Xbox 360News for - December 3, 2008
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  Xbox Live Outage Watch 2008: Day 15 Xbox ... Xbox Live Outage  (via Kotaku) - Xbox Live Outage Watch 2008: Day 15 Xbox LIVE still seems up and down. Adding to the problems now are the fact that both Xbox.com and even Xbox Live Director Larry Hryb's site MajorNelson.Com is down. Could this be the first step in an invasion? Probably not, but it's almost as annoying. | |
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 Major Nelson gives fix for Xbox Live 0x8016ABA5 error (via QJ) - After the problem with Xbox Live connections, some players have complained about a mysterious status code, 0x8016ABA5, that they've been getting on Xbox Live. Apparently, this means that there is a problem with the user's billing information.Thankfully, Major Nelson posted a solution for the problem. | |
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 HD DVD camp cancels CES presscon due to Warner announcement (via QJ) - The HD DVD camp has announced that it is canceling its press conference at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. The group mentioned that this was done so that they could have time to discuss the impact of Warner Bros. Entertainment's recent announcement that all their films will be Blu-Ray exclusive after May. | |
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 Burnout demo boosted with 8-player support, new challenges (via DCEmu) -- Still not convinced Burnout Paradise was "THE best demo released" last year? Criterion has rubbed some grease on frontman Alex Ward's heaping helping of self-praise by doubling the maximum number of online players (from 4 to 8) and adding 13 new Freeburn Challenges. | |
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 News: Worldwide 360 sales hit 17.7m (via Eurogamer) - And updated sales figures for last year's Halo 3 reveal the game has shifted more than 8.1 million copies since launch on 25th September. The BioWare developed RPG Mass Effect has also seen impressive sales, with a total of 1.6 million units sold in just six weeks of release. | |
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 Debunk: Xbox Live was down, but not due to DDoS attack (via Engadget) - The obvious answer as to why Xbox Live has been up and down (but mostly down) over the last couple of weeks is, of course, that the service has undergone a massive distributed denial of service attack. (Feel free to blame the illusory Sony / Nintendo fanboys, if you must. | |
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 Microsoft' s Official Word on the Xbox Live Downtimes X360 (via MyGen) - It's been a long time coming, but here is your reason folks! Oh, you get a free game too. Here is the response: During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service. | |
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Use your laptop as an Xbox/Xbox 360 (via Instructables) -- This is a detailed "how to guide" for people who want to connect to xbox live but do not have access to internet or who don't have a wireless adapter. | |
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 Far Cry 2 announced for 360 (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: NewsWell we never saw this coming. Oh, no, not by a long shot. Never in a million years did we think that ... oh, forget it. Of course, we all pretty much figured Far Cry 2 would be releasing on the Xbox 360. Considering a full three iterations of the franchise have appeared on one Xbox platform or another, it was pretty much a certainty. | |
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 Exclusive Rock Band Tracks in February OXM (via Gaming Today) - The February issue of the Official Xbox Magazine will be packing in the usual disc the mag comes with, but this might be a more valuable disc than most. Three new, exclusive Rock Band tracks are available on the disc – “Sprode” by Freezepop, “Rock Rebellion” by Bang Camaro, and “Shake” by Count Zero. | |
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Condemned 2 Developer Diary Part Five (via GameSpy) -- Part five of the Condemned 2 developer diary looks into the spooky sounds in the latest from Monolith. Audio Lead, Brian Paminatuan, takes a few moments to share some of the thoughts and approaches he took with the Audio team in delivering another strong, unique audio experience. | |
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 Rumorang: MGS4 'exclusive' to PS3, 'no plans' for Xbox version, Konami declares (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 Yes! No!! Maybe so? The tossing of the rumorang continues as Konami has paralyzed New Year's "confirmation" of Metal Gear Solid 4 for Xbox 360: "For the record, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a PlayStation 3 exclusive and there are no plans to develop an Xbox 360 version of the game," a Konami representative has reportedly told TGR. | |
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 Rumour: Crysis As Austrian Shop Lists XBOX 360 Versions (via 360 Monster) - Austrian electronic shop, Gamesonly.at has added two new versions of Crysis onto their site and yes, you guessed it, they're XBOX 360 versions. The site shows the game having a 20th November release date but we've seen it all before. Would you like to see Crysis on the 360? Leave a | |
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 More internal HD DVD Rumors: Xbox 360 Ultimate (via Xbox Scene) - This PS3-killer will benefit from almost three years of Xbox development, featuring 1080p HDMI output, built-in Wi-Fi, hi-def audio output, cooler 65nm hardware architecture and a near-silent fan. It'll also have the ability to make the most of the by-then established Xbox IPTV service, which will mean recording TV shows to its vast 320GB hard disk and watching live TV shows via your broadband provider. | |
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 Jade Empire 2 in the Works (via Slashdot) - San Jose Mercury News reporter Dean Takahashi shared a small story over the holiday that will be music to the ears of RPG fans. BioWare is apparently already hard at work on a Jade Empire 2 . "I talked with someone who saw code for Jade Empire 2. It's coming for the Xbox 360, and it's real. | |
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 Three Resolutions for Success in '08: Xbox 360 (via 1up) -- We come into '08 with all three players in the videogame world about to tell us how they enjoyed the best Holiday Season. While they bask in the warm afterglow, I thought I'd offer each three suggested resolutions to make '08 even better for them. I'll start things off with Microsoft. | |
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 The Club (Demo) Impressions from Kotaku (via Kotaku) - Kotaku's Luke Plunkett shares his impressions of the The Club demo: "I'm having a hard time getting my head around The Club. Not because I haven't enjoyed the demo, far from it: I've had a blast. No, I've had a hard time getting my head around it because The Club takes everything you think you know about shooter games, puts them in a box and seals it shut. | |
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 The Xbox 360 Won 2007 (via Kotaku) - The Xbox 360 won 2007. The console might not have sold the most units or captured the attention of the mass media, but as a platform, it's provided the most complete experience of the year while executing titles with the most successful track record. The Most Games You Want To Play Let me make a little list for you: Bioshock, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Crackdown, Guitar Hero II & III, The Orange Box, Halo 3, Forza 2, Skate, Rock Band, COD4. | |
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 Jeff Gerstmann on Xbox Live Downtime (via Jeff Gerstmann) - You probably already realized that Xbox Live has been completely messed up for the past few days. This whole thing makes me think about the exact nature of Xbox Live and its tiered service offering. What do you really get for the $50? All the messaging stuff is free with a Silver account, isn't it? Silver members have to wait to download some demos, which is sort of backwards considering the whole point of a demo is to get out to as many people as possible prior to release and help sell copies of the game. | |
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 Rumor: UT3 on Xbox 360, 90% complete (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 Considering it's due on the Mac in early 2008, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the on-again, off-again Xbox 360 port of Epic's Unreal Tournament III isn't "on hold" any longer, and may even be as far along as 90% complete - if we're to believe a scanned image from a German gaming magazine. | |
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 Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep....All Night Gaming Here We Come (via Wired) - In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness. A nasal spray containing a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys, allowing them to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests. | |
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 Wii officially hacked (via Kotaku) -- Uh Oh Wii's In Trouble !!!! Hacker claims that they now have full access to all of the Wii's hardware. | |
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 What To Do With A 360 After RROD.......Make It Into A PC (via technabob) -- This enterprising modder showed a bit of creativity by turning his overheating Xbox lemons into a souped-up glass of PC lemonade. | |
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Xbox Live still having Problems on last Day of 2007 (via I4UNews) - The Xbox support page currently has the "Users may experience intermittent issues logging onto Xbox Live,... message up. As Engadget already suggested Microsoft is in debt to offer at least a month free after this holiday service disaster. Apparently Zune marketplace is now also experiencing problems. | |
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 Eight Things Sony Needs To Do For The PS3 In 2008 To Catch Up (via MicroTechXP) - 2007 is nearly over and a number of websites have listed their predictions for the console war in the upcoming year. MicroTechXP has taken it upon themselves to diagram what Sony needs to do in order for the Playstation 3 to "catch up" with its competition as early as 2008. | |
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 Man arrested for stalking girls via Xbox Live (via GameRush Entertainment) -- In Spokane, Washington, a 20-year-old man was arrested on felony stalking charges after chatting to a 15-year-old girl on Xbox Live and eventually threatening to rape the girl and her sister. | |
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 When Must-Have Games that do not sell, who is to blame? (via GamingConsoleNetwork) - When a "Must-Have" game comes out for a videogame system and it does not sell well, who is to blame? Three games come to mind when I think of "Must-Have" games that have been horrible in sales. These three games are Uncharted: Drakes Fortune (PS3), Unreal Tournament III (PS3) and Zack & Wiki (Nintendo Wii). | |
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