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Jane at 1UP asks the questions keeping us all up at night:
One of the rumors floating around is that backwards compatibility will only work with a hard drive, which would have left Core systems out in the cold. As it turns out, that’s only partially true. In many cases, the hard drive will [...]
GameStop bundles range from $699.91 all the way to the “seventeen cents shy of $1200″ pièce de résistance pictured above. In case you were wondering, the HD experience is only included with the $799.90 bundle and you’ll still have to shell out more bucks for the premium Xbox Live service unless you move up to [...]
According to Piper Jaffray (Chairman and CEO Andrew S. Duff’s favorite game: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory), the Xbox 360 will launch with 15 titles, some of which will suck. The system will be available in two configurations: the $299 basic flavor that will bring nothing but tears and the $399 “cool ranch” flavor [...]
Paul Thurrott at the SuperSite for Windows (on the bookmark list of Major Nelson, apparently) has a lengthy interview with Executive Producer for Xbox Digital Entertainment Jeff Henshaw on the Xbox 360. There’s lots of stuff about Xbox Live (Blades! Rings of Light!) and info on how the 360 is Our Lord and Savior incarnate [...]
From CNET:
Classrooms in Japan will be getting Xboxes, but not for playing games. Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will donate Xbox consoles enabled with video chat capabilities to all elementary and junior high schools in Tokyo’s Suginami ward in hopes of helping the children become more IT-literate.
Instilling an appreciation for the wonder [...]
Donkey Kong Universe has a scan of a page from the Official Xbox Magazine UK with a list of games to be released on the Xbox 360. Some games that caught my eye:
Jade Empire 2 Crazy Taxi title Sonic game Banjo Kazooie game Killer Instinct 3
Major Nelson, otherwise known as Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb, has a post up about the flight to E3:
Could he really be with Nintendo? Or is he a fertilizer salesmen from Tacoma that happens to have a DS computer case? Yea, that’s probably it. But what’s with the black equipment case [...]
1UP has some (almost) unbridled enthusiasm about the Xbox 360 from developers, except for a little trepidation at the prospect of a Microsoft-mandated online component and some other features. Words like “shoehorn” may have been thrown around. Naturally everybody’s really happy with Microsoft since their jobs depend on the 360 doing well but it will [...]
We can all agree that the MTV special was an unmitigated success, laying Nintendo, Sony, and Infinium Labs on their asses in one fell swoop. Maybe for the “sheeple” anyway, intially alternating between excitement and dismay at the realization that significantly less road ruling and ride pimping would be going on that night but [...]
The June issue of Wired has an article on J Allard, the Xbox 360, and the big picture. Learn all about the method and the madness, the enigma that is J:
Allard is not exactly your typical Microsoft employee. Spend a bit of time with the man and you begin to see him as [...]
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