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Microsoft Game Studios considers PC, Xbox 360 equal platforms but focuses on Xbox 360 releases first

03 Jul 2008 21:40:29 PDT

Written by Ceasar S.
Inquiry into the six month delay of Mass Effect's inevitable release to the PC unearthed that Microsoft's premier game studio was purposely delaying PC versions so that hardcore PC gamers would buy an Xbox 360 instead. Business development manager Peter Zetterberg of Microsoft Game St...

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Is it time to move over to the PS3?

03 Jul 2008 21:04:22 PDT

Written by Starlight
Blu-Ray Who knows when Microsoft will add an external Blu-ray player to the Xbox 360? In fact, I don’t even know what to do with my HD DVD external drive! But the point is that sooner or later we will be adapting to Blu-ray technology so why not pick up a console that comes standard with it? More...

Original story at ps3news.com .

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WALL-E Review [Wii Xbox 360 PlayStation 3]

03 Jul 2008 10:34:27 PDT

Wall-E is overflowing with charm, but the simple gameplay makes the experience fall flat.

Original story at GameSpot .

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Ninja Gaiden II Xbox 360 Review

03 Jul 2008 07:02:03 PDT

Ninja Gaiden II Interested in picking up this release? Head over to Amazon at the link here Ninja Gaiden II Ninja Gaiden II Xbox 360 Review Publisher: Tecmo/Microsoft Developer: Team Ninja Released: June 3, 2008 The original Ninja Gaiden is still hailed as one of the greatest action game...

Original story at dBTechno .

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WALL-E Xbox 360 Review

03 Jul 2008 06:27:08 PDT

Interested in picking up this release? Head over to Amazon at the link here Wall-E WALL-E Xbox 360 Review Publisher: THQ Developer: Heavy Iron Studios Players: 1 Released: June 24, 2008 WALL-E released in theaters last Friday from Disney and Pixar, as the companies have once again manag...

Original story at dBTechno .

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Frankenreview: Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360) [Roundup]

01 Jul 2008 23:30:00 PDT

Written by Mike Fahey
Battlefield: Bad Company knows what it wants to do and does it. The gameplay is simple and easy to wrap your mind around, but opens up to a lot of different strategies. The explosions are visceral and fun, and the game looks great too. Yeah, I bitched about the color palette, but there are moment...

Original story at Kotaku .

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Xbox 360 news and blogs - July 04, 2008

04 Jul 2008 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Xbox 360 news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Disney’s new Home of the Future -- by Mark Rollins from Gadgetell
• Halo 3: Vidoc: Cold Storage (Xbox 360) -- from VideoGamer.com - Latest Videos
• Major League Baseball 2K6 Cheats and Achievements (Xbox 360) -- from Softpedia News - Global
• Microsoft Experimenting with 3D Games: Chris Satchell -- by Administrator from Game Guru
• Japan: PS3 Catches Up to Wii, Xbox 360 on Life Support -- by Gadgets4Nowt () from Icerocket blog search: Xbox 360
• 10 Minutes of Halo 3 Panoramics -- from Icerocket blog search: Xbox 360
• New patches released for GTA IV -- by John from Icerocket blog search: Xbox 360
• EA sorry over Irish anthem gaffe in UEFA Euro 2008 -- by Alexander Sliwinski from Joystiq
• DualShock 3 And Xbox 360 Frankencontrollers [Modding] -- from Icerocket blog search: Xbox 360
• Why do people become fanboys? -- by Bruce from Bruce On Games

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Preview: Too Human in Ten Hours

30 Jun 2008 07:03:41 PDT

Written by Chris Kohler
This weekend, I played through Too Human, Silicon Knights' upcoming action RPG for Xbox 360. Too Human has been the subject of heated controversy: A disappointing early version shown at E3 built up an army of vocal detractors, and Silicon... Images: Microsoft

Original story at wired.com . Related stories include: Fans Get to Vote on Prince of Persia Achievement - Wired News , Rumor: Metal Gear Solid to Hit XBLA - wired.com and ... Game

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Top Spin 3 Review (Xbox 360) [Geekpulp]

29 Jun 2008 00:34:31 PDT

Written by ahmad
The battle for tennis videogame supremacy mirrors the real life rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Both the Top Spin and Virtua Tennis series are excellent in their own right. 2K Sports served up Top Spin 2 on the Xbox 360 in 2006, and like its predecessor was a highly playable an...

Original story at geekpulp.co.nz .

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Don King Presents Prizefighter Xbox 360 Review

27 Jun 2008 11:56:21 PDT

Don King Presents Prizefighter Interested in picking up this release? Head over to Amazon at the link here Don King Presents: Prize Fighter Don King Presents Prizefighter Xbox 360 Review Developer: Venom Games Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Released: June 9, 2008 Unfortunately, f...

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Opinion: Hands-On: User-Gen Xbox Games Are Rough But Promising

26 Jun 2008 05:28:05 PDT

Written by Chris Kohler
This week, Microsoft provided Wired.com with access to its XNA Creators Club Online, an initiative that lets budding game designers make Xbox 360 games with the company's XNA development framework, then upload them to be critiqued by their peers. Later this year, Microsoft will roll out...

Original story at Wired News . Related stories include: Opinion: Hands-On: User-Gen Xbox Games Are Rough but Promising - wired.com , Opinion: Interview: BioWare's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk Talk Mass Effect - wired.com and ... ps3news.com , Game , MTV Multiplayer

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Frankenreview: Alone In The Dark (Xbox 360)

25 Jun 2008 15:00:00 PDT

Written by Mike Fahey
Sixteen years and three lackluster sequels later, Infogrames subsidiary Atari and developer Eden Games attempt to breath new life (and new death) into the series with an all-new Alone in the Dark, featuring a strangely displaced Edward Carnby in a modern-day setting. New setting, new g...

Original story at Kotaku .

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Battlefield: Bad Company Review (Xbox 360) [Geekpulp]

23 Jun 2008 07:49:13 PDT

Written by Brianemone
Battlefield: Bad Company (BFBC) the game is almost as turbulent an experience as the pre release scandals and media attention that it received for EA’s initial plans to sell weapons already on the disc as downloaded content. With that situation fixed, and the Beta well behind us, we are le...

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Opinion: Metal Gear Solid 4: Best game ever on PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii?

21 Jun 2008 19:41:27 PDT

Written by Starlight
The last game to hold the "best looking game so far" title on consoles was Uncharted Drake’s Fortune, before that it was Bioshock, then Gears of War. Definitely Metal Gear Solid 4 surpasses all of these games in the graphics department. In these previous games low res texture usage were evid...

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Opinion: The Media Center Extender Shootout: 360 vs Linksys vs D-Link Extender

19 Jun 2008 22:02:29 PDT

Written by XanTium
Vista Media Center really sets itself apart from any other DVR solution out there, and the single greatest advantage Vista Media Center (VMC) has over the other options -- like the TiVo HD -- is the ability to have multiple Media Center Extenders. There really isn't any better way out there...

Original story at Xbox-Scene .

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Opinion: What one Xbox Dad got for Father's Day

16 Jun 2008 04:16:00 PDT

Written by JasonBuffington
Chessmaster – I had recently purchased Chessmaster Live from Xbox Live for my sons and I to play in single-player mode, when we couldn’t play each other (read the review from Duncan in an earlier Xbox Dad column). But since I travel a lot and my Xbox 360™ doesn’t work at 30,000 feet, my kids bou...

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Opinion: Is the PS3 finally the world's best console?

14 Jun 2008 23:25:10 PDT

Written by Starlight
Sony launched the PlayStation 3 (PS3) a year and a half ago, but Nintendo and Microsoft, with the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 respectively, appear to have the bragging rights in the console market. The benefits of Blu-Ray: Blu-Ray's win over HD-DVD gives Sony an edge

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Review: Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 for Xbox 360

12 Jun 2008 07:41:27 PDT

Written by Kenneth England
Revivals of classic games can always be a dicey affair, resulting in a version of a game that is poorly translated, too out of sync with modern gaming or just plain sucks. Luckily for Xbox 360 owners the newest Arcade offering from Capcom, Commando 3, is none of these things.

Original story at Geek.com .

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Opinion: Ones to Watch: Xbox 360 Releases for June 2008

04 Jun 2008 03:08:34 PDT

Written by Joe Haygood
George got so deep into Halo 3 this month that the Covenant couldn’t even find him, so I am going to try to fill in his MJOLNIR shaped boots for the Ones to Watch on the Xbox 360 in the month of June. There is a rather large list of games coming to those that [...]

Original story at Aeropause Games .

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Review : Ninja Gaiden 2 for Xbox 360

03 Jun 2008 01:38:39 PDT

This is the first true sequel to the Xboxen Uno's Ninja Gaiden since Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden Sigma were sort of remixes of the first game. Well I shouldn't say the first Ninja Gaiden game since Tecmo also made an arcade game back in the 80s, three sweet 8-bit Nintendo games, a PC Eng...

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Opinion: Microsoft Responds To April NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]

15 May 2008 18:30:23 PDT

Written by Michael McWhertor
Xbox 360 has a record-setting attach rate of 7.6 games per console, the highest attach rate in history for a console at this point in its lifecycle. (April NPD data) Xbox 360 games accounted for three of the top ten games in April, and secured the #1 spot with “Grand Theft Auto IV.” (April NPD dat...

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Opinion: Stubbs the Zombie coming to Xbox Originals : There will be BRAINS!

14 May 2008 01:54:17 PDT

Major Nelson and Gamerscore blog let the word out that Stubbs the Zombie was headed for sale on Xbox Live as an Xbox Originals on May 19th. Stubbs is a great game that has been hard to find as of late. It was built on the Halo engine but it is not as easy to find as Halo. This is great news and I can’t thin...

Original story at 8Bit Joystick.com .

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Manufacturer Says Xbox 360 Blu-ray Coming This Year

02 May 2008 00:42:29 PDT

Written by Posted by forahobby
It won't be the first time we've heard talk about Microsoft gloming on to the format, as the DigiTimes recently pegged manufacturer Lite-On as a Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive maker and Sony executives hinted that its competitor was feeling Blu to the Financial Times. MS CEO Steve Ballmer recentl...

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GTA IV Locks Up on PS3, But Not on Xbox 360

29 Apr 2008 22:22:20 PDT

Written by Posted by forahobby
Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the largest game launches of 2008 and already there are reports from many sources on the web that GTA IV is locking up (freezing) on the Playstation 3. Has your Xbox 360 Version Locked up?? 360-Hq Game Database: Grand Theft Auto IV for Xbox 360

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Opinion: Call of Duty 4 shoots to the top

13 Nov 2007 13:39:28 PST

Written by Posted by wes213
Nintendo once again bucked that trend, however, as both its Brain Training titles rose up the top ten to take sixth (Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training) and seventh (More Brain Training From Dr. Kawashima) ahead of The Sims 2: Castaway (down one place), Ratatouille (down five places to nine) a...

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Opinion: Game Head features Prestige Mode Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

20 Oct 2007 21:03:39 PDT

Written by Glen D.
This week's episode over at Game Head yielded an interesting surprise. It turns out that they had a short chat with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3) developers Infinity Ward, and during the interview, a new game mode was unveiled.

Original story at Xbox 360 .

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