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Dungeons and Dragons Online comes out tomorrow, for all five of you who aren’t playing World of Warcraft and aren’t satisified with your meatspace d20 experience. The New York Times has an article on the thinking behind the game and reminds everyone that Vin Diesel is a big nerd.
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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 [...]
Microsoft-Toshiba HD-DVD Alliance Changes Xbox 360:
According to the statements made by Bill Gates in Japan, Xbox 360, the new gaming console will include HD-DVD drives.
Considering that such a decision would postpone the launching date, Microsoft will equip the initial models with classic DVD drives, and only after the [...]
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 [...]
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
I’m trying to keep up with the coverage like everybody else but it’s all overwhelming even when you’re not there. Being in the middle of the nerd throng must be serious information overload. Gaming journalists, I salute you in your quest to report on the latest and greatest in vaporware.
E3 coverage to watch: * Kotaku * Joystiq * [...]
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