Xbox Live, BioShock, Final Fantasy XIII, and more.

Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Xbox 360 Slim to arrive at E3 this year? on Ubergizmo
The rumored Xbox 360 Slim is touted to be announced at E3 this year, where it will be smaller in size compared to the current behemoth while sporting a new black color scheme alongside Project Natal capability. It seems that there are also whispers…

Inferno Ball : Inferno Ball on Game Marketplace – New Arrivals
This game was classified by the community with the following category scores – Violence=0/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. Action packed ping pong style gameplay with a combustible twist. Inferno Ball puts your reflexes and skill to the test. Play any…

Final Fantasy XIII (PS3 or Xbox 360) + $10 Game Credit $43, GTA: Episodes from Liberty City + $10 Game Credit $28, Bioshock 2 + $10 Game Credit $34 on SlickDeals.net

Guitar Hero 5 Bundle: Game with Guitar (Xbox 360) $39 on SlickDeals.net


Xbox Live, Final Fantasy XIII, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, and more.

Posted: April 24th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Former News Corp president wants Xbox TV channel? on Engadget HD
From its humble HD- DVD-playing beginnings, the Xbox 360 has grown into a full-fledged set-top box that pulls down HD content from Netflix , the Zune Store and Sky TV (for Ireland and the UK). Now, rumors indicate an Xbox TV channel might be…

Peripheral Vision: X Scorch 360 split mouse controller on Joystiq
Peripheral Vision is the name of our ongoing sporadic journey into the wonderful, oft-terrifying world of third-party peripherals. Think of it as neither preview or review but rather a … meditation on the curious object in question. Enjoy. …

Final Fantasy XIII and Splinter Cell 360 Elite bundles $40 off at Amazon on Joystiq
Amazon has a pair of sweet deals for those in the market for an Xbox 360 console. Both the Final Fantasy XIII Elite bundle and Splinter Cell: Conviction Elite bundle are $40 off, down to a much more palatable $359.99. That’s almost like…

Rock Band Weekly: Busted, Flyleaf, Silverchair on Joystiq
Next week’s Rock Band DLC contains three random singles and no track packs. With that said, Harmonix has already prepared for the backlash against this next update. Developer “HMXHenry” has posted a forum note to all the “Chicken Littles out…

Xbox division posts $165 million profit in fiscal Q3 on strength of Xbox Live business on Joystiq
Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, the portion of the giant company responsible for Xbox operations (as well as Zune and Games for Windows) brought in $165 million in profits during the company’s third quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended…


Xbox Live, Battlefield: Bad Company, Final Fantasy XIII, and more.

Posted: April 17th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Spawn Labs HD-720 Review: A Slingbox for Xbox? [Review] on Gizmodo
# review The Spawn HD -720’s promise is borderline unbelievable: It streams your Xbox 360 , PS3 or Wii from any Windows PC, anywhere , in HD. And it actually works! (Sort of.) But the list of…

PlayStation Network Updates Move to Tuesdays [PS3] on Gizmodo
# ps3 Right now, Xbox Live releases content like new downloadable games on Tuesdays while PSN doesn’t offer (what’s often the same) content until the following Thursday. But this May, Sony will shift…

Report: U.S. video game sales rise in March, God of War III leads sales charts on VentureBeat
Things were looking up for the video game industry in March. Software sales grew 10 percent to $875.3 million from the same time a year ago, and industry revenues as a whole grew 6 percent to $1.52 billion, according to the market researcher NPD…

$29.99 – Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller on Newegg.com RSS Feed – Daily Deals
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Final Fantasy XIII and more.

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Article: Final Fantasy XIII: Endgame on Eurogamer
Digital Foundry vs. FFXIII. The final analysis. Final Fantasy XIII on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was one of the biggest Face-Offs we’ve produced, but more than that it was an analysis of one of the…


Gears of War, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Final Fantasy XIII, and more.

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Microsoft Projected to Bundle Natal Motion Sensor with Xbox 360 Later This Year on X-bit labs
Xbox 360 Slim with Natal Sensor Could Cost $299 – Analyst

2x 12-Month Xbox Live Gold Cards $60 on SlickDeals.net

Total Sales Put Nintendo DS Back on Top in Japan on 1UP RSS feed
Following a brief surge by the PlayStation 3 thanks to last month’s release of Yakuza 4 , the Nintendo DS is back on top in Japan. Nintendo’s handheld managed to move a total of 36,459 units across its three SKUs compared to the PS3’s 28,973 (via …

Free Game Demos May Become a Thing of the Past on 1UP RSS feed
Game demos have been around for years, but a few companies are starting to wonder if they’ll continue to be viable. Develop reports that Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli thinks demos are becoming too expensive for many studios. “A free demo is a luxury we…

News: DS and PSP still on top in Japan on Eurogamer
Handheld sales highest in quiet week. The Nintendo DS and PSP continue to shift more hardware than the big boy consoles in Japan, despite a lack of new releases in the week ending 11th…

News: Monster Hunter in Lost Planet 2 PS3 on Eurogamer
Plus: Frank West is back! Capcom has revealed more playable guest stars for Lost Planet 2: Dead Rising’s Frank West, and a splendidly armoured hunter from the Monster Hunter games. …

News: Downloadable UNO coming to PSP on Eurogamer
Local and online multiplayer promised. A PSP version of classic card game UNO is coming to PlayStation Network. As revealed by the cheerful…

News: NPD: Pokemon beats FFXIII, BFBC2 on Eurogamer
FFXIII PS3 outsells 360 version by 67%. Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver emerged the winners in NPD’s North American game sales figures for March, beating off strong competition from Final Fantasy…

News: New PAL Releases Roundup on Eurogamer
GTA Episodes! Splinter Cell! Volcanic ash! Sometimes things in life are blatantly going to happen, but everyone pretends they won’t until the very last minute. …

News: Xbox Live for Xbox 1 officially killed on Eurogamer
Bungie says goodbye to Halo 2. Microsoft should by now have officially discontinued Xbox Live support for original Xbox consoles and games. The…


Final Fantasy XIII and more.

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Beam saber savings: No More Heroes 2 for $35 on Joystiq
If you couldn’t find room in your budget for No More Heroes 2 amid the first quarter’s overloaded lineup , perhaps Amazon’s latest deal will encourage you to spend a little of that tax refund on the temporarily discounted sequel. Earth’s…

Gameloft bringing downloadable UNO to PSP on April 22 on Joystiq
There are only two ways we could think to improve the UNO experience we currently have access to on the PS3 and 360: Make it available on a handheld console, in order to emulate the joy of holding tiny cards in our hands. Remove all…

NPD: Final Fantasy XIII sold almost twice as many copies on PS3 on Joystiq
Let’s go back a couple of years, to E3 2008. At the Microsoft Press Conference, the company drops the news that Square Enix has agreed to release Final Fantasy XIII simultaneously on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There is much cheering…


Microsoft XNA, Final Fantasy XIII, Far Cry 2, and more.

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Percentage of Consoles Connected to the Internet for Streaming on Hacking NetFlix
NewTeeVee got a hold of a report from The Diffusion Group that has some interesting statistics about the gaming platforms and Netflix: Nintendo’s Wii is the last of the three major game consoles to support Netflix streaming. The Wii is the…

Geek Toys : Settlers of Catan on ThinkGeek :: What’s New
Got wood for sheep? We do. Trade us?The ultimate German board game, Settlers of Catan is the one every card-carrying geek should own. And we don’t mean the Xbox Live Arcade version either. Gather round the table with family and friends and build your…

Creators Club Communiqué 50 on XNA Game Studio Team Blog
Welcome, Creators! Here we are at our 50th Creators Club Communiqué! It would seem that you amazing Xbox LIVE Indie Game (XBLIG) Creators have been busier than ever! We’ve found exciting things happening for XBLIGs all over the internet! We…

Crytek ‘working closely’ with Microsoft, Sony re: motion controls on CrunchGear
Pretty sure Crytek , of Crysis fame, is usually associated with blazing fast graphics cards and extreme edition processors, so color me surprised to see it embracing Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s Move . Surprised and…

Shock: Graphics being equal, Crysis 2 said to run better on PS3 than Xbox 360 (but best on PC) on CrunchGear
It was only a few days ago that Crytek and EA showed off Crysis 2 to the world’s gaming press—and CrunchGear. It looks crazy, yes, and that finely tuned opinion—”it looks crazy”—is based on the Xbox 360…

Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers on CrunchGear
Potentially huge news for Zune HD owners—that means Devin and I. It has been hacked~! Yes, the good folks over at ZuneBoards have hacked the Zune HD to pieces , giving homebrew developers full access to the hardware, access that otherwise…

The G-Mate Gun Overlord – Real or Fake? on CrunchGear
We’re not entirely sure this thing exists in real life. The G-mate Gun Overlord just seems a bit too glorious. Even the video after the jump isn’t enough proof. If it is real though, watch out, it could be awesome. Unless of course…


Final Fantasy XIII and more.

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Walmart – Xbox 360 Super Elite 250GB Bundle with Final Fantasy XIII or Splinter Cell Conviction $349.00 on Dealcatcher – Today’s Deals
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Microsoft XNA, Final Fantasy XIII, Red Dead Redemption, and more.

Posted: April 13th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Ask Windows Phone Questions Live on MSDN Radio on Michael Klucher’s Blog
Looking for more info on developing games on Windows Phone 7? Want to know more on using XNA Game Studio 4.0 and Silverlight for games? Curious how Xbox LIVE integrates with Windows Phone? Next week Monday, April 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time,…

Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Phone Developer Tools/XNA Game Studio 4.0 on Michael Klucher’s Blog
Visual Studio 2010 has been released and is now available for download in its final form! Congratulations to the Visual Studio and .NET teams on a great new release. Many of you read my blog because you develop with XNA Game Studio. I want to make…

PlayStation 3 Reaches 5 Million Sold in Japan on 1UP RSS feed
The PlayStation 3 has hit a new milestone in Japan, reaching 5 million sold. The new numbers are courtesy of Enterbrain (via Kotaku ), which is reporting that the PS3 hit the mark on April 11. By contrast, the Wii has sold more than 10 million…

Red Dead Redemption (PS3 & Xbox 360) Game Pre-order $56.99 Plus $10 Amazon Gift Card on SlickDeals.net Forums – Hot Deals
Amazon has Red Dead Redemption for PS3 and Xbox 360 for $56.99 plus $10 gift card and Amazon exclusive DLC. Also eligible for free shipping.

UP! (Xbox 360) – $17.90 – HURRY! on SlickDeals.net Forums – Hot Deals
Play-Asia’s new weekly deal; Up… This is a content summary only. Please visit Slickdeals.net for the full details.


Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Final Fantasy XIII, and more.

Posted: April 9th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Xbox 360 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Xbox 360 news from around the web:

Crysis 2 for PC preorders for $30 + free shipping, Xbox 360 and PS3 for $40 on dealnews – 20 most recent deals.
EA Store offers preorders of Crysis 2 for Windows for $49.95. Add coupon code “PAXEAST842″ to your cart to cut it to $29.95 . With free shipping , that’s the lowest total price we could find by $17. Of note, it’s also available for Xbox 360 and…

Halo 3: ODST for Xbox 360 for $30 + $2 s&h on dealnews – 20 most recent deals.
Walmart offers Bungie’s Halo 3: ODST for Xbox 360 for $29.96 . Shipping adds $2.47 or choose free Site-to-Store. Although that’s up $2 from our January mention, since expired, it’s the lowest total price we could find by $5. Sales tax is added…

$379.99 – Microsoft Final Fantasy XIII Special Edition Xbox 360 Bundle – Retail on Newegg.com RSS Feed – Daily Deals
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