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There have been many rumours of X-box and other gaming integration in Windows Mobile 7, and we certainly expect to hear a lot more about at Microsoft’s developer conference at MIX 2010 In March.

Up till now however Microsoft has been keeping as quiet as possible about it, but this MSDN blog post by Volker Will, Microsoft Platform Evangelist, drops some more tantalising hints:

“Just when you didn’t think it could get any better, we took it to the next level. At MIX10, learn about developing applications and games for the next generation of Windows phone. We were serious when we said you’d be learning the “future” of development—you really don’t want to miss this. MIX10 favourites Scott Guthrie and Bill Buxton have been announced as keynote speakers at this year’s conference—don’t miss the opportunity to hear from these experts and others on UX, design, Windows phone, and much more. Register by February 7^th to take advantage of the $400 discount on your pass. Register now!”

See the post here.

As usual we expect to learn a lot more in less than 3 weeks time at Mobile World Congress 2010.

Source: WMPoweruser

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After reading NAND dumping and flashing, XBReboot, XeXLoader/XeXMenu & how to un-cripple your xbox 360 HDD, we noticed that almost all the tutorials miss a good amount of key notes which leaves even the ones who know what they are doing a bit lost.

We have decided to go underground, x360ME will be equipped with a forum which will have a bunch of rewritten tutorials collected from all around the internet. Consider it the digestion of other people’s great work and discoveries. The forum is open to all topics related to xbox.

Leave us some notes and suggestions in the comments below…

Cheers

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I’ll keep it short, if your console gives the status codes below, then you’re banned, sorry.

Status codes:
W: 0000 – 000B
X: 0001 – 8005
Y: 00A8 – 6800
Z: 8015 – 190D
ID: 000B – 0000

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x360me.com is proud to announce releasing the new application/toy “Kombat Fatalities”.

Kombat Fatalities is basically a portable guide which has all the fatalities for the fighting game “Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe” (xbox360 version).

The program works on windows movile, VGA, QVGA and WVGA devices. Head to the Apps page to check it out.

In this initial release version, functions Include:

- Mortal Kombat characters fatalities.
- DC Universe characters fatalities.
- Ability to check for program updates.
- Ability to donate for the developers’ hard work.

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What are the chances of that. I haven’t watched television since like 10 years. Last night I turned the TV on to play xbox 360. Right before I switch to the HDMI input. I saw the below Ad for the Dubai World Game Expo 2009. As you know, x360me.com is one of DWGEs’ media partners, we help and do our best to spread the word about DWGE and market it around to the community. Anyways, I saw the Ad and got interested and instantly wanted to record it and post it here on the site.

Now, wanting to do that, meant being forced to watch television till the ad pops up again to give me a chance to record it this time. Damn how TV sucks, back in the days when we used to watch something on TV, I couldn’t keep up with the story of a movie from the huge amount of repetitive ads, but last night, I begged the skies for the ad to come again, but the teaser never came back till hours later. Anyways. I’ll leave you with the ad which was broadcasted on MTV Arabia. At the end of the ad, you will see logos of all the sponsors, of course with ours among them.

Hope everyone who can make it to the expo would actually do his best to attend. DWGE is the biggest gaming event in the Middle East and we would sure encourage every gamer who lives in the Gulf area or can afford to get to Dubai on time to attend. It is worthy to remind you that Crytek, a worlds leading independent game developer is one of the leading sponsors for DWGE 2009.

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Hey all, version 2.0 of Mobile Gamertag has been released. Check out our Apps page for more details. Don’t forget to use the "Donate" button

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Hey all, i released version 1.0 of the world’s first free xbox 360 Gamercard application for windows mobile. Now, users of a PDA with a VGA screen can get their gamercard directly on their windows mobile phone. Check out the Apps page here on x360me.com for details about the project

Video Review:

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Crytek sponsors the 2^nd Dubai World Game Expo

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – August 3, 2009 – Crytek GmbH, worlds leading independent game developer and well known for its award winning 3D-Game Technology CryEngine has recently announced its   participation to sponsor the Dubai World Game Expo 2009. Taking place at the Dubai International and Convention and Exhibition Centre on the 27^th and 29^th October, the 2^nd annual expo for digital games will focus on boosting the region as a new market for game developers and publishers, initiate different paradigms to improve current game developments and the increase on game localization.

Based in Frankfurt Germany Crytek has offices in Ukraine , Hungary , Bulgaria , South Korea and the United Kingdom . Crytek is working on the next installment of the Crysis franchise which is considered as a milestone project for being the first title to be developed for consoles an the first title built on Cry Engine3.

Commenting on their position as the Silver Sponsor of the Dubai World Game Expo, Avni Yerli, Managing Director, Crytek GmbH, said:

“Crytek is proud to sponsor this event and is always keen to support the rapidly growing game industry in the Middle East . The Dubai World Game Expo has impressed us on its initial run and for us has earned its reputation as one of the leading industry events. We firmly believe that the DWGE is a perfect ground to demonstrate our CryENGINE 3 technology.”

Outstanding feats are proof of Crytek’s excellence in game development, among Crytek’s notable game titles Far Cry and Crysis were recognized best PC game during the 2007 E3 expo and best technology at 2008 game developer’s choice awards.

About Dubai World Game Expo – DWGE

Dubai World Game Expo – DWGE is the largest annual gathering of interactive entertainment industry, focusing on B2B and public. The event comprises an expo, networking events, cosplay show, World Game Championship (WGC) in cooperation with World Cyber Game (WCG), and the Dubai World Game Summit. Expecting thousands of visitors from more than 44 countries!

Dubai World Game Summit – DWGS (October 27-29, 2009) will also be held during the DWGE and is the largest annual gathering of professional game developers, publishers, media, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking in the MENA region. The DWGS will spotlight the local game developments and business opportunities in emerging market in the Middle East . The focus of the summit will be online games, mobile games, console games, design, audio, visual arts, animation, and education.

The DWGE 2009 is under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and partners with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development – Emirates Science Club, Dubai Convention Bureau, Arabian Anti Piracy Alliance, Dubai Shopping Festival, German Industry and Commerce Office (AHK), China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy), China Game Developers Conference, Italian Video Developers Conference, Taipei Game Show, and Taipei Digital.

The show will uniquely be held in conjunction with the Dubai International Character & Licensing Fair “Character Dubai” and the both game and character show will uniquely attract trade visitors and public.

About Crytek GmbH

Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is one of the world’s leading independent development studios for interactive entertainment with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and additional studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea) and Nottingham (UK).

Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high quality video games for the PC and next-generation consoles, powered by their proprietary cutting edge 3D-Game-Technology CryENGINE®.

Since its foundation in 1999 Crytek created the multi-award winning PC titles Far Cry®, Crysis®, awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards and Crysis Warhead®, awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards.

Development teams and companies interested in obtaining a commercial license for the CryENGINE® game development solution can find more information on www.cryengine3.com.

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Good stuff coming to Xbox 360 soon, today Microsoft showed a list of upcoming titles and updates to Xbox 360.

• New full body motion and voice recognition controller named Natal, where you move your body and use your voice to interact with the game you are playing, movie your watching and Xbox 360 dashboard
• Alan Wake coming spring 2010 as an Xbox 360 exclusive
• Splinter Cell: Conviction Xbox 360 exclusive coming end of year
• Forza 3, Xbox 360 exclusive coming October 2009
• Facebook and Twitter integration into Xbox 360
• Left 4 Dead 2 coming out this November on Xbox 360
• Call of Duty 5 (modern warfare 2) coming this fall with map packs coming to xbox 360 first
• Crackdown 2 is coming soon
• Metal Gear coming to Xbox 360
• Final Fantasy XIII coming next spring
• Halo ODST Coming this September
• Halo Reach coming out next fall, beta invites included in Halo ODST
• Zune video integration coming to Xbox 360 this fall
• 1080p HD video streaming

And alot more that i can no longer remember looks like good times coming to Xbox 360

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Recent Microsoft documents leak is one of the best leaks to ever happen in Microsoft History. Expect Microsoft stocks to go up or down pretty fast. According to what we see here, Windows Phone will be a complete Zune Phone, with Windows Phone (Windows Mobile) and will be ready to connect to your xbox 360. What’s absolutely new to us is the fact that the phone will be able to connect to any car stereo with a USB input and many more features, this is by far the best piece of information we could’ve even imagined to have our hands on.

Looking forward for this legendary gadget to surface for us to stress test it.

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With the help of Nissan, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit themes and Gamer Pictures are free on the Xbox Live Marketplace. If you’re a fan of the *ahem* issue or the female figure, then you’ll be happy to find out that there’s a different theme for each month, going from March 2009 to January 2010.

The themes are nothing fancy. They’re just pictures and and calendars that rest atop the white space on the screen. They change slightly if you explore the different channels on Xbox Live OS. Unfortunately, there’s no change to the graphics on your friends list. It’s pretty bare bones. But that shouldn’t matter too much, I’m sure you’ll be “focused” on the swimsuit models. They’re very easy on the eyes.

Click here to download it to your Xbox via the Web

Source: http://blogs.mercurynews.com

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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert for Xbox 360’s video download service, because it didn’t clarifying the 14-day expiration of period of downloaded films.

Small print in the TV ad, which we’re assuming is one of those lifestyle ’spinning head’ ones, mentions that the service requires a £169.99 Xbox 360 with a hard drive, but fails to note that movies expire after 14 days and 24 hours once you’ve watched them.

Source: ComputerAndVideoGames.com

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Demerjian [the Inquirer] says Intel has paid to secure a place for its new graphics chip, code-named Larrabee, in Sony’s next-generation console. He says that Advanced Micro Devices has locked up a graphics chip deal to get into the Xbox 360’s successor. And he thinks that, while not confirmed, AMD will also win the graphics chip for the Wii 2.

On Thursday, David Shippy, co-author of The Race for a New Game Machine, shared some interesting thoughts with me. Shippy was chief architect of the PowerPC core used in both Sony’s Cell microprocessor and Microsoft’s Waternoose processor in the Xbox 360. He believes the next consoles are going to combine both the CPU and the GPU in the same chip, right off the bat. Silicon process technology will move so far by that time that both Sony and Microsoft will likely have moved to combine the graphics chip and microprocessor into a single chip in the PS 3 and the Xbox 360. To make this happen, Sony has to get IBM and Nvidia to co-design a single chip for the PS 3, and Microsoft has to get AMD and IBM to do the same for the Xbox 360. This is likely in the contracts, but it’s easier said than done.

This means that the companies that are likely to win the deals are the ones with both graphics and microprocessor technology — AMD and Intel. By 2011, Intel will launch its 22-nanometer manufacturing process. That means it will be able to fit about four times more transistors, or basic electrical circuits, on a chip by that time than it can today. Hence, it be easier to do combo chips by 2012, for sure.

It is indeed going to be a tough road for Nvidia. But for two generations now, Nvidia has managed to get into a console. Why? One of the reasons is that some teams — even at the giant IBM — get stretched really thin if they try to serve all three masters at the same time, as Shippy pointed out in his book.

Source: venturebeat.com

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In a joint press release issued Thursday morning, Microsoft (MSFT) and Netflix (NFLX) announced that to date, Netflix members have streamed 1.5 billion minutes worth of videos to the XBOX 360 console. Considering the Netflix streaming service has only been available to the XBOX 360 console for the past three months, I think anyone would view that as a huge number with great success early on.

To put that number into perspective as it pertains to bits delivered, since we know the technical details on how Netflix encodes videos, since November, content delivery companies Limelight Networks (LLNW) and Level 3 (LVLT) combined have delivered nearly 25 million GB of data. That’s some serious traffic.

While the 1.5 billion minutes is huge, it’s still very small when compared to the total minutes of content they ship via their DVD business. If we use the numbers Netflix has on their website, they ship around 730 million DVDs a year. If we use an average of 120 minutes per DVD, Netflix ships roughly 88 billion minutes of video in the mail, if I did my math right. So the streaming service is still very small in the overall picture but clearly has some really nice traction in only three months time.

The release also stated that Netflix’s application for the XBOX 360 has been downloaded and activated by one million XBOX Live Gold Members but keep in mind that does not mean one million unique consoles since every XBOX Live account can contain multiple profiles or members. UPDATED: Microsoft’s PR folks responded to my question on the one million number and said that the number of multiple gold account houses (on a single console versus two), where both accounts also have a Netflix subscription, has to be rare. So they wouldn’t expect the correlative number of consoles to be anything less than around 95-98 percent of 1 million, if not higher.

These viewing numbers clearly highlight that the XBOX 360 console is by far the most important broadband connected device for the success of Netflix’s streaming service. That really comes as no surprise considering that to date, Microsoft has sold nearly 14 million XBOX 360 consoles in the U.S., which is far more than the Roku, TiVo, Blu-ray players and broadband enabled TVs combined.

Source: http://seekingalpha.com

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Achievements are great and all, but progress marches on. Avatars may soon be the latest and greatest way for Xbox 360 owners to try and show off their sizable… skills.
Speaking with Videogaming247, Rare said that special clothing and accessories for NXE avatars will soon be given out like achievements. At the moment, the only clothes are those available at launch and a few free packs.

Source: 1up.com

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Microsoft is rolling out a new dashboard update to fix the issue with Audio over HDMI. see below for quote below for the scoop.

mandatory dashboard update. The update addresses the issue that a few folks were having with audio and their HDMI connection.
This update will be rolled out to all Xbox LIVE members around the world over the space of a few hours, so you may not get prompted for the update immediately. Thanks for your patience.

Source: Major Nelson

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Microsoft recently started recruiting women to throw Xbox soirees as part of a branding effort to get women to start playing the Xbox, according to the Gannett news service.

“They got an Xbox party pack of freebies that included microwaveable popcorn, Xbox trivia game "Scene It? Box Office Smash," an Xbox universal media remote control, a three-month subscription to Xbox Live, and 1,600 Xbox Live points (used for game, movie and TV show purchases). “

I do think this is a great marketing strategy but as with all Microsoft marketing efforts it feels a bit off. Women have proven to be huge consumers of casual games, and heavily interested in the Wii (Nintendo has been advertising heavily to the ladies for quite a while) but the Xbox feels like a stretch. And, there aren’t a ton of Xbox games that are appealing to women–at least not from my informal survey (I asked my wife and a woman in the hotel lobby.)

"We’ve sold 20 million consoles to date globally since we launched three years ago," says Heather Snavely, Microsoft’s director of interactive entertainment business global platforms. "In order to get to the next 20 million, we need to get a new audience of women and teens. We’re going after them in ways that are different than ways we’ve done before."

Good for Microsoft on this attempt and good for the women who want get involved with playing video games.

Of course, the main thing that comes to mind for me with this program is a free episode I downloaded of The Real Housewives of Orange County, where all the snake-skinned ladies got together for a cocktail and lingerie party. Somehow, I just can’t see that crew getting together for a rousing game of Fallout 3 or Grand Theft Auto. Maybe if there was a Botox game or something where you drink until you irreparably insult your husband and isolate your children? (Zing!)

Source: http://news.cnet.com

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Gridplane spent a few months working with Microsoft’s XBOX 360 group developing concepts for the latest graphical user interface for the XBOX 360 console.
The time was spent exploring many ways that a new menu system could allow users to browse and navigate game libraries, music, movies and TV shows. Oh, and play games too. In addition to the menu systems, we dreamt up an immersive 3D environment for users to explore the latest games, events and online activity within the XBOX Live community.
These examples represent one of many concepts that we worked on. We are happy to have contributed to the evolution of the XBOX console UI. The new "XBOX Experience" debuted in November, 2008.

Source: gridplane.com

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Many Netflix subscribers already enjoy online streaming access to some 12,000 movies and TV shows, but they may also eventually be able to stream premium movies and original series’ from cable channels like HBO. The company revealed that it’s at least entertaining such an idea through a question on a recent consumer survey, though customers would have to pay another $10 per month to get access to the premium content.

The survey was sent to a handful of Netflix customers, and it asked whether they would be interested in such a service. Specifically, the page says that customers would pay an additional $9.99 on top of their normal Netflix subscriptions and that they could watch the premium content on their computers and on a number of other Netflix-capable devices, like the Roku, Xbox 360, and TiVo. The number of DVDs available as part of the subscription would not change, and customers would still have access to all the currently-available content online.

Source: arstechnica.com

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