Nvidia signs up for Nordic Game conference
GamesIndustry.biz :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Graphics processor specialist Nvidia has signed up to be a primary sponsor for this year’s Nordic Game conference, which will take place in Malmö, Sweden next month.
Xbox 360 ad banned over dangerous driving
GamesIndustry.biz :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
An TV advertisement for the Xbox 360 has been banned in the UK because it promotes and glamorises dangerous driving.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent (PS3)Sam is back and ready to crack skulls!
Splinter Cell Double Agent Screens
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent (PS3)My name is Sam. Now die.
MLB 2K7 Postmortem
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Major League Baseball 2K7 (PS3)We look ahead to MLB 2K8 and get a peek at The Bigs with the game’s producer.
IGN is AFK Podcast: Under Review
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
We re-examine the games of March.
IGN’s Guide to HDTV
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
New microsite compendium of HD resources.
SmackDown! Vs. Raw 2008 Video Interview
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (PS3)Creative Director Corey Ledesma talks about the new features in 2008.
A Night in Fantasia 2007 – The Track List
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Australia’s premier videogame orchestra confirm their set.
Top 10 Tuesday: Most Wanted Rock Bands
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
For those about to rock, we salute you.
Enchanted Arms Review
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Enchanted Arms (PS3)A turn-based RPG hits the PS3 — pizza monster included!
Videogame U
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
IGN heads back to school to examine a university specializing in videogame design. Your dream now comes with a syllabus.
Rock Band Instruments Priced
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Rock Band (PS3)Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Enchanted Arms Images
IGN Playstation 3 :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Enchanted Arms (PS3)Look, ma — golems!
Gears of War Patch Coming Next Monday, Annex Revealed
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
As the name suggested, Annex is a territory based game mode. You have to keep control over key map locations, or objectives, long enough to collect a winning number of points.
Konami to Bring Super Contra to Xbox Live Arcade
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Konami plans to bring 1988’s sequel to Contra to Xbox Live Arcade.
Nintendo’s Wii Sales Double Those of Sony’s PS3 in Japan
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Since both consoles launched in Japan, Nintendo has sold more than twice as many Wii game consoles as Sony has sold of its PlayStation 3.
DisplayPort Approved as Industry Standard
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Designed to replace DVI, and eventually VGA, DisplayPort is a next generation licensefree audio/video digital interface intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor or a hometheater system.
Molyneux Receives French Honor
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The French Government has bestowed on Peter Molyneux the Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres (The Knighthood in the Order of Arts and Letters).
Bungie Upgrades Game Stats Servers for Halo 2, Halo 3
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Bungie has upgraded the servers that receives stats uploads from the Xbox for display on bungie.net.
EB Leaks Prices of Rock Band Accessories
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Find out how much the drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals for Rock Band will cost.
Forza Motorsport 2 Update, Demo Confirmed!
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
This update focus on the new stuff that the power of the Xbox 360 hardware has made possible. Aftermarket production car list revealed!
Sensible World of Soccer Update
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Sensible World of Soccer has been listed as one of the ten most influential games of all time at this years Game Developers Conference. The game is launching on Xbox Live Arcade this summer.
Luxor 2 Available Now for Download from Xbox Live
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
As the second installment of the awardwinning PC game and sequel to the #1 casual game of 2005, Luxor 2 makes its debut today on the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade.
Xbox Disc Replacement Program Kicks Off
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
If you have a damaged Xbox 360 disc of a Microsoftpublished game, you can now get a replacement. Find out which titles apply for this new program.
Vampire Rain Screenshots
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
We bring you the first screenshots of the U.S. version of Vampire Rain, a game that combines stealth, survival horror and shooter aspects of several classic games.
Project Sylpheed Screenshots
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
We bring you new screenshots of Project Sylpheed, a space combat game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Game Arts and Seta Corporation for Square Enix.
Guitar Hero II Rock, Paint, Bid Celebrity Auction
Team Xbox :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Celebrities from the music, film, art and sport worlds have used their creative talents to design and personalize 30 Guitar Hero II video game controllers for auction online to benefit MusiCares.
Treit & True: Upcoming Innovations
Xbox 360 Games :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Ryan highlights upcoming innovation in some of 2007’s most anticipated games, from E3 2006, to the latest and most anticipated releases.
Hardcore Warfighter
Xbox 360 Games :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Hardcore gets back to his tactical roots with a few home-brewed challenges for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.
Forza Motorsport 2 Demo Announced
Xbox 360 Games :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Soon you’ll be taking Forza Motorsport 2 for a test drive on Xbox Live Marketplace—the rumors this week of a downloadable demo are true, details on timing will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
First Serve on Xbox 360
Xbox 360 Games :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
We take a look at Virtua Tennis 3 for Xbox 360 to see what refinements have been made to this hit series for its debut on a next-gen console.
Hard Drive Price is Fair Says Microsoft
Xbox-Scene :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
From next-gen.biz (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5119&Itemid=2 ): [QUOTE] Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has been defending the price of its $180 120 Gig hard drive for Xbox 360, from consumer criticism that it is too expensive. Speaking to weekly podcast Game Theory he said, “We know it is expensive and we have definitely heard that feedback but it is a little apples and oranges to compare it to internal PC hard drives because those are off the shelf drives that you have to install yourself. You have to format those and figure out how you are going to move your content over. There is a lot of work there for your average consumer it is not a plug in and play experience for them.” “What we have done is release a smaller laptop size drive. If you compare what we are offering with a real plug-and-play drive the closest thing would be to take a 120 gig self-powered external PC drive and in that case we are seeing those retail at anywhere from $160 to $200 for comparable laptop sized external hard drives.” [/QUOTE] Anyway, those who don’t want to pay Microsoft’s ‘premium’ price will probably be able to install their own 120gb Western Digital SATA BEVS HDD using TheSpecialists HDDHackr(info (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/HDDHackr.php )) tool with the ‘sector 16’ taken from an original 120GB Xbox360 HDD. Full Story: next-gen.biz (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5119&Itemid=2 )
Xbox360 Advert Banned for ‘glamorising street car racing’
Xbox-Scene :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
From Reuters via Yahoo (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070403/tuk-uk-britain-xbox-fa6b408.html ): [QUOTE] A television advertisement for the Xbox 360 games console must be pulled after the industry watchdog criticised it for “glamorising street car racing”. The Advertising Standards Agency said the advertisement, which featured a driver weaving in and out of traffic, being chased through a busy city centre, “could be seen to condone dangerous driving”. It showed the car overturning and the driver getting out and being handed a police badge by his pursuers. They had deliberately placed prominent onscreen text in the film, such as “Dramatisation. Professional stunt. Do not attempt”, to explain that all stunts were performed in controlled environments by professionals and that viewers should not attempt the stunts themselves. The ASA said it had noted the on-screen text, but it considered that the text “reinforced the sense that the events were real, rather than fantasy, and were therefore capable of being copied”. It ruled the advertisement breached health and safety and driving standards rules, and should not be broadcast again. [/QUOTE] Looking at the description, they are probably talking about this “Cops and Robbers” EU Xbox360 commercial (thx to sr_sparky) … weird thing is this tv-spot dates back from October 2006 … afaik they didn’t air it anymore for months: Full Story: news.yahoo.com (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070403/tuk-uk-britain-xbox-fa6b408.html )
Spring Update May Upgrade ‘Play Game’ Verbiage
Xbox-Scene :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
From xbox360fanboy.com (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/04/03/spring-update-may-upgrade-play-game-verbiage/ ): [QUOTE] If you’ve listened to our most recent Fancast with guest Major Nelson, you’ll know that he dropped a hint to what one of the new features will be for the Spring dashboard update. Major said that a new dash feature is one of those “simple things that I’ve been asking for since launch” and after doing some research, we think we’ve figured it out. Major has always been vocal about including some way to show what game is in the DVD drive, because right now it only says “Play Game” on the bottom when a game is in the drive. So, we’re thinking the update will get rid of the “Play Game” text and display the name of the game that is in the drive, something along the lines of “Play Gears of War” or “Play Crackdown”. [/QUOTE] Full Story: xbox360fanboy.com (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/04/03/spring-update-may-upgrade-play-game-verbiage/ )
InFeCtuS Modchip Adds Xbox360 Flash Mem. Access
Xbox-Scene :: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
We received this email from Team InFeCtuS (http://www.infectus.biz/news.php?news=2007-04-03%2023.43.15 ) about their versatile multi-platform InFeCtuS modchip (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEZuypEFuFPSjhAMwt.php ). They now made it possible for the InFeCtuS to access (read/write) the Xbox360 NAND flash (were dash/kernel/… are stored). At this moment it’s not very useful for the normal end user (as downgrading the new 4552 kernel isn’t possible atm due the eFuse MS blew up), but it’s a cheap and easy way for developers and researchers to read/write and soon on-the-fly patch the Xbox360 NAND flash – so they can experiment as much as they want: [QUOTE] Here in attachment the diagram to connect INFECTUS to the X360 NAND Flash. We spoke with some hackers about a way to give a good tool to try to trick the eFUSE… right now INFECTUS is like a PROGRAMMER… in the next weeks we want to add a “patching” utility. We want to use the onboard flash of the INFECTUS to store some strings of bytes that INFECTUS can patch on-the-fly on the BIOS. The idea is that the developers will have a nice tool that can be used to store data strings inside the flash of the modchip, then tell to the FPGA to replace on-the-fly that strings when requested… The user can define what the “conditions” are to allow a patch on-the-fly, like “wait this byte and overwrite it with XXX bytes” etc… I hope you understand our idea… it will not be so simple to do but it is possible, and with this nice tool the developers and hackers have an unbelievable and cheaper way to try what all what’s impossible! FUCK THE eFUSE… and I’m sure is possible! ;) Tomorrow a new version of the PROGRAMMER will be released with the new options to manage the NAND X360 FLASH. (http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/xbox360/infectus/Xbox360_1.JPG )[/QUOTE] Official Site: www.infectus.biz (http://www.infectus.biz )
