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  COD4 Prestige mode (via Wikipedia ) - The player can trade in their rank and start over at level 1 up to ten times, with the prestige insignia changing each time, effectively giving the player 715 total ranks. Players can save and name their custom classes for quick access in multiplayer matches. In addition your weapons upgrades | |
 Call of Duty 4 Full Weapon List (via COD4Forums) - It turns out someone with the PC demo of COD4 has found the full list of weapons for the up-in-coming games. If you wanna see, open your iw_02.iwd file located in the folder "main".Open it with Winrar, then go to weapons folder of SP and MP. You'll see all weapons in the complete game. | |
 Call of Duty 4 Prestige Symbols are actual Armed Forces medals (via N4G.com) -- This is a forum post, but intriguing nonetheless. Includes pics and description of each medal. | |
Call of Duty 4: Tips and Tricks (via Yahoo Games) -- Are you answering the call of duty? These tricks will help separate the vets from the rookies. | |
Maximus 360 Firmware Toolbox v4.6 (via Xbox Scene) - Maximus released 360 Firmware Toolbox(info (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/360FirmwareToolbox.php )) v4.6 - a graphical tool to handle several common dvd-drive firmware tasks. iXtreme v1.4 is added including for Hitachi-LG v78 and v79 (only with passkey for now) drives. | |
Schtrom360Xtract v3.3 - Improved Stealth Check (via Xbox Scene) - Schtrom released a new version of Schtrom360Xtract(info (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/Schtrom360Xtract.php )), a tool that will allow you to easily dump Xbox/Xbox360 gamedata, extract/patch the Security Sectors, PFI and DMI and fully prepare the image for burning in 1 step. | |
News: Halo 3 Game Disc 2 Microsoft's mistake , says Bungie (via Computer And Video Games) - Game Disc 2 will contain high-def stuff and not the second half of the game. Yesterday CVG ran a story featuring the final packaging for the various versions of Halo 3 on offer. Hawk-eyed reader 'theideal' quickly noticed that out of the three Collector's Edition discs, two were labeled Game Disc 1 and Game Disc 2. | |
Guitar Hero II: Fix Faulty Guitar (via 360 HQ) - HairyArse over at http://www.allaboutthegames.net has found a do it yourself fix for the guitar. Instead of sending your faulty guitar back, you can fix it, and not void the warranty. It is a very painless, and easy fix. The problem is isolated to two specific models of the controller, the numbers of which are 95065 and 95055. | |
Need for Speed Pro Street Tips and Tricks (via Yahoo Games) -- Here are a few tips for ruling the Pro Street circuit. | |
Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Kit hands-on (via Engadget) - Filed under: Features, Gaming Here's that Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Kit that Microsoft so generously bundled with our Elite (don't expect to get one with yours, it doesn't come in the box). The documentation they sent with this thing was pretty substantial for an adapter and a CD you plug into your Xbox, but we think they want us to make sure we don't screw anything up and lose all our precious, precious data. | |
Complete CoD4 MP map list and descriptions (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will be here in a few days, but we know some of you are too excited to wait. Too excited to wait for your copy to arrive and too excited to ignore any official or leaked details. That's why we wanted to tell you about some screenshots detailing CoD4 multiplayer goodness. | |
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 Guitar Hero: Areosmith Announced - Releases This June (via Gamer Reports) -- Another game in the hit Guitar Hero franchise has been announced by Activision today; Guitar Hero Aerosmith will debut this June on every major gaming console. In addition; Guitar Hero 3 will be receiving Aerosmith's Dream via Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Network. | |
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How to fix broken Rock Band drums (via The Gamer Gene) - After two weeks of solid rocking, the yellow drum pad on OXM’s Rock Band drum kit was toast. Despite EA’s generous replacement policy, they decided to take matters into their own hands. If you’ve got the prerequisite skills with a soldering iron, this step-by-step guide looks like a much better solution than waiting for a [. | |
Madden NFL 08 for Xbox 360 and PS3 gets a roster update (via QJ) - With the new season of sport sims from EA Sports just around the corner, Madden NFL 08 (available on the PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, PSP, Nintendo Wii and DS), one of the leaders of the pack, has already gotten an update with its current roster available for the Xbox 360 and PS3. | |
Unofficial Fallout 2 Patch - Final Version (via Gaming Today) - Killap has released his final version of the unofficial Fallout 2 patch. The patch contains Timeslip’s incredible engine tweaks. This patch has been in production for several years now and it fixes well over 800+ bugs left in the game since the official 1.02 patch. | |
FIFA 08 Blog: Player Ratings (via IGN) -- FIFA Soccer 08 (X360)EA explains how they determine a players stats when designing FIFA 08. | |
Fix or prevent a broken Rock Band drum pedal (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Hacks, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals After shredding open that giant box in the corner, unearthing an entire rock band of peripherals, and gathering a motley crüe crew to rock alongside, you had your first experience with Harmonix's Rock Band. | |
Dump and Flash the BenQ VAD6038 drive (via Xbox Scene) - Team Modfreakz released a guide explaining how to read and flash an Xbox360 BenQ VAD6038 ODD. It requires cutting two traces on the ODD motherboard and installing a simple switch. There's no iXtreme firmware for this drive yet, but it's in progress atm. Download guide (by Team Modfreakz): here (http://dwl. | |
Madden 08 Demo Available (via TalkXbox) -- Football fans can see what all the Madden hype is all about with today's release of the Madden NFL 08 Demo. The free demo, weighing in at 813.50 MB, is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. W... | |
 The Top Ten Hottest Women In Tech (via Top 49 men) -- Here is a list of the top ten hottest women in the Tech industry today. What was once an industry for geeks and nerds, has become very cool in recent times and here's the proof. | |
 Quiet those Rock Band drums! (via Generationgamerz) -- Can you not hear yourself during those Kelly Clarkson songs (I don't even know if Rock Band even has Kelly Clarkson tracks, just wishful thinking on my part), over the beating of those drums? Here's a craft project to help quiet them down. | |
The Problem With COD4 Singleplayer (via Chewing Pixels) - The single-player campaign in Infinity Ward's latest entry to the Call of Duty series is, at once, excellent and disastrous. Most First Person Shooters are coded with standard difficulty in mind: this is where the majority of players will encounter the game's mechanics, set-pieces, AI and enemy behaviours so it makes sense for a developer to ensure that this is the level at which the game's most approachable, robust and balanced in order to satisfy the widest possible audience. | |
Call of Duty 4 multiplayer sniper spots exposed (via Game Radar) -- Improve your ranking by lying low and picking off enemies from these hidden locations | |
 Just How Long is BioShock? (via Loot Ninja) - The demo whet our appetite, but still left us wondering just how long the single player campaign would be. Well, we wonder no longer. At the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Take Two Interactive Europe PR Manager Adrian Lawton dropped this information to Xboxer: "We've being doing a lot of review sessions recently with press guys. | |
Soul Calibur IV: scans of Hilde, the new babe in armor and more (via QJ) - With the new wave of fighting game sequels just beyond the horizon, Namco Bandai featured a couple of the boys and babes for the upcoming Soul Calibur IV. We have a nice scan depicting the new femme fatale in armor, Hilde (or Hilda as there's some discrepancy with the translation, but I'll be sticking to Hilde for now), as well as all new designs for Raphael Sorel and the monstrous golem, Astaroth. | |
New iXtreme firmware 1.4 - Not for Hitachi 78/79 Yet (via Xbox 360 Hacks) - A new release of ixtreme firmware, for all versions of drive (except v78/79 hitachi, which maximus will release shortly).. Features: Disc jitter fix new for V1.4 And, as always, you are modifying your console *at your own risk*. If you make a backup of your game and play it on xbox live, you always run the risk [. | |
Rumor: Call Of Duty 4's Co-Op Might Come Later (via Kotaku) - On Sunday at the Activate Asia Pacific conference, Infinity Ward's Grant Collier was asked whether Call of Duty 4 would feature co-op. Guy couldn't manage a "no comment", he dropped the ball and got blathery: Uh, no, I'm not really supposed to say anything about that... but I'm a big fan of Xbox Live and downloadable content. | |
Micro Center rebates 100 off Xbox 360 purchases (via QJ) - It's not the tax rebate I've been begging for, but hey, we here don't look gift horses in the mouth either. Last time Micro Center had a 100.00 rebate offer for Xbox 360s, it only applied to Columbus, Ohio. Then reader Terry Devore spotted this in floating in the web somewhere. | |
