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Official: Warner Bros goes Blu-Ray Exclusive

By Gavin Mannion
January 5, 2008 - 18 years ago

Warner Bros announced late last night that as off the first of May 2008 they are going to be going Blu-Ray exclusive. According to their press release. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers Warner Bros has always been Hollywood’s biggest seller of …

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L.A. Noire Actually multi-platform?

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

Back in October I posted an article about LA Noire being to big to come to the Xbox 360 as it won’t fit on a DVD. This was thrown around by PS3 fans as justification for including the Blu-Ray player in their console. However now it seems that may not have been the entire truth, the company behind the game …

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Eurogamer Face Off Round 7

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

Eurogamer regularly writes up a feature where they compare cross platform games and choose a winner. We are now at round 7 and so far the Xbox 360 has won the previous 6 rounds. So how did it fair this time? 1. Kane & Lynch = Tie2. Timeshift = Xbox 3603. GRAW 2 = Xbox 3604. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground …

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Far Cry 2 coming to the 360 and PS3 in 2008

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

Floating into my inbox this afternoon is a press release from Ubisoft confirming what many had already suspected. Far Cry 2 is on its way to both the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the 2008-2009 Fiscal year. With the highly anticipated PC version landing in March this year I suspect it is only the dedicated console gamers who are going …

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EA Says No Plans For 360 Version of Crysis

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

Well EA didn’t let that rumour run for very long did they… I reported yesterday on the Austrian site that had listed Crysis for the 360, which also included a November release date. However this morning it is being reported that EA has completely denied that Crysis is coming to the 360 and Crytek has stated that there is no …

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All Xbox Live members are going to receive a free arcade game

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

One of our own visitors, Naudran, left a comment on another story with a message which was written by Marc Whitten, General Manager of Xbox Live. Dear Xbox LIVE Members: During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year …

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Xbox Live was attacked?

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

It was quite widely reported that the Xbox Live service suffered some lengthy downtime throughout the Christmas period. This was put down to the huge influx of new users as well as the existing users going on leave and playing games instead of going to the beach. However it is now rumoured that it may have been a denial of …

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You sold how many?

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

Microsoft has just released there Xbox 360 and Halo 3 sales figures and I have to say they are quite impressive. Obviously Microsoft isn’t the most unbiased source but they haven’t been caught lying about sales figures (yet) as far as I know so I am giving them the benefit of the doubt here. Microsoft has sold 17.7 million Xbox …

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Evil Genius 101: My New Years resolution… for Microsoft

By Gavin Mannion
January 4, 2008 - 18 years ago

Reproduced with permission from Doobiwan  As de facto designated 360 fanboy I really think I know more about Microsoft’s business than they do and as such they need to listen to me if they plan on taking over the world. Trust me , I’ve been trying to do it for over a decade and they can learn from my failures …

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Craig Nicholson is the first Xbox MVP in Africa

By Gavin Mannion
January 3, 2008 - 18 years ago

A huge congratulations to Craig Nicholson who has become the first Microsoft MVP for Xbox in Africa. As many of the people in the gaming community know, Craig has always been around doing his best to help out anyone with a problem and really pushing the Xbox cause in South Africa. Becoming an Xbox MVP is no small feat and …

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Xbox Ultimate – Coming soon?

By Gavin Mannion
January 3, 2008 - 18 years ago

Stuff.tv has posted today about the new Xbox Ultimate that they are predicting (or confirming) will be released in August 2008. The ultimate comes with the following specs 1080p HDMI output Built in Wi-Fi hi-def audio output 65nm hardware a silent fan HD-DVD drive built in 320GB hard drive to use with the IPTV service Now there has been quite …

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Poker Smash Hands-On Preview

By Gavin Mannion
January 3, 2008 - 18 years ago

Teamxbox.com has a hands on preview of the upcoming Poker Smash for the Xbox 360. Never heard of it? Neither had I but it looks pretty awesome. Basically someone has taken a game of Poker and shoved it into a Tetris framework. So instead of matching colours or patterns you need to create Poker hands. Now the idea itself sounds …

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