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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 01, 2010
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Time: 13:37 EST/18:37 GMT
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For gamers who've griped about the Xbox 360's leveled down d-pad, Microsoft's telling old-school controller fans 'have it your way'. In fact: Have it both ways.
On November 9, the company says you'll be able to buy a version of the Xbox 360 gamepad with a twistable d-pad, one where the 'cross' portion can be either flush with the surrounding circle, like the current gamepad, or raised, where the cross lifts several millimeters above the disc.
That's most of all to please fighter fans, weaned on simpler button styles, like the Super Nintendo's firmly embedded and more directionally predictable d-pad. Fighting games in particular benefit from deterministic controls, allowing players to gauge, practice, and then depend on subtle thumb twists and jabs that oscillate between perpendicular and diagonal movements or involve stringing together complex sequences of d-pad slides and taps.
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010
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Time: 09:10 EST/14:10 GMT
| News Source: PC World
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If you missed it, 1 vs. 100 was a trivia show in which one contestant would try to outlast a “mob” of 100 others, each of whom face elimination with wrong answers. Players who weren’t competing could still answer questions from the sidelines, with a chance to rotate into the main game. Semiweekly live shows, hosted by comedian Chris Cashman, offered prizes to the winners.
The game was included with an Xbox Live Gold subscription, and at one point attracted more than 60,000 players to the live show. Microsoft didn’t say why it canned the show, only noting that the development team will move on to other projects. It’s rumored that the original 1 vs. 100 television show, hosted by Bob Saget for two seasons on NBC, could return, so maybe that was an issue for Microsoft.
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010
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Time: 09:06 EST/14:06 GMT
| News Source: That Video Game Blog
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Yesterday was Friday, and that means only one thing to Halo-heads: the arrival of the Bungie Weekly Update. This week’s entry doesn’t gush the hard-hitting details fans are longing for, but it does reveal all 49 Halo: Reach Achievements, and if you’re like me, and will be steadfastly working towards collecting all of them, this is certainly exciting news. Here’s how the Achievement allotment breaks down. Campaign (23), FireFight (7), Multiplayer (4), Training (6), and Player Experience (9). You’re checking my math now, right? I would if I were you.
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Time: 09:04 EST/14:04 GMT
| News Source: That Video Game Blog
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“Project S,” a pretty unassuming name attached to a secret strategy game surfaced this past Wednesday. It has since been speculated as Microsoft’s new crack at Halo Wars. These gropings have been put to rest, however, with more information coming in tying the game to former Age of Empires developers. Well they’ve at least been given something else to consider.
Following the demise of Ensemble Studios, a new incarnation with previous staffers arose with Robot Entertainment, the studio apparently responsible for the new game. The studio’s website, conveniently up and running just around the release of this information, also points to working on a new game for Microsoft Game Studios.
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Time: 08:50 EST/13:50 GMT
| News Source: Major Nelson
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I wanted to let you know that the Destination Arcade release date has been moved to next Wednesday to kick off the launch of the Summer of Arcade. We’ll start on July 21st with Limbo, followed by Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Castlevania Harmony of Despair, Monday Night Combat and we finish it off with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Also remember that if you purchase all five titles, and you’ll receive 1200 Points back. Complete schedule and details here. As I mentioned in my original post, Destination Arcade will only be available in the US. If I learn of any plans for other regions, I'll be sure to let you know.
Edit: I have learned that the Destination Arcade app will only be available for the duration of the Summer of Arcade promotion which ends August 18th.
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: FRIDAY, JULY 09, 2010
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Time: 10:31 EST/15:31 GMT
| News Source: That Video Game Blog
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Crytek’s mysterious Xbox exclusive, Codename Kingdoms, is a game shrouded in mystery. The live action trailer it was announced with at Microsoft’s E3 press briefing last month (above) only managed to raise questions, questions Microsoft Game Studios’ corporate vice president Phil Spencer has now added to. According to the executive, the non-Kinect title is “unique to what [Xbox is] as a platform” — which is about the biggest tease one could come up with — and a project Crytek’s “extremely excited about building”.
Despite its shy nature though, the game’s been in the works “for a while” now, Spencer also says. And, of course, great things should be expected: “They’re just such a top-tier developer. Graphically, they’re on a par with anybody else in the industry - and I think it’s a great addition to our line-up.”
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Time: 10:30 EST/15:30 GMT
| News Source: Joystiq
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We know Dead Space-dev Visceral Games has had its eye on the downloadable space -- along with the rest of EA -- for some time now with the oft-rumored Jack the Ripper title and something else. Well, that something else is Dead Space Ignition, "the first of many exciting game extensions we have planned for the launch of Dead Space 2," says Dead Space franchise exec producer Steve Papoutsis.
From what we can gather from the press release (embedded after the break), Ignition is a "Choose Your Own Adventure," comic-style story with "three unique hacking mini games." Ignition will provide a "unique perspective leading up to Dead Space 2" and fill in new players on all the backstory they need to shoot monsters' limbs off. Depending on which adventure you choose, you'll earn one of four endings (replayability!) and those endings will reward you with in-game trinkets for Dead Space 2, "including an exclusive suit."
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: WEDNESDAY, JULY 07, 2010
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Time: 11:51 EST/16:51 GMT
| News Source: That Video Game Blog
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With a number of Xbox 360’s 2010 exclusives already available, it appears that the likes of Gears of War 3, Halo:Reach, Fable III – all huge titles, granted — and Crytek’s Codename Kingdoms are among the few exclusives Microsoft has left. Going by Aaron Greenberg’s assurances, however, there’s no reason to worry. The Xbox product director has told OXM that the “pipeline is full” and that next year’s E3 will bring more hardcore exclusives to the Xbox masses.
“I think you’ve seen what we’re doing with exclusives like Crackdown 2, Alan Wake, Mass Effect, adding what’s different to what’s already there, and we’ll continue to invest and grow our core game line-up,” Greenberg commented. ”We know that that is the heart of our business, that is what allows us to fund and grow and innovate in new ways, and so that’ll be important in 2011 just as it was for us in 2010.”
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: TUESDAY, JULY 06, 2010
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010
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Time: 10:07 EST/15:07 GMT
| News Source: IGN
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Peter Molyneux has spoken out about Milo & Kate following yesterday's comments from senior Microsoft staff suggesting that the impressive tech was at this stage a demo not planned for public release. Aaron Greenberg said in an interview over the weekend that "[Milo] is a technology demo that continues to exist, but right now it's not a game that we're planning to bring to market," comments he later went on to refine.
Molyneux has since responded in his address at the UK's GameHorizon conference. "Poor Aaron Greenberg," he said in a talk attended by Gamesindustry.biz, "he's on the PR team, he hasn't seen it since last year, so he came up with this stock answer that Milo is alive and well and living in Guildford but it's still a tech demo." Click link for more.
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