Xbox 360 Ειδήσεις {News Topic}

BlizardBill · 12 Μαΐου 2006

pou einai o slay lete na postarei fotografies me ta gelia grafika tou gran turismo i tou foverou neou gamepad pou fernei epanastasi ston sxediasmo.to boomerang mallon i sony to petaxe alla telika den girise.

Αν θές να μάθεις για το ps3 και τι είναι το χειριστήριο , υπάρχει ειδηκό topic.

(hint: motion sensing)

privateer · 12 Μαΐου 2006

E3 06: Too Human Hands-on

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6150289&pid=928546

privateer · 12 Μαΐου 2006

Gears of War Hands-On (X360)

http://xbox.gamespy.com/xbox-360/gears-of-war/707559p1.html

privateer · 12 Μαΐου 2006

First things first, if you didn't read our announcement story yet, please do so HERE and check out our galleries, wallpaper and movies.

Well we got back from E3 yesterday, or at least Sketch and I did, and to be honest, we didn't see anything of the actual show. We were actually just there to do set up for the trailer and a little surprise afterwards.

The event took place at the fabled Chinese Theater in Hollywood. We were there a couple of days before to do dress rehearsals and make sure audio and video were hooked up correctly. We also had to install a 360 debug kit with the teaser on it. The entire thing runs in real time, so there was plenty of opportunity for things to go wrong, and practice makes perfect. So we practiced.

We actually had six debugs all told. Three for the E3 briefing at the theater and three for something we did later. The three at the conference were the main unit - Harold Ryan our studio manager sat patiently backstage, waiting to press "A" after Bill Gates' speech. A dirty little secret was that he pressed "A" on two controllers simultaneously. That way if one of the boxes was accidentally unplugged, or broke, or gasp - crashed, the projector would switch seamlessly to the second Xbox and hopefully nobody would notice.

That didn't happen - we'd stress tested the Xbox systems and the game code very robustly before we left. After it ran though, we were all able to breathe a sigh of relief. We didn't want to run a video of the demo - we wanted the crowd to see it in realtime, on a real 360.

The buildup to the trailer was not without its gaffes. We spotted one of our own staff wearing his Halo 3 t-shirt before the announcement and quickly told him to zip up his jacket. Amazingly, in that 20 second window - a Kotaku reporter spotted him and actually blogged it.

The other blog-related mini-disaster was the fact that the Halo 3 trailer appeared on Xbox Live at around 12:15, before it had appeared at the conference (which was running a little late). A few members of the press in the crowd probably sooted that on their wireless devices - but thankfully they kept quiet.

We were hiding in the back out of sight - primarily to see what the crowd reaction would be like. We started sweating when Gears of War got immediate rapturous applause, and the crowd went positively nuts when Peter Moore revealed that Grand theft Auto 4 would be released for 360 (my bet - set in Tokyo and starring Beat Takeshi as a Yakuza boss).

Eventually the conference started to wind down towards what we knew was the Halo 3 announce. We basked in the applause and then literally ran back across the street to set up a little behind the scenes thing for the press. Again, we wanted to stress that the thing was in realtime.

Our pals at Pioneer loaned us one of their sweet new 360 audio systems - a 5.1 surround system with a 360-themed industrial design and an awesome form factor - and a couple of 50 inch plasmas to match. Hao Chen, our graphics guy, spent two days calibrating them with his all-new custom-built HD video calibration software. We've begged Hao to maybe work a consumer version into the game. We just have to be really, really nice to him all year.

We used the TVs and audio to demo the fact that the game was realtime to an assortment of press. Basically CJ Cowan (or TJ Cohen as he's now known) and Marcus Lehto, our cinematic and art directors respectively, flew around our environment.

There wasn't much to show at the moment, since we're keeping things under warps for now, but CJ clued everyone in on the 3-mile wide Forerunner artifact, Cortana's state of mind and the Chief (no it's not Linda, or Kelly…) battered Mjolnir armor.

Marcus showed off the new engine's lighting system, the self-shadowing and realtime reflection on the Chief, and the fact that we can draw geometry out to about 13 or 14 (game) miles. There was other stuff, but we'll talk about that later.

I think we had a great showing and we certainly had fun doing it, but getting the announcement out there was a huge weight off our minds. Lots more coming soon kids.

http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=backfromE3

p3tran · 12 Μαΐου 2006

Nεο MGS4 video. (με υποτιτλους!)

Δειτε το!!!

http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/loos/videos/MGS4trailer.wmv

privateer · 12 Μαΐου 2006

Play while you download coming to Xbox Live

http://www.pixelgamers.com/xbox360/news/1000609/33/play-while-you-download-coming-to-xbox-live.html

The user marks a file to download and it will be put in an active queue

downloadlist. There are 6 slots reserved in that queue. They will be

downladed sequentially not in parallel! If the Xbox360 sees there is

bandwith available it will boost the download speed up, if there. During

Online Sessions the downloads will be paused to garantee no lags. Itʼs also

possible to turn off the console, after powering it back on the downloads

will resume. When a download finishes the user will get a message that it

has been downloaded.

The bandwidth managmend looks like to be for lag free chats in the dashboard

or some other features which will be implemented additionally, i think so

cause during online sessions it will be paused anyway as he mentions in his

response to my questions.

privateer · 12 Μαΐου 2006

1UP.com @ E3: "XBOX 360 is like the Death Star"

1up.com E3 podcast

http://zdmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/Podcasts/050906.mp3

"What have you seen on the PS3 that was even marginally better than the 360? I haven't seen anything on the PS3 that the XBOX 360 couldn't do."

"That's part of the problem with the [PS3's] price. Here's a machine that's $200 more and it doesn't even do anything discernably better."

Re: Graphics

"From having played Lost Planet today, I can say that Lost Planet was better in my hand playing with the controller than anything I saw on PS3... And you can get that demo right now on Live, and you should."

Their grades for E3 presentations?

Sony = C+

Nintendo = B

Microsoft = A

Stormwatch · 12 Μαΐου 2006

Huge Dashboard Update - End of May

http://www.xboxic.com/news/897

We got confirmation from Boris Schneider-Johne (Senior Product Manager Xbox Platform and Accessories, Microsoft Germany) that a huge Dashboard Update will arrive at the end of May!

Features include background downloading and having multiple downloads at once.

The user marks a file to download and it will be put in an active queue downloadlist. There are 6 slots reserved in that queue. They will be downloaded sequentially not in parallel! If the Xbox360 sees there is bandwith available it will boost the download speed up. During online sessions the downloads will be paused to garantee no lags. It's also possible to turn off the console, after powering it back on the downloads will resume. When a download finishes the user will get a message that it has been downloaded.

He also mentions that there will be a lot more features in there but it will be a surprise and he won't talk about it!

Priv sorry, δεν προσεξα το post σου

privateer · 12 Μαΐου 2006

Thanks to a reliable source from Microsoft, we've learned some important details about the new peripherals announced for the Xbox 360, including pricing and a few Halo faceplate (non)specifics. Check out the leaked info and prices below:

360 wireless gaming receiver (which enables wireless 360 controllers, headsets, and wheels on your PC): $20

Wireless racing wheel: $130

Wireless headset: $60

Xbox Live Vision Camera (with headset, one month of Live Gold, and one arcade -- presumably Xbox Live Arcade -- game): $40

New faceplates for Halo (with the Master Chief on 'em, but not Halo 3 specific) and Forza (no word on connections to the sequel): $20 each

256 MB portable memory unit (MU): no official price yet, but definitely not four times the cost of the older 64MB MU

Besides acknowledging that the PC is "the biggest gaming device of all," MS appears to be setting an agressive price for its most relevant new PC accessory, the wireless gaming receiver (at least in comparison to the outrageously priced 360 wireless networking adapter). Unfortunately, no price was revealed as of yet for the USB-based HD-DVD add-on.

We've speculated in our recent podcasts as to what would happen to the various 360 SKUs when price drops inevitably occur. An interesting theory bandied about by prolific Joystiq Contributor epobirs (on our earlier bump-to-256MB-MU post) was that a $20 price drop for the Core system, coupled with a $20 price drop on the 64MB MU, would finally allow folks to pick up a capable non-Premium bundle for the original $300 Core price point. (Not a bad way to undercut PS2 memory card prices, too.) We hope to get official confirmation on this info in the not-too-distant future.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/12/rumor-360-wireless-gaming-receiver-20-wheel-130-headset-60/#comments

Narayan · 13 Μαΐου 2006

Αν κάνει εδώ Ευρώπη €20 το Wireless Gaming Receiver είναι αρκετά καλή τιμή, θα το πάρω για να έχω το pad και στα PC games

p3tran · 13 Μαΐου 2006

αμα εχεις καλωδιο φωτισης (charge&play?), πρεπει να παιζει κι ετσι με το usb στο pc.

δεν εχει τυχει να το δοκιμασω ομως..

privateer · 13 Μαΐου 2006

E3 2006: The Truth About Forza Motorsport 2

You've got questions, we've got answers.

http://forzamotorsport.net/051106-02.htm

The game will look better than PGR3 and then some. Why? Because it isn't simply Forza HD. We're not using the old Forza 1 engine. A new platform, a new engine. Things need to be built from the ground-up.

GabrielConnor · 13 Μαΐου 2006

αμα εχεις καλωδιο φωτισης (charge&play?)' date=' πρεπει να παιζει κι ετσι με το usb στο pc.
δεν εχει τυχει να το δοκιμασω ομως..[/quote']

Δυστυχώς δες παίζει p3tran. Γιατι ακόμα και όταν το συνδέεις με την usb το χειριστήριο συνεχίζει να εκπέμπει ασύρματα. Απο την usb μονο φορτίζει...