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by Published on August 1st, 2008 22:36
Bethesda's Peter Hines has explained why the software Hines, who was in London to show off the mighty fine looking Fallout 3, told TechRadar that the Xbox 360 was very much Bethesda's lead machine on the title.
"If you have the PC as your lead machine you have the problem of not knowing what configurations people have, how many gigs of RAM or what graphics card they have," explained Hines.
"Obviously we are more familiar with the Xbox because we are familiar and the other thing is that the Xbox is much easier to take to tech shows.
"We can just pop the hard-drive off the Xbox and put it on any machine which is an advantage. Taking the PC or PS3 to these things just isn't convenient."
Hines also talked about the downloadable content for Fallout 3 insisting that exclusive for Xbox 360 and PC meant exactly that.
"When I say exclusive I mean it is exclusive to just the Xbox 360 and PC.
"If you want to play the Fallout 3 downloadable content you will need to have an Xbox 360 or a PC."
Finally, Hines was good enough to confirm that there are plans to extend the Fallout franchise to a fourth game.
"We didn't buy the Fallout franchise to just do Fallout 3 and then stop," he said.
"But let's get this one out of the door before we worry about the next one."
Via techradar ...by Published on August 1st, 2008 12:20
Here is a round up of the reviews have have been posted on DCEmu recently:
Xbox 360 & PS3
Soulcalibur IV
Unreal Tournament III
Nintendo DS
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution ...by Published on August 1st, 2008 11:18
Tales of Vesperia is launching in Japan soon. August 7th, actually. And some people seem pretty excited. It's the tenth entry in the Tales series. The Namco Bandai title is an Xbox 360 exclusive, so that just might mean that Microsoft will move more than it's standard 3,000 Xbox 360s a week in Japan. Or not.
As of posting, Amazon Japan is sold out of new HDMI Xbox 360s (but does have Elites). HAPPINET, one of the major Xbox 360 distributors in Japan, are sold out of everything but the Elite. According to game store clerk threads on 2ch, the Xbox 360 will be restocked after Tales of Vesperia is released. What's more, the Tales of Versperia bundle is apparently limited to something like 7,000.
The reason for the shortages?
According to a 2ch. shop clerks thread, the problem is on the distribution end for the Tales of Vesperia bundle. And for the regular Xbox 360s, there could be increasing demand for Tales and other Japan-specific Xbox 360 titles. That, and the fact that there really weren't that many consoles in stock to begin with. Retailers obviously don't want to get burnt. Then there's always the matter of clearing out space for the new 60GB SKU.
Others think that the shortage is on purpose, because HAPPINET is run by Namco Bandai. Hey, if shortages work for Nintendo! Then again, this isn't Nintendo... This is Xbox Japan. They probably want to move as many consoles as possible.
But does that mean it's impossible to get an Xbox 360 in Japan at the moment? No, obviously not. Commenter Muu was recently in Tokyo for THE iDOLM@STER concert, telling us "I did see 360s still sitting around, but then again that's one of the biggest electronics hubs in the largest metropolitan area."
Via Kotaku ...by Published on July 30th, 2008 14:19
Halo 3 manages to hold of COD4 for another week, for most played Xbox 360 game on LIVE. Could this be a permanent return after COD4 kicked Halo 3 of the charts all those months ago? Or how long will the reduced price maps (and 1 free map) effect last?
In other news, Too Human Demo stays in the top 10, proving to be popular despite the negative online publicity. Also 10 NCAA Football 09 sneaks into tenth place.
In the Arcade, 1942: Joint Strike has a good start on top, (look out for a review on DCEmu soon). But Go! Go! Break Steady which also début this week, is a no show in the top 10.
Next Week: How will the mighty Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 perform?
LIVE Activity for week of July 21st
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty 4
3 GTA IV
4 Gears of War
5 Guitar Hero III
6 Rock Band
7 Battlefield: Bad Company
8 Too Human Demo
9 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
10 NCAA Football 09
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 1942: Joint Strike
2 UNO
3 Golf: Tee It Up!
4 SOULCALIBUR
5 N+
6 DOOM
7 Worms
8 Marble Blast Ultra
9 Geometry Wars Evolved
10 Puzzle Quest ...by Published on July 29th, 2008 10:03
MS has announced the Xbox LIVE Arcade "Summer of Arcade" with the full line up of XBLA games this summer with a chance to win prizes!
Play the trial or full version of the featured Summer of Arcade game of the week and receive one entry into both the weekly prize drawing and Grand Prize drawings:
* Grand Prize (x1) – 100,000 Microsoft Points, 12 month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription and an Xbox 360 Elite console
* Runner-Up Prizes (x2) – 10,000 Microsoft points and a free 12 Month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription
* Weekly Prizes (x5) – 4000 Microsoft points
The full “Summer of Arcade” lineup is:
* July 30: “Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2” – Available at 800 Microsoft Points.
* August 6: “Braid”
* August 13: “Bionic Commando: Rearmed”
* August 20: “Galaga Legions”
* August 27: “Castle Crashers”
“Summer of Arcade” sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the 50 United States or District of Columbia 17+. ...by Published on July 29th, 2008 09:48
Nintendo has just announced that it and 54 game software companies are filing a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court again "R4 Revolution for DS"-type devices, using the Unfair Competition Prevention Law as the legal grounding. Nintendo is asking for the cease of marketing, sales and importation of these Chinese-made devices. The R4 allows easy software piracy by fitting right into the DS's cartridge slot. Data is stored on a Micro SD and downloaded from websites via a flash drive, and the R4 has a small slot that the Micro SD card goes into. In a statement released today, Nintendo announced that these R4 devices "allow illegal uploading from the internet", adding that "it is causing severe damage to our company and software makers, and this is something that we cannot possibly overlook." In conclusion, Nintendo adds that such devices hurts the growth of the entire game industry and steps must be taken regarding the legality of R4 carts. It's important to note that this legal injunction is for Japan only.
Back in November 2007, Nintendo announced that it was "keeping a close eye on the products and studying them." Earlier this spring, Nintendo apparently pressured Akihabara retailers to stop carrying the popular R4 carts.
A list of some of the companies who along with Nintendo have filed in this suit.
Arc System Works
SNK
Capcom
Koei
Jaleco
Square Enix
Sega
Taito
Takara Tomy
Tecmo
Hudson
Bandai Namco Games
The Pokémon Company
Yukes
Level Five
via Kotaku ...by Published on July 28th, 2008 15:03
Microsoft expects the Ninja Gaiden 2 mission pack will return to Xbox Live sometime today.
The mission mode pack was released last Friday and then yanked down after it caused technical problems like systems freezing.
Most of the niggles have been fixed, according to Gamerscoreblog, and those who already have the DLC can begin playing again.
The Ninja Gaiden 2 pack adds 12 karma and 12 survival missions; the former is based on totting up the highest score, while the latter offers you one weapon to fend off an endless stream of baddies.
The mission pack costs 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) and also incorporates 10 extra Achievements.
Via Eurogamer ...by Published on July 28th, 2008 13:04
OK, this is hard to run down exactly, because there's a Live Weekend going on right now, which means you can play online for free on Xbox Live. But reader Draco, a Silver level gamer, says that he's been playing cross-platform multiplayer games for free since Wednesday night, which precedes the Live Weekend (which started at midnight Friday.) I checked his Gamercard and, yeah, he played Shadowrun online on Thursday.
It seems that ending the gold/silver distinction in Games for Windows Live (effectively making it free) might have had the same effect for those who game on titles that are both PC and 360. A commenter on Xbox Live forums found that Shadowrun online play was free, for example. Reader Draco, who spotted this, says it works for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition and Universe at War: Earth Assault, too.
We'll have to check back after the weekend ends. But bigger picture, could this — don't get your hopes up, but it's gotta be on everyone's mind — mean that Xbox Live may eventually convert to a free model for all multiplayer gaming too?
Via kotaku ...by Published on July 28th, 2008 12:23
xhavok87 reports that he has managed to get the leaked Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard running on a modded Xbox 360. He has posted a video of it running.
Posted at xhavok87
Well as of today the new “XBox Experience” Fall Dashboard has been leaked on the web and I had a chance to crack at it. There is a strange problem which I have been working hard at trying to crack but seems almost impossible without modded Xbox 360. You have to burn the “Update” to a CD-R or DVD then insert into your Xbox 360 and do the following if you are curious…
Update 9
It has finally been done but NOTE, only modded systems at this point are able to do the install. The process is quite easy if you cannot figure it out but will not be released at this time. A fellow member here by the name of xg4m3r has discovered a path for modded consoles to install the update as you can see in the video above. Like I said in update 8 we are still working on this process to see if we can manage anything on retail consoles. We are not releasing anything at this time but more news is to come soon. Enjoy for tonight because tomorrow should be a whole other day! See you soon!
...by Published on July 25th, 2008 20:26
technik post in the Wiibrew forums
Hello, my nick is technik and I'm the developper of the Revoluion Engine....
It is a 3D games Engine for Wii. With it you may be able to easily create cool 3D homebrew games for you Wii's and publish them. Now it's still a "little baby" so many of it's features aren't available yet, but i'm already working for the next release.This is the download link:http://cjk80cf98289.googlepages.com/...Enginev0.1.rar. The main page of the project is http://www.revolutiongameengine.blogspot.com with videos and more, but it's all in spanish (because I am Spanish) as well as the license of the engine. So I think it is a good Idea to type some features here in inglish so you all know what this is able to do:
-Allows you to render full 3D Scenes in real time on your Wii with multiple dynamic Objects wich have Mesh and Texture (only one channel textures right now).
-Allows you to render 2D images over the 3D image to use as panels, texts, etc...Using simple png files so you can use it for 3Dgames, 2D games or a combination of both.
-A vector Based Cameras system that allows you to make target, first person, third person, free cameras, or any kind of cameras you want.
-Mesh loading from it's own file format, so performance is improved. This format is free, plain text, and easy to understand so anyone can make exporters or conversors from other formats.
-Texture Loading from png files using frontier's pngu library.
Great improvements are comming.
I'm going to translate it into English, gonna make some examples as well. I hope you enjoy this and make cool 3D games using it- Search DCEmu
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