mindreading, a robust classless Skill Tree and upgrade system, and even a harrowing encounter with a dragon! This several-hour demo offers plenty of combat, exploration and questing for players to get a glimpse of the adventure and intrigue that awaits them in Divinity II – Ego Draconis.
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December 21st, 2009, 17:24 Posted By: wraggster
Konami will today release free content and an update for its PES 2010 title for PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360 and PC-DVD.
3 new balls and 10 new boots are offered as additional free DLC.
On the other side, the update makes it even easier to use the game’s comprehensive formation settings, and also adds icons to show the connectivity status of online players. All settings can now be saved and Stocked Data will be loaded automatically, speeding up play immediately. Likewise, the new connectivity icons will show the user as a Grey icon, with Green, Yellow and Red icons detailing the quality of the opponent’s connection, with red being the worse.
The update also improves match making between users of the PC-DVD version of the game with different processors.
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December 21st, 2009, 17:17 Posted By: wraggster
Xbox
(Full price) Week ending 19 May 2007
POS. TITLE PUBLISHER LAST
WEEK WEEKS
ON CHART
1 - SCARFACE: THE WORLD IS YOURS VIVENDI GAMES 1 32
2 LEGO STAR WARS II: THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY LUCASARTS 3 33
3 THE LEGEND OF SPYRO: A NEW BEGINNING VIVENDI GAMES 4 4
4 new NBA LIVE 07 ELECTRONIC ARTS - 1
5 new XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN KONAMI - 1
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December 21st, 2009, 17:11 Posted By: wraggster
Remember that one time in band camp when you talked about doing cool things with your Xbox Avatars? I hope that cool thing involved taking a snowball and shoving it right in the face of other Xbox Avatars. The creative minds at Hotwave Games presents an insanely awesome thing to do with Xbox Avatars. Snowball fight!!! I present to you...for your Winter eyes only...Avatar Wave: Snowball Fight.
Why dream of a white Christmas when you can download and create your own with Avatar Wave: Snowball Fight!? It's the next best thing to actually making your own snowball and hitting little Billy in the face with it. The best part is that with Avatar Wave: Snowball Fight the screaming mom heading straight towards you for breaking her little boy's nose is out of the equation. Don't break a nose, break an Avatar!
Avatar Wave: Snowball Fight puts your Avatar against others in a snowball fight for the ages. Make sure your Avatar is dressed for the occasion! It's 1-4 players so you and some friends can finally go at it in a pile of snow. Come on I know you've always wanted to. Take a look at the game in action here.
You can toss snowballs in Arcade and Survival mode as well as play online on Xbox LIVE against other snowball fighters across the country. It's the perfect game for the holiday season and the only one that won't have Billy's mom chasing after you. You can safely throw as many snowballs as you can.
"Snow is the most dominant in the feeling of Winter and thus we decided to make a snowball fighting game," said Lead Programmer, Percy. "In the development process, we always keep the gameplay simple so that a wide range of players can have fun with it. Players can find some tactics in the game and they can defeat enemies easily by mastering those skills!"
Give your audience the gift of news about this game. It's available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 240 Microsoft Points. From the Xbox dashboard, just head to Games Marketplace > Indie Games. You can queue it up for download here on Xbox.com: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/ga...-d802585503c1/
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December 21st, 2009, 11:35 Posted By: wraggster
In an interview with Gamasutra celebrating 15 years of Warcraft, World of Warcraft producer J. Allen Brack has stated the company will definitely return to making console games at some point in the future, despite a 15-year absence from the market.
"We're a company of gamers," Brack said. "I have two consoles at home. Sam [Didier, art director] has consoles. We're a culture of gamers. We will definitely work on a console game at some point. I have no doubt about that. It's just [a matter of] what game. What makes the most sense?"
Brack also said, "It's obviously because we've made only PC games for the last 15 years, but there's a perception, I think, that Blizzard is anti-console, and that's absolutely not the case."
But Didier moved to defend the health of the PC gaming market. "I don't see the PC market as being bad," he said. "I mean, we didn't have 12 million players ten years ago. Whatever the format, console or PC, I think if there is a good game, it's going to be played.
"We're working on PC because it's familiar to us and it's relatively easy and it's not changing formats every other year and there aren't three different versions. Console, we have to worry about [those things]. I think the PC is really a good market to target."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/bl...e-console-game
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December 19th, 2009, 16:40 Posted By: wraggster
Speaking to Develop, Traveller's Tales director Jon Burton voiced concerns about Microsoft's motion control solution, Project Natal. Specifically, Burton stated that Natal's lack of controller input as well as input lag could limit the kinds of games made for it, though he did admit that the device is "exceedingly clever." Burton prefers Sony's motion controller, noting that it will be "cheap, accurate and will put buttons at your fingertips," which should make it suitable for a wide range of games.
Still, Burton admits he was "stunned" by the technical wizardry of Natal. With the experience of having his own motion capture studio at TT, Burton states that getting "anything resembling mo-cap" in real-time from a single camera is "nothing short of amazing."
For what it's worth, Burton has not used a final version of the device. We noted Natal's input lag when we tried it at TGS earlier this year, where Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda assured us the final product would iron out, or at least ameliorate, the issue.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/tr...ft-motion-con/
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December 18th, 2009, 22:24 Posted By: wraggster
Namco Bandai is unsurprisingly working on a sequel to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. Revealed in the latest issue of V-Jump, the sequel will take place right where the first game left off, at the beginning of the Shippuden series. Not only will the cast of characters be older in the sequel, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 is promising some big new features, primarily 4-player support and a multiplatform release. Yep, unlike the first game, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 will be released on both PS3 and Xbox 360.
Details are slim at the moment, but with a planned 2010 release in Japan, we'll undoubtedly find out more soon. So long as CyberConnect 2 can expand on the game's depth while keeping its good looks, anime fans will want to keep an eye out for this one.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/na...multiplatform/
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December 18th, 2009, 22:19 Posted By: wraggster
The Xbox-exclusive episodic expansions to Grand Theft Auto IV received positive reviews (including from us), but one of the heads of GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive indicated yesterday some disappointment with their performance.
"Both we and [Xbox-maker] Microsoft believe there was a big market for GTA IV episodic content," company CEO Ben Feder said during a call with investors on Thursday. "And some factors have affected their performance. Both were released significantly after the core unit … GTA IV, which was launched in April of 2008 and therefore weren't able to leverage GTA IV's initial marketing campaign and initial launch fervor."
The Rockstar-developed episodes, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, were released in February and October of 2009, respectively. Each cost 1600 points, or $20, at launch, and each included single-player campaigns that lasted more than a dozen hours, along with multiplayer and side content.
Take-Two and Rockstar also released the episodes in October on a standalone disc entitled Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City. Sales figures have not been publicly announced for the Xbox-only disc, though Wedbush Morgan Securities analysts Michael Pachter recently pegged the sales for the disc in its first month on the market at around 100,000 units in the U.S., a far cry from the millions of copies sold of GTA IV.
"Episodes From Liberty City seems to have been most appealing to those who have finished GTA IV and wanted more story and gameplay," Feder said. "Which is a smaller market than initially expected.
Despite the dour analysis, Feder did praise the episodes' critical acclaim and said they were "profitable contributors to the company, so we're pleased with them."
He said he thinks the episodes will do fine long-term. "There's very little precedent for this type of episodic content at the price point that we offered it. And so we're confident that these titles will continue to have a long life, just as we've seen a long life from all of our other prior GTA releases."
http://kotaku.com/5429648/take-two--...ially-expected
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December 18th, 2009, 17:19 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft definitely copped some of Apple's lame App Store antics with its tweet-censoring Zune HD Twitter app, so now it's time for the infuriatingly vague PR-speak backtracking -- Redmond just pinged us to say it's "identified the issue" with the Twitter app and that a naughty words-enabling update is coming "as soon as possible." That's a pretty lame response, considering the "issue" is that the app is coded to actively censor tweets -- not exactly an "oops" moment, you know?
Here's the entire statement:
The recently released Twitter for Zune HD application has been abbreviating some explicit words in tweets when viewed on the device; however these explicit words do appear in their full text on the Twitter site or on any other Twitter client. We have identified the issue and are taking steps to update the application as soon as possible to ensure Twitter for Zune HD users are able to view tweets in their original state.
Flack silliness aside, it's still the right step -- let's hope this update addresses the performance issues we noticed as well.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/17/m...soring-tweets/
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December 18th, 2009, 17:11 Posted By: wraggster
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a three pack of songs from Weezer, as well as singles from Limp Bizkit, Yellowcard and The Offspring will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
These artists are some of the more than 390 bands currently available through the Rock Band platform. With more than 1,000 songs available, Rock Band is, without question, the industry leader in providing the best selection of interactive musical content, songs and artists.
You want more Weezer? You got more Weezer. A three pack of songs from the quintessential California rock band will be added to the Rock Band Music Store next week. “Weezer Pack 03” features “Beverly Hills” the hit single from 2005’s Make Believe, as well as “Let It All Hang Out” and “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To,” both from their new album, Raditude, which was released Nov. 18 and debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. Weezer is currently touring North America.
Downloadable content featured for LEGO® Rock Band continues with “Guys Who Rock!” “Build a Bridge” from nu metal favorites Limp Bizkit, “A Lot Like Me” from American rockers The Offspring, and “Ocean Avenue” from eclectic rockers Yellowcard will all be available as singles in the Rock Band Music Store and the LEGO Rock Band Music Store next week.
Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 system (Dec. 22)
• Limp Bizkit – “Build a Bridge” +
• The Offspring – “A Lot Like Me” +
• Yellowcard – “Ocean Avenue” +
• Weezer – “Beverly Hills”
• Weezer – “Let It All Hang Out”
• Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” +
(All tracks are original master recordings)
These tracks will be available for purchase as “Weezer Pack 03” as well as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and as individual tracks on Wii. Tracks marked with a “+” are also available in the family-friendly LEGO Rock Band Music Store.
Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Weezer Pack 03”
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track
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December 17th, 2009, 23:53 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://x360.gx-mod.com/modules/news/...p?storyid=2397
The XBR Team has released version as expected XBReboot for Jasper 256/512 MB.
As a reminder, XBReboot allows the image Freebooter 0.02 (which he recovered many functions), to reboot on a kernel patched for the 8955 opportunity unlike XBReboot that takes place directly on the NAND your console. The 8955 kernel patched avoid burning a EFUS (it uses a virtual EFUS) and does not require removing the famous R6T3.
You can then run unsigned code on Xbox 360, use any hard drive, launch games from a USB hard drive or homebrew.
Unfortunately, at present we have no precise information on the implementation of the 256/512 version. We will not fail to inform you of any procedure that is different from our tutorial.
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December 17th, 2009, 23:52 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://x360.gx-mod.com/modules/news/...p?storyid=2396
rab released a new version of its small utility that allows you to compare 2 files NAND image to verify the presence of bad blocks.
It will also allow you to reconstruct an image from NAND dumps 3 NAND controlling each block of 3 images and not validating the blocks whose instances are the same on at least 2 of 3 images.
New / fixed:
- Support for Nanda 256 MB
- Added a progress bar
- Fixed block size for versions 256/512 MB (On display)
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December 17th, 2009, 20:53 Posted By: wraggster
As luck would have it, that one missing piece of content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed that was "exclusive" to the "Ultimate Sith Edition" of the game -- the obligatory Hoth level -- seems to be heading to Xbox Live Marketplace. Spotted by Joystiq reader Andy in the "Coming Soon" section of the XBLM (and seen above), the "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Hoth Bonus Level" certainly appears to be heading to, at very least, Xbox 360 users. We've contacted LucasArts to find out how much the content will cost, when we can expect to see it arrive on Xbox Live for download, and if it will be coming to PlayStation 3 and PC users as well
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/17/st...blm-after-all/
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