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Gabe Newell: Xbox 360 Makes My Life Worse

 

Valve Software’s head honcho believes that not being able to depend on a hard drive in the Xbox 360 makes his life as a developer tougher.

 

The latest issue of Computer Gaming World has an interview with Gabe Newell, Valve Software’s founder and managing director, in which the developer of Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike discusses various topics including the release date of Aftermath, Lost Coast and Day of the Defeat Source.

 

Gabe also had time so discuss Windows Vista, the next-generation operating system from Microsoft due out late next year, and the Xbox 360.

 

"Look, I spoke to some people at Microsoft, and as I said, I can't point to a single feature in Vista that I care about that solves problems for us at all. And I had the same conversation with the Xbox 360 guys. It's like, Xbox 360 doesn't make my life any better, and in fact, it makes it a lot worse, as you're telling me I can't count on having a hard drive."

 

 

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/9103/Gabe-Newell-Xbox-360-Makes-My-Life-Worse/

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Sxolia ths Bethesda gia tis 2 ekdoseis toy xbox360

In the end, because developers have to make games with "core" 360 owners in mind, the gameply experience may not be greatly enhanced for users of the HDD.

Although Allard may say that it's up to the imagination of the developer, the fact that Hines would not mention any specific enhancement other than faster load times does make one a bit concerned that the 360 HDD really won't be used for much more than a cache for those gamers willing to shell out the extra money—a feature the original Xbox offered as standard.

it becomes far less likely that developers will go out of their way to optimize games for those who do have the drive. If that turns out to be the case, then the HDD in the 360 will ultimately serve as a really big memory card that also enables increased backwards compatibility, rather than a device to enhance the gameplay experience.

http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=10432&section=feature

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New Xbox 360 Brochure is Leaked

"Xbox 360 Guide"

 

 

By: Richard Allen

 

 

One of Xbox-Scene's users known as Deamonz sent them digital photographs of a new product brochure for the Xbox 360. This brochure alledgedly came from a conference for the console and is not available for public release. He managed to get one home and snap some photos. Xbox-Scene speculates this could be a retail brochure that will help promote the 360 to end-users before it's release.

 

The brochure is entitled "Xbox 360 guide". Inside you will find alot of information that has been already covered. The two packages for Xbox 360, accessories, Xbox Live and many games. I took the liberty of cleaning them up in PhotoShop a bit. They are easier to read then the original images.

 

BTW: Thanks Deamonz!

 

List of games mentioned in the guide:

Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Gears of War (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Full Auto (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Dead or Alive 4 (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Kameo: Elements of Power (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Quake 4 (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

The Outfit (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Need For Speed Most Wanted

Madden NFL 2006

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006

NBA Live 2006

FIFA 2006

Final Fantasy XI

Tony Hawk American Wasteland

King Kong

Gun

NBA 2K6

NHL 2K6

Amped 3

Top Spin 2

Frame City Killer

Saints Row

Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes

Half-Life 2

Ultimate Spiderman

Battlefield 2

Stacked

Batman Begins

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disney's Chicken Little

 

http://theconsolewars.blogspot.com/2005/08/new-xbox-360-brochure-is-leaked-xbox.html

 

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Full Auto (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

Quake 4 (Xbox 360 Exclusive)

ayta den einai exclusives

[Merlin_o_magos]

Re paidia kante kai kana resize tis photos ksexilose o firefox

[avenger]

ayta den einai exclusives

Ως συνήθως με τις κονσόλες θεωρείται exclusive ότι βγαίνει μόνο για μια κονσόλα,άσχετα αν αυτοί οι τίτλοι θα βγούν και για pc.

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Oxi stis konsoles theoreitai exclusive oti einai exclusive , allo an oi xbox fans lene exclusive kai oti bgainei kai gia PC gia na lene oti exoyn perissotera exclusives apo ayta poy pragmatika exoyn, pera apo ayto to ghost recon 3 tha bgei akoma kai gia ps2/xbox, kai to full auto exei hdh anakoinothei gia to ps3.

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Oi gkrinies gia to mikro media storage toy 360 synexizontai, meta ton Itakagi kai allos iaponas developer paraponietai gia thn apoysia HD-DVD h Blu-ray.

From Software producer Masanori Takeuchi, who's been working on Enchant Arm, a role-playing game slated to be an Xbox 360 launch title, said developers will also be running into issues of storage space in the next generation. While the Xbox 360 is a next-generation console, Microsoft decided to equip it with a normal DVD reader, rather than to give it HD-DVD or Blu-ray reading capabilities.

 

"The volume of data in Enchant Arms won't fit into a single DVD. It's an RPG, so we're thinking it would be inevitable that we release it on two discs," says Takeuchi. "But to be honest, that's even looking grim."

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/30/news_6132218.html

[Stormwatch]

Aλλο ενα ενδιαφερον κοματι απο το αρθρο...

 

"Despite whatever problems the multi-core architecture brings up, the Japanese developers interviewed in the magazine all seem to agree that the Xbox 360 is developer-friendly, with one of the main reasons being that the development environment is based on Direct X. The developers also spoke highly of the Xbox 360's development kit for its array of tools including Visual C++ programming support, and flexibility in recycling the programs that they've created."

 

Αναμενομενο, αφου ας μην ξεχναμε οτι η Microsoft ειναι εταιρεια software...

[avenger]

Oxi stis konsoles theoreitai exclusive oti einai exclusive , allo an oi xbox fans lene exclusive kai oti bgainei kai gia PC gia na lene oti exoyn perissotera exclusives apo ayta poy pragmatika exoyn, pera apo ayto to ghost recon 3 tha bgei akoma kai gia ps2/xbox, kai to full auto exei hdh anakoinothei gia to ps3.

Διαφωνώ,σε πολλές διαφημίσεις για παιχνίδι σε κονσόλα έχω δει τον όρο exclusive ενώ το παιχνίδι κυκλοφορεί και για pc,είναι κανόνας αυτό.Exclusive θεωρείται απο κάποια εταιρία ότι βγαίνει μόνο στη δική της κονσόλα,άσχετα αν βγαίνει στο pc που δεν τους ενδιαφέρει.Π.χ το kotor θεωρείται exclusive αφού δεν βγήκε ποτέ σε ps2/gamecube.Όσο για το ghost recon και το full auto που αναφέρεις μπορεί και να έχεις δίκιο δεν το έχω ψάξει.Λεπτομέρειες βέβαια όλα αυτά αλλά τελος πάντων.

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Διαφωνώ,σε πολλές διαφημίσεις για παιχνίδι σε κονσόλα έχω δει τον όρο exclusive ενώ το παιχνίδι κυκλοφορεί και για pc,είναι κανόνας αυτό.

eimai sigoyros oti to exeis dei mono se paixnidia xbox ayto, mhn paizoyme me tis lexeis, apokleistiko shmainei apokleistiko, einai mono se mia platforma kai se kamia allh

 

Όσο για το ghost recon και το full auto που αναφέρεις μπορεί και να έχεις δίκιο δεν το έχω ψάξει.Λεπτομέρειες βέβαια όλα αυτά αλλά τελος πάντων.

traba sto gamespot kai kane ena search

[avenger]

eimai sigoyros oti to exeis dei mono se paixnidia xbox ayto, mhn paizoyme me tis lexeis, apokleistiko shmainei apokleistiko, einai mono se mia platforma kai se kamia allh

Όχι δεν το έχω δεί μόνο σε παιχνίδια για xbox,και κάνεις λάθος.Δεν πρόκειται να επιμείνω, δικαίωμα σου να πιστεύεις ότι θέλεις.Άλλο το exclusivity στις κονσόλες.

[Pytzamarama]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! -->> Enas paradosiakos pc-developer theorei pos to na ftiaxnei games gia konsola xoris skliro einai diskolotero apo to na ftiaxnei games gia konsola me hd!!!!!

Kali fasi!!!Nice find!!!

 

Episis to olo thema tou excusivity....poli endiaferon.

To mono pou me noiazei einai oti tha paizw QUAKE 4 (kai ola ta alla oxi-exclusive )to Noemvri AFTOU TOY XRONOY.

 

Theoro to line-up tou xbox to kalitero stin istoria twn konsolwn(mono to Halo3 leipei - alla kalitera gia na prolavoume na paiksoume kai tipota!!).

 

En tw metaksi oi ipoloipoi kakoproairetoi mporoun na postaroun oti xoli vriskoun sto internet, na paizoun to GTA sto PS2 me 21fps kai na fantasionontai me ta vapor-ware tou PS3.

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BioWare Working On 360 Titles

 

World-renowned developer BioWare Corp is recruiting potential employees to expand development teams working on Xbox 360 games, IGN learned today.

 

 

A BioWare spokesperson told IGN two unannounced games are being developed by two different BioWare teams. BioWare has a total of four teams at work currently. Though the spokesperson wouldn't reveal which games they are, both Microsoft Game Studios Executive Shane Kim and BioWare team members have said in the past that Jade Empire 2 (working title) is definitely in development.

 

"We have a couple of Xbox 360 titles in development right now," said a BioWare spokesperson. "But we're recruiting across the board for all four development teams. We have two teams working on Xbox 360 titles, one team on Dragon Age (for the PC), and one on digital distribution, which is ongoing content created for Neverwinter Nights."

 

The second BioWare 360 game is very likely the combination first-person shooter RPG BioWare spoke about with IGN in December (in which the developer said an FPS RPG was "inevitable"). This game is being built using Epic's upcoming Unreal Engine 3. We expect Microsoft and/or BioWare to announce this game sometime in 2006.

 

Although Dragon Age has been announced solely for the PC, previous reports suggest BioWare might bring the PC RPG to Xbox 360 as well. BioWare had no comment on the topic.

 

As for the success of Jade Empire, which was well received critically but not financially (it now sells for $19.99 at EB Games), BioWare said this: "We thought it did well for a new intellectual property. Jade sold more than 500,000 units worldwide, and for a new IP that's good. People embraced it. You'll have to ask Microsoft about the pricing."

 

Microsoft had no comment on Jade Empire's lower pricing.

 

We'll have more soon on BioWare's 360 games.

 

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/646/646723p1.html

[Stormwatch]

Avenger συμφωνω απολυτα μαζι σου....