Tomorrow Microsoft is planning an announcement during the Pac-Man world championship. No one really knows what the announcement will be but one wonders why they would do it at a Pac-Man event. We will have to wait and see I guess.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Canadian newspaper reveals the name of the Halo 3 armor types!
Of all places to report on the following, a Canadian newspaper is reporting on the names of the different armor that will be available in Halo 3. How this newspaper got a hold of this information before anyone else is beyond me.
Teamxbox.com was the first to report on this:
Remember the new Halo 3 helmets revealed last week? They resembled those seen in the upcoming first-person shooter HAZE and Star Wars: Republic Commando. Now, following the Gamepro preview, The Toronto Sun has revealed further information regarding these armors; yes, that’s plural.
The article on this Canadian newspaper revealed that there will be different armors for you to wear in Halo 3 multiplayer. The story revealed two of them; the CQB (close-quarters battle) and the EVA (extra-vehicular activity) armors. It seems you’ll be able to choose a certain type of battle armor for your Spartan to wear, with these armors providing certain strengths (ex: melee combat) while also make you more vulnerable in other areas as a required trade-off that assures a balanced gameplay.
It remains to be seen if there are more armor types.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Mark Rein on Gears of War going to the PS3: "Complete bullshit"!
Last week a rumor began to circulate about Epic Games wanting to port Gears of War to the PS3. Apparently Epic Games and Microsoft has had a rock relationship as of late and that is the reason.
Epic's vice president Mark Rein has cleared up this rumor that began on a PS3 website.
"This story is complete bull****. I emailed the site and asked them to take it down. We're very happy with our relationship with Microsoft. If it weren't for them Gears wouldn't be the huge hit it has become."
People need to realize something, when a game is published by Microsoft Game Studios it is an intellectual IP that Microsoft owns. A Microsoft Game Studios game will "NEVER" appear on another system, so why these rumors pop up is beyond me.
A perfect example of this is Bizarre Creations's Project Gotham racing series. Bizarre is not a Microsoft owned studio but Microsoft owns the PGR series that Bizarre produces and that is why you will never see a PGR game on another system.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Could the mighty Halo 3 delay the release of GTA IV?
Now we all know how big the Halo franchise is, but is it big enough to delay the release of GTA IV? it's possible, according to Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter.
"We believe that it is possible that the company will choose to 'throw in the towel' on [its 2007 financial year] by shifting the release date for Grand Theft Auto IV by a few weeks, increasing the losses incurred this year and improving the company's prospects for FY:08." Take-Two's financial year ends on October 31, 2007.
Pachter gave another rationale for a GTA IV delay: namely, that moving it to early November would put more space between GTA IV and Halo 3, which is arriving September 25. "We believe that a two-week delay would provide a reasonable gap between the launch of Halo 3 and the launch of GTA IV, and would actually help sales of both games,"
You can read the rest of the article here!!
XBOX LIVE activity for the week of 5/28/07!
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s)
1 Gears of War
2 Crackdown
3 Halo 3 Beta
4 DiRT Demo
5 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
6 Guitar Hero II
7 Forza Motorsport 2
8 Call Of Duty 3
9 Aegis Wing
10 GRAW 2
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Rush'n Attack
2 Double Dragon
3 XEVIOUS
4 UNO
5 Soltrio Solitaire
6 TMNT 1989 Arcade
7 3D Ultra™ Minigolf Adventures
8 Pinball FX
9 Worms
10 Castlevania: SOTN
Original Xbox Top Live Games
1 Halo 2
2 Battlefield 2: MC
3 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
4 Counter-Strike
5 Forza Motorsport
6 Madden NFL 07
7 Call of Duty 3
8 Splinter Cell Chaos
9 Ghost Recon 2
10 FIFA 07
Top 10 Weekly Movie
1 Flags of Our Fathers (HD)
2 Blood Diamond (HD)
3 Happy Feet (HD)
4 Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
5 Employee of the Month (HD)
6 Open Water 2 (HD)
7 The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (Unrated)
8 Jackass Number Two
9 The Departed (HD)
10 Poison Ivy 2
Top 10 Weekly TV Titles
1 South Park (HD)
2 Game Head
3 Comedy Central Stand Up
4 The Animatrix
5 Taboo
6 Enterprise (HD)
7 Robot Chicken
8 CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK
9 Fights (HD)
10 Babylon 5
Friday, June 1, 2007
Free Lost Planet map drops June 7th!
If you are one of the people who bought the Lost Planet collectors edition than this story isn't for you because you already have it.
Next week, Capcom is releasing a multiplayer map called, Battleground that was only found in the collectors edition for free over XBOX LIVE.
That's great news for all of you penny pinchers out there because after next week, you will now be playing with the cool kids at recess.
Games for the week of 6/4/07!
Call of Juarez
Ships 6/5/07
Fight your way through the Wild West, birthplace of the term "shooter," in the only game to give you an authentic look into the Old West and all its glory through the eyes of the hunter AND the hunted. South Texas. 1882. Billy Candle has just turned 19 and he stands accused of murdering his mother and stepfather. Hot on his trail is Reverend Ray McCall, his stepfather's brother and an infamous gunfighter who believes the Lord has chosen him to be Billy's judge, jury and executioner. Call of Juarez is an epic western adventure about vengeance, survival and the search for a legendary lost treasure.
The above list was compiled by release dates from Ebgames.com and are subject to change.
10 Million XBOX 360's = 500,000 failures, thats within the industry standard of 5%!
Today is a very slow news day so I thought I would take the time to post a few XBOX 360 care tips that will keep you and your console happy for many years to come.
A fellow blogger by the name of bs Angel (her gamertag) posted the following tips on her blog, they can also be found on ampednews.com.
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Sure the above may seem like common sense, but ignoring them only causes problems and adds fuel to the failure rate fire. People need to treat today's consoles like PC's, they need ventilation and care. Gone are the days of throwing your NES and Genesis on the carpet and playing for days on end.
With today's consoles come A lot of moving parts, from fans to DVD drives from multi core CPU's, they need ventilation. Another thing that should be noted and this goes with all electronics, NEVER stack your stuff, EVER because the risk of failure sky rockets because electronics need to breath.
If you follow all of these tips, you will be fine, trust me. I have had my 360 since day 1 of launch. I can think of about 10 people off the top of my head that I personaly know who own 360's and not a single one of them has had a single problem.
Now granted people who has had problems whether it was their fault or not is going to fill the Internet with horror stories while the people who are having zero issues are spending their time playing and not on forums. Here is something else to think about, electronics have a failure rate of roughly 3-5% and with around 11 million 360's out there that calculates to roughly 500,000 failed 360's. Now that may sound like a shit load but that is the norm, and if half of those people were to hit up the message boards with complaints, I can see how that would look a little discomforting.
So basically what I am saying is let your 360 breath, be careful what you read on the Internet and especially these retarded online surveys that are done because the only people taking part in those survey's are the people with a broke 360 so of course their little pie graphs show a 60-70% failure rate.
Oh and for the people who has had multiple failures, you are doing something wrong and maybe you shouldn't own one!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Another day 5/31/07!
Today's stories:
- Lite-On IT secures a deal to produce DVD ROM drives for the 360!
- Does your Honda Civic have cardboard ground effects held on with duct tape?
- Hour of Victory demo was LIVE but has disappeared!
- id software is developing a new engine and game!
- Halo 3 armor customization and new vehicle confirmed!
- Sega: Virtua Fighter 5 is still due out in summer!
Lite-On IT secures a deal to produce DVD ROM drives for the 360!
digitimes.com is reporting on a deal that Lite-On IT has made with Microsoft. According to digitimes sources, Lite-On IT has inked a deal to start producing 0.8 to 1 million DVD ROM drives for the XBOX 360. Production is scheduled to begin in the 3rd quarter of 2007.
Lite-On IT has reportedly secured OEM orders for DVD-ROM drives to be built into Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles, with monthly shipments of 0.8-1 million units to begin in the third quarter of 2007, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Lite-On IT was unwilling to confirm the report saying that the company will not comment on any reports concerning orders due to non-disclosure agreements signed with clients.
The built-in DVD-ROM drives for the Xbox 360 have been produced by two OEM makers, Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) and BenQ, the sources indicated. Lite-On IT took over BenQ's optical disc drive business unit in mid-2006 but did not take over the OEM manufacturing rights for Xbox 360 because it was required to obtain new certification from Microsoft, the sources pointed out.
Although Lite-On IT will succeed BenQ as the secondary OEM maker of the built-in DVD-ROM drive, the company stands a chance of displacing TSST to take the primary status based on its monthly shipment volumes and Microsoft's 2007 sales goal of 15 million Xbox 360 consoles, the sources analyzed. In order to minimize the production costs of Xbox 360, Microsoft may increase Lite-On IT's OEM production of the DVD-ROM drive, the sources added.
Does your Honda Civic have cardboard ground effects held on with duct tape?
Forza Motorsports 2 hasn't even been out for 24 hours and people are already getting very creative with the 4 thousand possible layers in the custom paint and decal shop that's found in the game.
Sure we can sit and swoon over all the Dragon Ball Z and Gundam paint jobs that every anime ass hole produces but instead I decided post something a little more creative.
A Forzamotorsports.net forum poster by the name of MediocreGuy decided to get a little creative with his Honda Civic paint scheme. He decided to pay homage to all of the 16 year old kids driving around town with a shitty Civic sporting different colored fenders and doors because hey, when your ghetto and can't drive but you think you can, you have to get replacement parts at the local junk yard. This dude takes it a step further by adding cardboard ground effects held on with duct tape, now that is funny.
Hour of Victory demo was LIVE but has disappeared!
I'm getting reports that the demo to Hour of Victory has vanished from the confines of XBOX LIVE. I am not sure why the LIVE team took it down, maybe because it sucked, I don't know.
When I get official word from the house of Gates I will be sure to post it here, but until then play something else.
id software is developing a new engine and game!
CEO of id Software revealed to Gameindustry.biz yesterday that a new game is in the works and that John Carmack is developing a new game engine from the ground up.
Speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz at a London event earlier this week, the id CEO said: "We are working on an all-new franchise: it's not Doom, it's not Quake, it's not Wolfenstein, it's not Enemy Territory, it's not even Commander Keen.
"It is a new id brand with an all-new John Carmack engine and I think that when we show it to people, once again they'll see, just like they saw when we first showed Doom 3, that John Carmack still has a lot of magic left."
Halo 3 armor customization and new vehicle confirmed!
A few days ago, some Halo fans have been digging into the Halo 3 beta source code. While digging through the code, some very interesting info was discovered in regards to armor customization and a new vehicle called the "Brute Chopper".
Sure the Source code held mentions of customization and new vehicles, but to what extent can the 
The following images are hi-res scans from the magazine that was posted on Thefinalfight.com:
Sega: Virtua Fighter 5 is still due out in summer!
Last week rumors started circulating that Virtua Fighter 5 for the XBOX 360 has been delayed until late fall early winter.
According to Eurogamer.net, they received confirmation from Sega, that Virtua Fighter 5 is still on track for a summer release:
Sega has told Eurogamer this afternoon that, as far as it's concerned, Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360 is still due out in summer.
It was speaking in the aftermath of various retailers changing their dates to later in the year. US outfit Gamestop has pushed its forecast back to October, while UK-based GAME reckons we'll see it in November. But both Play.com and Amazon.co.uk believe it's 28th September that the game will be released. Which is somewhat confusing.
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