Xbox 360News for - December 3, 2008
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  Someone made a REAL Lancer?  (via Kotaku) -- Okay, so it's just an AR-15 with a chainsaw mounted to it, but it works! Video after the jump. | |
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 Gun Nut Makes Real GoW Lancer Rifle (via Cinema Blend Games) - What I always loved about the Lancer rifle, the assault rifle with a mounted chainsaw from Gears of War, was how over-the-top and ridiculous it was. It turns out it's completely possible to create your own working Lancer rifle, though, as one man who really loves his Second Amendment rights has proven. | |
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 Nintendo nets $6 profit off each Wii (via Game Industry) - Sony losses money on each PlayStation 3 sold and Microsoft has the potential to break even with the Xbox 360, Nintendo makes a profit. The Wii is expected to sell more software than any other console this year, with a target of 220 million units, compared with 120 million for PS3 games and 125 million for Xbox 360 titles. | |
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 The first 10 minutes: Prince of Persia (via Xboxyde) - Prince of Persia is back, and despite some controversial choices in terms of accessibility it's an excellent new episode. Everyone but the most hardcore gamers who are looking for a "smash your gamepad on the nearest wall" frustratingly hard game should take a good hard look at this game. | |
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 Majority Stake in Midway Sold for $100,000 (via The Escapist) -- Media mogul Summer Redstone sells his claim of Midway Games for the Wall Street equivalent of tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. | |
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 Banjo and Kazooie head to XBLA this week (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & BoltsAfter the title was delayed -- presumably so those who pre-ordered Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts could feel a little more special -- Microsoft has announced that the original Banjo Kazooie will finally be headed to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. | |
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 Blitz Games Introduces True Stereoscopic 3D For Xbox 360 And PS3 (via Cinema Blend Games) -- Appearing at the 3D Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles, Blitz Games' CTO, Andrew Oliver, spoke about the new in-house technology offered by Blitz Games Studio, which allows the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to display stereoscopic 3D HD, as if you were at the movies. | |
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 JAPANESE MAGAZINE: Resident Evil 5 demo coming this Friday (via Xboxer) - Resident Evil 5, which we're still struggling to believe is a simultaneous release on Xbox 360 and PS3 next February, will shortly be arriving on Xbox Live as a playable demo. The news came via a report in Japanese magazine Famitsu - translated by IGN - with the resulting English words telling us that a demo of the not-racist game will appear on Xbox Live marketplace this Friday. | |
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 Jasper-Based Xbox 360 Consoles finally ship (via Digg) - After months of anticipation and speculation, revised Xbox 360 consoles built around the new Jasper platform have finally appeared in the wild. Jasper employs an updated GPU manufactured using 65nm process, as opposed to the 90nm process used for the original revision. Other than the GPU, however, a | |
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 Watch People Devour A Stack Of 360 Consoles Black Friday (via Kotaku) -- You like the looks of that 360/Guitar Hero Black Friday deal? Not as much as these guys did. Oh Black Friday, bringing out the most desperate in people... | |
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 Michael Phelps Gets His Own Game (via GiantBomb) - Long-running television news magazine 60 Minutes ran an extensive profile on Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps this week, and along with brief mentions of his work in Activision's Guitar Hero World Tour commercials and notes about how his agent has been turning down deals for millions of dollars, it also sounds like he'll be getting his own video game. | |
2 days ago | |
 GTA IV 'Lost and Damned' DLC available at retail (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - When Microsoft and Rockstar Games initially announced their partnership to release the Grand Theft Auto IV Lost and Damned DLC to the 360, we were under the impression that it'd be exclusive to the Xbox Live Marketplace. We were wrong. There's a Gamestop.com product listing for "Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost & Damned" and the product is a redemption code card that requires Xbox Live to redeem. | |
4 days ago | |
 Columbia Pictures flicks -- mostly -- back on for Xbox 360 Netflix streaming (via DCEmu) -- We never got a satisfactory answer for why they disappeared in the first place, but it seems the majority of the Columbia Pictures' movies on Netflix Instant Watch lists suddenly switched to "not available on Xbox 360" are once again open for streaming to all devices. The Karate Kid series,... | |
7 days ago | |
 First screens of GTA IV: The Lost and Damned DLC (via DCEmu) -- Image: http://i38.tinypic.com/e8966w.jpg Following yesterday's news in USA Today, Rockstar has officially announced the first of two DLC episodes for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, titled "The Lost and Damned." The first high-res screens of the episode are out, along with a bare... | |
2 weeks ago | |
 NXE creating HDMI headaches for UK Xbox 360 owners? (via DCEmu) -- The path to Netflix-enhanced glory hasn't been entirely trouble free for everyone, this time it's posters on AVForum noticing a distinct lack of audio on Xbox 360s connected to their HDTV by HDMI. So far suggested solutions for the afflicted include plugging in the hard drive while the system is... | |
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 Previews: Final Fantasy XIII (via OXM) - Christmas may be gaming war, but 2009's game of the year may be a one-horse race. Here's what we know about Final Fantasy the series. Blue Dragon's Hironobu Sakaguchi, then director at Square Enix, believed his company was going under and so created the original in 1987 as Square's swansong. | |
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 NXE Rollout Will Take A Few Hours New Xbox Experience (via Kotaku) - Writing on his blog, Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has told Xbox 360 users that, while the New Xbox Experience is now out and out there, it's not out there for everyone. Looks like instead of flipping a single, enormous, magic switch, Microsoft are having to flip a whole ton of switches, one after the other The New Xbox Experience is in the process of being deployed to all Xbox LIVE members, but it will take a few hours for everyone to get the prompt to update to NXE…. | |
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NXE: Welcome to the New Xbox Experience (via 360 Monster) - The time has come. Months and weeks of waiting for the New Xbox Live Experience and at 10am GMT this morning, the update arrived. For those who have being in a shell for the last few months, the NXE adds a party system, a new avatar creation, a brand new dashboard and game install options amongst other things. | |
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News: NXE loses Sony Netflix titles (via Game Industry) - Previous movies offered through the streaming service now restricted from the Xbox 360. "In the case of Xbox 360, a few hundred titles are temporarily unavailable to be streamed via the Xbox game console," Netflix's VP of corporate communications Steve Swasey told MTV. "Those titles are still available to be watched on subscribers' computers and on TVs via other partner devices, and we hope they'll be licensed for Xbox 360 shortly. | |
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 Epic offers band-aid fixes for Gears 2 match-making issues (via Arts Technica) -- Epic Senior Producer Rod Fergusson has offered gamers a few suggestions about how to mitigate the Gears of War 2 match-making issues until an official patch is released. | |
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Grand Theft Auto going subscription based? (via Arts Technica) -- Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has expressed interest in turning some of the company's AAA titles into subscription based products. | |
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 The Six Most Soul-Sucking Video Games (via Digg) -- How many hours did you spend playing Wrath of the Lich King this weekend? 10? 20? More? There have been many tales of chronic video game addiction in the news the past few years, but I thought it was time now for a look back to see what the most soul-sucking video games really are. | |
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 Do Zero Punctuation Reviews Affect Game Sales? (via The Escapist) -- Post-Zero Punctuation sales of Painkiller point to a potential "Yahtzee Effect" for games that get the infamous Croshaw critique. | |
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 Lips microphone won't work with other games (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Talking to MTV Multiplayer, Lips creator and Inis developer Keiichi Yano mentioned that the Lips accelerometer microphone will not work with any other music games at launch, but is optimistic that it'll be compatible with other titles in the future. "It's not something we can do, obviously . | |
2 weeks ago | |
 Huxley Delayed In US Until 2009, No Date For Europe (via Gamer Reports) -- Although Webzen's Sci-Fi FPS MMO was announced in 2005, we still have very little info on the game itself. Now, BD has apparently learned that the game will not see a US 2008 launch. An XBox360 version is planned as well, sometime after the PC release. Why the game is taking so long we are not sure. | |
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 Gears of War 2 DLC revealed? (via CVG) -- 'Leaked' shots show new Gears of War 2 multiplayer arenas. Screenshots have emerged showing supposed Gears of War 2 downloadable content, with multiplayer maps not available in the retail version. | |
2 weeks ago | |
 Lazygamer Investigates: The PS3 comes up short with COD5 (via LazyGamer) -- Earlier this week, Videogamer.com posted up a 720p comparison of Call of Duty 5 on the PS3 and Xbox 360. I saw the video and started noticing differences between the two that I felt couldn't be ignored. So why I ask, does the PS3 version look significantly worse? | |
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 News: Xbox 360 sales to surpass original Xbox this month (via OXM) -- The headline says it all as Microsoft predict this is the month the sales milestone happens. Microsoft's Mindy Mount has predicted that this is the month Xbox 360 sales overtake original Xbox sales. | |
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 Microsoft Launches Online Store, Kind Of Misses Point Microsoft (via Kotaku) - Microsoft have quietly launched their own online store. Believe it or not, it's the first time the world's #1 software company has ever done so, despite it being 2008 already. Crazy, we know. Anyway, aside from the obvious stuff like Windows and Office, the store is also selling quite a number of games. | |
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