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As of tomorrow, the 5th of September. Microsoft is officially cutting the price of its Xbox 360 console as follows
Xbox 360 Arcade : $199
Xbox 360 : $299
Xbox 360 Elite : $399
Good stuff
Source: Major Nelson
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AUCKLAND 1 September 2008 – Microsoft today announced it has lowered the recommended retail price of a number of Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system accessories in New Zealand. The recommended retail prices (RRP) of the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel, Wireless Networking Adapter, 120 GB Hard Drive, Headset and Universal Media Remote have all been reduced.
The price reductions are as follows:
Xbox 360 Accessory NZ Previous RRP New RRP Saving
Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel $199.95 $149.95 $50.00
Xbox 360 Hard Drive (120 GB) $229.95 $199.95 $30.00
Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter $189.95 $169.95 $20.00
Xbox 360 Headset $59.95 $39.95 $20.00
Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote $59.95 $39.95 $20.00
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Along WORMS and BOMBERMAN, I’ve always been a fan that tanks game on all gaming platforms. Thanks to the news below, I now can wait for its coming to xbox 360.
Originally made for the SEGA Saturn, Death Tanks is coming soon to Xbox Live complete with upgrades and online play. The premise of the game is to combat enemy tanks along a mountain ridge by firing various projectiles at calculated angles. Almost like Battleship, but the player is in control of the shots. The graphical aspect of the game is most likely the biggest overhaul barring the aforementioned online mode. In which, up to four players can simultaneously battle it out, rank up, and upgrade parts of their arsenal.
Source: GamePlasma.com
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Seems like everyone is into the spirit of democracy these days.
Peugeot is soliciting your vote for its 2008 Design Contest. This year’s challenge is for a vehicle that complements environmental and population concerns in the megalopolis of tomorrow.
The French-based car company released a list of 29 finalists, which can be voted on through September 15. You can vote anonymously, or vote giving your personal info for a chance to win an Xbox 360. Keep in mind that only those who vote for the winning concept car will be eligible to win one of 20 Xbox 360 consoles Peugeot plans to give away.
The designer of the winning concept car gets a cash prize, VIP passage to some of this season’s auto shows, an Xbox 360, and a small scale model of their car.
We put together some highlights from this year’s finalists, who come from all over the world, including Iran. Check out our gallery of the car designs modern and chic enough for Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Source: http://news.cnet.com
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Yesterday’s big announcement at the Tokyo Xbox Media Briefing 2008 was across the board Xbox 360 console price cuts. But that news was leaked early! Whoops. Microsoft was left with announcing, hrm, what exactly was Microsoft left with? After the event, we tracked down Xbox Japan honcho Takashi Sensui:
* Was it disappointing that the console price cuts leaked before you could announce it?
“It was disappointing. Very unfortunate.”
* That was your only big announcement today.
“That was one of our big announcements.”
Source: kotaku.com
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What exciting dash goodness? Check the list below:
* Holy beautiful transitions! This latest Fall update build included never before seen transition effects including nifty fades, smooth sweeps and (our personal favorite) the guide pop up animation. We can’t explain the transition effects, but trust that their addition definitely enhances the overall dashboard experience. Yum!* Dashboard themes will now instantly load a preview when hovered over. And, as an added bonus, the preview loading effect is sexy as hell.
* While in a party, each person’s gamer picture is placed on the top right hand side of the dashboard. When alone and party-less, only your gamer picture and gamercard are displayed.
* Your overly Wii-like Avatar’s comic-style text balloon displays your gamercard’s motto.
* EVERY Xbox 360 game’s Xbox.com information (including game description, features and screenshots) is pulled into the dashboard while browsing the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Source: xbox360fanboy.com | bootleg recording of presentation
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Microsoft cut the price of the Xbox 360 in Japan, the Xbox 360 Arcade now goes for 19,800 YEN ( ~ $183 USD ).
please give me an Xbox with that sushi!
source: DailyTech
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Microsoft Corp and Rock the Vote announced a groundbreaking partnership that will allow Xbox 360 owners to register to vote. Gamers can participate in presidential polls and voice their opinions to the presidential candidates.
It will all happen through Xbox LIVE starting Monday, Aug. 25, the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
“Xbox is a natural partner to help us reach out to youth voters,” said Heather Smith, executive director, Rock the Vote. “To realize our goal of registering 2 million young Americans by this fall, we need to go where young Americans are, and there’s no doubt in our minds that many are on Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE.”
This is the first time that Rock the Vote has joined forces with an entertainment partner such as Xbox to reach voters under 30. Xbox LIVE is the largest online social network connected to the television, with membership totaling 12 million.
Xbox also will have a presence at both the Democratic and Republican conventions, promoting the Rock the Vote partnership and educating delegates about creating a safer entertainment environment on Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE using the built-in parental controls known as Family Settings.
These industry-leading settings allow parents to limit their children’s access to Xbox 360 games and movies while managing their activity and communications on Xbox LIVE.
Source: GameShout.com
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Gamasutra: We’re getting a few years into the Xbox 360 lifespan experience; where do you think we are, technologically, in terms of the potential of the system, this generation?
* Rod Fergusson: That’s a good question. I mean, I’m not the technical guy, so my ability to speak to where the engine goes is — all I know is that with the two to three more years of optimization that we’ve had, we’re much further along than I think, three years ago, we thought we were going to get.
So I think we’re certainly approaching the upper end of it, as far as what developers are able to do with it, but just looking at all the demos we saw today — ours and others — it’s clear that all the games just keep improving, and keep pushing that bar.
I think it’s just a matter of, you know, it’s a slow cycle; you only get a kick at it every couple years, and so it takes a while for people to see that progress. There will be games in development that won’t ship until 2010, and I’m sure they’ll look killer, just because, again, they’ll have more time with it, and learn from mistakes and optimizations of others. So, I don’t know; I think we’re getting up there, but I still think there’s room to grow.
Source: gamasutra.com (6 pages)
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Just a few days ago we showed a scan of a Radioshack flyer indicating a price drop for the Xbox 360 and now there is more evidence that this covert price drop will happen very soon. At this point you could consider the price drop practically official. Details after the jump.
Recently several retail flyers have leaked on to the web indicating a price drop for the Xbox 360 lineup. Pictures from Best Buy and Kmart internal flyers have made their way onto the Internet because the folks that work in the retail chains just couldn’t hold it inside.
Normally Microsoft would have announced such a move considering they have already announced a price drop for one of the models at E3.
There is some speculations as to why Microsoft is keeping mum on such an announcement till the last minute. I speculated that Microsoft could be cleaning up the Xbox 360 model lineup by getting rid of existing models for replacement models.
Microsoft already announced plans to phase out the 20GB Xbox 360 model by dropping the price and replacing it with the 60GB Xbox 360 model eventually. According to all the retail scans the Xbox 360 Arcade which retails for $280 right now will drop by $80 making it the first next gen console to hit the sub $200 range.
However one has to wonder if this is a permanent move or is Microsoft cleaning the Arcade model as well in lieu of a better replacement model. With the Netflix deal coming around November an Arcade model will be useless when it comes to watching movies via Netflix service on Xbox Live.
Another reason Microsoft is keeping quiet on the price drop is Microsoft probably wants to keep sales steady for the whole month before the price drop hits next month or else people will hold of on purchasing an Xbox 360 in anticipation of the drop. This is probably the most likely reason Microsoft is keeping quiet about the price drop till the last minute.
I suspect Microsoft may make an official announcement at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) which will be held this weekend starting 29th - 31st.
Source: http://gamer.blorge.com
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Earlier this month, a hacker bragged that he’d gained access to the Xbox Live identity — or gamertag, as it’s known — of “Halo 3″ multiplayer producer Joe Tung. This allowed him access to Tung’s account and personal information. Tung isn’t alone.
For almost three years now, dozens of gamers who believed their Xbox 360 online identities were safe and secure have taken to message boards and Web sites to report gamertags stolen by zealous hackers. The practice has become prevalent enough that tutorials about how to do it have popped up across the Internet, heightened after the release of Bungie Studio’s sci-fi online shooter “Halo 3.”
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Microsoft today announced a series of special Xbox Live weekends surrounding the EA Sports Challenge Series allowing hundreds of thousands of Xbox Live online entertainment network subscribers the opportunity to join in a number of sports-related gaming activities during select sports seasons throughout the year.
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We know a little bit about the age and gender of the average Xbox 360 owner, and a little more about where those demographics are skewing in terms of Obama versus McCain. We also have this intriguing new initiative by Microsoft which launched yesterday in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention to bring youth vote-recruiter Rock the Vote to Xbox 360 owners through the console’s dashboard.
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So, rumor has it that Halo 4 is being developed by Gearbox software and it will be a launch title to the successor of the Xbox 360. Sounds great, right? Think again. Microsoft knows the only way to get people to even buy into the idea of shelling out another $400+ for a new console so soon is to tease them with the prospect of another Halo FPS.
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Immersion Corp. said Tuesday that the company has paid $20.75 million to Microsoft to settle litigation dating back to 2003.
The agreement settles a legal dispute between the two companies that was part of a complex relationship between Microsoft, Sony, and Immersion.
In 2002, Immersion sued both companies, alleging that the “rumble” technology it had developed was illegally being used in controllers used by Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation. Microsoft settled, paying Immersion about $27 million. But according to a sublicense agreement contained in the settlement, Immersion would have been required to pay back some of the money to Microsoft if it sublicensed its technology to another game platform, such as Sony, which it eventually did.
Immersion claimed that Microsoft breached a confidential agreement between the two companies in 2007, when Microsoft sued Immersion, claiming that the sublicensing agreement had been breached.
Now, Immersion will be made part of Microsoft’s certified partner program.
“We are pleased to resolve our outstanding dispute with Microsoft and to put this litigation behind us,” said Immersion president and chief executive Clent Richardson, in a statement. “We now have our full attention and focus devoted to working with innovative companies around the world, including Microsoft, to accelerate and rapidly achieve global adoption of our haptic technology in gaming, consumer electronics, mobility, and medical products.”
Source: PCMag.com
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An issue of Dengeki PlayStation that goes on sale August 29th in Japan, Final Fantasy XIII director and writer Motomu Toriyama and FFXIII Versus director Tetsuya Nomura talk about the possibility of Japan getting a Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 version.
Nomura says that he himself was “surprised” at the FFXIII Xbox 360 Asia version news, saying that Microsoft’s comment (”It would be nice if the game came out”) was taken to mean that it was actually confirmed for Asia. More interesting than that clusterfuck is Toriyama’s comment about whether or not Final Fantasy XIII will be released in Japan on the Xbox 360 platform:
“There will absolutely not be an Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII for Japan.”
Source: kotaku.com
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Well, the pendulum has swung back the other way. Here in the UK we had a marginally cheaper Xbox 360 for a while, thanks to the exchange rate and recent price cut. Now, though, America has HACKED DOWN the Xbox 360 RRP once more, letting gamers out there pick up an Arcade bundle for a charitable $199 from September 7.
Here’s a photograph as proof, taken from a print ad hyping up the cheap Xbox 360 Arcade deal.
While this is unlikely to stop 600,000 poorly misguided lemmings buying a bloody Wii every single month in Americaland, it will hopefully help put a bit more distance between Xbox 360 and PS3 out there.
It also piles the pressure on Sony to make a similar price cut with PS3, which would see the loss-making console making even more of a loss - just to stay in the battle for distant second place. No matter how bad your job may be, just be thankful you’re not heading off to Sony Computer Entertainment’s accounts department every day.
Source: xboxer.tv
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If flyers now circulating the web are to be believed the Xbox 360 is undergoing price drops at every level, with the Arcade going to $199. That should kick the console wars up a notch as that makes it even cheaper than critical and financial darling Nintendo Wii.
The new price points featured in a leaked Radio Shack circular running Sept. 7 put the 60 GB Pro at $299 and the Elite at just under $400. This puts some pressure on Nintendo whose console clocks in around $250. Sony execs are still saying there is no price cut coming up for the PlayStation 3, in the uncomfortable position of running third in the console wars.
Source: GWN.com
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Web browsers aren’t generally viewed as the home of high quality games.
Sure, we’ve all wasted a few minutes (or even hours) playing with an addictive flash game online, but when you think of PC gaming, neither Firefox nor Internet Explorer immediately leap to mind.
That could be changing, though, as more and more developers see browsers as a route to reach new audiences and a way to give old games a second life.
At least two AAA browser-based titles are due before the end of the year. Id Software will launch “Quake Live” and the Cartoon Network will roll out “FusionFall.”
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While it seems to be all but a sure thing that all three Xbox 360 SKUs will be getting a price cut on September 7th, if you need a bit more reassurance, you can now take comfort in this apparently authentic Best Buy ad provided by a helpful tipster, which should be making an appearance in paper form just in time for the big day.
Source: engadget.com
