Xbox 360

Microsoft’s GamerscoreBlog has posted the Xbox Live Arcade games they expect to release in the next several weeks. Almost all the games most everyone is quite aware of, especially the very addictive Puzzle Quest… and we all know the AI is a cheating fool! Anyhow, not sure on the order of release.

The expected games are:

- Ecco the Dolphin
- Hexic 2
- War World
- Geon: Emotions
- Puzzle Quest
- Space Giraffe
- Streets of Rage 2
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Xbox 360 owners get ready for another great looking game coming soon to a store near you!  Virtua Fighter 5 is said to be shipping October 30th and on the shelves by Halloween.

Virtua Fighter players have been waiting quite a while for online play — well the wait is over!  Sega confirms that the 360 edition will feature leaderboards, downloadable content, and the ability to download matches from top contenders to study their moves.

If you’re a PS3 owner looking to play Overlord and just can’t wait for Triump Studios to do the porting, you can head on over to GameTap if you’ve got a gaming PC. A recent deal between Codemasters and GameTap means that anybody with a decent PC and internet connection will be able to play Overlord with a subscription for far less then the next-gen $59.99 price. Considering Triump hasn’t started the porting yet, who knows when it’ll be done. Go with what you got.

Microsoft shipped only 700,000 Xbox 360 units in its latest fiscal quarter, but that’s ccompared to 1.8 million in the same quarter in 2006. Microsoft’s growing troubles with the Xbox 360 video game console appear to be catching up to the company. Sales of the gaming machine plunged 60% in the fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft disclosed Thursday. In its earnings statement for the quarter, Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units during the period, compared to 1.8 million in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2006, a fall off of 61%.

Looks like there’s trouble on the horizon for Epic Games as they are being sued by Silicon Knights. 

The lawsuit that the widely used Unreal Engine 3 “did not work as Epic represented it would and, moreover, Epic has been unable or unwilling to fix it.”

Silicon Knights goes on to say that Epic “never intended to deliver Unreal Engine 3 as a fully functional game engine as promised,” and that Epic merely licensed the engine to collect fees from developers in order to fund its own development of Gears of War on 360.