TGS 08: Halo 3 Recon trailer is dark and stealthy
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo 3 After finally being confirmed as a standalone expansion for Master Chief's final ride, Halo 3 Recon is the talk of the town walking out of Microsoft's TGS 2008 press conference. Taking on the role as an elite Orbital Drop Shock Trooper for the UNSC, Halo 3 Recon follows a brand new hero in an all new storyline.
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TGS 08: Ninety-Nine Nights 2 exclusive to the 360
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Continuing the Tokyo Game Show announcement frenzy, Microsoft announced a sequel to Q Entertainments Ninety-Nine Nights called (ever so coincidentally) Ninety-Nine Nights II. A game that can also be referred to as 99 Nights 2, N32 or even Ninety-Nine Nights + Two More.
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TGS 08: Halo Wars in early '09, Flood confirmed
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo Wars It was just revealed at the Tokyo Game Show that the long, long delayed Halo Wars (whose developer has had a bit of a struggle) will be releasing to the Xbox 360 EARLY 2009. Got that fellow fanboys, EARLY 2009 and you can bet we're going to hold Ensemble and Microsoft to that.
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TGS 08: Halo 3 Recon lands Fall 2009 Update
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo 3 Microsoft has just confirmed the speculation that the teaser trailer released by Bungie a few weeks ago is in fact a storyline expansion to Halo 3. Taking place prior to the events of the Halo 3 story, Halo 3 Recon (its official title) will put gamers in the shoes of a UNSC marine trooper -- specifically an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper -- and marks the first time since players took on the role as the Arbiter to play through the Halo universe as a character other than the Master Chief.
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TGS 08: New Xbox Experience hits November 19 worldwide
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Microsoft has just announced that the New Xbox Experience will release worldwide on November 19. Originally announced during E3 2008, the New Xbox Experience rethinks the way the Xbox 360 dashboard works in nearly every conceivable way. Adding features such as Avatars, the ability to install games to a hard drive and better organization for content, the NXE has been at the forefront of nearly every Microsoft event since it was first revealed.
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TGS 08: Metal Slug 7, Arkanoid, Space Invaders, R-Type and KoF '98 to XBLA
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade On the Xbox Live Arcade news fronts, Microsoft just announced that Taito's Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid (with 120 stages and online play) will release to the XBLA this Winter. Also announced was old school racer R-Type and that SNK Playmore's The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match will release Spring of 2009 and Metal Slug 7 will be releasing to the Arcade at a time yet to be determined.
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TGS 08: Tekken 6 lands on the Xbox 360 in Fall 09
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Confirming a rumor that was hinted at long ago, Microsoft has just announced that another famed Namco Bandai fighter is hitting the Xbox 360. Landing in Fall 2009, Tekken 6 will find life on the Xbox 360.Originally announced as a PlayStation 3 console-exclusive in 2005, Tekken 6 joins the brawling fray on the Xbox 360 late next year.
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TGS 08 Video: Meet Resident Evil 5's evil Wesker
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Resident Evil 5 Coming straight from Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show press conference is a brand new Resident Evil 5 trailer full of cooperative action, chainsaws and enough scary sh*t to make you jump out of your office chair. The trailer also gives us the first glimpse of Wesker and his evil greased back hair.
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TGS 08: Star Ocean secures worldwide release dates
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Just announced at the Microsoft press briefing during the Tokyo Game Show, Star Ocean: The Last Hope will land in North America on March 3 after it debuts in Japan on February 19. Microsoft also announced that the title will be made available in European and Asian markets but did not announce specific release dates.
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Video: What Lara Croft can do in TR Underworld
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Tomb Raider: UnderworldHonestly, when the developers at Crystal Dynamics talk about what Lara Croft can do in Tomb Raider: Underworld, they speak so passionately that one gets the impression they've spent one too many late nights staring at Lara's well proportioned figure on a computer screen.
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Epic calls EA buyout rumor rubbish
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News In a one word response to an unsubstantiated rumor that Electronic Arts is planning to buy Epic Games, Epic's VP Mark Rein told Big Download that the rumor is "rubbish." The rumor began swirling (down the drain, so it would seem) last week, when GameGuru.
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Joystiq plays Gears 2, we're insanely jealous
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Gears of War 2 Our mother-ship (Joystiq) recently got some hands on time with the finished campaign build of Gears of War 2 and were told to get as far as they could. And after six hours of gaming, our Joystiq friends came away with of memories of curb-stomping Locusts, impressive destructible environments, COG journals, a much deeper storyline and plenty of non-stop action.
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EA uncovers NFS Undercover game mode
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News In anticipation of the release of Need for Speed: Undercover, Black Box and EA just revealed an all new Undercover online game mode called "Cops and Robbers". Just as it sounds, Cops and Robbers pits two opposing teams of four against each other (one cops, one robbers) in an attempt to earn the most points.
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COD: World at War achievements revealed
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Call of Duty: World at War 360Sync has revealed the entire list of achievements for Call of Duty: World at War, the next installment in the long standing war series. The achievements are pretty standard, offering points for completing various levels and tasks within those levels during the campaign.
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Reminder: Microsoft's TGS press conference happens tonight
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News We already know what's going to be on the show floor and have a pretty good idea that Bungie will be involved, but we are totally in the dark to what other exciting news Microsoft will be announcing during their Tokyo Game Show 2008 press conference. The Microsoft conference kicks off TONIGHT at 11:00PM eastern (8:00PM pacific), when team Microsoft storms the TGS stage and hopefully makes a few hugely major announcements.
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Molyneux: Fable 1's moral choices were 'rubbish'
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Fable 2 This past May, during Microsoft's Spring Event, Chris "cool dude" Paladino from the Gamerscore Blog had a chance to sit down and interview the man behind Fable 2, Peter Molyneux.During the video interview, Molyneux admits that the moral choices a player made in the original Fable and how they affected the world was complete "rubbish.
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Latest Halo novel, The Cole Protocol dated Nov. 25
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Halo 3 Frankly, if you don't know what the Cole Protocol is -- a (fictional) military law established by the United Nations Space Command which states that any ship in danger of Covenant capture cannot reveal the location of Earth at any cost, even if that cost is the erasure of all shipboard data along with a ship's self-destruction -- we're not sure why you're still reading this, unless of course you just love Halo and don't bother with the details (shame on you!).
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Live members report 360 freezing issues
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Ever since the August Xbox Live dashboard update and the maintenance that happened late last month, there have been a few Xbox 360 owners who are reporting console freezes when attempting to connect to Xbox Live. This problem - which we've heard reports of and has been talked about at length on the Xbox.
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Joystiq plays Prince of Persia, puts worries to rest
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Prince of Persia At recent ... ahem ... Sony press event, Joystiq got to lay their lucky, grubby little mitts on Prince of Persia, the latest chapter in the beloved series that is due this December. Taking many departures from the established formula -- among them cel shading, one-on-one combat, an AI partner, and open world gameplay -- there are many reasons to be wary of the title.
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Analyst: Canceling Tiberium hurt EA's credibility
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News Talking with Gamasutra about EA's recent decision to abandon development on Tiberium, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey believes such a move could actually hurt EA's credibility in the long run. "Continued lack of management execution and/or product quality, damages new management's credibility and dampens our excitement for the company's shares," said Hickey who also expects EA to lower their fiscal year performance expectations.
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Surprise XBLA threefer: Stickball, Beat'n Groovy, and Shadow Assault
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade Here's some random Arcade news for you. Today being new release Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, we're being treated to the only Arcade game that was announced, MLB Stickball. Or so we thought. Magically and mysteriously, Microsoft decided to release two additional XBLA games, making today an XBLA threefer! The three new releases include the already mentioned MLB Stickball, Voltex Inc.
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Vigilante 8 takes to the XBLA roads on Nov. 5th
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Xbox Live ArcadeFlying under the Xbox Live Arcade radar is news regarding Isopod Labs' remake of the classic and vehicularly violent Vigilante 8 now called Vigilante 8 Arcade. That under the radar news is that V8 Arcade has finally passed certification and will be releasing to the XBLA on Wednesday, November 5th, which means you'll get a few days of solid V8 gaming before Gears 2 releases.
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Video: How Gears of War 2 does multiplayer
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Gears of War 2Team Epic just released yet another Gears of War 2 video featurette, this time the focus is on multiplayer. The video (currently exclusive to ESPN.com) is a pretty good look into the new multiplayer features, each multiplayer mode, the achievements and we also learn that Cliff's favorite trash talking phrase is "douche nozzle".
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