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December 8th, 2007, 14:28 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released today, heres the details:
features
Innovative RPG gameplay: Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) elements are blended into the game's traditional role-playing game system, enabling players to make strategic decisions for a more immersive and deep gameplay experience.
Engaging and unparalleled emotional story: With story sequences penned by award-winning Japanese novelist Kiyoshi Shigematsu in cooperation with producer Hironobu Sakaguchi,Lost Odyssey sets a new benchmark for the RPG genre with a combination of true-to-life cinematics and an intriguing story of an immortal man.
Massive scope: The massively scoped worlds, memorable characters and epic storyline play as an intense and unsettling blockbuster action film. Heading up the artistic demands of the title is famed Japanese comic artist Takehiko Inoue.
Realistic next-generation graphics: Powered by Unreal Engine 3 technology, Lost Odyssey boasts stunning visual fidelity and rendering quality. The technology pushes high-definition visual designs to a higher level and brings out the smallest details in the largest battles.
description
Lost Odyssey™ is the story of Kaim, an immortal character who has lived more than 1,000 years. He doesn't remember his past, and he doesn't know where his future lies. Throughout Kaim's journey, a handful of characters will join him on an odyssey to discover their intricate past and destiny, leading players through a dramatic story of massive scale. Lost Odyssey features breathtaking visuals and an epic adventure made possible only by the power of Xbox 360™.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-2bn2.html
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December 8th, 2007, 10:40 Posted By: wraggster
News from the ScummVM Team:
It is time to announce our next Big Testing SeasonTM. This means that pretty soon you, our fellow users, will see the new and shiny ScummVM version.
We have extended the set of our supported games by 8 new (or old  ) games. The list includes: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Lure of the Temptress, Elvira - Mistress of the Dark, Elvira II - The Jaws of Cerberus, Waxworks (Amiga version only), and early Sierra preAGI games Mickey's Space Adventure, Troll's Tale, and Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
There are detailed instructions on how to perform testing in a helpful way. You will find them on our Wiki page. Please stick to those and report on our mailing list, in #scummvm or on our forums. The current list of tested games can be found here.
No new downloads as of writing but more info --> http://www.scummvm.org/?shownews=20071206.xml
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December 8th, 2007, 10:34 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's Canadian Xbox 360 guru, Jade, has unveiled some new details on the Canadian version of the the Xbox Live Video Marketplace launching next week.
For Library titles (read: old), standard definition runs 310 MS Points, while high definition movies will cost 460 MS Points. For Current titles (new releases), SD movies will cost 460 points and HD will cost 610 points. In other words, Canadians are paying significantly more than Americans, who pay 240 or 360 points for older films, and 360 or 480 for new releases. So, Canadians spend nearly $9 on an HD new release compared to $6 American.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/12...ing-unearthed/
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December 7th, 2007, 23:25 Posted By: Shrygue
via IGN
Registration for THQ's WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 International Tournament begins tomorrow, the company announced today.
Qualifying rounds for the competition begin in January in three regions – North America, the UK and continental Europe. The tournament will continue through February, with the four top players in each region moving on to participate in regional finals in early March.
Two finalists from North America, along with a finalist from the United Kingdom and a finalist from Continental Europe, will then battle head-to-head at the grand finale, scheduled to take place during the 6th Annual THQ Superstar Challenge on March 27 at the House of Blues Orlando.
There, the finalists will play live against one other in front of a capacity crowd and share the spotlight with top WWE Superstars. The grand prize winner will receive two floor tickets to WrestleMania 24, and each finalist will receive two stadium tickets to the event.
The registration site, hosted by GameStop, will be live at the link below tomorrow:
www.gamestop.com/svr
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December 7th, 2007, 22:14 Posted By: wraggster
This Friday, December 7th, will be your final chance to download the beta of XNA Game Studio 2.0. We are ending the beta program in preparation for our final release.
Additionally, the Games for Windows - LIVE online functionality will become disabled. You will still be able to use XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta to program System Link games, but you will not be able to log on by using a LIVE-enabled Gamertag.
As we have mentioned, the delta between the beta and the release was very short. During that period, we addressed many bugs and issues, but the beta you received was "feature complete," meaning that everything new for XNA Game Studio 2.0 was included with the beta.
Our final release is right around the corner, and we'd like to thank everyone who took time to download our beta as well as provide feedback through the Microsoft Connect site. It's with your help that we can ensure that our final build is as stable as possible.
http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/20...ding-soon.aspx
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December 7th, 2007, 20:43 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Bungie Studios currently has "no plans" to work on any platforms besides Xbox 360, two of the developer's top men told Eurogamer readers in a LiveText interview this afternoon.
"We have no plans to work on any other platforms beyond 360 at this time," writing lead Frank O'Connor responded to a question about whether Bungie's newfound independence might give rise to non-360 projects.
"Microsoft have been good friends to us," added Jonty Barnes, production director. "You can see the strength of our relationship in Halo. We're really focused on continuing our collaboration in making the best games we can, and that right now is on 360."
The two developers covered a wide range of topics during their nearly 90 minutes fielding Eurogamer readers' questions, providing insight into a number of areas and revealing, among other things, the following:
- Stand Off from the new Halo 3 map pack has "at least two Easter Eggs", "each one more horrifying than the last".
- There's nothing new to report on the Halo film at the moment, with its "pause button firmly pressed".
- They are not working on anything Marathon-related right now, but "it's not outwith the bounds of reason that we could revisit it one day".
- When asked about possibly reselling technology, Barnes said the company was "not interested in focusing on how we can generate the most revenue".
- When a reader countered with a question about the map pack price, Frank explained that Microsoft sets the price once Bungie has billed them for how much it cost to develop.
- Asked about the possibility of multiplayer bots as DLC, Barnes said: "I cannot comment on the plans for Halo 3 at this time outside of the snippets of DLC announcements we've already made."
- Bungie's involvement in Ensemble Studios' Halo Wars game has been largely in advising on story and universe.
- Bungie has no current plans to produce a game for Xbox Live Arcade.
- Frank "sucks at all music games".
- Both men would rather be invisible than have lasers for eyes.
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December 6th, 2007, 19:42 Posted By: Shrygue
via Computer and Video Games
Developed exclusively for Xbox 360 by Team Ninja (though we expect a PS3 release at a later date in a similar way to Sigma on PS3) Ninja Gaiden 2 is on our most wanted list for next year, if it makes it.
Here's a batch of new shots for the game to help you understand why. And an awesome new movie. The original is still one of our favourite Xbox games...
You can find more on Ninja Gaiden 2 over at the game page.
Screenshots
Trailer
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December 6th, 2007, 19:31 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
EA has told Eurogamer that Burnout Paradise will be out here on 25th January.
It follows word from late October that it will be on US shelves on 22nd, complimented by demos for PS3 and 360 sometime this month.
Burnout Paradise is the most ambitious outing in the series so far, presenting car crashers with an open world to zoom around, triggering races by stopping at streetlights or jumping through hoops and that sort of lark. The emphasis being on doing things at your pace and not in a rigid order. Free your minds.
You will also be able to invite your friends over to your world and have an automobile pyjama party, without any loitering in lobbies and all that palaver - they appear on your roads and drive around until you fancy a race.
Very promising is the general consensus, so pop over to our Burnout Paradise gamepage and crash yourself in information.
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December 6th, 2007, 18:04 Posted By: wraggster
Early this year I wrote about how the Xbox 360 is a flawed DVD player, complete with pictures of some of the various errors you can expect. I hoped Microsoft would fix it with each major update. So when I looked over the really long and detailed list of Dashboard updates the other day, a few things stuck out at me. One is the nebulous "Improved deinterlacer support for video playback." Could this be the DVD fix I was hoping for?
Nope. I just updated the Xbox 360 in the lab and ran it into a TV using the VGA input at 1080p. With this I used the popular HQV DVD test disc, and the Xbox 360 scored a whopping 40. That's out of 130! Rather than show you the whole scoring chart, let me break it down for you: The 360 passed the Color Bars/Vertical Detail test (nearly everything does), the Picture Detail test, and the horizontal and vertical crawls. That's it. It failed every noise reduction, film mode, jaggies, and cadence detection test there is. In nearly every case, it was a clear failure; not...even...close.
Oh, the hi-def situation isn't much better. HQV makes a hi-def test disc for HD DVD and Blu-ray players, and the 360 scores a zero (out of 100). These tests are much simpler, involving simply de-interlacing 1080i content of both regular and film mode content, and noise reduction. It's like nothing is going on there at all.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...129TX1K0000532
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December 6th, 2007, 18:04 Posted By: wraggster
A perhaps slightly overlooked feature of this fall's Xbox 360 update is the fact that Microsoft is now selling Sony BMG music videos on Live for 160 points a pop.
The first wave of videos hitting the U.S. features 40 videos from a diverse sampling of artists including Chris Brown, OutKast, Michael Jackson and Foo Fighters.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/bmg/360-exp...bmg-330095.php
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December 6th, 2007, 18:03 Posted By: wraggster
Phillip Swann, president of TVPredictions.com, has been making predictions about TV technology issues for several years with an incredible rate of success.
For instance, Swanni was the first to say Voom's satellite TV service would fail; that Apple TV would be a bust; and that Interactive TV programs would never reach a mass audience in the United States.
With 750,000 HD DVD players and nearly 3 million Blu-ray players in homes, many analysts say both high-def disc formats will stay in business in 2008 and the years beyond. But Swann predicts that the Blu-ray forces, led by Sony and HD DVD's backers, led by Toshiba and Microsoft, will reach a compromise on a single format next year. He says the studios will push for a single format because most consumers will not buy high-def DVD players if there are two formats.
http://www.tvpredictions.com/swannitwo120507.htm
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December 6th, 2007, 00:06 Posted By: wraggster
Hot on the heels of the enormous Wiimote cabinet comes an absolutely gigantic Xbox 360 that truly has to be seen to be appreciated. Thankfully, there's a video of the thing waiting in the read link, but this beastly player opens up to reveal the perfect storage area for periodicals and pamphlets that are sure to collect dust and rarely ever be touched by human hands again. Additionally, a light was added behind the power button (no, it's not red) for good measure, but last we heard, the original Xbox controller (a.k.a Duke) was no longer on speaking terms with its biological cousin (pictured).
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/h...-as-a-cabinet/
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December 5th, 2007, 21:51 Posted By: wraggster
Following the huge success of Xbox LIVE™ Marketplace Video Store in the US, where it has changed the way Xbox 360™ owners view and enjoy video, Microsoft® today announced that Xbox LIVE Marketplace Video Store will open for business in the UK on 11th December.
Xbox 360 owners will be able to rent full-length films such as 300, The Good German, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from as little as 250 Microsoft Points (*ERP £2) for Standard Definition movies and from 380 Microsoft Points (*ERP £3.20 [1]) for High Definition movies. This is in addition to over 100 music videos currently available to download from partners Ministry of Sound, Sony BMG, PIAS and Vid Zone.
With this launch, Xbox LIVE Marketplace becomes the first video on demand service to be available in six countries - US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France and Germany - and cements its place as the worldwide leader in online distribution of high-definition gaming and entertainment content.
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December 5th, 2007, 21:50 Posted By: wraggster
The Xbox 360 supports DivX and XviD as of today, which may make some of you with big file collections (like us) as giddy as a kid in store with puppies made of candy. We threw our entire collection of movies, TV shows and random clips at it and found that the 360 can play back pretty much anything. Here are some notes.
You can play files off of a CD/DVD. This feature wasn't listed on the Xbox Team's website as one of the supported locations for playing back content, but this is fantastic for homes that have wireless networks (or no network at all). In fact, reading off a disc is probably the best way to ensure your movie won't cut out in the middle due to network congestion (unlikely) or someone turning off the computer accidentally (fairly likely).
It supports almost all files. It played back all TV shows we threw at it, including My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Battlestar Galactica, and The Venture Bros.. Most of these, and most TV downloaded TV shows, are encoded in XviD format. As for DivX, that's supported back to version 5.0.
AC3 Audio is supported. Nice! AC3 support was added in the Spring Update, but it's nice to see it working with DivX/XviD. 5.1 is supported!
It's not entirely perfect. It's 90% of the way there, improved handling of different video dimensions, better playback controls and Windows Media Center Extender support will make this the perfect DivX/Xvid implementation.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/xbox-360-...ect-329769.php
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December 5th, 2007, 21:48 Posted By: wraggster
Via xbox scene
Ivc confirmed on the XBH forums that he managed to perform the Timing Attack on kernel 6683 (fall 07 update) and boot back into kernel 1888:
The timing attack works on the fall update!
I just downgraded a machine with the latest 6683 kernel to 1888 using the PIC timing attack. The CB/CD sections didn't change after the update and is still 1920 after the update. This might suggest CB 1888/1903/1920 on current machines can't be changed/updated, and a newer CB can only be applied to new machines from the factory/rma.
To verify that machines with CB/CD 1888 and CE/CF 6683 could be downgraded, I ran a timing attack on another machine I had and it booted 1888 after timing attacking it for an hour. Both runs was done on Xenon (initial) motherboards.
Yes, the fuse resistor [R6T3] is in place on both machines. No major problems encountered on either machines after the update and downgrade.
Geremia posted some details about the changes he found in the new kernel:
On my early 2006 console, with R6T3 resistor removed, i see only changes in the kernel+filesystem (as usual) and probably an updated consoleravocationlist, and a few bytes increased at quite end of nand @0xFF3C00, don't know, probably some settings, don't know.
No changes in KV and in CB,CD,CE (still 1888), so games are still open
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December 5th, 2007, 21:47 Posted By: wraggster
After running through the system update I attempted to purchase Magatama [with a Japanese Silver account on a Xbox360 located in the US]. I haven't played it before so I was looking forward to giving it a go. I got ready to expend 1,200 Microsoft Points when an error message popped up explaining the download was not available in my region. The same problem occurred with Puyo Pop Fever. I turned off my 360 and tried again, but this time the option to download the games was not present. I was able to download the freebies (themes and icons), but it appears Microsoft closed off a path to downloadable import games.
http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/04...ked-downloads/
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December 5th, 2007, 21:45 Posted By: wraggster
Since Ritek and CMC Magnetics expanded their 2.4x dual-layer DVD production capacity starting in 2007, pricing has dropped from NT$70-80 (US$2.17-2.48) to NT$55-60, which has helped to boost market demand, according the market sources.
The demand for dual-layer DVDs in 2007 is to be around 190 million units and is expected to go up to 400 million units in 2008, according to disc makers citing a report from BOC.
Additionally, optical disc makers pointed to the popularity of Xbox 360 games consoles and the potential for backup game copies running on modified systems to further drive blank disc sales.
http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20071204PD218.html
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December 5th, 2007, 21:44 Posted By: wraggster
via xbox scene
A new version of TVersity Media Server(info) has been released. TVersity allows you to stream pretty much any media (music/pictures and video) format to your Xbox 360 (with on-the-fly transconding if required) from a Windows PC.
What's new/fixed:
* Support for Xbox 360 2007 Fall update, Divx/Xvid can play natively.
* Support fast-forward, rewind and skipping with Xbox 360 while transcoding, within the portion of the media that was already transcoded.
* Include all the patches for the Sony PS3 firmware verison 2, including support for WMA lossless and FLAC.
* Revert HR20 profile to use PCM audio since many users do not have a firmware with WAV support, and add two new profiles for HR20 with WAV support and for HR20 with MP3 support to be set manually by users that have an adequate firmware.
* Support fast forward and rewind within transcoded media with PS3 firmware 2.
* Add experimental support for Windows Mobile - downloading and streaming audio is now supported with Windows Mobile 5.0 or higher, only MSIE and WMP are required.
Official Site: http://tversity.com
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December 5th, 2007, 19:43 Posted By: Elven6
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/x...stoops-to-129/
I think this is only in the states, but neither the less is a great deal for something that can work on both a Xbox 360 and a PC! You can check your local Toy's R Us, and see if they have it, or Amazon!
Toy's R Us
Amazon
If you buy a Xbox 360 HD DVD player you will also be eligable for 5 free movies, but you have to mail in a rebate form.
Rebate Form
So along with the bundled in King Kong, you can also receive 5 other movies listed in the form, bringing it to a total of 6!
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