Category: Games

Xbox 360 Dashboard Update

On Jun 06, 2006 12:16 am, by NeutralX2

A huge update to the Xbox live dashboard has been released. There are a lot of features in this one that I have been waiting wanting for a long time.

While the update is being released at 5:00 AM not everyone will receive it immediately. It can take up to four hours for a user to be prompted to receive this update, so please be patient. There is no way to speed up the process, every Xbox 360 will receive the prompt to upgrade sometime between 5:00 AM and 9:00 AM (or the next time you sign in to Xbox Live.)

Check out what’s new:

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Irrational Hiring

On May 28, 2006 8:08 pm, by NeutralX2

Irrational Games posted an interesting bit of news on their website recently. Apparently they are working on a cool new game. I wonder what it is:

Off the back of winning game of the show at E3, we’re looking for lots of talented people to join us in Australia. We’re working on the sequel to one of the best loved PC franchises of all time. I think gamers are going to go nuts when they find out. So, why not come and talk to us about being part of it?

Irrational also had a great show at E3 this year. They won a lot of awards:

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Nintendo announces Wii price

On May 25, 2006 12:30 pm, by NeutralX2

About $50 more then I expected, but still sounds like a pretty good deal. I can see myself getting one of these for sure and I am willing to bet that it will sell very well at that price. Now I wonder what the price of the games will be.

Thursday 25 May 2006
Nintendo has announced the launch price for Wii for the US and Japan but sadly hasn’t revealed how much the console will cost in Europe or the UK.

In a statement released today, is was revealed that the price of Wii “will not exceed $250 in America or 25,000 yen in Japan” but all that was said about the European launch was that it will have a “similar, affordable price”.

To give you a bit of guide how much it could be, $250 works out at £134 while 25,000 yen is equivalent to £119.

While it’s disappointing that no UK launch price was announced, it is encouraging to see that Wii could well retail at around the £150 mark, which would work out as extremely good value, especially given the £425 price tag of PS3.

As for a launch date, the statement just reiterated that Nintendo hopes “to ship six million systems to retailers around the world between its launch in the fourth quarter of 2006 and the end of its fiscal year on 31 March 2007”.

– Source

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Tribes 2

On May 25, 2006 12:17 am, by NeutralX2

So, I have recently re-installed Tribes 2. Yesterday I played a nice PUG with a bunch of other players. There were two captains that picked their team members and then the two teams went at it for about an hour. It was a pretty awesome map. I played defense most of the time, only going offense to return flags. I got quite a few nice flag returns on that one. Anyway, if you have Tribes 2 and would like to play, let me know.

If you have never seen a Tribes 2 match (or any Tribes match), you are missing out. They are pretty fun to watch compared to most games. Lots of stuff going on at any moment in a Tribes match. If you want to check one out you can download it here. It isn’t a particularly great match. Two mediocre teams battling for an uneventful rung, but interesting none the less. Should be entertaining to anyone who has never watched a Tribes match before.

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PS3 pre-owned games banned!

On May 24, 2006 4:59 pm, by NeutralX2

Some more craziness from Sony. I am sure this news won’t make anyone happy. Also, I hear this means no rentals as well. So have fun paying $60 on games that you can’t rent to try out, and then can’t sell if you don’t like it. Sony keeps making it easier and easier to pass on the PS3.

Wednesday 24 May 2006
High street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they’ve bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won’t own the PS3 titles that they’ve paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property – meaning that the disc won’t be the customer’s to sell.

We assume that the thinking behind this move will ultimately be to stop PS3 games being resold several times – which currently snatches potential sales away from Sony – and to counter the impression in consumers’ minds that games are only really worth their pre-owned price and are not worth buying new.

When we contacted Sony, it issued us with the following statement: “We have made all of the official announcements at E3 and cannot make any further comments at this time. We will be announcing more news running up to PlayStation 3’s launch.”

–Source