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The Times and the Guardian Review “Ninja Garden” 2008-06-12 08:56:19 I can understand how one person could make a typo on the name “Ninja
Gaiden” to “Ninja Garden
” but it’s slightly odd when two major UK news papers make the exact same mistake? Could it be a case of journalists using “Cut & Paste”?
From Times
Online “Ninja Garden” Review
From the Guardian
“Ninja Garden” Review
Xbox 360 Gamerchart Update 2008-06-12 08:30:48 A little update on the Achievement points chart system. It’s now producing graphs which are about 98% there. As i can’t access back dated gamerscores anyone tat wishes to graph their gamerscore over time will need to enter their xbox live gamertag and then come back later when they’ve unlocked some points
Currently I’m polling [...] Read more:Xbox
, Update
Xbox 360 Gamerscore Graphs and Charts 2008-06-10 09:43:47 I’m not obsessed with getting achievement points and increasing my Gamerscore (others will probably disaagree), I do however enjoy the challenge of completing a specific task. Overall achievement points and the whole Gamerscore system seems to work really well, it often spurs me on to finish games and tasks that I otherwise might not bother [...] Read more:Xbox
, Charts
Using your PC as an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter 2008-05-12 17:21:03 If like me your XBox 360 is in a separate room from your router you’ll probably want to connect it to your internet connection via wireless. However the Xbox
360 doesn’t come with a wireless adapter built in, Microsoft sell a Wireless
Bridge however it’s costs updwards of £50. If however you have a PC [...] Read more:Adapter
My Favourite 7 Arcade Games Within Games 2008-05-08 17:31:30 Playing a video game within the game world of a game itself is becoming increasily common. As these video games become more realistic it’s more and more likely we’ll be coming across games within games. Some of these mini-games have been so popular that they’ve spawned versions of their own on other platforms either in [...] Read more:Favourite
, Games
Welcome Back! 2008-04-21 16:23:27 It’s only taken about a year or more but i’ve finally started to get the site sorted out again. If i’m honest the only reason i’ve had got around to it is becuase my second Xbox 360 had the Red Ring of Death again. Read more:Welcome
, Welcome Back
Xbox 360 Grand Theft Auto IV (4) 2008-07-08 06:09:48 I’m probably leaving it a bit late to start talking about GTA 4, it’s already been written about hundreds and thousands of times, but anyway…
I was looking forward to this game more than any other release this year, I’d had it on pre-order from before the orginal 2007 launch date that was delayed. The day [...] Read more:Xbox
, Grand
, Grand Theft
, Grand Theft Auto
Halo Board Game on the way 2008-07-03 04:02:32 You can get pretty much Halo anything these days, Halo figures, Halo T-shirts, Halo Teapots, etc OK I made the last one up
Now however, there’s a board game on the way based around the Microsoft/Bungie franchise. The press release gives some details on the the format of the board game, including information about [...] Read more:Board
Gears of War 2 (GOW 2) Leaked Footage 2008-06-26 04:24:00 Someone, somewhere has leaked some Gears
of War 2 Beta footage onto YouTube, the quality is far from great but there’s some interesting stuff in there, Check it out below: Read more:Footage
Another Xbox 360 Motion Controller Rumour 2008-07-10 03:51:30 Microsoft recently dissmissed the rumours of an Xbox
360 Motion
Controller, however the latest issue of Xbox360World magazine has a insider that claims that the project is actually real and that the technology being used to create the controller is from a company called Motus that’s already currently producing other motion controllers.
The controller called nick-named [...]
Rumored Guitar Hero : World Tour Set List 2008-07-24 04:30:50 A rumoured Guitar
Hero: World
Tour set list on GoNintendo looks very promising, there’s a good variation of songs included, hopefully confirmation of whether this is the real deal or not will come soon.
There were some odd spelling mistakes in the original which is kind of suspicious
Eagle Rock High School Tour:
Dope Nose by [...] Read more:World Tour
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo is up! 2008-08-21 10:24:10 The long awaited demo for Star Wars
: The ForceUnleashed
is now live on Xbox Live. It’s come sin at aroun 904MB, the reviews of the demo so far have been really positive. I’ve yet to givce it a go myself (being at work and everything) however I’ll be downloading it ASAP!
Xbox 360 has more developers than other consoles 2008-08-15 05:49:16 A recent survey conducted by Game Developer Research has reported that there are more developers currently working on xbox 360 projects than on any other console. Whilst I like hearing this kind of thing it’s hard not to wonder how accurate this type of survey actually is.
The results were:
Xbox
360: 78%
Playstation 3: 58%
Nintendo Wii: 42%
What [...] Read more:consoles
Xbox Live to host an election poll 2008-09-11 06:46:53 The xbox 360 will soon be hosting an election poll that will allow members to vote and show who they’ll be supporting in the upcoming US General Election. I’m not sure what the demographic for Xbox
live is, but i’m sure it’s probably fairly young, however it’ll be interesting to see what the results are [...] Read more:Xbox Live
GTA IV DLC more likely to be released in Jan/Feb 2009 2008-08-28 14:02:15 A source that’s apparently close to Rockstar has said that it’s unlikley that the Grand Theft Auto 4 Downloadable Content will be available this year. I’ve previosuly heard dates of November 2008 but according to this source it’s more likely
to be January or Febuary 2008.
Will people still care about GTA in 4 - 5 [...]
New Saints Row 2 Trailer Shows the Ronin Gang 2008-08-27 15:33:32 THe most recent Saints
Row 2 trailer covers one of the gangs from the sequel. The trailer contains some pretty neat graphic violence, which we always like to see. I enjoyed the first Saints Row, even if it was just something to fill the void before GTA IV. Check out the video below: Read more:Trailer
, Ronin
Nintendo Announces DSi 2008-10-02 04:56:18 Nintendo’s new DSi has officially been announced, it boasts some new features such as SD card support, two cameras and slightly larger screens, whilst at the same time being 12% slimmer than it’s predercessor the DS Lite.
Here’s a list of the new Nintendo DSi features:
Larger Screens (increased from 3 inches to 3.25 inches)
Built in SD [...] Read more:Nintendo
Barack Obama Wins Xbox Live Election Poll 2008-09-24 08:31:37 Not far off a 100,000 Xbox
Live users voted in the unofficial Xbox Live Rock the Vote election poll. According to Eurogamer, Barack
recieved 43% of the votes with McCain managed 31%., afurther 13% of registered memeber said they were undecided.
Below is a visual aid Read more:Obama
, Election
, Barack Obama
Rock Band 1 to Finally be released in Australia 2008-09-22 11:42:59 With Rock Band 2 almost upon us, it’s kind of strange to think that those down under have yet to officially have the first Rock Band, However come November they will have it. It’s apparently going to be priced at $250AUD (~£115).
I really like Rock Band and I’d be kind of pissed off if it [...] Read more:Finally
, Australia
Online Xbox Live Subscriptions from instantxboxlive.com 2008-09-22 03:47:47 Something I almost envy about Playstation 3 owners is the fact they don’t have to pay to for their online service. I’ve been renewing my gold subscription on credit card for the last 3 or four years and although it’s once a year it’s not cheap. However now you can renew your Xbox
Live subscription [...]
Google to Acquire Valve? 2008-09-19 09:49:31 Accorsing to some sources shortly there will be an annoucement that Google
is to acquire Source game engine developers Valve
, which would also include the Steam game distribution platform. Quite why Google would purchase Valve is a mystery to me? Maybe Half Life 2: Episode 3 will be free?
More information on Google possible [...] Read more:Acquire
Xbox 360 Price Cut to Boost Sales 2008-09-18 06:26:27 The recent Xbox
360 price cut announcement is expected to boost the sales of the console considerably. The reduction in price makes the Xbox 360 the cheapest current generation games console on the market.
The price cut was accidentally leaked by retail store Woolworths and is confirmed as below:
Arcade Unit - £129.99
Premium Unit - £169.99
Elite Unit [...] Read more:Boost
, Sales
Guitar Hero : World Tour to feature MIDI Sequencer 2008-09-18 03:41:30 First there were rumours of Guitar
Hero World
Tour including a Keyboard instrument, that was denied by Neversoft, now Neversoft project director Brian Bright has revealed that the new intrument is actually a feature
of the game rather than a piece of hardware.
The feature will basically allow players to transfer MIDI data to the game [...] Read more:Guitar Hero
, World Tour
Peter Moore Interview on Guardian Technology 2008-09-17 05:46:50 I just came across the last part in a three part interview with PeterMoore
on GuardianTechnology
.
There’s some great information in there related to the end of the Xbox 1 and why Microsoft pushed the Xbox 360 so early on, according to Moore the hard drive in the original Xbox made it incredibly expensive [...]
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