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Crytek, the developer behind games such as Far Cry and Crysis Warhead, announced last week that they will be presenting their third generation engine at the upcoming Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. CryENGINE 3 is the first engine for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC (DirectX 9/10) that is "truly Next-Gen-Ready". The engine includes scalable computation and graphics for all major systems, the first development platform to include this feature. A third generation sandbox level editor will also be included that will allow developers to easily test what they have created. Additionally, the engine will come with new features designed specifically for consoles, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), and next generation game development.
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Have ordered a few new games for XBOX 360
Fear 2: Project Origin (Xbox 360)
Was a big fan of the original FEAR game. Played this on the PC and thought was an awesome first-person shooter. Unbelievably creepy. I have high hopes for the sequel.
Just thought this would be good for the family to mess with!
Keep your eye on this space for reviews!
I have just installed the new NXE Update for my XBOX 360 and, like a lot of people as it turns out, I now have no sound at all.
I have my XBOX hooked up to an HD Monitor via HDMI cables… and there’s no sound!!! Not impressed. Not remotely impressed.
I searched around on the Forums and there were various recommendations about switching on and off, removing hard-disk etc and rebooting… non of these have worked… really not that impressed.
Have read some rumours about Microsoft releasing a patch for this in the next few days…
Have gone ahead and raised a support e-mail with Microsoft to try to get the issue raised.
This update has, for the meantime, ruined my gaming experience. Did I mention I’m not impressed? I await to hear from Microsoft on a fix for this in anticipation.
After all the hype around this update… I expected more anyway… there just doesn’t seem to be much in the way of decent new functionality.
I was especially amazed that Microsoft haven’t put a Web browser onto the XBOX 360 yet. The Wii has a web browser. The PS3 has a web browser. With the NXE Update, Microsoft is trying to reposition the XBOX 360 as a more family-oriented gaming and multimedia experience… a web browser would have been a smart thing to put into this update.
It seems like the update has fallen very short of expectations and hopes for many…
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nxe-creating-hdmi-headaches-for-uk-xbox-360-owners/
http://www.trustedreviews.com/gaming/news/2008/11/20/Xbox-NXE-Update-Causing-Problems/p1
http://www.avforums.com/forums/xbox-360/867084-nxe-installed-now-no-sound.html
Just ordered myself XBOX Live Gold membership and wireless dongle…! Woo-Hoo. Gearing up for Far Cry 2 and Gears or War 2 in the next few months, but also quite looking forward to getting to play some of the GTA IV online gaming…
Gizmodo UK is today reporting that…
“You just can’t get the staff these days. Or, in our case, these are the kind of retail staff we love. It seems Woolworth’s is about to mirror the generous US price cuts Microsoft made on the Xbox 360 in the UK, thanks to an employee scan of its upcoming retail catalogue. Either Woolies is going out on a retail limb here or they’ve been given the royal nod by Microsoft that price cuts are imminent. According to the scanned page Arcade will sell for £129.99, the Premium or Core for £169.99 and the Xbox 360 Elite for £229.99. Right now, that compares with £159.99, £199.99 and £259.99, respectively. That makes the Arcade and Premium Xbox 360s cheaper than the Wii.In other words, if you want to save £30 on each of them, just hang tight for another few weeks. Considering that the US price cuts resulted in Xbox 360 sales jumping by 100% with many retailers, Microsoft might just be thinking it can do the same here. Let’s hope so.-Martin Lynch [Engadget] Microsoft XBox consoles
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GTA IV… The game of the year is now only weeks away from being on the shelves and I simply cannot wait.
There are some rumours that this game will be released for the PC in October but it’s just far to far away to wait.
So I have finally given in and bought an XBOX 360 from Amazon.Co.Uk who are, by the way, doing a deal to knock of £10 if you buy the console with GTA IV… my brother was a bit disgusted with this… he said I probably would have got a better package deal from Game… he was probably right… but what the hey!
Microsoft have just reduced the price of the XBOX 360 substantially to help ensure that it remains the leading next-gen console against the PS3.
So I got an e-mail in from Amazon this evening saying that the console had shipped already and will be at my front door hopefully within the next few days… cool… I have a few older games to play on it in the meantime…
Am also happy enough with this purchase because, as a .NET developer, I’ve also been messing with Microsoft Game Studio Express 2.0 so I should be able to use my XBOX 360 for program testing. This is really cool, it makes use out of my pre-existing programming skills, and knowledge of Microsoft development studio, and allows me to cross-develop games that will run flawlessly on the PC and the XBOX. With the next release of Game Studio Express 3.0 there will also be the ability to port games directly to the Zune and hopefully Windows Mobile as well…
As well as that I should be able to stream media pretty easily on my home network from my Vista machine down to my XBOX so that’s cool too…
As well as that I’m gonna sign up for XBOX live which should integrate nicely into my Windows Live account so I get joined up E-Mail, Instant Messaging etc etc.
This is the thing I love the most about Microsoft technologies… they all just glue together seamlessly!
Anyway, in the meantime – new toys! Woo-Hoo!
Just need to get myself a decent HD TV now to connect my XBOX to. Still can’t justify this seeing as I have two perfectly good TVs already that are only about five years old and still working perfectly… I need to start leaving cups of coffee on top of them or something to help me build my business case for new asset investment…
