Xbox 360 News Stories

Halo 3 : Marathon Man

Posted October 23rd, 2007

Having problems getting the Marathon Man achievement in Halo 3? Found all the terminals (Located on The Ark, The Covenant and Halo levels) and still not getting the points? I am not surprised as the given parameters for this achievement are rather vague or incomplete.
Not only do you have to find the terminals [...]

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Xbox 360 Mouse & Keyboard Ready For Launch

Posted December 21st, 2006

XCM have announced that final testing for their XFPS 360 is complete and that full stock of the innovative keyboard and mouse adapter will be shipping to retailers very soon.
This neat little adapter is compatible with all standard PS/2 and USB mouse and keyboards. It also supports Playstation controllers and peripherals such as light [...]

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Virtua Fighter 5 Coming To Xbox 360

Posted December 21st, 2006

Originally a PS3 exclusive, Sega have now announced that the next installment in the Virtua Fighter series will also be coming to the Xbox 360 sometime late summer 2007.
Jeff Bell, corporate VP of marketing for Microsoft, said:
“It’s a franchise that has grown an army of loyal fans both in arcades and on consoles worldwide, [...]

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Call Of Duty 3 Patch and New Content Announced

Posted December 21st, 2006

Activision and Treyarch have announced plans to release a new patch and two waves of multiplayer maps for their latest WWII shooter, Call of Duty 3.
In a post on the Xbox.com forums, one CoD3 team member revealed that they are in the final testing stages for a new multiplayer update that should be available on [...]

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Microsoft Exec questions Wii’s Longevity

Posted December 21st, 2006

Chris Satchell, general manager of Microsoft’s Game Development Group, has questioned whether the Wii, despite being the fastest selling console in history, has got what it takes to hold gamers interest in the long run.
“I’m not sure what its long term potential is. It’s a super-strong for Nintendo’s first-party IP” he says, “It’s going to [...]

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More Original Xbox Games Playable on XBox 360

Posted December 16th, 2006

Microsost has released an update for the Xbox 360 allowing it to play more original Xbox titles. The full Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list, with the recent additions highlighted, can be seen here.

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Gears Of War Shifts 2 Million Copies

Posted December 15th, 2006

Less than six weeks after Gears of War hit the shelves, Microsoft have announced that Epic’s sci-fi shooter has become the fastest selling next-gen game so far, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide - 1 million of those in the US alone.
Since the game went on sale on November 7th, the daily rate of [...]

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Create your own Xbox 360 Games!

Posted December 12th, 2006

Microsoft has made version 1.0 of its XNA Developer Kit available, enabling anyone to now create games for the Xbox 360. Based on the .NET framework, and the C# programming language, the dev kit is PC-only at the moment, and can be used to cross-develop games for both the PC and Xbox 360 platforms.

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Assassins Creed AI Better On The 360?

Posted September 30th, 2006

In a recent interview with IGN, Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond made a comment which suggests the 360 version of Ubisoft’s upcoming title will sport better crowd AI than the PS3 version.
Raymond puts this down to the “improved threading” technology on the 360, although the AI of the crowd will undoubtedly have little (if any) [...]

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Alan Wake Screenshots & Video

Posted September 29th, 2006

Remedy showed off their upcoming psychological thriller, Alan Wake, recently at the Intel developer forum.
The game was running on quad-core processors, using the “multiple cores to stream in data seamlessly in the background” - however it works, the results are stunning!

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