At long last Bungie tells us what it has been doing and what to expect from the studio. A trailer is now up and available to all those who want to see it. The problem is that, in true Bungie fashion, there's not much information to glean from the trailer.One clue is in the Xbox Live information that accompanies the video. If you wait for the text to scroll, you will see that the following phrase appears: “High action and deep mystery await players in this new Halo 3 campaign experience. Prepare to drop!”. This might indicate an add on for Halo 3, but there's still a chance that the reference is just there to ... [read more >>] When Microsoft announced that it was cutting prices in Japan, bringing the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade below that of the Nintendo Wii, most of us thought that this was only a dry run in preparation for the world wide price cuts that Microsoft has since then rolled out. After all, the Xbox 360 has always been a very weak performer on the Japanese market, with the last spot in hardware charts usually reserved for the Microsoft console, just behind the last gen PlayStation 2 from Sony.But data offered by the Famitsu magazine and its publisher Enterbrain suggests that, thanks to the price reduction, the Xbox 360 might be the surprise performe... [read more >>] In the wake of North America and Japan, Microsoft has decided to announce that the prices of the Xbox 360 line of gaming consoles would also be reduced in Europe in the coming days. In an interesting move, both the Xbox 360 Arcade and the Xbox 360 Premium console bundles will be sold below the price of the Nintendo Wii. The average price cut in Europe is of about 54 dollars.The Xbox 360 Arcade model, which does not have an internal hard drive, will be sold for 179.99 Euros or 129.99 Pounds, which is about 257 $. The Premium model, which has a 60 GB hard drive, will retail for 239.99 Euros or 169.99 Pounds while the top end Elite model, with... [read more >>] So, the demo for Pure is out and the game promises to offer players the chance to race powerful ATVs while also making pretty big jumps and doing a lot of over the top, crazy tricks. I hope that the guys at Black Rock Studio have done a good job on the game and I'm at the moment downloading the Xbox 360 demo, which is pretty big.12:00. The tutorial comes first and it seems straight forward. One lap on a fairly short course with only two places where you can jump.12:05. It gets more complicated as it teaches you to pre-load a jump by flicking the right stick on the controller and pull interesting moves by using the face buttons. X gives... [read more >>] Microsoft reports that it has not experienced a slowdown in consumer spending related to its entertainment and devices division, which includes the Xbox 360 gaming console and the Zune player.Robbie Bach, one of Microsoft's top executives, clearly stated that “We have not seen, on the consumer side of our business, a slowdown”. He went on to say that the economic situation in the United States has less impact on the computer entertainment business because the audience is more dedicated and because business cycles are less important than the release schedule for videogames.The industry is now moving towards the fall release ... [read more >>] Bungie has confirmed that Title Update 2, which is basically the second update to the Xbox 360 game, introduces new Achievements to Halo 3. There are also a few changes that are made to the game itself, other than adding Achievements.The people at Bungie say that they are adding better online support, with rarer occurrence of crashes, and better server-side support for data collection. It also seems that the ability of the developers to detect cheaters has been improved and that more bans for cheating should occur in the following days. The developers are also thinking of introducing some kind of punishment for people that have a tendency t... [read more >>] In what's seen as the first step towards a worldwide price cut, Microsoft has slashed the prices of the Xbox 360 gaming console on the Japanese market by margins that go up to 30%. Now the Xbox 360 Arcade is cheaper than the Nintendo Wii. And many analysts, like Colin Sebastian from Lazard Capital Markets and the ubiquitous Michael Patcher from Wedbush Morgan, are saying that prices are set to fall in the rest of the world just before Christmas in a move designed to spice up the appeal of the Microsoft console over its competitors. Well, I beg to differ. Cutting prices might lure some late adopters to the Microsoft-made device and... [read more >>] September 5 is the date when Microsoft will officially cut the price of the Xbox 360 line of consoles in North America, following the cut in Japan earlier in the week. The interesting thing in the press release that details the price cut is that it puts the emphasis on the Xbox 360 Arcade and on the way it offers the promise of social interaction. It reads "Imagine if friends and families had the ability to instantly watch movies from Netflix, live out their musical fantasies through "Rock Band 2" (Harmonix/MTV Games) and "Lips" (iNiS Corp./Microsoft Game Studios), star in their own Hollywood classics with "You're in the Movies," ... [read more >>] Microsoft is announcing that the Xbox 360 gaming console is set to receive a significant price cut on the Japanese market. Prices will be lowered by as much as 30%, which means that the Xbox 360 Arcade package will end up costing less than the Nintendo Wii. If you're looking for concrete prices, Reuters is reporting that for an Xbox 360 Arcade package you can now pay the equivalent of 183 dollars, which is around 8,000 yen. For comparison purposes, the Nintendo Wii is priced at 25,000 yen, which amounts to 231 dollars, while the PlayStation 3 is the priciest of the three, with buyers paying the equivalent of 368 dollars for a Sony... [read more >>] When game developers begin to talk about limits and maximum potential, hardware developers know it's time to create something new, powerful and shiny enough to keep the software boys busy for another 5 to 10 years. So when Rod Fergusson, who is the senior producer of the Gears of War 2 game, recently stated that he thought the Xbox 360 was nearing the limit of its graphical capabilities, you could almost hear the cries of the poor engineers working for Microsoft at the New Console We Are Not Talking About division. The senior developer was talking to Gamasutra as part of an in depth interview when he specifically said that "with t... [read more >>] | 
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