Xbox 360News for - October 8, 2008
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  GTA IV Achievements (via xbox360achievements) -- The website Xbox360 Achievements has just posted the full list of the GTA IV Achievements. It is still considered a rumor, but the list does look plausible. | |
 Play RSV2 with the Devs (via RSV2 Official Site) - Hey just letting you all know that this weekend you can play Rainbow Six Vegas 2 with the Developers. I was just hopping into a multiplayer game on XBOX Live and noticed one of the gamertags was RSV2Dev1... and he was answering questions and just playing with us. So hop in and maybe you'll catch one | |
 Army of Two demo and DLC inbound (via Xboxic) - Army of Two's offset on consoles didn't go down as well as EA might have hoped, what with the mixed critical reception and public outcry over the regional lockout. EA hopes to carry you over to the other side of the fence with the forthcoming demo on the Xbox Live Marketplace. | |
 Grand Theft Auto 4 singleplayer takes 56 hours to finish (via N4G.com) -- VGB reports that Jeronimo Barrera, a senior developer at Rockstar, says it takes testers playing 4 hours a day it will take a good 2 weeks to get through the whole single-player game. That means if they are playing a full week that's about 56 hours total. | |
 Xbox Live to have downtime on April 1 (via QJ) - Heads up, gamers! The Gamerscore Blog recently made an important announcement regarding the maintenance of Microsoft's Xbox Live service. According to a recent post there, Xbox Live will be down for a few hours on April 1. The announcement from the Gamerscore Blog reads, "We're hearing that Xbox LIVE and Xbox. | |
 EA Extends Take-Two offer (via Computer And Video Games) -- Deadline extended to April 18. Electronic Arts said Friday that it's extending its tender offer for Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two, following Take-Two's most recent bid rejection.Click here to read the full article | |
Details of Army of Two Demo, Downloadable Content and Patch Revealed (via 360 Monster) - Army of Two Assistant Producer, Matt Turner has revealed on his upcoming blog, details about an Army of Two demo and new downloadable content: 'So guess what people. The demo is coming. Oh Yeah. Sha-bam. Looks like it will be going live April 1st. So for those of you that have yet to give our game a whirl you can download it off Xbox live and take it for a test run. | |
 Grand Theft Auto's 10 Best Vices (via Gamedaily) -- With GTA IV a little over a month away, Gamedaily discuss some of their favorite things to do in the franchise. | |
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 Master Chief on (gasp) A PS3 (via Gamerscore Blog) - You've all seen the story in Business Week about an Unreal Tournament modder who made a character for UT3 on the PS3 that looks just a bit like Master Chief. Earlier today, Susan over at Game|Life asked what our lawyers thought, so Gamerscore blog asked one of the dozens--if not hundreds--of Xbox lawyers (jk) what he thought about it. | |
 Power to the people! (via 360Plex) - After getting home from work and booting up the XBox 360 for my morning gaming session, I noticed that I had a few new messages. After sorting through numerous Halo 3 film clips and friend requests, I came across one very interesting message from a friend. The message was from a friendly XBox Live Ambassador. | |
 Demo: UEFA EURO 2008 (via Major Nelson) -- Download the demo for UEFA EURO 2008 and experience the only official game of the UEFA European Championships 2008! Challenge Europe's best and take your team to championship glory. Shipping May 19th, 2008; visit www.euro2008game.ea.com for more info. | |
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 News: Spoiler alert - GTA IV map leaked (via Computer And Video Games) -- Photos of a Liberty City map set to be included with GTA IV have appeared on the internet, revealing exact details of the play area you'll be terrorising during your 'sick week' at the tail-end of next month. | |
 Battlefield: Bad Company Boycott (via Sarcastic gamer) -- The folks over at Sarcastic Gamer have started a boycott of the up-in-coming title Battlefield: Bad Company. The was prompted by the revelation earlier this week that the game would not ship with all of its weapons available to players, opting instead to charge players for extra weapons. | |
 Battlefield Bad Company beta leaked, playable? (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Tipsters are telling us that the Battlefield: Bad Company beta has not only leaked to online download sites but that it may also be playable via a burnt DVD-R, much like the demo for Guitar Hero III. The ability to clone the download of the beta and release it to other consoles also reminds us of the Call of Duty 4 beta glitch which allowed gamers to use the account recovery feature to circumvent the barriers in place of people who hadn't been selected to participate in the closed test. | |
 200 Endings For Fallout 3 (via joystiq) - Fallout fans can look forward to over 200 different endings with the upcoming Fallout 3, according to Executive Producer Todd Howard. Speaking on the OXM podcast (interview starts at 37-minute mark) Howard said, "Being that we are Bethesda, everything gets a bit big. So as of last week, we're over 200 endings. | |
 Herioc map pack is available now! (via Major Nelson) -- Just a reminder for anyone who didn't remember. The Herioc map pack for Halo 3 is now available for free on XBox Live. Next up, the Legendary pack on April 15th. | |
 100 Reasons Fanboys Hate Xbox (via GamesRadar) -- GamesRadar has rounded up the one hundred most common reasons why fanboys hate Xbox, and condensed them down to a blistering two minutes of pure, unfettered videographic rage. | |
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EA confirms Bad Company weapon purchases (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - It's true. Today, EA confirmed that Battlefield: Bad Company will feature micro-transactions surrounding a few of the game's weapons. Crap.Discovered via the Bad Company beta menus, a few of the game's weapons mentioned the fact that they could only be unlocked via an XBLM purchase. | |
 The Internet = The New Chief of Police (via mcfearsome) -- A kid decided to steal someone's Xbox 360 and held it for ransom. The victim posted pictures of the thief in action up on the internet and the thief became so scared that he gave the 360 back. Oh how great the internet is :-) | |
 411: Far Cry 2 Preview (via 411mania) - Easily one of the biggest attractions at the Play.com LIVE event this past weekend at Wembley Stadium in London, England was Ubisoft's booth for Far Cry 2 on the PC, appearing in a curtained-off area, racking up 45 minute queues all day long. Far Cry 2's Narrative Designer, Patrick Redding, and Producer, Louis-Pierre Pharand, were on hand to guide attendees through a 15-minute video demonstration of the game, answering questions along the way. | |
 HD-DVD Outselling Blu-Ray? Dead Format Flies Off Discount Shelves (via MP3newswire) - NPD recently predicted that Blu-Ray unit sales will make gains by the end of this year and that is a very reasonable statement considering that Blu-ray won the high definition DVD wars. Of course, NPD also found that most people are happy enough with their standard DVD and are in no hurry to switch to an HD format. | |
 TiQal and Update to Switchball This Weeks Arcade, Dreamfall to Originals (via Gamasutra) - Microsoft has announced that Slapdash's puzzler TiQal will be added to Xbox Live Arcade as part of its regular Wednesday update, along with a Switchball update, as Funcom's Dreamfall is added to its Xbox Originals series. The game promises 120 levels of play with 14 powerups and multiplayer support for two player play both locally and over Xbox Live. | |
 GTA IV Multiplayer Hands-on- Amazing (via N4G.com) - The new Xbox World 360 magazine will have a 17 page article out on the multiplayer mode in their next issue. They've also done a podcast where they talk about it, the discussion begins around 49 minutes in.. I just listened to it and here's some of the highlights: - They love the multiplayer mode. | |
