Columbia movies back on Netflix instant view (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Keen-eyed observers (or at least one keen-eyed observer, anyway) over at 360Sync have noticed that movies from Sony's Columbia Pictures are once again available for Netflix streaming on Xbox 360. After the titles were first yanked from the service in November, we later reported that most of the Columbia movies had returned, but it seems that now all of them are available once again. | |
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Xbox 360 install base surges to 28 million (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Late last night, Microsoft sent word that they've reached an Xbox 360 install base milestone, announcing that by 2008's end they have been able to sell 28 million consoles worldwide. That's an increase of around 10 million consoles since last January, don'tcha know. | |
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Gears Of War 2 Patch Details Gears of War 2 (via Game Radar) - Since the release of Gears of War 2 the online play has been plagued with issues. The issues consist of bad matchmaking to many, many online exploits. Well I guess Cliffy B. has been putting his boot up some programmers asses over there at Epic in order to get the problems solved. | |
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Microsoft Announces 2008 was our best-ever year (via Xboxer) - SALES WAR update! Microsoft's just sent out a fact-filled press release, claiming that 2008 was the best-ever year for sales in the history of the Xbox "brand." The total global userbase of Xbox 360 now stands at 28 million consoles, which MS says is 8 million ahead of Sony's figure for PlayStation3. | |
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Skate 2 Demo This Week (via Team Xbox) -- Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Vanelona in Skate 2 with new tricks like onefoots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more. | |
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This week's Xbox Live Arcade title is 'chaos' (via 360 Monster) - We revealed the achievements a few days ago and it's been confirmed by Major Nelson that Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos will become the first Xbox Live Arcade release of 2009. Releasing this Wednesday (9th January 2009), Interpol puts players into the role of an Interpol elite agent who is tracking down the evil Dr. | |
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Microsoft CEO to Reveal 2009 360 Line-Up at CES Keynote (via Planet Xbox) -- The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Balmer, is set to talk up two key games that will be heading towards the Xbox 360 in 2009. As part of Microsoft's CES keynote, he will highlight two major games to show the strength of the companies lineup. | |
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GameStop to Quit Accepting Original Xbox Game Trades? (via Planet Xbox) -- Gaming blog Kotaku received a tip today that major video game retailer, GameStop, will no longer accept original Xbox games, consoles, or accessories as trade-ins starting on February 9th, 2009. Hit the jump for more sad details. | |
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News: Halo 3 'push to talk' being removed (via OXM) -- Well, almost being removed as Bungie finally moves to get rid of it. Bungie has taken another step towards pushing Halo 3's archaic 'push to talk' system out the game. | |
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Molyneux Not Impressed With 2009's Games (via Cinema Blend Games) -- While 2008 was a monster year for gaming, with long-awaited sequels like Fallout 3 or Grand Theft Auto IV finally hitting stores, surely game companies have a few good things saved up for 2009, right? Fable designer Peter Molyneux doesn't think so. | |
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Rise of the Argonauts - Review (via Planet Xbox) - Greek mythology is a field of lore which game developers have foraged since Kid Icarus. It was no surprise when I found out that Jason and his Argonauts were going to appear in their own game. What did surprise me was that Codemasters was going to publish and Liquid Entertainment was going to develop. | |
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Benq/liteon Batch Files, Build 2009.01.04 (via Xbox Scene) - From Exobex on forums.xbox-scene.com (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=672529 ): If you liked X360SAM(info (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/X360SAM.php )), now you can flash BenQ/LiteOn the same way! This is a collection of batch files which allow you to "manage" flashing of BenQ and LiteOn firmwares in the same way that the batch files for X360SAM operate. | |
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Suzuki Xbox dashboard mod for the undignified gamer on the go (via Engadget) - Some Xbox 360 mods are the product of serious craftsmanship, some are rather silly, and some -- like this Suzuki automobile console / Xbox 360 game console hybrid -- really give one pause. This isn't the sort of thing that one spends moments / hours / weeks on, after which he reflects for a moment ("Aren't I rather clever?"), and then hides it safely in the closet (or sells it on eBay). | |
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List of the most played Live games of 2008 (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Call of Duty: World at War Just in case you weren't keeping (weekly) track of the most played games of 2008, our pal Major Nelson thought he'd do the community a service by listing the Top 20 Live Games of 2008, based on Live connectivity over the course of the past 52 weeks. | |
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N4G Vs Digg: Which One Provides Better Gaming News? (via Cinema Blend Games) - In regards to gaming news, most gamers would prefer RSS feeds or gathering news from aggregators to cut down on filtering through crap. The only problem is -- with the two biggest aggregators providing the most gaming news available for gamers -- does either one really provide good gaming news for | |
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The Top 20 LIVE Games of 2008 (via Major Nelson) - Last year was a great year to be an Xbox 360 gamer as is evident by the quality of titles that Xbox LIVE members were playing. After a few days of number crunching, here are the top games for 2008 based on Xbox Live connectivity. Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s) 1 Halo 3 2 Call of Duty 4 3 GTA IV 4 Gears of War 2 5 Gears of War 6 CoD: World at War 7 Guitar Hero III 8 Battlefield: Bad Company Demo 9 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo 10 Rock Band 11 Fable II 12 Mirror's Edge Demo 13 Madden NFL 09 14 BF: Bad Company 15 Rainbow Six Vegas 2 16 UNO 17 Castle Crashers 18 COD: World at War Multiplayer Beta 19 Forza Motorsport 2 20 Too Human - Demo Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased) 1 Castle Crashers 2 Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 3 Braid 4 A Kingdom for Keflings 5 UNO 6 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix 7 Fable II Pub Games 8 Duke Nukem 3D 9 Bionic Commando: Rearmed 10 Worms 11 SOULCALIBUR 12 Portal: Still Alive 13 DOOM 14 1942: Joint Strike 15 Bomberman Live 16 MEGA MAN 9 17 N+ 18 Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 19 Marble Blast Ultra 20 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased. | |
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Rumor: LEGO Rock Band in development (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Rumors, Rock Band 2 According to videogaming247 and their super secret "source", LEGO franchise developer Traveller's Tales is currently hard at work on their latest brick game: LEGO Rock Band. Supposedly, during a Radio One interview, a UK Traveller's Tales employee confirmed that they're working on a new LEGO game and that it's releasing in 2009, but exact specifics were withheld. | |
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