Archive for July, 2008

Capcom doesn’t want to water down the gore in Resident Evil5

Capcom has revealed that it will not be cutting down on the amount of gore that will be present in Resident Evil 5 as an attempt to get a lower age certification. “We’re never going to create a gore-free Resident Evil title to try and get a lower rating as it’s a game about the [...]

New Xbox 360 Dashboard: You Don’t Have to Use It

So, for all of you who hated the new dashboard, here’s some good news: it’s optional. You can still use the blades if you don’t like it, so Microsoft is giving you some option.read more | digg story

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Microsoft to Sell Home-brewed Xbox Games, Share Revenue

Calling all garage-game developers: How’d you like a piece of the Xbox 360 market? Small-time gamemakers who create games using Microsoft’s XNA development framework and port them to the Xbox 360’s community games service will soon be able to sell their creations to other Xbox owners.read more | digg story

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Portal Still Alive Will Include New Puzzles, But No New Plot

Speaking with Valve’s Doug Lombardi earlier this week at E3, we got onto the topic of the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade version of Portal. I wanted to know what gamers could expect from the game and why Valve decided to tweak it for the XBLA release.read more | digg story

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Details on the New Xbox Experience

Here are a couple interesting takeaways from our tour of the New Xbox Experience…read more | digg story

A Guitar Hero bot that ‘watches’ the game (+VIDEO)

We’ve seen a lot of Guitar Hero bots in our time, but we’re pretty certain that Mechanized Rock’s take on shredding automatons is something special. The system — dubbed DeepNote — actually watched the on-screen action with “eyes” that it uses to analyze notes, which the bot then plays in real-time.read more | digg story

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Bungie: E3 game announcement pulled by publisher

For the last several months, we’ve been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on. We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher.
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Xbox Rock Band Instruments Work With New Guitar Hero

Own Rock Band instruments on Xbox 360? They’ll work with Guitar Hero World Tour. At Activision’s E3 press conference Tuesday, Guitar Hero director Brian Bright told the crowd that if they already owned guitar controllers and drum controllers from “previous games” on the Xbox 360, they’d work with Guitar Hero World Tour.read more | digg [...]

Why Microsoft Blocked Bungie’s Halo Game Announcement

Don Mattrick explains why Microsoft blocked the planned announcement of a new Bungie Halo game.read more | digg story

Final Fantasy XIII simultaneous release on Xbox 360, PS3

Microsoft has finally brought Final Fantasy to the Xbox 360, will be released same day as PS3 in North America and Europe.
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