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January 16th, 2006, 17:38 Posted By: wraggster
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We have received end of last week a massive delivery of all audio-video cables you need for your brand new Xbox 360. Four different cables are available, offering each a different type of video connection and signal. From S-Video to RGB Scart, that most European gamers will be happy to finally get their hands on, we got it covered. We also have Component cables for HDTV sets and VGA adapters for computer monitors and screens. All of them offer both Stereo jacks and digital Optical output for enhanced sound quality. We have all four different models in stock and shipping within 24 hours, each retailing for US$ 12.95 only. Quantity discounts are available on the respective product pages for resellers, ebayers and shops, simply input the amount you need in the shopping cart and our dynamic systems will calculate your rebate online.
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January 15th, 2006, 16:13 Posted By: AntWak
Hey guys
If any of you are like me and haven't got a 360 yet, I have heard from a very good source that the market is due to be flooded the week commencing 23-01-06. It came about when I tried to reserve one in a shop and was told by the helpful shop assistant that they are coming. And instead of buying one with "at least three games" (this is the current situation), I should wait and have the freedom of buying what I wish.
I am going to do just that. just a couple of questions to your good selves though.....
1. Have all of the problems been ironed out, i.e. PSU overheating, software problems, crashing etc....?
2. Also, I love FPS's, COD or PDZ?
Many thanks
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January 14th, 2006, 13:36 Posted By: wraggster
Reuters reports that Microsoft has sold 600,000 Xbox 360 consoles in the United States since its November 2005 launch. Data comes from the NDP Group which measures and projects nearly two-thirds of all US retail sales.
From the article: "The Xbox 360 debuted to much fanfare on November 22 in North America, where the unit has been in short supply. Analysts, video game publishers and retailers have said shipments during the key holiday season fell short of expectations."
As expected, the system has not been selling well in Japan up to this point either, but Microsoft has confirmed its target of selling between 4.5 million and 5.5 million 360 during the current fiscal year ending June 30 of this year.
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January 14th, 2006, 02:37 Posted By: wraggster
Gamasutra is running an interesting piece entitled The Battle for Console Earth. Louis Castle of EA describes the process of making an RTS title for the Xbox 360 console. From the article: "Castle's approach to the Xbox 360 version of The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth II was to approach the RTS genre as if it were never on the personal computer. Let's go back to the beginning. Let's look at these strategy games, as if they were new. How would we approach it now? Let's pretend that there never was a mouse, and all we had were consoles. How would we bring this about?"
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20...faldi_01.shtml
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January 13th, 2006, 17:20 Posted By: wraggster
Electronic Arts announced today that the highly anticipated PC game, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II will make its way exclusively to the Xbox 360. The high-definition title will be the first game in the series that will be playable over Xbox LIVE. Gamers can challenge friends online and engage in real-time battles.
From the release: "The game boasts a new and intuitive console-specific control scheme that will allow novice players to enjoy the game's signature strategy gameplay while giving expert players the flexibility needed to engage in a deeply complex strategy experience. Players will directly control hundreds of units in an attempt to defeat enemy armies, conquer new lands, and seal the fate of Middle-earth."
LOTR The Battle for Middle-earth II ships Summer 2006.
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January 13th, 2006, 09:22 Posted By: J sims
Does anybody know why there is a battery indicator on the xbox 360's guide menu in the upper left hand corner. I find it kind of weird that the 360 would have that when it is pluged into the wall and, I can' really picture that system runnnig on a battery unless its a uninteruptable power source
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January 12th, 2006, 19:07 Posted By: wraggster
Success HK have this new Xbox 360 Game:
Amped 3, like snowboarding itself, isn't just about the sport. Sure, there's an all-new physics engine, an innovative artificial intelligence engine, and perfected controls, so you get the most authentic riding experience at some of the world's greatest winter resorts, but snowboarding is all about style. That's why Amped 3 offers incredible customization, a fat helping of boarding culture, and deep, wide sandboxes loaded with killer gameplay. FreeStyle. YourStyle. LifeStyle. Pour it on.
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January 12th, 2006, 04:01 Posted By: melenya
Best Buy is having a sale on Xbox games . I'm planning on picking up Half Life 2 (as my PC will never run it), and am debating the 2 titles for the other. Any opinions on which one is the better game? I've never actually played an FPS on the Xbox, so I don't know if that is relevant to the comparison.
And how much it cost??
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January 11th, 2006, 18:43 Posted By: wraggster
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Forget starting with a car as old as your Grandma and racing towards that red hot Ferrari, Project Gotham Racing gives you 85 grand to get you moving. You'll soon discover however, there's fast, and then there's eye-watering warp-speed world-blurring fast. PGR 3 contains the ultimate supercar collection with more than 80 authentically modeled supercars from manufacturers such as Ferrari, Dodge, and Lamborghini with fully modeled interiors, functioning dashboards and individually recorded engine roars. There's nine concept cars waiting to be unlocked, and you can store and display your previous wheels in one of your many garages. As in past titles, it's not just about how fast you drive in PRG, it's about how you drive. Powersliding, getting airtime, staying on the racing line, drifting, or even pulling off a 360 or getting up on two wheels will earn you Kudos points. There's a total of 16 different ways to rack up the points and the higher you set the difficulty, the more you earn.
 
Bizarre took over 22,000 reference photographs and 10 hours of video to create the five cities, Las Vegas, Nurburgring, Tokyo, London, and New York. To compare with the past, in PGR 3 New York's Brooklyn Bridge on its own is made from more polygons than an entire city was back in the original PGR. You only need to look at the screenshots to see this has come closer than any game to achieving true photorealistic environments. Also impressive is that Bizarre finally delivered on a promise made back on Metropolis Street Racer for the Dreamcast, to have cities full of life with fully 3D motion captured crowds. You can also design your own racing routes through the streets, and face off online against up to 7 friends and foes in Street Races, Cone Challenges, Speed Contests and more. Gotham TV lets you show off in front of a global online audience, and with it you can watch any player in the world, get live ticker-tape information when friends break records, and see archived races from the very best players. So strap on your racing gloves because the Japanese edition of PGR 3 is due to arrive this Thursday for those with an Xbox 360 system coming from the land of the rising sun. In the meantime though, we still have copies of the US game available and rearing to go right now.
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January 11th, 2006, 18:16 Posted By: wraggster
SEGA's confirmed reports that OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast will be released on Xbox in addition to PS2, PC and PSP.
The Xbox version features 15 licensed Ferrari models and a number of the other features we recently revealed in our interview with Sumo Digital, including the full set of tracks from both OutRun2 and OutRun2 SP as well as ranked online multiplayer and a new mission mode.
The game's due out on all four formats at the end of March, and SEGA's released some screenshots of the PSP version today.
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January 11th, 2006, 00:32 Posted By: wraggster
With the announcement of an external HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360, Microsoft looked to clearly choose sides in the format war. However, all is not black-and-white in the business, according to Peter Moore. In an interview with Japanese website ITmedia, Moore noted that, if the format war concluded with Blu-Ray as the clear winner, Microsoft could release an external Blu-Ray drive for its 360.
This news comes as somewhat of a shock, since Blu-Ray is backed by Microsoft's rival Sony. However, it would be a smart move on Microsoft's part not to be diligently supporting a dead format (if HD-DVD, indeed, loses). Moore again stressed that the external drives would be for movies only, but something tells us that external drive - whichever format - could become vital for gaming 2 or 3 years into the console's life-span.
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January 10th, 2006, 19:13 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has admitted he doesn't have any idea when Halo 3 will be released, saying that the launch date of the game is up to Bungie and recanting his earlier claim that it will arrive to spoil the launch of the PS3.
Gates had previously commented that Sony would "walk right into Halo 3" when they launched PlayStation 3, drawing a lot of attention in the process. Former Xbox chief Robbie Bach had later claimed his comments were more "philosophical" in nature, but now it seems we have the real answer: it was "speculation", judging by Gates' reaction to the question posed by technology blog Engadget during the Consumer Electronics Show.
Asked whether Halo 3 would launch around the time of PS3, Gates replied, "No, I have to make sure that any speculation I did about that is -- it's up to the team when they want to ship that, and they're going to take their time to make that a super great product. So even we don't know when that will come out. That's one of many games that are just phenomenal that are in the works, but it's up to the artists to do it when they feel good about it."
Gates also had a couple of other 360-related comments for Engadget. He rejected suggestions that the introduction of an external HD-DVD drive would fragment the userbase, claiming, "There's no fragmentation here. The developers are creating games that run on the DVD-9 format that's in every Xbox, and whatever we do with the drive, they'll all be upwards compatible with that," and even going onto clarify the "whatever we do" comment by adding, "the HD-DVD is a peripheral, that's a nice option for our users".
He also spoke about the Xbox webcam, about which relatively little has been said in the last year. It'll launch in 2006, Gates said, "as well [as] some of the connections to the PC on the communication side so you can text message between PC and Xbox".
Finally, Gates said he expected "a substantially higher [market] share in this generation than we had last generation," and declined to speculate on how many units the 360 would sell beyond the 4.5 to 5.5 million Microsoft's hoping to do before the end of June.
On a related note, claims supposedly backed by a Financial Times article that Microsoft had dropped its previous 2.75 to 3 million unit shipment target for the first 90 days have been debunked. US website GameSpot made contact with the article's author who said that while Microsoft executive Peter Moore had dodged a direct question about it, he hadn't actually confirmed that the new target for June was a tacit admission of a failure to live up to the previous one.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13960
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January 9th, 2006, 18:49 Posted By: wraggster
In May 2005 Bill Gates sort of famously stated that when PS3 launched Sony would run straight into Halo 3, leading to speculation that next-generation Halo would release in spring 2006. But it was later said the comment was hypothetical/philosophical rather than cold, hard fact, leading to a mass exodus among Halo fans from armchair to garden where in misery they sat and ate slimy worms. No. Sequel. Soon.
We've still not had anything official from Microsoft on Halo 3 on Xbox 360, but company big cheese Peter Moore has recently dropped a few hints about plans for Master Chief in the next-generation and given the impression that the sequel's heavy duty firepower that'll be whipped out at a most crucial moment.
"The good news is interestingly we're riding this wave of success [with Xbox 360] and Halo's still sitting in the quiver. Ready to pull out when we feel like it's done", Moore has said in an interview with GameInformer.com. "There was a lot of anticipation but everybody forgets that we've done this without Halo. We have done all this without our number one piece of intellectual property. And that['s] still sat right here in the back pocket."
"Not yet, but eventually that IP will be brought to bear when we feel it's appropriate," Moore explained.
Yep, that smacks of big guns out when deemed most urgently required to us, but he did additionally suggest in the interview that one reason next-generation Halo is being kept under wraps currently is to avoid Xbox 360 being pigeon-holed.
"One of the things we said to ourselves a number of years ago is that this has to be more than a Halo box. This [the Xbox 360] has to be more than a shooter box if we're going to grow and expand the marketplace, and expand our own market share in the marketplace. We need to broaden who we are as a brand, which I think we've done very well. And we need to get away from some of the darkness of being a shooter box," said Moore.
Well, there you go, the next Halo brought to bear when Microsoft's feels it's appropriate (and something to do with shooters making everything dark). Naturally, we hope it feels it's appropriate sooner rather than later.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...news_index.php
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January 9th, 2006, 18:47 Posted By: wraggster
An interesting story emerged from America's porn valley this weekend, indicating that the Xbox 360 may well have found its true killer app – High Definition Classic Pornography.
HDHE, High Def Home Entertainment, a new distribution company specialising in the High Definition DVD format, in conjunction with Arrow Productions, has announced the release of porno classic Deep Throat in HD exclusively on Xbox 360. See the attached in-store ad for said skin flick!
Well, the release is a kind of exclusive on Xbox 360 sort of thing. Exclusive that is until there is something else at retail that will allow you to get off on dated 70s porno in full HD glory. Unless of course you have a decent enough PC to watch it on, but we digress.
Paul Interlandi, Head of Production at Arrow Productions, recently found the original masters of Deep Throat in a forgotten film canister, which had been kept in storage for over 35 years. Talking to an adult industry news site, Mr Interlandi said, “It was a pretty great moment.” SPOnG imagine’s that this is something of an understatement.
HDHE plans to release a variety of content — including feature films, concerts, music videos, extreme sports and documentaries — in addition to the standard adult fare. Most titles will contain both High Def and standard NTSC versions, meaning they still will function in any regular DVD player.
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January 9th, 2006, 18:07 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft has admitted it will not meet its expected goal of 3 million Xbox 360s sold within 90 days of system launch. According to the Financial Times, the Redmond, WA company has shifted its approach to a longer term target outlined at this year's CES of 4 to 5.5 million by the end of its financial year, in June. Next-Gen writes: "Analysts believe sales of the console had hit around 1.3 million by the end of the Holiday sales period. But as January moves along, retailers have yet to see evidence of shortages easing."
Console game launches are a tough business. As THQ CEO Brian Farrell notes, the "first three to six months" don't always perform as expected, due in part to lower inventories.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/09/mi...illion-target/
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January 9th, 2006, 17:53 Posted By: wraggster
Photos purporting to be of mod-chip devices for the Xbox 360, posted by a group claiming to be preparing to launch such a chip in the coming weeks, are amateur fakes - with no sign as yet that any such chip is close to release.
The ICE Mod Chip team claims to be close to releasing a chip for the Xbox 360 which will allow the booting of Xbox 360 "ISOs, Rips and Dumps", and has websites based in both the USA and UK.
However, pictures posted to both sites late last week - and promptly removed from the US site, although not the UK site - reveal the whole thing to be a hoax, as the devices they show are not console chips at all, but standard commercially available microcontroller boards with the "I.C.E. v1.0" text written over them.
The pictures, taken from the internet sites of electronics retailers, show devices which could not possibly be used as console modchips - in the case of the device which is still visible on the frontpage of the UK site, a low-powered microcontroller which is several orders of magnitude too slow to communicate at the data speeds used within the Xbox 360.
A number of other reports regarding the ICE "chip" have pointed out that the websites for the chip are owned by the same person as Canadian modding firm InfinityMods.com - which is a supplier of mod chips, not a developer of them. InfinityMods' website claims that it plans to take pre-orders for the $70 chip in the coming weeks.
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January 7th, 2006, 13:03 Posted By: wraggster
Heres whats confirmed so far:
Working on Xbox 360 systems of all origins:
Call of Duty 2 US
Condemned: Criminal Origins US
Gun US
Quake 4 US
Tony Hawks : American Wasteland US
Working on Xbox 360 PAL:
Dead or Alive 4 US (Console needs to be set to 60Hz or controllers won't work)
Ridge Racer 6 US (doesn't matter if 50Hz or 60Hz)
Japanese Games with English voice/text/menu support:
Ridge Racer 6 (complete english, not region-free)
Perfect Dark Zero (complete english, not region-free)
Project Gotham Racing 3 (complete english, not region-free)
Dead or Alive 4 (complete english, not region-free)
King Kong (complete english, not region-free)
Kameo (complete english, not region-free)
Know any more, then please add and help all Xbox 360 fans
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January 7th, 2006, 12:34 Posted By: wraggster
Nyko has revealed a clever cooling option for the Xbox 360: the Intercooler. It's a fan array that plugs into the 360's power port and clips to the back of the machine. The fans help air circulate through the oft-overheating console and should make gaming a bit more stable. It's a cheap but smart little fix for hot air building up inside Microsoft's new gaming console. The Intercooler ships in March and will cost about $20.
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