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Microsoft Says Lips is a Platform, Track List Released

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Microsoft Game Studio’s Director of Design Chris Esaki has recently said in an interview with 1up that the game Lips is a platform in the same vein as Rock Band.  In his words this will include an aggressive DLC strategy as well.

They have also announced the track list that can be found in 1up’s article as well as the first mini-games.  Esaki also explained the reason they went after the publisher iNiS was partly for the interesting mini-games.

I do not know how this game will stack up against its competitors just yet, but the games comes with two wireless motion-sensitive microphones for 70 bucks.  It at least has an interesting tracklist with the option to add my own music (though not fully functional at launch)!

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Microsoft Aims To Silence Trash Talking

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Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft filed for a patent a while back for a real-time censoring of audio-streams.  Yes that’s right trash talkers, this could mean that all those f-bombs you’re dropping while playing online could be a thing of the past.

I’m not sure if I’m too happy about this, I mean really if I want to dish out a few obscene words shouldn’t I be able to?  The real issue they should be dealing with is the fact that 10 year olds are out there playing mature rated games because Mommy just couldn’t say no to her little sweetheart.

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Hit the Weekend Links

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Here’s a Friday edition of the links for your perusal.  Enjoy!

Rumor: Microsoft making it harder for the little guys? — Kotaku

Left 4 Dead’s versus mode hands-on — Joystiq

Nirvana “Nevermind” 7-pack on Rock Band — 1up

New study says kids benefit from games — 1up

Left 4 Dead preorders out pacing the Orange Box — Gamespot

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DirectX 10 Fails To Attract Gamers

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DirectX 10 Fails To Attract Gamers

Microsoft’s DirectX 10 page talks about the benefits of DX10 in the future tense: “Many of the newest Windows games will take full advantage of the next-generation graphics technology in Windows Vista called DirectX 10.” Game developers have little incentive right now to produce games for DX10, as you’d only be able to utilize the DX10 features of the games on systems running Vista with a fairly high-end, newer graphics card. Considering the slow adoption rate of Vista, the plethora of Vista graphics driver problems, and the cost to consumers for worthy DX10 rigs, the sweet spot for game developers is still DX9 games on Windows XP.

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60%

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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%.

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Get Your New Xbox 360 Elite

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Well the tiXbox 360 Eliteme has come for Microsoft to release a new version of their Xbox 360 gaming system, the Elite!  What is this Xbox 360 Elite you ask?  Well let us tell you what you’ll get with this updated version.

  • The Elite Console – A premium black finish.  Kind of resembles a PS3…hmmmm.
  • 120G Hard Drive – Finally a good size hard drive!  This will also be sold seperate for an estimated $179.99
  • Wireless Control – Just as with the Premium 360 system you will get a wireless control.  But this one will be in the nice black finish to match your new Elite system!
  • HDMI Cable – This new feature will allow HD video (up to 1080p) and multichannel surround sound all through one cable.  Nice!

    • Xbox Headset – As with the other 360 Premium package you also get the headset.  This will also be in the Elite black finish.

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    Gears of War Tournament Coming Soon

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    Gears of War Tournament

    Microsoft and World Cyber Games are holding a Gears of War tournament starting April 9th and continuing through May 6th on Xbox Live.  During this time players will compete in various online matches where the 11 finalists on the leaderboard will win a trip for 2 to Prague.

    Come on Gearheads, think you’ve got game?  Show the rest of the world you do and take a shot at the contest!

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