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Halo assault rifle replica in the really real life  (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: Halo 3, Fan stuffCheap plastic Halo laser toys just don't cut it for you? Do you have a more refined taste for video game replica weapons and demand a real man's Halo piece, all metal, and life size? Then you have to check out link4044's custom made Halo 3 MA5C assault rifle. | |
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Army of Two Preview (via Ugo) -- Solo is no-go in the army of the future. We delve into EA's shooter. | |
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Gears of War-LEGO style (via The Xbox Domain) - Lego’s have never really had a reputation of being tough…until now. A FlickR member who goes by the name of Dunechaser made this lego set and it looks pretty cool. It doesn’t really resemble the real life characters but COME ON these are just LEGO’s. | |
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  360 Guitar Hero: Online Content Bonanza (via Kotaku) - The appeal of the upcoming 360 version of Guitar Hero was never in the HD graphics. Or in that gaudy, white guitar. No, it was always going to be the downloadable content that got people losing their minds. Ted Lange, Associate Producer on the title, in an interview with IGN Australia: IGN: Can you outline your plans for using Xbox Live to download fresh songs? Ted Lange: We're still in the process of confirming the final details and continue to secure more licenses, though nothing has been announced at this time, we can definitely say nobody will be disappointed. | |
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Decrypted Blu-ray HD-DVD movies on PS3, no disc necessary (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Hacks, PC, Sony PlayStation 3This isn't so much a PlayStation 3 hack as it is a Linux operation. The process, as outlined by author "hacked2123," involves decoding and ripping movies from Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) discs onto a Linux-based PC, and then re-encoding the files into an unencrypted MPEG format that could be played on the PC, or further tinkered with and transferred to PS3 -- and with a little more effort, we suppose, also made compatible with Xbox 360 (as a WMV file). | |
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 Game Crazy POS Lists Black 360 (via Kotaku) - Sent in by several tipsters, reported in the Cheap Ass Gamer Forums, and confirmed personally by me this morning, video game store chain Game Crazy has in their POS systems a sku for a black 120GB Xbox 360. Retailing for S479.99 the sku shows a release date of May 1st of this year, which also happens to be my birthday (hint, hint). | |
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xBot (via The Xbox Domain) -- I saw this in OXM. It is a video of the xBot which was created to simulate 40 hours worth of gameplay in Perfect Dark Zero to get 60 Gamerscore achievement points. Wow, he is really into achievement points. | |
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Zippo lighters breathe Blue Dragon fire in Japan (via QJ) - For those of you fans of either Mistwalker, Blue Dragon, or Zippo lighters, well here's something to add to that list of things to spend your money on get for your collection.On the other side of the world, the Japanese arm of the Zippo Manufacturing Company has just released the Blue Dragon-themed lighter. | |
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XDVDMulleter Beta 7 (via Xbox Scene) - Badsheepy released a new version of XDVDMulleter(info), an ISO extraction/creation/rebuilding tool for Xbox and Xbox360 discs with several features making it useful for more precise dumps as required by xtreme firmwares.What's new/fixed:* Added: Whole lot of new iso loading options, now you can load from pretty much any source I could think of. | |
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Age of Conan: all about the Lich Class (via QJ) - We've already introduced you to the Druids and Scion of Set, and so as to keep the ball rolling (or so they say), we're gonna let you have a meet-and-greet of sorts with even more characters you'll encounter in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.If you're not into meeting the characters, you can always opt to check out the weaponry concept art for the 360 version, but if you're just as interested about this dark and fear-inducing class, stay with us as we rundown the details about them, alright?they are the most feared by ordinary travellers because of their "dealings" with the undeadthey draw great strength and power from the undead by sacrificing parts of their mortal soulthey make pacts with the undead and can merge their flesh and blood with that of the deadthey possess incredible physical strength and resiliencethey can morph and take on the physical form of ancient Acheronian warriorsIn Potterspeak, they seemingly resemble the Death Eaters, except they become more powerful because of the dark spells they can cast. | |
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 How Sony killed it&rsquo s brand-The Music Video (via The Xbox Domain) -- Enjoy the vid. Artist-Doc Adams Song-”How to kill a brand” -Michael “Thrills Killa” Pacheco- | |
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BenQ VAD6038 - New DVD Drive in Xbox360 (via Xbox Scene) - GaryOPA mailed us to inform us Microsoft has finally started using the new BenQ drive for the Xmas'06 production run (11-12-06 and up) to replace the Toshiba-Samsung and Hitachi-LG drives Microsoft dropped.This BenQ VAD6038 drive apparently runs super-quiet and is based on Philips design (remember the Philips VAD6037 was already found before in some Xbox360 dev kits (no AES key)). | |
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Xbot - Earns Achievement Points Unattended (via Xbox Scene) - Saw this today... So what's the xBot? It's an automated Xbox 360 button pusher to get Perfect Dark Zero's two most tedious achievements: 1000 Death Match Games and 1000 Dark Ops Games worth 30 gamer points each (60 total). Both of these Achievements were successfully obtained by the xBot without having to sit there and push buttons for 40-50 some-odd hours. | |
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Machine used to unlock Xbox 360 Achievement Points (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Hacks, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person ShootersJust 60 of 'em. Yep, $60 for parts and a long day's worth of labor birthed the "xBot," a monstrous lil' bugger that latches onto the Xbox 360 controller and presses 'Start' and 'B' like, well, like a machine. | |
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 360 Thief Done In By Stupidity, MS Tech Support (via Kotaku) - On January 23, a thief stole an Xbox 360 and some games from a home in Wellington, New Zealand. Which was very naughty. In his haste, though, he forgot to also grab the power supply , leaving his newly-acquired 360 largely useless. | |
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 Another leaked Halo 3 Alpha Vid (via DCEmu) -- A guy named Bip Chizzle leaked a video showing off a lot of the weapons from the Halo 3 Alpha. A lot of the weapon animations are most likely placeholder, but it's nice to see what some of the weapons look like in first person. | |
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News: Cheap: Epic says Gears of War cost less than $10 million (via GamePro) -- Epic vice president Mark Rein talks Gears, Unreal Engine 3, and maybe just a little ZZT | |
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Epilogue: CliffyB Talks Gears of War (via IGN) -- Gears of War (X360)Epic's flamboyant designer talks DLC, story cuts, chainsaws, Mad Love and graphic novels. | |
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 HD-DVD AACS Cracked (via Xbox 360 Hacks) - Arnezami, a hacker from the Doom9 forum, has successfully discovered the processing key which can be used to gain access to every AACS-locked Blu-Ray & HD-DVD disc. The details have been published online and can be viewed at the source link below. Here is the Processing Key which should work on all HD DVD discs [. | |
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 Crackdown dev wants to do Crackdown 2 (via Xboxic) - It hasn’t even been a week since the first game was released but in a recent interview with Computer and Video Games, senior designer Stephen Iannetta told CVG that he would love to make a sequel to Realtime Worlds’ open ended 360 game Crackdown. If there was a sequel, he’d like players to have [. | |
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 Lost Planet cost $40 million (via Xboxic) - If you bought Lost Planet, did you get the most out of your money? Capcom sure hope so, after it was revealed that the game, by the time the marketing campaign has come to a close, cost a whopping $40 million in total. That’s almost blockbuster. Divided up, the game cost $20 million for the development, [. | |
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Lots of time on his hands: homemade Halo 3 assault rifle (via QJ) - While this isn't breaking news, it's still kinda cool, and besides, we'd like to wind the weekend down before the real work begins. In the same vein, this little craft project of link4044 of the Artist HQ forums isn't exactly like playing with the Halo 3 multiplayer Beta, but d indeed if it ain't cool. | |
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120GiG Black Xbox360 With HDMI Official ? (via Gamer Reports) - Just yesterday our inside source gave us tip that Microsoft Australia has told a store named Myer to prepare the store for a Black 360 with a 120GB hard drive in April. Well day 2 of product knowledge today (Brisbane, Australia) featured Microsoft themselves and it's now 100% official that the Black 360, (with black controller), 120gb hard drive and HDMI is due out in Australia for $749 AU in April. | |
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Gears of War wins big at Interactive Achievement Awards (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360The 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards have at long last confirmed a growing, industry-wide suspicion: Gears of War is pretty good. In a ceremony held last night at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences bestowed eight shiny statuettes upon Epic Games' monsters vs. | |
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Mortal Kombat 8 inspired by Gears of War, using Unreal Engine 3 (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, FightingSpeaking with Game Informer, Ed Boon described an opportunity to start anew with the next version of Mortal Kombat, the eighth in the series. Boon revealed that MK8 will be built using Unreal Engine 3, inspired by Epic's recent engine showcase Gears of War. | |
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Reviews: Lost Planet (via CVG) - Found at last! But was it worth the effort?. Bit of a strange one, Lost Planet. When it was first announced at the back end of 2005, there was a nationwide shrug and sigh session as we all prepared to dismiss the game as another plodding mech adventure conceived to help sell a handful of 360s to the Japanese. | |
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Activision Licenses Unreal Engine 3 (via Kotaku) - Joining just about everyone in the known universe, Activision has announced a licensing agreement with Epic Games to utilize the Unreal Engine 3 in an upcoming, undisclosed action game. "The Unreal Engine is one of the most technically advanced engines on the market and is a perfect fit for our upcoming action game," said Laird Malamed, head of production for Activision. | |
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Lost Planet lost $40 million to find success (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, BusinessA Forbes report states that Capcom spent $40 million on Lost Planet. That may seem like a nice chunk of change, but it's not the kicker. The thing is that Lost Planet, the actual game, cost $20 million. Another $20 million was spent on the advertising, marketing, parties and promotions. | |
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CliffyB talks of Gears of War 2 and alien invasions (via QJ) - We've heard Jeff Morris talk about a sequel to Gears of War. But what about the mastermind behind the game himself, Cliff Bleszinski? He did create the game after all, as the game's designer. So what are his thoughts on designing a second game? Here's an excerpt from a recent IGN interview about it:IGN: Do you think we can expect a second Gears of War in 2008?CliffyB: I don't know. | |
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