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November 22nd, 2006, 12:55 Posted By: Darksaviour69
With Xbox 360's Gears of War already leaving a trail of bloody competitors in its wake at the top of the UK chart, Microsoft has announced a console-and-game bundle will go on sale this Friday to try and tempt some more newcomers.
Priced at GBP 299.99, the bundle consists of a premium edition Xbox 360 console and a copy of the game, which has been reviewing very strongly, and has already usurped Halo 2 as the most-played game on Xbox Live.
In a separate announcement, Microsoft revealed last night that Gears has now sold more than one million copies worldwide in just two weeks. "That makes Gears of War the fastest-selling original Xbox game of all time (non-sequel)," the semi-official Gamerscoreblog noted.
Update: A few hours after we received word about the Gears bundle, Microsoft got back in touch to add that this Friday will also see the release of a bundle including WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2007 and another featuring Call of Duty 3. As with the Gears bundle, it's a premium console (including 30 days of Xbox Live Gold membership, it's worth noting) and the game for GBP 300.
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November 21st, 2006, 23:24 Posted By: wraggster
The latest issue of Jason Kraft and Chris Kwak's 'Video Game Journal' for the Susquehanna Financial Group examines the software attach rate for the Xbox 360, and explores why such an "alarmingly high" rate may not bode well for Microsoft's next-generation console.
Specifically, the report cites the recently announced Xbox 360 attach rate of around five games per console sold as confirmed by Microsoft in October, a number that was up from the roughly four games per console attach rate announced by the company at the console's launch in 2005.
It concludes: "We believe the unusually high attach rate on the 360 is a sign of an increasingly unhealthy console growth rate, and should be worrisome to publishers and investors."
The analysts further explain their hypothesis by offering that a significant portion of the Xbox 360 consoles currently in circulation were purchased by hard-core gamers, who, by definition, purchase a lot of games.
In conclusion, the authors state, "If the Xbox 360 sports an attach rate of ten by holiday 2007, it will probably be because it has failed to gather critical momentum. What does it benefit publishers and investors if ten games are being purchased by a total audience of 10 million 360 owners? It doesn't take effort to see that a console with an attach rate of 8 and an installed base of 50 million is superior to a console with an attach rate of 12 with an installed base of 20 mln."
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November 21st, 2006, 19:09 Posted By: wraggster
Hironobu Sakaguchi has said that he's already looking toward a sequel for Xbox 360 exclusive RPG Blue Dragon, which is due out in Japan on 7th December.
Speaking to Famitsu, in an interview partly translated by IGN, Sakaguchi also said that Japanese RPG fans who buy Blue Dragon can look forward to free downloadable content in the first few months of next year.
The first game is now finished, he revealed, and will ship on three DVDs - uncompressed, it actually takes up a whopping 30GB of disk space.
IGN also reports that Sakaguchi said he's currently working on Cry-On (X360), A.S.H. (DS) and is involved in three other as-yet unannounced projects.
Microsoft has yet to reveal when Blue Dragon will be released in the west.
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November 21st, 2006, 17:26 Posted By: wraggster
New from Divineo UK
Lose the headset and communicate with friends and gamers from around the world with the Neo Communicator for Xbox 360. Compact ‘plug-and-play’ design allows you to be up and chatting in seconds and with integrated Speaker and Microphone plus no batteries to worry about, you’re free to chat as long as you want!
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November 21st, 2006, 17:19 Posted By: wraggster
A sequel to Gears wouldn't really be a surprise to anyone. But a trilogy? Now that's a different story. Speaking to GameDaily, Microsoft's Corporate VP of Global Marketing Jeff Bell, seems to have let slip that Epic and Microsoft have big plans afoot. "The goal of the ad is to establish Marcus Fenix as the hero of the Gears of War trilogy," said Bell.
Don't expect an official announcement anytime soon...
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November 21st, 2006, 17:13 Posted By: wraggster
We were beginning to think that Halo 2 would be the most played game on Xbox Live until Halo 3 launches sometime next year.
Having an Xbox as still the most played Live game a year after the 360 launch was beginning to say something about 360ïâs portfolio. Were 360 gamers unwilling to give anything else a try or is there nothing as good as Halo 2 online?
Xbox Live insider Major Nelson says in his latest update, "If the Xbox 360 list and the original Xbox list were combined, then Gears of War would be the top Xbox Live title. To put it another way: Gears of War is now the top game on Xbox Live."
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November 21st, 2006, 17:12 Posted By: wraggster
All being well, Gastronaut's Xbox Live Arcade game Small Arms will be available via the service on November 22 for 800 Microsoft Points.
Small Arms is an action game combining beat-'em-up and shoot-'em-up genres that finds up to four combatants duking it out in a variety of wacky levels with lots of platforms. It features 12 characters in total, each with a unique weapon, is playable online and offline and is reminiscent of Power Stone and Smash Brothers.
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November 20th, 2006, 21:11 Posted By: wraggster
New Xbox360 Game release:
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Interact with the piñatas: Getting to know and understand the personalities and requirements of your piñatas is essential if you want them to stay happy and thrive.
Interact with the characters: Decide how much help you want from the local guides, shopkeepers, and work force. Go it alone or get them involved—you choose
Watch them grow: Discover the secrets of more than 60 different candy-filled piñata animals to see them grow, change, fight, and even dance!
Anything can happen: Guide a constantly evolving, vibrant world to keep your piñata happy and protect them from dangers threatening to break them open.
Tend your garden: It’s not just new piñata species that are drawn to your world—untamed sour piñatas with bad attitudes and troublemaking ruffians do their worst to spoil your creation and must be dealt with.
Maintain harmony: Maintaining harmony within a growing community isn’t always easy when rivalries, illness, injuries and even candy-spilling fights occur. If you turn your back, who knows what their piñatas will do?
Personalized world: Customize your world and your piñata animals to reflect your style and create a pet paradise unlike any other.
Interact online: Via Xbox Live, contact other gamers to lend a hand, lay down a competitive challenge, or trade items.
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Viva Piñata™ is a window to another world where wild-roaming, living piñata animals inhabit a growing, changing garden world. Take control of this environment and the piñata within it, influencing its contents to create your very own pet paradise.
Once you have resident piñatas, begin to personalize your loyal community. Piñatas can be individually named and given their own personally designed tag to put on display as a declaration of their home turf. The customization doesn’t end there. Make the colorful critters more distinctive by customizing them with all kinds of costumes and accessories.
US Version works on Pal Consoles
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November 20th, 2006, 21:09 Posted By: wraggster
New Xbox360 Game released:
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Three enormous planets to explore. A gigantic overworld and more than 20 enormous dungeons are featured.
All-new enemies to fight. Along with a brand-new roster of standard opponents, there are more than 15 major bosses to challenge.
Player-controlled vehicles. Players no longer need to travel everywhere by foot, adding a new dimension to exploration.
The best online Phantasy Star experience to date. Features a game world that will evolve with new content over the course of several years.
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The long awaited new title in the beloved Phantasy Star series is here! Phantasy Star Universe delivers a rich, ever evolving world and provides hours of entertainment to both online and offline RPG enthusiasts. Single-player fans embark on an offline quest as Ethan Waber, a 17-year old cadet intent on saving his sister from an invasion of mysterious life forces called THE SEED. While online players create their own characters from a range of races, and then set off to explore all three planets in the Gurhal solar system. Fans travel with a squad of other adventurers through urban sprawls teeming with hundreds of other players, while developing their avatars into powerful warriors.
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November 20th, 2006, 21:06 Posted By: wraggster
New Xbox360 Game released:
Playing in The League is your dream but you’ve paid the price. Your arms ache from weight-room reps and painkillers are blurring your vision. The dirty hits you’ve laid on QBs are career-enders but they also keep you employed. Two more sacks and you get your bonus, paying for your fast cars and faster lifestyle. Its 4th and 3 and you are up by 7. Stuff the offense, beat your opponents bloody and win at any cost.
This is a Region Free Worldwide Release
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November 20th, 2006, 21:03 Posted By: wraggster
New Xbox 360 game released:
When villains run rampant, only one man can rescue a world in peril. Will you be able to master your superpowers to save Metropolis? Inspired by the Warner Bros. Pictures feature film and more than 60 years of lore from DC Comics, SUPERMAN RETURNS™: THE VIDEOGAME creates the ultimate open-world super hero experience.
As a superhero, Metropolis affects your ability to progress. You must face the internal conflict facing Superman at every turn: Will you pause your pursuit of super villains to stop a massive tornado sweeping through the city and save its civilians? Every decision made is critical to Metropolis' existence.
This is the Superman game you've always wanted to play. Utilizing more than 60 years of rich history, Superman Returns: The Videogame is the ultimate Superman experience.
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November 20th, 2006, 21:00 Posted By: wraggster
New game release from Xbox 360:
THIS IS A WORLDWIDE REGION FREE RELEASE
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EXPERIENCE THE THRILL OF BEING A WWE SUPERSTAR LIKE NEVER BEFORE: A brand new Analog Control Grappling System makes fighting more realistic than ever with intuitive movement and new elements of control.
EXPLORE NEW LEVELS OF HIGHLY REALISTIC ACTION: In and out of the ring, dozens of user-controlled environmental hotspots let players take advantage of anything at their disposal to inflict damage on opponents in new and unique ways.
BATTLE BEYOND THE RING AND CLOSER TO THE CROWD: Experience the intensity of WWE fans in a brand new, fully loaded interactive fighting area.
DISCOVER THE NEXT GENERATION OF WWE VIDEO GAMES: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 offers multiple enhancements, including incredible high definition graphics, updated rosters for both Raw and SmackDown, an expanded General Manager Mode, online multiplayer game play with voice chat support and much more!
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Don't just watch it — live it! WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 brings the intensity of being a WWE Superstar to the next level by offering players unprecedented levels of choice and control. The #1 wrestling franchise in the world delivers the next generation of WWE video games with key new features, incredible graphics and engaging, highly realistic WWE action in and beyond the ring.
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November 20th, 2006, 19:10 Posted By: wraggster
Via gamesradar
To celebrate this Friday's release of Phantasy Star Universe on PS2, Xbox 360 and PC, we've teamed up with publisher and developer Sega to offer one lucky winner an Xbox 360 Premium Pack and a copy of the game to play on it. Four runners-up will bag themselves a copy of the Xbox 360 game.
The gameplay of online RPG Phantasy Star Universe is based on real-time action, so expect plenty of peril and fun with your newfound online friends, even though you may be thousands of miles apart. Of course, if you haven't got a broadband connection you can tackle the single-player quest, which takes you on a journey across three different worlds.
So what do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning this superb prize? Just email us the answer to the following question and you'll be in entered into the draw. Here goes...
What kind of game is Phantasy Star Universe?
a) Online role-playing game
b) Racing game
c) American Football game
If you think you know the answer, click here to email us with your answer, name and full address. The closing date for entries is Monday 18 December 2006.
Come on DCEmu ers lets all enter that comp
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November 20th, 2006, 18:46 Posted By: wraggster
Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki has let slip that work has commenced on a fifth instalment in the Dead or Alive beat-'em-up series.
According to a report on OXM.co.uk, Itagaki spilled the confirmation beans at a 10th anniversary event for DoA, where he further revealed he has in mind the first in-game play concepts. In addition, it's reported that the tag battles witnessed in previous DoA games are being dropped for number five.
And that's your lot. A release date wasn't mentioned, and neither were formats but, considering recent DoA titles' ties with Microsoft, we wouldn't be at all surprised if Dead or Alive 5 turns out to be exclusive to Xbox 360.
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November 19th, 2006, 19:57 Posted By: wraggster
Xbox Live's director of programming Larry Hryb says that Gears of War has finally overtaken Halo 2 and become the most popular game on Microsoft's multiplayer service.
Even with Call of Duty 2 and titles like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter attracting huge crowds in the Xbox 360's early months on sale, Halo 2 has always managed to maintain its position on the top of the pile - and its ousting in favour of a new, 360-exclusive property is likely to be seen as a big deal.
There's a bit of movement elsewhere in the most-played charts, too, with Call of Duty 3 perhaps predictably overtaking Call of Duty 2 to slot in behind Gears, while Contra is the third most-played 360 game amongst connected users, despite the release of Midway's Defender last Wednesday.
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November 19th, 2006, 19:50 Posted By: wraggster
Despite our personal reservations on the topic, if you're rocking a Zune, we say more power to you, and we thought we'd let you know about this simple method to upgrade that little player of yours to 40GB. Ironically, iPodMods did the honors: turns out the Zune uses the same battery as that of the 60/80GB iPod, and while they were mucking about they also discovered that an upgrade to a 40GB Toshiba drive is relatively painless as well. The player also supports 60GB and 80GB drives, but you can't get the back cover back on with those bulkier drives in place, so no dice there. But if an extra 10GB is worth the price and hassle to you, then by all means grab your Xacto Knife and get hacking!
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November 19th, 2006, 19:47 Posted By: wraggster
If you're incensed about wasting your weekend (and part of last week) cruising around in futility trying to locate a Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii, the GamerBUS can provide the ultimate painkiller -- provided you live around the Virginia Beach area, that is. If you've got 63 friends or so, and you're not claustrophobic, you can pack your posse into the 37-foot customized RV and get your game(s) on. Sporting a bevy of comfortable seating options, sixteen Xbox 360 "gamer stations" (pictured after the jump) with their own 23-inch Philips HDTV, and all the CAT5 cable / electricity you could ever need, this redefines the party on wheels. Essentially offering a mobile gaming LAN, the bus operators will gladly wire up a 16-person system-linked round of Halo 2 (or a variety of other titles) while you provide the Cheetos and air fresheners. Although weekday hours boast an understandable discount, weekend rates range from $125 to $150 per hour, depending on how long you occupy the vehicle. Notably, no connection has been drawn between this newfangled gaming service and the Va Beach entrepreneur trickster hitting it big on vulnerable ATMs.
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November 18th, 2006, 14:34 Posted By: wraggster
Heres an excerpt:
The summer of 2006 was witness to two major Microsoft viral campaigns for mysterious new hardware. The first took place to promote "Project Origami," which was originally rumored to be an Xbox-Pocket or similar handheld gaming device. Sadly, the only fruit that the Origami project bore was the UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) form-factor of not-quite-a-PDA, not-quite-a-tablet, overpriced and underpowered touch-screen computers.
Though the technology press was somewhat put out after being whipped into a frenzy over Origami, the next viral campaign launched only a few months later at comingzune.com. The little flash movies on the site were undeniably stylish, and blatantly teased an upcoming iPod competitor. After months of rumor followed by the usual blurry spy-shots, the Microsoft Zune has finally hit the street. Is it a legitimate iPod-killer or just another ineffectual volley destined to bounce off Battleship-Apple's hull? From a reviewer's point of view, the Zune is an interesting combination of real strengths and real weaknesses. While it is sure to be the general consumer populace that will make or break Microsoft's attempt, read on to see what the biggest threat to Apple's hegemony is all about.
Zune Hardware
The Zune project was launched by Microsoft's Xbox division and, over generations of products, is planned to become an integral portion of Microsoft's ever expanding family of hardware products. The current Zune is the first edition of the family, and to a degree, it shows. The hardware is based upon Toshiba's Gigabeat S10, a critically well received yet rarely purchased mp3 player. Microsoft obviously needed to get hardware and name recognition on the streets as early as possible, and so chose to rely upon Toshiba's base of technology in this first edition. Microsoft designed and engineered products are surely already in development for future generations of the Zune line.
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November 18th, 2006, 00:51 Posted By: wraggster
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A comprehensive guide to the chilling single-player game, with every clue uncovered
Statistics for every weapon, and strategies on when to use it
Walkthroughs for every Instant Action map and bonus mission
Labeled maps for every multiplayer arena, with a visual guide to important strategic points
In-depth information about every evil enemy you'll face, including statistics and combat strategies
Pages: 176
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