Xbox 360News for - September 8, 2008
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  Xbox 360 2008 Console Exclusive Lineup - Full List (via PS3Forums) -- This is a pretty comprehensive list of the exclusive (and console exclusive) lineup that Microsoft is offering this year, including a brief description, screenshots and videos of all games. | |
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 The 7 Most EVIL Things You Can Do in Grand Theft Auto IV (via slobsofgaming) -- If you consistantly ask yourself 'Am I being evil enough in GTA4 ?' Then read on to find out how you can be! | |
 Official Epic Gears of War 2 Update: Full details (via xboxoz360) - XboxOZ360 reveals the official news update of Epic and Microsoft's Gears of War 2: "Gears of War 2 is developed by Epic Games exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. Players continue the story of Marcus Fenix, a reluctant war hero, as he leads Delta Squad on a series of perilous and adrenaline-pumping missions. | |
 Microsoft Points Scams on Xbox Live (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - While every major company in the world attempts to bang into your head that they will never ask for your account information sometimes people don't listen. Unfortunately a scam, which appears to have been around for some time, promises free Microsoft points when you log into your . | |
 Saving extra cars in GTA IV (via 360 Monster) - In GTA IV there are numerous locations for the player to park their car, in order for it to be saved for another gameplay session. Unfortunately these spaces seem pretty small, with you seemingly only able to fit one or two cars in them. I am pleased to announce that this is not the case. | |
 Rock Band Invades Europe (via 360 HQ) - Harmonix and MTV Games is releasing a full line up of Euro inspired tracks this time around to celebrate the release of Rock Band in Europe. Each European track will be available in North America for $1.99 per track (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360). Release date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (Xbox LIVE Marketplace) Tracks: "Beetlebum" ( Blur)* "Hier Kommt Alex (Die Toten Hosen) "Countdown To Insanity" (H-BlockX) "Perfekte Welle" (Juli) "New Wave" (Pleymo) "Monsoon" (Tokio Hotel) "Hysteria" (Muse) "Rock N Roll Star" (Oasis) "Manu Chao" (Les Wampas) (*indicates cover song) Price: $1. | |
 Castle Crashers is completed (via Xboxyde) - Behemoth has just announced that their work on Castle Crashers is done - the game is now shipped away to Microsoft for "at least a couple of months" of testing. The devblog post also states that the game will be the largest storydriven game on Xbox Live Arcade, and as you will see on the pretty images the bears are white. | |
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 Sony Appoints Phil Harrison's Replacement (via Cinema Blend Games) -- Sony has chosen the new Phil Harrison. The man taking the reigns as the Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios is Shuhei Yoshida. Yoshida is a long time Sony employee, going back to the mid 1980s, and is a main supporter of the Playstation brand. | |
 New Prince of Persia named and dated (via Computer And Video Games) - The new game will be known as Prince of Persia: Heir Apparent, according to the latest issue of Game Informer. Without any other information, we can't even hazard a guess as to what that's supposed to mean, if it means anything at all. Meanwhile, Ubisoft has confirmed that the game will launch in its third fiscal quarter, meaning we can expect it between October and December. | |
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 Microsoft has no Regrets for not Having a Handheld (via Kotaku) - Microsoft's Shane Kim says that they have no regrets from not entering the handheld market. "I'm very happy we didn't get into it, because launching a handheld platform is like launching another Xbox 360. You have to be fully committed, as an organization, from a resource standpoint, to doing that. | |
 Are 360 Console Sales as Strong as Microsoft Reports? (via ars technica) - Today, Microsoft has sent word to the gaming press that the Xbox 360 has become the first console in the current generation to sell 10 million units in the US. Microsoft also points out its 19 million units sold worldwide but, while the company thinks there is much to be proud of in these numbers, these milestones aren't quite as conclusive as Redmond would have us believe. | |
 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (via Computer And Video Games) - Hands-on with id's multiplayer blast. Lame AI. It gets more column inches than Nelson and causes more frustration than back-to-back seasons of Lost. But the truth is, we humans are all just as bad as any twitching CPU grunt. Just let a horde of us loose on Xbox Live or a LAN and we pour into battle like a clumsy pink tidal wave - once more unto the beach, where we will clog up the servers with our stupid dead. | |
 Biggest hint yet that MS is planning voice recognition tech (via Xboxer) -- There have been lots of rumours flying around the internet recently that Microsoft is working on voice-recognition technology to be utilised in forthcoming games on the 360. Well, this morning I spotted what could well be a bit of a giveaway that it IS going to happen. | |
 GameSpy: Fable 2 Preview (via GameSpy) - GameSpy writes: "We've already seen quite a bit of Fable 2, so what's left to talk about? As it turns out, Lionhead Studios' helmsman (at least creatively speaking) Peter Molyneux still has a trick or two up his sleeves, so during today's Microsoft-focused event he began expounding on the depth of Fable 2's story and huge, open-world environment. | |
 Gametrailers - Cliff Bleszinski Interview (via GameTrailers) -- From the 360 Spring Showcase 08, Gears 2 design director Cliff Bleszinski fills us in on multiplayer, chainsaw duels, major plot elements, and everything else that goes into the visceral violence of Gears of War 2. | |
 13 Year Old steals Dads' Credit Card for Hookers and Halo (via Money.co.uk) -- Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel. | |
 American Hardware and Software Chart for Week Ending May 10th, 2008 (via N4G) -- VGChartz reports that their estimate for American hardware and software chart for week Ending May 10th, 2008 is as follows. | |
 Microsoft Holding 7 Year Life Span for 360 (via CVG) - Speaking at the Microsoft spring media summit in San Francisco, Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim told CVG it was the plan from the beginning that the 360 had a "long tail". "We said from the beginning that we expect the Xbox 360 to have a long tail," he said. "Clearly we didn't do that with the original Xbox, which was a strategic decision we made. | |
 Rumor Spring Update List (via Kotaku) - Possibility of 4 way voice chat (Conference Mode), could be coming in the rumoured spring update, and an easier way for you to buy Gamer Pics, could this just be MS wanting to make it simpler for you to waste your points on another meaningless live transaction. Xbox LIVE 1. | |
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 EA loses $454 million in fiscal '08 because of acquisition costs (via Kotaku) -- Apparently, Bioware and Pandemic were expensive. | |
 Madden 09 Preview (via 1up) - A big change this year is the "Madden IQ" concept. When you first turn on the game, you'll run through a series of drills in an edgy, holographic environment. This series of three minigames covers four categories: running, passing, rush defense, and pass defense. You'll be graded on how well you do, and that score will be your Madden IQ. | |
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 Guitar Hero 4 to have 'Create a Song?' (via NeoGAF) -- A poster on NeoGAF claims to have the new Game Informer magazine which has a Guitar Hero 4 preview. | |
 LucasArts Confirms There Will Be a Demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (via Gaming Today) - A representative from LucasArts has confirmed that there will be a demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which will be released through Xbox Live and the Playstation Network (sorry, Wii owners). The company wants more people to see the game first-hand, which will hopefully convince them to buy it. | |
 5 Crappy Trends in Video Game Design (via sarcastig gamer) - In an article posted on Sarcastic Gamer, a blogger pointed out 5 annoying trends in games. 1. Quicktime Events - Some games take this too far, in the Bourne demo the whole game is a quick time event. 2. Unskippable cut scenes - Everyone gets mad about these, at first the story is engaging, it is on it's 5th try. | |
