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. | |
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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. | |
2 years ago | |
Microsoft Offering Replacements For Busted Discs (via Kotaku) - This is awful charitable of Microsoft: If, for any reason, you have a damaged Microsoft® Xbox 360™ disc and like to replace it, please review the information below. The "information below" basically says if you own a first-party 360 game that's been damaged, "for any reason", you can send it in and get a new copy sent out to you in 4-6 weeks. | |
2 years ago | |
BioShock: Theme and Pictures (via Major Nelson) - Name: BioShock ThemePrice: 150 PointsAvailability: Not available in AsiaDash Details: The official theme to the first person shooter BioShockName: Character Picture PackPrice: 80 PointsAvailability: Not available in AsiaDash Details: A picture pack to the first person shooter BioShock. | |
2 years ago | |
Command respect, conquer C C3 achievements (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Command and Conquer 3Half the fun of playing games on the Xbox 360 is unlocking achievements. Hell, just saying the word achievement feels pretty good. Try it: "achieeeeevement." Feels good, doesn't it? Because we all love achievements so much, we bring you the full achievement list for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, which arrives next month. | |
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Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship Announced (via 360 HQ) - Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI Create Video Game History With First-Ever Xbox 360 “Pac-Man®” World Championship “Pac-Man” fans to compete on Xbox LIVE Arcade for chance to be world’s best “Pac-Man” player. NEW YORK — April 18, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. and NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. | |
2 years ago | |
Microsoft officials' walkthrough vid for 360 Spring Dashboard Update (via QJ) - The Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update is coming soon. If reports are to be believed, it will be available on May 7 give or take a few days. The fact is that an update is indeed coming but the point of discussion here is what improvements console owners will be getting. The most talked about new feature is the addition of Windows Live Messenger. | |
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Fan made Halo assault rifle up for sale (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: Fan stuffA while back we told you about one bad mother of a fan made Halo assault rifle replica. Today, we're telling you that you can bring her home for only a few hundred dollars. Over on eBay that same assault rifle is up for auction and is currently sitting at $227 with roughly eight days left and the reserve still not met. | |
2 years ago | |
Blue Dragon animated (via QJ) - Yes, we know that a portion of you aren't interested in anime, but the utter coolness of this trailer for the Blue Dragon anime warrants posting. Behold, footage what the poster on GameVideos claim to be the cartoon based on the game: Nothing else to say except that they better make this downloadable on Xbox Live. | |
2 years ago | |
Guitar Hero 360 Whammy Bar Problems (via Game Stooge) - Not 24 hours after the official release of Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360 (although more than a few lucky rockers have had it for a few days), message boards are lighting up with reports of un-responsive whammy bars. Some are reporting that there are two different guitars currently being used for the game and that the problems are associated with just one of them. | |
2 years ago | |
Blue Dragon, The Metro-Sexual Manga (via Kotaku) - Ack! That sure ain't Toriyama's Blue Dragon. Rather, that's the art work of Takeshi Obata, the artist behind mega popular manga Death Note. Based off the Xbox 360 video game and written by Tsuneo Takano, Blue Dragon RalΩGrado has been making regular appearances in Weekly Shonen Jump since last December. | |
2 years ago | |
Guitar Heronoid: the robotic Guitar Hero (via QJ) - This is the epitome of geekery and awesomeness, all at once. Rafael Mizrahi and Tal Chalozin from GarageGeeks have built an android of sorts that PLAYS Guitar Hero for you. Yes folks, a robot that can do better than you at guitar playing. In truth, it's not so much an android as a pair of robotic hands (the body) and a computerized brain that analyzes the video feed and play the game back for you, but it's pretty sweet. | |
2 years ago | |
Oh the madness Monster Madness delayed (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, RumorsThis past week, GamingTalkHQ got on the horn with Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia developer SouthPeak Games and learned that the game was being delayed again. According to them, Monster Madness will miss its scheduled May 15th release, getting pushed back to May 29th. | |
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News: Whoops Microsoft goofs on Gears of War update announcement (via GamePro) -- Contrary to previous reports, the Gears of War update will not be released on Monday, April 9th, but on a date that still has yet to be determined. | |
2 years ago | |
Gears of War’ s Annex Revealed (via Game Stooge) - Looks like we can finally stop speculating and scrounging for all the available details we can find about the upcoming update/patch to Xbox Live’s hit title: Gears of War, as Epic has finally opened up the doors with their official press release concerning the new game mode: Annex. | |
2 years ago | |
Mistwalker and Blue Dragon (via IGN) -- Blue Dragon (X360)How one company is selling the 360 to Japan. | |
2 years ago | |
A look at GoW's Annex, a video preview (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Gears of War, Videos Even though we didn't get our Gears of War update today, that doesn't mean we can't learn more about the upcoming Annex gametype. Embedded above is a video preview of what Annex will look like, play like, and what HUD changes will be made. | |
2 years ago | |
Joystiq's video analysis of the Halo 3 Beta leak (via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Online If Halo fans took even half the amount effort they put into dissecting video of Master Chief and turned it on famous historical footage, that whole landing on the Moon nonsense would be so debunked by now. | |
2 years ago | |
Armored Core 4 Demo now available (via The Xbox Domain) - Haven’t bought Armored Core 4 yet? Your chance to check it out ahead of time is upon you. Armored Core 4 has it the Marketplace. In this demo you get to play through three of the missions of the full game. Coming in at 791.2 MB, it’s time to have at it for free. | |
2 years ago | |
Microsoft Scraps Elite in favor of Spartan Edition 360 (via The Xbox Domain) - You’ve heard it hear first. The Xbox 360 Elite is to Elite for Microsoft’s bridges. In early retrospect, Microsoft has decided to kill the Xbox 360 Elite before it’s even released. In it’s place will be the Xbox 360 Spartan for a real value. Whats the difference you ask? Check the bullet points: Instead of that lame-o HDMI everyone talks about, the Spartan is to come with the good old R/F adaptor. | |
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The perfect Viva Pinata song (via The Xbox Domain) - Can I enjoy playing Viva Pinata without getting a message saying ” Hehehe Thrills Killa plays Viva Pinata hehehehe”? OXM’s Dan Amrich did the perfect song about Viva Pinata which pretty much sums up how a lot of gamers feel about Viva Pinata(Even if they hide it). | |
2 years ago | |
X3F hands on: Command and Conquer 3 (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Fan stuff, Command and Conquer 3You may have heard that we had a tough time getting our hands on the Command & Conquer 3 demo last week. Saints be praised, we finally managed to grab the demo this morning. We spent a few hours playing the game and coming to grips with the controls. | |
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News: Bungie devs outline new multiplayer features in Halo 3 trailer (via GamePro) -- In Bungie's latest "vidoc", a host of developers illustrate many of the changes made to Halo 3's multiplayer modes, giving gamers an idea of what to expect in the near future. | |
2 years ago | |
LOST PLANET Multiplayer Maps #2 (via Major Nelson) - Name: LOST PLANET Multiplayer Maps #2!Price: 400 PointsAvailability: All Xbox Live regionsDash Details: Two additional multiplayer maps are now available for LOST PLANET! The second batch includes "Hive Complex" and "Trial Point." Size: 161.7 MB (approx.) Share: Digg it | del. | |
2 years ago | |
Halo 3 Beta open? (via The Xbox Domain) - So i was playing Gears of War honing my skills for the new Annex Update and a fellow by the name of wookeman began talking about the latest news. Seemed like he knew what he was talking about, but he was updating us about news that i already knew, so I let him continue talking. | |
2 years ago | |
Devil May Cry 4 New Screens (via Gamer Reports) -- We have a slew of new screens from Devil May Cry 4 for you today. No platform was specified, we assume they are from the PS3 dev unit that the game is being coded on. As you can see, the shots are good looking, but not super-duper. Chances are the 360 and PS3 versions will look identical. | |
2 years ago | |
Gears of War Downloadable Update (via Game Spy) -- Gears of War (X360)Fixes and a new multiplayer mode descend on the popular shooter. | |
2 years ago | |
News: New info released on upcoming Gears of War update (via GamePro) -- According to the Gears of War forums, new details have been released on Annex, Epic's newest addition to the game's multiplayer modes. | |
2 years ago | |
Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Sales Chart (via Kotaku) - You might think gamers are crazy for re-buying Kingdom Hearts II, this week's top selling game in Japan, but keep in mind it comes with a full 3D remake of the Game Boy Advance Kingdom Hearts game complete with voiceovers. If you want to think they're crazy for continuing to buy the same Musou games year after year after year, however, go right ahead. | |
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