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November 15th, 2006, 19:52 Posted By: wraggster
From December 1 360 gamers will be able to pick up the Xbox 360 HD DVD and Universal Media Remote for the cool price of ï£129.99.
Early birds will also score themselves a HD copy of Peter Jackson's King Kong on HD DVD.
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November 15th, 2006, 19:51 Posted By: wraggster
Via CVG
We recently welcomed Elite co-creator David Braben into the fastness of CVG towers for a natter and you may have enjoyed (or not) his thoughts on Sony and the launch of the PS3 yesterday.
During the course of a fascinating chat - which will be published in full on CVG soon - we felt compelled to ask the driving force behind The Outsider, whether given the success of Xbox Live Arcade, was he ever tempted to plunder his own back catalogue and bring back some classics like Virus and Zarch from the Frontier archives?
Mr Braben told us, "Well maybe, it's something we've thought about and maybe we could do. I think the rights to those have all come back, because they were licenses."
Unfortunately we couldn't get him to commit any further than that, but it's clearly something Braben's contemplating and an intriguing prospect, especially for gaming veterans like ourselves who fondly remember seeing Zarch running on an Archimedes for the first time or the heady and innovative gameplay of Virus and its sequel V2000.
Heck, we even remember with affection Darxide and the much underrated Infestation. Possible candidates for the XBLA treatment?
Of course, the one game missing from that list is the seminal classic Elite, but don't worry, we'll have some hot news on that for you tomorrow as Braben has dropped some crucial pointers on the future of the series exclusively to CVG. Keep 'em peeled, we'll be bringing you hot news on that - Thursday am.
Meanwhile, if you too would like to see some Frontier classics on XBLA - why not let us know in the comments field below. The campaign begins here!
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November 15th, 2006, 19:48 Posted By: wraggster
We're not sure if it still counts as Arcade Wednesdays but the latest arcade classic reborn for MS's Xbox Live service will be Defender, which is due to hyperspace onto the service today.
Appearing in both demo and full fat form, Defender will set you back some 400 MS points or around 3.4 of our great British quids.
However, don't expect it at the traditional 8am launch time as according to Major Nelson's blog, it's coming hot out of the certification process, so launch window is unconfirmed although the team are apparently pulling out all the stops to bring it to you today.
We're not even too sure whether it'll be the ancient classic faithfully recreated or multiple versions possibly including Defender II which have been brought up to date and enhanced for the HD era.
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November 15th, 2006, 13:34 Posted By: Darksaviour69
Today Bungie announced that a public beta of Halo 3 multilayer will hit Xbox Live Marketplace this Spring. Yep, come Spring 2007 we’ll all be able to get our hands on a multilayer build of Halo 3, allowing Bungie to collect feedback from the community as the team march onwards to a November release for the third instalment of the series.
Spring will also see the release of exclusive Xbox 360 multilayer maps for everyone’s favourite Halo 2. With Halo 2 still riding high at the number one spot online (something even the mighty Gears of War has so far failed to dent) this is great news, but these maps are not free, the will "cost something". In the latest update from Bungie’s website, Brian Jarrard states:
“These maps are shaping up to be really cool and once we can start talking more about them, I think our fans are going to be very, very happy with what’s in the works.”
Halo 1 maps?
Also bungie have released a new high-res screenshot of halo 3, unfortunately the shot does not show much...
Bungie
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November 15th, 2006, 12:03 Posted By: Darksaviour69
November 15, 2001. With PlayStation 2 dominating the console market, software giant Microsoft - renowned for its Windows operating systems and PC gaming titles - takes its first, bold steps into the console gaming arena with the US launch of the highly anticipated and much vaunted Xbox.
Its release signals the start of an epic rivalry between Microsoft and Sony, two corporate giants jostling for marketplace supremacy like a pair of combatants in a coin-op beat ‘em up. Console gaming would never be the same again…
full story
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November 14th, 2006, 23:27 Posted By: wraggster
News from XCM:
New product announce:
We will release the XCM 360 XFPS very soon, the function of XCM 360 XFPS :
1.Can let your xbox 360 controller has auto fire function.
2.Compatible with PS 2 Dual shock 2 (you can use PS 2 Dual shock 2 controller on Xbox 360 console)
3.Compatible with PC mouse and keyboard, it might be able to use on Halo 3.
http://www.xcm.cc/
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November 14th, 2006, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster
New from Play Asia:
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Drive with confidence and zero loss of performance knowing that the wheel is powered by the same award winning wireless technology used in the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller.
High quality force feedback performance replicate the yanks and shudders that a racecar driver feels while blasting around the oval.
Real world automotive design with comfortable and intuitive ergonomics immerses you in the action with a uniquely authentic racing experience.
Choose the Lap mount or the Table mount to race the way you want to.
description
Racing has never felt so real! Hold on tight as you hug corner after corner, skid through the sand, or trade paint with rival cars fighting for position—the wheel simulates all the resistance and force, immersing you in a relentless and unparalleled racing experience.Featuring sleek design and cutting edge technology like dual Rumble motors and powerful Force Feedback, the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel is a masterpiece of form and function.
More info --> http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-1ohz.html
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November 14th, 2006, 22:57 Posted By: wraggster
New Xbox360 Game released:
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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.
description
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.
More Info --> http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-1ij2.html
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November 14th, 2006, 22:07 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's casual games boss, Kim Pallister, has told GamesIndustry.biz that he doesn't believe the growth of digital distribution will have an effect on retailers - at least not in the near future.
Speaking in an interview at the Montréal International Games Summit last week, Pallister said, "In terms of the short term, I don't think they're going to suffer a great deal for a number of reasons.
"Number one, most of the digital distribution today, the vast majority of it is done in places like the casual games space where the download size is not so formidable as to limit that. We're still a ways away from a six gigabyte image being something you can easily transfer out.
"So in some ways, it doesn't overlap. It also grows the industry in different ways; it allows for titles that maybe couldn't do the volume for an individual retailer to justify the shelf space."
Pallister went on to suggest that an increase in digital distribution could even benefit retailers by allowing them to reach different types of consumer who wouldn't normally visit games shops.
"You see some of the more successful casual games that kind of bubble up eventually doing boxed products to tap into that type of consumer who likes to shop in that environment," he added.
"So in the short term, I don't think there's necessarily a threat; I think they complement one another, if anything... It'll cause some shifts, but I don't think [retailers are] doomed any day soon."
When asked about the possibility of full size Xbox 360 games being distributed digitally, Pallister replied, "Will we eventually get there one day? Possibly, but it's quite possible that the games grow in size and outsize the bandwidth growth or whatever.
"I think it's really a matter of giving consumers choice and different paths to getting to their content," he concluded.
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November 14th, 2006, 21:55 Posted By: wraggster
New from Divineo China
Cool your Xbox 360 console for optimum gameplay during those all night gaming session with the improved version of the Thermostatic Cooling System! Just plug and cool (and play  . Instant results! And with its auto temperature sensor, it only turns on when really needed.
- Plug & play and easy to set up
- Lower your Xbox 360 working temperature to expand console lifetime and avoid console crashes
- Manual and Automatic power switch
- Use Xbox 360 power directly, no extra power supply needed
- Instant lower temperature with 2 large cooling fans
- Auto temperature sensor: Switch ON/OFF automatically depending on your console temperature
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November 14th, 2006, 21:47 Posted By: wraggster
Patch in the pipeline to make Gears work better online
It might not be out yet in the UK - and rumours of Tesco selling it early aren't true - but Epic is already working on a patch for the mighty Gears Of War.
A post made by the game's lead programmer revealed, "A patch is in the works to address the connection issues as well as several other bugs that have been reported."
There's no specific date for the update at the moment, but we're sure it won't be too long with the European launch looming this Friday.
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November 14th, 2006, 02:17 Posted By: wraggster
New from SuccessHK is the extremely popular Xbox 360 game, Gears of War
Gears of War thrusts gamers into a deep and harrowing story of humankind's epic battle for survival against the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet. players live and breathe the role of Marcus Fenix. A disgraced former war hero, Marcus seeks personal redemption as he leads his fire team against an onslaught of merciless warrior fiends. Gamers immerse themselves in an experience so intensely emotional and gut-wrenching that playing will be like controlling a blockbuster action movie. Control Marcus Fenix and his fire team as they pit advanced human technology against the overwhelming and horrific Locust Horde.
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November 13th, 2006, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster
New for Xbox 360:
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The Xbox 360 Wireless Headset
You've got a voice. Now use it. Experience enhanced voice chat with the Xbox 360 Wireless Headset. Designed specifically to work seamlessly on your Xbox 360™, this hands-free, wire-free headset employs the same technology as the award-winning Xbox 360 Wireless Controller. Pair up both accessories for superior performance, freedom, and comfort. Use up to four Wireless Controllers and Wireless Headsets simultaneously on one Xbox 360 for the most intense multiplayer gaming sessions ever.
More info / buy here --> http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-1ohy.html
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November 13th, 2006, 20:49 Posted By: wraggster
Via Gamesradar
The utterly unmissable Xbox 360 shoot-'em-up Gears of War gets its UK release this Friday. And to celebrate we've teamed up with Microsoft and Epic Games to offer five lucky winners a copy of the special edition version of the game and a limited edition Gears of War faceplate for your 360. Can't say fairer than that.
The game scored 10/10 in our review and we can honestly say it's brain-meltingly, face-chainsawingly good. But this special edition makes a brilliant game even better by including an embossed metal case, Destroyed Beauty hardbound art book and a bonus DVD featuring, among other things, a 'making of' documentary.
So, what do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning? It's dead easy - just email us the answer to the following question and the first five names out of the hat will grab the gear. Here goes:
What did Gears of War score in our review?
a) 6/10
b) 9/10
c) 10/10
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 11 December 2006. Due to the game's 18 certificate, the competition is open to over-18s only.
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November 13th, 2006, 20:46 Posted By: wraggster
Halo 3 developer Bungie has hinted that some "BIG surprises" about Master Chief's third outing will be coming our way in the next few days, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of Halo: Combat Evolved - first released in the US this week back in 2002.
The teasing hint appears in Bungie's latest weekly update during which the super-dev also promises to take a "lingering look at the series to date" for Halo's birthday week.
Bungie loves to drip feed hungry eyed gamers with lip-smacking nuggets of Halo info, so expect to be pointing your eyes at some big news before the weekend
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November 13th, 2006, 20:44 Posted By: wraggster
The XBox 360's affordable HD-DVD, with the help of some custom drivers and a specific player, has been hacked to work with any Windows XP machine. This may have created the cheapest HD-DVD player on the market to date
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November 13th, 2006, 20:26 Posted By: wraggster
"It's horse party time!" is the cry that's going out as we discover that our US copy of Viva Piñata works fine on a PAL Xbox 360. We thought you'd want to know.
That puts it in good company of course, with Gears of War having been confirmed as region-free last week too. Except in Viva's case, the wait for the PAL version would otherwise be longer - now you can nab it from the US without having to hang around until 1st December.
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November 13th, 2006, 20:17 Posted By: wraggster
If Christmas wasn't expensive enough, Microsoft has just made sure it'll break your piggy banks this year.
December 1 sees the release of the 360 HD-DVD player (originally touted for a Nov. launch) at £129.99 with a copy if HD-DVD King Kong.
The same day will also see the launch of the £89.99 Wireless Racing Wheel, bundled with PGR3 (while stocks last). Before that though a wireless headset is due to land on Nov. 17 for £34.99.
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November 13th, 2006, 12:11 Posted By: Darksaviour69
All lists are based on World Wide Unique Users on Xbox Live. These lists are based on title usage (while connected to Xbox Live.)
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s)
1 Gears of War
2 Call of Duty 2
3 Splinter Cell Double Agent
4 Need for Speed™ Carbon
5 Madden NFL 07
6 Ghost Recon 3
7 Saints Row
8 Pro Evolution Soccer 6
9 Call Of Duty 3
10 Final Fantasy XI
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Contra
2 UNO
3 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
4 Texas Hold 'em
5 Geometry Wars Evolved
6 Hexic HD
7 LUMINES LIVE!
8 DOOM
9 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting
10 Bankshot Billiards 2
Original Xbox Top Live Games
1 Halo 2
2 Battlefield 2: MC
3 Madden NFL 07
4 Counter-Strike
5 Rainbow Six 3 BA
6 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
7 Forza Motorsport
8 Splinter Cell-DA
9 Splinter Cell Chaos
10 Rainbow Six 3
If the Xbox 360 list and the Original Xbox list were combined, then Halo 2 would be the top Xbox Live title, followed by Xbox 360 titles.
Maybe when Gears of War comes out in Europe on friday, it could unseat Halo 2 from the top seat?
Major Nelson
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November 13th, 2006, 01:15 Posted By: wraggster
Team-XBMC and The XBMC Project is proud to announce the release of XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1. XBox Media Center (XBMC) is an award winning, free and open source media player for the Xbox™ game-console. XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1 point-release source code has now been set in our CVS, and all XBMC users are highly encouraged to upgrade to this version. Know that this point-release version marks the end of the 2.0 era of XBMC, there will be no more 2.0.x bug-fix point-releases. The next point-release of XBMC will be 2.1 (or maybe even 3.0), and it will probably be quite a while before that 2.1 (or 3.0) version sees the light of day with all new major features/functions we have planned for the future, (those who can not wait can always use the latest daily CVS of XBMC).
This XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1 point-release is a stable bug-fix version of the XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0 point-release, no major new features has been implemented, for a full list of fixed bugs and tweaks please read the changelog. (For a full list of all features/functions and codecs/formats supported by XBMC please visit the "XBMC Features and Supported Formats/Codecs" page in our online manual). Remember, Team-XBMC only maintain the XBMC source code, Team-XBMC does not release or distribute Xbox executable (XDK binaries), but the XBMC source code needs to be compiled with the XDK before it can be used on an Xbox, also note that XBMC requires a modded Xbox to run. Our thanks goes out to everyone who has tested, reported bugs, and helped fix them in order to make this release possible.
More info --> http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/
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