Quake 4 demo on the 360 dashboard
Submitted By: Lost Alley
30 Dec 2005 10:30 | Xbox 360
Yesterday we had the scary yet thrilling Condemned demo released on the 360 marketplace. Today the frag fest that is Quake 4 will be available to download for your gaming pleasure.
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Lost Planet scans
Submitted By: Lost Alley
30 Dec 2005 10:27 | Xbox 360
The latest Famitsu Weekly had two full pages of Lost Planet's images and photos of the game's (virtual) main actor Lee Byung Hun.
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New Picture Packs and Themes for the 360
Submitted By: News Bot
30 Dec 2005 10:25 | Xbox 360
The Marketplace was again updated yesterday with some juicy new content, including new picture packs, themes and a new Outpost Kaloki scenario. For the girls Here, Kitty, Kitty is available in a new picture pack and for the lads there are various sports packs to download.
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Microsoft Places Big Bet On Multiplayer Gaming
Submitted By: News Bot
30 Dec 2005 10:20 | Xbox 360
Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 videogame console comes bundled with lots of bells and whistles, such as movielike graphics. But Microsoft's bid to reshape the videogame industry largely is tied up in one feature: the machine's emphasis on online play. Microsoft is making a big -- and risky -- bet that videogame players will flock to the opportunity to play lots of games against each other over the Internet.
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Moore's law : Xbox 360
Submitted By: News Bot
30 Dec 2005 10:04 | Xbox 360
Had the 360 been around as recently as 1998, the latest Xbox games console, available for $399, would have ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer. That is to say, better than anything NASA, Microsoft or IBM labs had back then.
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Walmart Offers New Years Day Xbox 360 Consoles
Submitted By: News Bot
30 Dec 2005 10:03 | Xbox 360
Retail giant Walmart will be ringing in the new year by offering consumers Xbox 360 consoles on January 1st according to their latest flyer. In the New Year's Day advertisement, Walmart lists the Xbox 360 Core System on the front page at $299.92 along with games like Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and NBA 2K6 at $59.82.
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A Detailed Comparison Of The Xbox 360 And PS3
Submitted By: Dice
30 Dec 2005 08:44 | Xbox 360 | Playstation 3
The Xbox 360 processor, a single piece of silicon with 3 symmetric cores each with its own dedicated SIMD (vector unit) and running two hardware threads each, is only a little less powerful in terms of raw math computations than the PS3 which is expuiped with the Cell with 1 PAU (Power Architecture Unit) and 8 SPUs (Synergistic Processing Units, a marketing label that I hate.) What I haven’t heard with authority yet is if that is with or without one of the eight SPUs that is reserved and unavailable for developers to use.
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ATI: Playstation 3 Is Unrefined
Submitted By: HyperBear
30 Dec 2005 08:43 | Systems | Xbox 360 | Playstation 3 | Technology
The European Developers Relations Manager for ATI, Richard Huddy, was quoted in an interview with Edge magazine saying that "I think Xbox 360 technology is likely to outperform PlayStation 3 technology by a pretty healthy margin in the long run." and that the RSX was basically a PC part component slapped into the Playstation 3 at the last moment of the Playstation 3's development process.
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Self Booting Xbox 360 Experience Kiosk Disk
Submitted By: FreeMonk
29 Dec 2005 22:02 | Xbox 360
Well it seems that Microsoft may of messed up a little with trying to get the demo stations out early. It looks like that the Demo disk for the kiosks did not have the media protection on the disk, so when the disk is copied, it boots perfectly on a retail 360. This means that it could be another Dreamcast Boot Disk for the 360 issue here! Click the link to read more!
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Dead or Alive 4 Review - IGN
Submitted By: News Bot
29 Dec 2005 09:54 | Xbox 360
Team Ninja might work in mysterious and confusing ways, but the well-known Japanese development team always delivers tough, beautiful, and compelling games. Dead or Alive 3, Ninja Gaiden, and its re-make, Ninja Gaiden Black have all spoken to and been targeted to hardcore players willing to put in extra time to reap the riches found deep inside them. And now Dead or Alive 4, the team's first creation on Xbox 360, takes the fighting series to new, divergent levels with Tomonobu Itagaki's infamous brand of knockout graphics and a much more serious level of fighting.
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Images and Trailer of Rumble Roses XX
Submitted By: News Bot
29 Dec 2005 09:27 | Xbox 360
Konami released this "new" trailer of Rumble Roses XX, along with these images presenting a few costums of this high class game.
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Xbox 360 costs $715 to make
Submitted By: HyperBear
29 Dec 2005 07:19 | Systems | Xbox 360
Earlier numbers by Business Week may have reported that Microsoft is losing $126 on every Xbox 360 sold. That figure is now believed to be a bit higher by some. According to Insider Scoop, the world's largest software maker is losing upwards of $300 per console sold. From the article: "A high ranking friend at IBM, one that worked on the Xbox 360 chip design, tipped us regarding the real expenses involved in manufacturing the Xbox 360... 'It costs Microsoft approximately $715 to make, the manufacturing costs are still too high, another reason why they’re producing relatively small quantities.'”
If anyone has the money to blow, it's Billsoft. And if true, how long can the company stay in the red?
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360 Bomb Scare
Submitted By: Mr Murda
29 Dec 2005 07:17 | Xbox 360
Beware when carrying around your 360 on public grounds.
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Test Drive Unlimited - Videos and Screenshots
Submitted By: L3e
29 Dec 2005 07:16 | Systems | Xbox 360 | Playstation 3
Atari have just released numerous new screenshots and two new video trailers of their upcoming title, Test Drive Unlimited, for the Xbox 360 console. View the media and more information inside!
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Still Waiting For An Xbox 360?
Submitted By: Dice
29 Dec 2005 07:15 | Xbox 360
Christmas has now come and gone, and while many lucky gamers were blessed with a new Xbox 360, many more still have to wait for the coveted new gaming system. Over the past month, we have seen small shipments trickle in, but not near enough to reach demand.
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Oblivion Postponed because of Power X360?
Submitted By: Vivicious
24 Dec 2005 10:18 | Xbox 360
Players4players.com has got a different reason from an inside source at Bethesda why Oblivion was postponed. Supposedly, nearing completition of the project, after having recieved the final dev kits not too long before, they discovered the true power of MS's dev kits for the X360. They've postponed the game to enhance most aspects of the game, especially graphics and physics. They'll also be working on the PC version to be trying to bring it up to par with the X360 version.
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Retailers already taking Halo 3 preorders!
Submitted By: HyperBear
24 Dec 2005 10:17 | Xbox 360
Despite the fact that the game hasn’t even been announced, stores started taking preorders for Halo 3.
As you can see, it states “Coming 2006.” It can be assumed Halo 3 will be an Xbox 360-only title since Microsoft stated all first-party development houses are no longer working on Xbox 1 titles.
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Nintendo up, but Microsoft down in Japan
Submitted By: HyperBear
24 Dec 2005 10:16 | Systems | Xbox 360 | Playstation 3 | Revolution
Demand for the Xbox 360 has grown in the West as the Christmas-holiday shopping season enters its final leg, but the same can't be said for MS's new console darling in Japan.
For the week of December 12-18, the Xbox 360 only sold 8,623 hardware units (capturing a mere 1.39% of the Japanese market), a huge drop-off from even the relatively better first-week sales of 43,970 during launch. Having Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Final Fantasy IV, and more Pokemon and brain-training games for Nintendo's portable systems probably didn't help any.
Now you can trust a site called Cubed3.com to highlight the 360's sales shortfalls in the home of the DS, GBA, and PS2, but only a 0.03% share for the original Xbox? That has got to hurt the ego.
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Wrestle Kingdom Pulled From Shelves
Submitted By: News Bot
23 Dec 2005 10:01 | Xbox 360
MS just can't catch a break in Japan. After all the various software delays, they'd finally gotten a good post-launch title providing what Japanese gamers want. That title is Wrestle Kingdom--Japan has a very decent-sized wrestling fanbase--and it was supposed to have shown up in stores today triggering some higher sales for the system. But on the eve of the game's release, the developer Yukes discovered that the game had trouble detecting the amount of free space on a hard drive and wouldn't let players save their games. Rather than staying quiet and patching the game at a later time, they quickly informed game stores and asked them to send back their copies. The game's release is cancelled for now--Yukes also offered exchanges for those who had gotten early copies.
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Halo 3 at CES 2006?
Submitted By: News Bot
23 Dec 2005 09:50 | Xbox 360
Despite not being officially announced, some US retailers have begun allowing customers to pre-order the highly anticipated Halo 3. The title, hinted at by Microsoft's Bill Gates earlier this year is likely to break the $250m first day sales record already set by Microsoft's 2004 blockbuster hit Halo 2. The news has prompted speculation that Microsoft may announce the game at CES 2006 in Las Vegas.
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Microsoft Offers A 360 Christmas Treat
Submitted By: News Bot
23 Dec 2005 09:47 | Xbox 360
Microsoft is offering a free Kameo Elements Of Power Holiday theme to all Xbox 360 owners for download. The free holiday theme is available for a limited time through Microsoft's Marketplace system.
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Xbox 360 Achievements
Submitted By: News Bot
23 Dec 2005 09:42 | Xbox 360
A website dedicated to the achievements built into every Xbox 360 game has gone live. The site lists every achievement that exists in each game, along with the GamerScore points each Achievement generates.
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Xbox 360 Out East: Week 15 (OXM)
Submitted By: News Bot
23 Dec 2005 09:29 | Xbox 360
With OXM KyotoKid taking a short break for the holidays, he has taken a few moments out of this busy Ume fruit wine sipping schedule to offer musings from the Xbox Lounge - are MS making an error in letting this venue disappear?
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Secret Game in Xbox 360 UK Advert
Submitted By: News Bot
23 Dec 2005 01:56 | Xbox 360
The latest Xbox 360 advert has a hidden game within it that can be accessed by pressing the red interactive button on your digital remote. With the aim of engaging viewers in the world of Xbox 360, on pressing red the viewer is presented with a high-energy and fast- paced video that reveals the games and features of the new Xbox 360.
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Enchant Arm: 40 images
Submitted By: News Bot
22 Dec 2005 12:21 | Xbox 360
From Software released 40 images of their promising RPG [Em]Enchant Arm. It's up for an early january release in Japan.
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Images and Artworks of Frame City Killer
Submitted By: News Bot
22 Dec 2005 12:17 | Xbox 360
Here are quite a few new images of Frame City Killer, and after seeing this and Love Football one can start to wonder if Namco is really serious about Xbox 360...
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Vampire's Rain Scans
Submitted By: Dusty
22 Dec 2005 12:01 | Xbox 360
Check out some of the first in-game footage of this XBox 360 and PS3 title from AQ.
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Bullet Witch Scans
Submitted By: Dusty
22 Dec 2005 12:00 | Xbox 360
Although the game was just announced a few days ago we already have some fresh scans from Japan.
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Project Fantasy360
Submitted By: News Bot
22 Dec 2005 08:47 | Xbox 360
Amidst the cheers and adulations for the recent launch of the Xbox360 comes the emergence of a secondary market for accessories and hardware. The first in the salvo of case products for this new gaming platform from Xtreme Enterprise is a product codenamed Project Fantasy360. Get ready for more ripples in this new gaming age as we begin with this announcement of the first-ever casemod accessory for the Xbox360 controller - Fantasy360 faceplate.
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