All Posts Tagged With: "Xbox 360"

Microsoft has recently unveiled its new project, Boku, at a conference in Los Angeles.  Boku is an icon driven to allowing Xbox 360 and PC users the ability to create games with a controller.  This is apparently built to create a bridge between user creation (ala Little Big Planet) and the more complex ideas behind XNA.  It is being reported to be released in 2009 (with Microsoft rolling out the user created XNA stuff with the newer dashboard updates).  The program manager Matthew MacLaurin says that he wanted the kids of today to be able to have as much fun as he did programming on his Commodore PET and away from the passive-TV watching.

Check out the link to find more information and tell us what you think!

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This Wednesday on the Xbox Live Arcade will feature the game Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader.  Now I know you are going to put off buying Fallout 3 and Guitar Hero: World Tour so you can get yourself 1200 points to purchase this awesome title!   Not only can you answer questions for a computer rendered Jeff Foxworthy, but you can also use cheats like peeking at your partner’s paper.  My guess is they did not want to release something too awesome in the midst of these amazing games coming out!

To make the day better they are releasing a new Marble Blast Ultra bonus level with a new achievement!  Oh, that ain’t any better?

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Just yesterday we announced the registration for the New Xbox Experience and today we have some more screenshots to share with you.  Hopefully for those of you who registered you’ll be lucky enough to be a part of the beta group, if not…well you can at least see the pictures we have for you here.

I’m kind of excited about the Netflix feature that’s going to be part of this new experience mainly because I’m lazy and don’t ever feel like mailing my envelopes back!

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The newest Tom Clancy game has gone gold.  Tom Clancy’s EndWar is now ready for manufacturing and shipping for its November 4th release date.  This game allows you to experience a World War 3 while having a revolutionary voice command system where you can control the game through your headset.  I do not know about you, but the idea of screaming commands into my headset makes me surprisingly excited to try this game.  In fact, I am going to go play the Xbox 360 demo now!

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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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