Free Avatar racing game Joy Ride is coming to XBLA, in the fashion of a Korean MMO. One of the more unusual announcements for the Xbox 360 today was the release of Avatar-supported racing game Joy Ride. It would be easy to dismiss amid the flurry of Natal tech demos and Facebook upgrades to Xbox…
It’s time to hear what Ubisoft has to show us for this year’s press conference. Will we see Assassin’s Creed 2? Sure. But what about Beyond Good & Evil 2? Not so sure? Check it out below and follow along with us. Click to viewUbisoft’s E3 Presser
Lots of new broke at today’s the Xbox E3 press conference. Here it is all in one place for easy reading — for you, for me and that guy over there. Arguably, the biggest news was the announcement of Natal, Microsoft’s motion controller interface. Thing about this post is that if you stand up, wave…
.html I may not be the biggest Beatles fan, but it was hard to deny the appeal of the first trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band. It looks fab. This career-spanning look at The Beatles first video game shows off the variety of visual styles that will be highlighted in The Beatles: Rock Band, as…
If there’s one word that Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios thought best described Forza Motorsport 3 five separate times, it was “definitive.” As in Forza 3 will be the definitive racing game of this generation. Turn 10’s competition Polyphony Digital may take issue with that, should it ever get Gran Turismo 5 out the door,…
.html Short, but sweet for Xbox 360 owners, this trailer gives us a first brief glimpse at Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the first Metal Gear Solid title to hit the Xbox 360. According to Konami, the game will star Raiden, who first debuted in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and who appeared most…
We see a link to that “Mask” page and a Metal Gear Solid: Rising notice. There’s space for games that Kojima will announce at, guess, tomorrow’s Sony presser. Be sure to check our liveblog! Thoughts, feelings about this Kojima countdown drip fed hype — let them be known in our comment section. That’s what it’s…
EA announced today that an EA Sports MMA game is in development at Madden and Tiger Woods studio EA Tiburon. “We’re ready for the fight,” EA Sports chief Peter Moore said in a press release. No other details were given regarding fighters, arenas and so forth. Rival publisher THQ publishes games based on the world-famous…
Tim Schafer is showing off Brutal Legend at EA’s E3 press conference, and just announced that the last old-timey metal legend not in the game – Ozzy – is going to be in the game. To go with that announcement, creator Tim Schafer said that star Jack Black has done a whopping 26,000 lines of…
EA have a lot of “partners”, developers with whom they share a close, special relationship. Like id. And Valve. And Grasshopper, and Epic. Now, welcome the latest EA partner: APB developers Realtime Worlds. Yes, the team behind 360 exclusive Crackdown – and helmed by GTA creator David Jones – have signed a deal with EA,…
BioWare and Lucasart’s Star Wars: Old Republic MMO is going to be the world’s first large-scale massively multiplayer game to be all talk. As in, no text messages whatsoever. The amount of voice acting work that’s going to require must be absolutely mind-blowing. And it also raises a few issues. Like, how can you personalise…
Halo 3 ODST may be a spin-off, but Microsoft wagers that enough content will be packed into the game’s box to warrant a $59.99 price tag. Bungie Studios has suggested that Halo 3 ODST won’t be as long as Halo 3. So why will it run the cost of a full game? Here’s a list…
Xbox 360 exclusive psychological action thriller Alan Wake is hitting Spring 2010, telling the story of a bestselling author’s battle with writer’s block. Obviously, that battle gets a little more interesting when shotguns are involved. Developer Remedy, responsible for the Max Payne series, is bringing “multilayered character interactions, unique problem-solving and intense combat against terrifying…
Starting this fall, movies and television shows from Zune Video will be playable on the Xbox 360 in 1080p HD. Microsoft says that video start up using their new service will be “as close to instantaneous as possible” by transitioning between many different bitrates and resolutions of video. What that means, Microsoft says, is that…
Valve is turning a sequel around in record Valve time, announcing today that Left 4 Dead 2 will be hitting the Xbox 360 and PC later this year. Meet the new zombie apocalypse Survivors. Since Left 4 Dead 2 takes place roughly at the same time as the events of the original and far away…
.html One of the most stunning moments of the Xbox 360 press conference this morning, was the introduction of Peter Molyneux’s Milo. Milo appears to be a complex artificial intelligence that you can interact with through the Xbox 360 using it’s recently announced Project Natal motion controller. Molyneux says Milo can recognize your face, emotions…
Sure, the Microsoft fact sheet for Project Natal explains that the XBox 360’s answer to Wii motion control has a special sensor, an RGB sensor, a depth sensor, a multiarray microphone and a special processor, but what’s that name mean? Here’s how the company explains it: “Alex Kipman, who incubated the project and is from…
.html Seen in person, Microsoft’s motion controller without a controller is pretty amazing to behold. But until we have it in our hot little hands, we’ll hold off on passing judgment. Until then here’s a video of it in… motion.
The Xbox 360 will be added Twitter and Facebook to its list of web services, Microsoft announced today, with some of those social networking services interact with the console’s game library. Microsoft’s Facebook implementation on the Xbox 360 looks to offer much of what’s available via a regular web browser: status updates, photo sharing, email…
Visit e3.brutallegend.com to get a look into the mind behind Brütal Legend in a live Twitter chat with Tim Schafer (06/02/09 7 PM PST). Also, enter to win a custom guitar inspired by Tenacious D, and experience Brütal Legend’s epic E3 performance.
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