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March 3rd, 2009, 23:02 Posted By: wraggster
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Set in the iconic Halo universe, Halo Wars predates the original first-person shooter Halo. Experience the early battles between the UNSC and Covenant, the far-reaching conflict that has been diligently followed by the masses in the blockbuster Halo series. Join the crew onboard the Spirit of Fire, a Phoenix-class colony ship converted for UNSC military use and guided by the A.I. persona Serina. The storyline follows the Spirit of Fire's discovery of an ancient artifact during a journey to the planet Harvest, the first planet to be attacked by the Covenant
Halo Wars puts you in command of the battlefield over an arsenal of UNSC units and vehicles as you engage Covenant forces. Counter and crush your opponent by tactically fielding the superior army. Choose among Leaders that possess elite skills, which turn the tides of battle. Using various combinations of Leaders and units, create countless strategies tailored to your preferred playing styles and personalized strategies
See who the superior commander is through multiplayer online skirmishes supporting up to 6 players with the New Xbox Experience. Choose to command either unique civilization, UNSC or Covenant, each with unique attributes and strategic characteristics. Ancient Forerunner technology can also be found to create unique units to gain an upper hand in battle
Since inception, Halo Wars was explicitly designed to cater to console gamers and bring to Xbox 360® a genre that has typically been played on the PC. Easily command and manage powerful armies, effortlessly control troops and incredible machines, engage in epic battles and expand your empire using an intuitive user interface. Halo Wars represents the true next-generation experience, combining a masterful control scheme using the Xbox 360 controller with the award-winning strategic gameplay only Ensemble Studios can provide
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Halo Wars is an exciting strategy game based on the legendary Halo® universe. In campaign mode, command the armies of the UNSC warship Spirit of Fire, with familiar and new UNSC units in its initial encounters against the Covenant, an alien coalition threatening to obliterate mankind. Halo Wars will immerses you in an early period of the storied Halo universe, allowing you to experience events leading up to the first Halo title for Xbox®.
With the guidance of Serina, a spirited artificial intelligence (A.I.) persona, direct legions of UNSC soldiers, Warthogs, Scorpions, and more, each group having its own strengths and uses in battle. Adventurous commanders can also call upon ancient Forerunner technology, if they are fortunate enough to find it hidden throughout the battlefield.
Covenant forces are also waiting for you to lead them into battle in multiplayer skirmishes via the New Xbox Experience. Call upon an arsenal of new and familiar Covenant units such as Grunts, Elites, Ghosts, and even Scarabs to defeat foes on the battlefield. Strategic-minded players who react well under pressure will emerge victorious.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-37us.html
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March 3rd, 2009, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster
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Multiplayer maps and tips from the testing team!
Details for every unit and vehicle.
Maps of all battle areas with tactical advice to give players a leg up on their opponents.
Strategies for using the various units to their full capacity. Tips on what units complement each other best to make the most effective fighting force.
Platform: Xbox360
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March 3rd, 2009, 22:49 Posted By: wraggster
EA captures the tension and excitement of NCAA basketball's March Madness with an Xbox 360 exclusive downloadable special edition of NCAA Basketball 09.
Rather than a retail release of a special March Madness edition of their NCAA basketball title, EA is releasing NCAA Basketball 09: March Madness Edition as a downloadable exclusive for the Xbox 360. For 1200 Microsoft points ($15.00 real money), players will be able to play through the entire NCAA tournament, from the opening round to the Final Four itself, complete with a virtual replica of Ford Field court in Detroit.
"We really wanted to make our game available to a wider selection of fans that are drawn to college basketball by the passion, excitement and drama that surrounds March Madness," said Connor Dougan, Producer for NCAA® Basketball 09: March Madness Edition. "Fans will be able to experience the tournament, feel the adrenaline rush that comes with a single loss elimination tournament and write their own history."
http://kotaku.com/5163738/ea-does-ma...-360-exclusive
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March 3rd, 2009, 22:39 Posted By: Shrygue
via Games Industry
Capcom's highly-anticipated horror title Resident Evil 5 has already been leaked on torrent sites ten days before its official release.
The title isn't officially available in Europe and the US until March 13, but a cracked Xbox 360 version of the game, weighing in at 6.71GB, is already being downloaded by users.
Like the majority of games publishers, Capcom has faced the headache of piracy in the past. Last year, the company complained that sales of the PC version of Devil May Cry 4 were hit hard by severe piracy.
Resident Evil 5 is likely to be one of the biggest games of the year, and was recently voted the most anticipated title by the GamesIndustry.biz Network.
Last week, downloads of the Xbox 360 and PS3 demo reached over 4 million users.
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March 3rd, 2009, 22:12 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom's Keiji Inafune has said that developing titles for the Xbox 360 was the only way the publisher could successfully break Western markets.
Although the publisher had tried to create more Westernised titles in the past, including Shadow of Rome and the critically panned Without Warning, it wasn't until the current generation that the publisher scored blockbuster hits.
"I think I can only get away with saying this now, but I really thought that the using the Xbox was only way to break into overseas markets, and I took that hypothesis all the way," said the acclaimed developer.
Capcom supported the Xbox 360 with two exclusive titles – Dead Rising and Lost Planet – both of which were early hits for the publisher on Microsoft's console.
"I think the success of these two titles was a major achievement for our company," added Inafune.
"That the Xbox 360 was such a big hit, and the products that we made for the overseas market were so well received was extraordinary."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...markets-capcom
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March 3rd, 2009, 22:06 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's senior regional director for the Entertainment and Devices division, Neil Thompson, has declared himself happy with the performance of the Xbox Live download service, noting that the "phenomenal" past year for the Xbox 360 has put the company ahead of its own curve predictions.
"What I can say is that we have 17 million Xbox Live subscribers worldwide that are very active, and all of our download content - especially in the UK - is above where our expectations put us," Thompson told GamesIndustry.biz at the launch of the Microsoft/NBC Universal partnership last week.
"So we're very confident that these sorts of services that we've announced are proving very popular, and will be very successful. Our consumers are telling us."
And although he declined to reveal the specific numbers for downloads in the UK, or split them out into proportions of game add-ons versus other content such as film and TV downloads, he does feel that Microsoft is getting the right blend overall.
"The way I encourage people to think about this is that we're trying to make the Xbox 360 platform as completely compelling as a whole platform" he said. "What we feel you have to do is have a variety of different entertainment experiences that people will want to consume at different times, for different reasons. And different types of people will want to consume them.
"So we tend not to look at individual pieces and ask if it's doing well as a piece. What we do is look at whether or not the range of what we're offering more compelling than anybody else can offer. If the answer is yes, and when we look at new content we can offer, does it enhance what the range of that offering looks like - and that answer is yes - that's how we think about it and how we focus on it.
"In today's world consumers are incredibly demanding about what they get out of consumer technology, and technology services. Quite often it's just about having the choice, irrespective of what within the choice they use, they still want to see the choice. That's how I think about it - so therefore, what an individual piece does to the whole is quite difficult to judge specifically.
"As a proposition as a whole, if you look at Xbox 360 in the past 12, 18 or 24 months - especially in the UK - it's been pretty phenomenal. We think we're getting it right with these sorts of content plays."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...tion-in-the-uk
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March 3rd, 2009, 19:08 Posted By: wraggster
Saturday night, while many of us were stuffing food into our faces, plenty of folks were still playing Halo 3. At precisely 6:36pm PST, in a three minute and nineteen second game of Infection on Foundry, four players participated in Halo 3's one billionth match.
One Billion. It's a giant number, one that's difficult to understand without the proper context. Our first thought was to put it into perspective by comparing Halo 3's total games played with its predecessor, Halo 2, a title that we are still super proud of, and one that's topped the original Xbox LIVE Leaderboards since its launch through to present day - over four years of online gaming.
But there's a problem with that comparison. Halo 2 has yet to achieve one billion games played. As of right now, it's sitting pretty at 798 million total matches played. Surprised? We were.
Still, we wanted to find ways to help you (and us) better comprehend just what one billion games means in the grand scheme of things.
If each game of Halo 3 lasted only three minutes and nineteen seconds, mirroring the Infection game outlined above, the total amount of time played would eclipse sixty-three centuries. For those looking for more granularity, that's roughly 630 decades, 6,300 years, or 2,300,000 days.
But admittedly, that's working from a pretty rough estimate. No worries, we keep tabs on this sort of stuff. We recruited our database guru, RocketMoose, to provide us with some more accurate numbers. The data point he supplies below is a sum total of all player time spent in matchmaking. If ten players completed a ten minute match, the database would log 100 minutes of total playtime. This figure also does not include data from Custom or Offline matches.
Total Matchmaking Playtime: 2,023,153,340,764 seconds.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.a...news&cid=17858
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March 3rd, 2009, 01:40 Posted By: wraggster
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Gameplay simulates the perceptual effects of fear, drugs and your shell-shocked state due to combat. Experience the true chaos, horror and disorientation of the Vietnam War
Every shot counts, and every bullet is precious. Fight off fear and push forward not knowing what unspeakable horror could be waiting to claim your life
Fight a cunning and elusive enemy that takes every advantage of everything at their disposal. Napalm attacks, intricate tunnel systems and vicious homemade traps - cruel, violent and unfiltered war
Fight the victims of WhiteknIght - an enemy that has no side, one who is brutal, insane and ready to rip you to shreds
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ShellShock 2: Blood Trails is a violent, first-person, survival horror game set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Gameplay centers on the use of psychological horror and fear, relying on the power of suggestion, mood, tension and foreshadowing - implying the notion of danger, potential danger, imminent danger, and horrifying acts that have or are implied to have occurred or will come to pass.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-2mfp.html
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March 3rd, 2009, 01:19 Posted By: wraggster
Don't pay good money for Watchmen tickets. Re-up your Xbox Live Gold status instead. That's the deal currently being offered at retailer Best Buy, one that might be too good to pass up.
Best Buy's promotion takes your purchase of either an Xbox 360 console or an "Xbox Live product" and tosses two tickets to the comic book movie adaptation. That's a nice bonus, considering the price of movie tickets.
http://kotaku.com/5162895/buy-xbox-l...chmen-for-free
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March 2nd, 2009, 19:42 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Microsoft's Major Nelson has quietly confirmed that the upcoming Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition Console Bundle, announced last week, is the first Elite to use the new Jasper hardware revision.
One of the telltale signs of a Jasper, which sports a 65nm CPU and GPU along with 256MB of onboard flash memory, is that it comes with a 150W power supply, reduced from 175W in the previous Falcon designations and the monstrous 203W distributed with Xenon (originals) and Zephyr.
"Some folks have asked about the power supply," Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb said in his video unboxing of the new bundle. "The power supply is y... it's a 150W Xbox 360 power supply," he said, holding it up to the camera.
He also recorded that the manufacturing date on the unit was "January 16th 2009". Up to now, the only Jaspers in the wild have been Arcade units, and fluctuating stock levels and few external signs has meant it's difficult to obtain one without a savvy retailer's assistance or a bit of blind luck.
The Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 is due out on 13th March, and comes bundled with a 120GB hard drive, Resident Evil 5 itself, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, a wireless red controller, a black headset, and an exclusive downloadable premium theme.
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March 2nd, 2009, 01:29 Posted By: wraggster
Is your Xbox 360 red in the face? No, not that kind of red, but facing that painstakingly loathsome red ring of death? Well, if group product manager Aaron Greenberg knows anything about the situation -- and we'd imagine he does -- then it looks like the guys at Microsoft have finally found a solution to many gamers' worst nightmares. In an interview with Edge Online, Greenberg said that through repairs they've done as well as updated technology, the guys in Redmond are pretty confident that afflicted consoles should be nonexistent in the not so distant future and that they've "put the worst behind us on this." So, breathe easy obsessive gamers, you needn't worry about getting an infected console any more -- we hope.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/x...inally-solved/
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March 2nd, 2009, 01:26 Posted By: wraggster
New 360 SKUs always seem to land on Target shelves a bit early, and the new Resident Evil 5 red Xbox 360 Elite limited edition is no exception -- there it is, hanging out in Pembroke Pines, Florida. We don't know if these are just out behind the counter or if the staff is just ignoring that DO NOT SELL BEFORE 3.13.09 sticker, but we're certain some kind soul will let us know soon.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/r...d-in-the-wild/
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February 28th, 2009, 20:15 Posted By: wraggster
HALO WARS has just been released and to mark the launch, Microsoft went on a nationwide search to find the country's biggest female Halo fan.
And boy, what luck they must have had to find someone who looked like this beauty! In fact, maybe they should be picking my lottery numbers.
This stunner is 25-year-old Amanda Johnstone from south London who according to Xbox bosses likes nothing better than snuggling up in her bed - under her Master Chief covers - guiding the space-age hero to victory.
The lovely was tracked down via Xbox Live and said she first came across Halo while working on the door of a nightclub which was hosting a 'Halo club' night.
Since then she's spent many a night up until the early hours blasting away with her Spiker and has a collection of merchandise filling her room, including bags, mugs and figurines.
Now, if you're finding this a little hard to believe, then that's probably because it is.
She supposedly tells us: "I have so much fun playing Halo and absolutely love getting on Xbox Live and getting better scores than a lot of the boys I regularly play the game with. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of Halo Wars."
And if that wasn't enough to stomach, Amanda also says she has named her pet Chihuahua, Chiefy.
Who knows, it might well be true, and if Amanda wants to offer her Gamer Tag so you can play her, we'll gladly reveal it.
It's just a shame not all the gamers at the other end of Xbox Live look like her though!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2279209.ece
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February 28th, 2009, 18:06 Posted By: wraggster
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Platform: Xbox 360
Complete coverage of every mission.
AREA MAPS: Detailed maps call-out the location of ammo, health, and more!
WEAPONS AND VEHICLES: In-depth listing of all available weapons and vehicles to make your way through Liberty City
MULTIPLAYER: Expert tactics to get you through every multiplayer mode
Game secrets uncovered!
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-39iq.html
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February 28th, 2009, 18:02 Posted By: wraggster
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Series prequel: STAR OCEAN: THE LAST HOPE is a prequel in the classic series, combining sci-fi and fantasy elements, spanning multiple planets and the vastness of space itself to recount the origins of the Star Ocean universe.
Exciting battles: Exhilarating combat expands upon the franchise's famous real-time battle system, including the amazing graphics and visual effects only possible on Xbox 360®.
Compelling scenes: The game features breathtaking CG movies by Visual Works, the cutting-edge studio whose previous work includes cutscenes for the acclaimed Final Fantasy RPG series.
aka. Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope
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The year is SD 10. In the aftermath of World War III, humanity voyages into the stars in search of a new home ... and a second chance, in the continuation of the classic Star Ocean series of games, STAR OCEAN® : THE LAST HOPE™.
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February 28th, 2009, 17:40 Posted By: wraggster
On March 3, Microsoft service repairs for the original Xbox ceases. The same happens for American users on March 2.
While service repair ends, other technical support such as documents and content will be available to all customers. "If you have an original Xbox console that is in Warranty that requires a repair," Microsoft stated, "you will be able to submit an exchange request for an upgrade to Xbox 360 online."
With the time difference, original Xbox support will actually be ending in both territories at the same time for a few hours.
http://kotaku.com/5161900/us-xbox-se...-before-japans
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February 28th, 2009, 00:49 Posted By: wraggster
Oratan has made the leap onto Xbox Live Arcade. Specifically MSBS 5.66, which was the final arcade iteration of the game (and arguably the best). This port will also feature full online versus but there is an elephant in the room in terms of the control input.
The original Dreamcast port afforded a twinstick peripheral, allowing you to play the game with the same response time as in the arcade. Bear in mind that these were digital microswitched sticks, and the leverage of the stick itself negated almost any deadzone. This resulted in a game that had pinpoint precision in terms of its control input. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the more basic elements of the game were lost on a pad as consequence.
The Dreamcast version was MSBS 5.45, 5.66 never saw a real home conversion (the hacked customize disc doesn't count here, as the arcade version was still very different in lots of ways) and was only balanced against the sticks. Considering the increase in speed over the previous iterations, I'm really not sure how this will work on a pad. Marz and the recent SEGA AGES port run at a slower pace compared to Oratan, which was always the more reflex-based game in the series, and neither of those worked very well on a pad either.
The game will be out in April and cost 1200 Microsoft points. There's a nice trailer here in case you're curious.
http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/002615.html
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February 28th, 2009, 00:15 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft says GTAIV expansion has smashed previous revenue records, though the exact numbers remain unknown
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has said that Rockstar’s The Lost and the Damned, a platform exclusive downloadable expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV, has broken previous revenue records for Xbox Live.
Kotaku quotes the firm as stating that the DLC has “eclipsed first-day revenue for all previous downloadable content on Xbox Live”, though details of quite how many sales were seen in the first 24 hours have not yet been released.
Rockstar will release additional DLC for GTA IV exclusive on Xbox 360 later this year.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/33385/Lost...ets-XBL-record
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February 27th, 2009, 20:50 Posted By: Shrygue
via Computer and Video Games
Telltale Games will release the first two seasons of its dog and rabbit detective adventure series Sam and Max on Xbox Live Arcade.
"Season One, which takes the Freelance Police from the New York City streets to Washington D.C. and all the way to the moon on the trail of a hypnotic nemesis, will be dubbed Sam & Max Save the World for all new releases moving forward," said Telltale.
"Season Two, which involves a baffling series of time paradoxes at the hands of unconventional aliens, has been renamed Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space. The Xbox Live Arcade releases will carry these new titles, as will Atari's 2009 retail versions of the second season [for PC and Wii]."
Telltale's new episodic series, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, is also headed to Xbox Live Arcade.
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February 26th, 2009, 21:40 Posted By: wraggster
The Xbox 360 has only outsold the PlayStation 3 several times before, so we're reticent to bring the Four Horsemen out of their winter hibernation. However, if Japanese hardware sales tracker Media Create is to be believed, the 360 not only outsold the PS3 in Japan last week, it handily trounced all competition, with sales just over 25,000 units (compared to nearly 17,000 units for Wii and just over 16,000 for PS3).
Considering Star Ocean: The Last Hope was released this past week and is outselling every game on the chart by a margin of at least 3:1 (162,232 units, folks -- in one week!), we're taking a stab in the dark here and saying 360 sales had something to do with that. After all, the last few times we put out a call to the horsemen, two other JRPG titles were to blame: Infinite Undiscovery and Tales of Vesperia.
Can you remember the other game that put 360 on top in Japan for a week? Hint: It involves fire and liberation and ... fighter jets. Give up? Too bad! We're still not telling!
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/26/xb...r-horsemen-dr/
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