Halo 3 Beta on all Crackdown discs
(via Xboxic) - If you were worried that you would have to pre-order a copy of Crackdown from online retailers that explicitly mentioned the Beta, then you need worry no more. A Microsoft rep has confirmed that every copy of Crackdown will indeed have the Beta on. It isn’t even the first batch of Crackdown discs that you must [.
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Unreal Tournament 3 Confirmed for 360
(via Planet Xbox) -- Midway has just formally announced that Unreal Tournament 2007, to be known from now on as Unreal Tournament 3, will be making its way to the Xbox 360 and other platforms in the second half of 2007.
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Gears of War smashes into Japanese Top 10
(via OXM) -- Marcus and the boys make a dent
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Final Fantasy Meets Gears of War
(via IGN) -- Square Enix to use Unreal Engine 3 for future titles.
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Gears of War Makes Japanese Top 10 List
(via Planet Xbox) -- If you're a betting gamer and were asked to wager on the potential success of a gritty, bloody shooter in the land of the rising RPG, there's a good chance you'd be taking a loss with this week's Japanese sales numbers.
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Gears of War shoots into Japanese top 10
(via Gamespot) -- Epic Games' popular third-person sci-fi shooter grabs number seven in the charts, reports Media Create.
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Japan likes Gears of War, honest
(via Xboxic) - It’s turning out to be a complete day of surprises. Sony have announced that the PS3 is on schedule for a March 23rd release in Europe and now even more surprisingly we can reveal that an Xbox 360 game has sneaked into Japan’s Top 10 weekly video game charts.
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Gears of War falls from top ten UK
(via News4Gamers) - For the first time since its domestic release, triple-million seller Gears of War has now finally dropped from the top ten UK all formats charts, currently placing 13th as a new chart begins to form. Keeping the 360 respectably represented within the top ten however is Capcom’s Lost Planet Extreme Condition, which after debuting at the top spot on its week of release has now fallen to second place as a result of a strong entry from PC MMO World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, which sits atop the chart like in the same manner that a burly king would sit at a feast.
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Gears of War shoots into Japanese top 10
(via DCEmu) - via gamespot No one can argue that Gears of War hasn't been a massive success. The title has sold more than 3 million units worldwide--it was the third best-selling game of 2006 in the US and the 18th best-selling game in the UK. It also won GameSpot's Game of the Year award and overtook Halo 2 as the most popular game on Xbox Live.
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Gears of War the new GTA?
(via GameRadar) -- The COG dogs stomp into Japanese charts
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Gears of War dev' s new 360 shooter
(via GameRadar) -- Unreal Tournament fires to Xbox, gets new name
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QJ.net Reviews Lost Planet Extreme Condition
(via QJ) - The long-awaited game, Lost Planet, has finally hit the shelves all over the planet, but is this long-anticipated game all that it's been hyped up to be? After having a downloadable demo after E3 last year, many Xbox 360 owners fell in love with the game (especially the grappling hook), and many have been awaiting its arrival for several months now.
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Fixed map pack and update soon for COD3
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Call of Duty 3Many were disappointed last week when the new Call of Duty 3 maps were unplayable. Following the discovery of this error, the developers promised that a fix was coming. One of the games developers, known on the Xbox.com forums as AxisOf3vil, has announced that a fix will be available in the "very near future.
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Blue Dragon blowout
(via DCEmu) - Last Monday we put up a preview of Blue Dragon - make sure you check it out if you missed it. It's the hottest RPG for the 360 so far this year, a tale of adventure that blends the classic styling of pre-Final Fantasy VII role playing greats, with top-notch animation and art direction.
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Halo 3 beta invite on ALL Crackdown copies
(via QJ) - As you can see, there won't be any catfights among gamers in the coming months. It looks like there'll be enough Halo 3 beta slots for everyone, so long as copies of RealTime Worlds' Crackdown keep on shipping.IGN got word from a Microsoft rep that, contrary to earlier news, EVERY copy of Crackdown will have an invitation to participate in the Halo 3 beta test.
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Halo 3 beta in every copy of Crackdown
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo 3, CrackdownIt was revealed by IGN yesterday that the Halo 3 beta will be included with all copies of Crackdown. Previously, it was stated that the beta would be included in specially marked boxes only. Naturally, this means that the Halo 3 beta is much bigger than originally expected.
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Halo 3 Beta invites in all Crackdown copies
(via DCEmu) - All UK copies of the upcoming 360 release Crackdown will contain a Halo 3 Beta invite, Microsoft has confirmed to CVG. Crackdown is due for release on February 23 and each copy will give you details on how to jump on the Halo 3 Beta bandwagon. Obviously once Halo 3 ships or the Beta closes, invites would be redundant.
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Square Enix adopts Unreal Engine for future releases
(via Game Industry) -- Square Enix is to create games using Epic's Unreal Engine 3, the popular middleware behind Xbox 360 smash hit Gears of War.
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NES Emulator Running on XNA
(via Kotaku) - An anonymous reader sent us a link to this video of an NES emulator running through Microsoft's XNA game development studio. Hi - a good friend of mine has managed to get this working on XNA.... He's still got a bit to do but I thought I'd tip you before the other sites get wind of it! Sound is a problem at the moment due to the way XNA works (maybe this will change in the future).
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Halo 3 Beta in Every Box of Crackdown?
(via Planet Xbox) -- If you still haven't received your glorious email inviting you to participate in the Halo 3 beta, you might have an easy chance to stroll in.  Reports are flying to and fro that beta access will be available for everyone who buys a copy of Crackdown at launch.
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CoD3 Valor Map Pack release news
(via Xboxic) -- All the Call of Duty 3 fans were waiting for the Valor Map Pack update. We were already happy with the free bonus map that was released. One week later there was supposed to be a pack with 5 new maps. They were released, but as we all know by now they didn’t work unfortunately.
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Call of Duty 3 Valor Map Pack, take two
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person Shooters, OnlineOne week following the botched delivery of Call of Duty 3's 'Valor Map Pack,' we receive word that Treyarch and Microsoft will attempt to re-release the premium content in the "very near future." While it's not much of a consolation to Xbox Livers who've already dropped $10 on the map pack, a new patch will also be released, alongside the fixed content.
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News: Halo 3 Beta invites in all Crackdown copies
(via CVG) -- Microsoft tells CVG that EVERY UK copy of Crackdown will include a Halo 3 Beta invite. All UK copies of the upcoming 360 release Crackdown will contain a Halo 3 Beta invite, Microsoft has confirmed to CVG.
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Crackdown Demo Impressions
(via Unscripted 360) - I got a chance the other day to download the new Crackdown demo.  After getting over the unusually long download time (2 hours), I fired up the game.  I thought I’d leave some impressions here for those of you with no internet connection or those of you thinking the Halo 3 beta code is all that this game is worth.
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Gears Cracks Japanese Top Ten Sales Charts
(via News4Gamers) -- This week's Japanese sales charts are frightening! There's an Xbox 360 game on the list, meaning this report must have come from the Bizarro World Branch of Media Create or that the Japanese are starting to come around on this Xbox 360 thing.
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Guitar Hero exec mum about 80s title rumors
(via QJ) - Dusty Welch talked to MTV News earlier this week and informed that they have "ambitious ideas" planned for the franchise. He also deflected questions regarding the reported rumors that a PlayStation 2 '80s edition would ship in spring alongside the announced Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360.
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Fixed Map Pack and Update Soon for COD3
(via Xbox Scene) - From xbox360fanboy.com:Many were disappointed last week when the new Call of Duty 3 maps were unplayable. One of the games developers has announced that a fix will be available in the "very near future." Accompanying the re-release of the Valor Map pack will be an update to Call of Duty 3 that should fix two of its major problems.
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Guitar Hero kills desire to start a crappy band
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox 360, Simulations, RhythmThis week, Steven Levy writes for Newsweek that Guitar Hero lowers the time required to feel like an accomplished musician, which may seem like a good thing. The bad side is determining if this cheap fulfillment of rock-star fantasies keeps us from learning to play an actual instrument.
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Fixed Valor Map Pack and COD3 Update Coming Soon
(via Planet Xbox) -- One of the game developers for Call of Duty 3 has just posted in the Xbox forums that they are fixing the unplayable Valor Map Pack, and will also be releasing an update for the game itself.
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GoW explodes into Japanese top ten chart
(via QJ) - If certain Japanese games can be cult hits here, why not the flip-side? Just look at Gears of War. Why wouldn't this very western-looking game with deceptively good gameplay (Not counting the gameplay, Gears is a game that, on the surface, looks like any other western shooter) not be a cult hit in Japan?We've speculated on that train of thought before, right after news that the game sold out at some Japanese retailers.
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