A blockbuster employee in the UK, who at this time has requested not to be named, has reported that a new Xbox 360 SKU has been listed in their computer system. This new SKU, titled “Xb360-console (20G) (b4j-00110)” is still listed alongside the original Premium system which has been changed to the “xb360-console (20G) (b4j-00004)”. A google search for “b4j-oooo4″ does come up with results for the Premium, while a google search for “b4j-00110″ comes up with nothing. The rumored “Just Play” SKU is supposed to have a memory card so this new SKU could either be the Premium’s with the HDMI port included or a completely different SKU.
Here is a very special interview with Jay Watamaniuk, Bioware Community Manager. Come watch as Gui J, from XBLRadio.com, sits down with him during the Penny Arcade Expo 2007 for an almost exclusive video interview about Bioware’s upcoming hit, Mass Effect.
Sorry about any audio sync issues, we had a camera fail so we had to use 2 different sources to get this to work.
There you go, this is a special COD4 video preview for the game everyone has be waiting for. Come check out this video to see if it is worth all the hype.
xbox360rally.com is reporting that the Fall Update list has been released, couple things I noticed missing though, bigger friends list and free section on the marketplace blade. There are a couple cool sounding features though.
Remember that post about a year ago when I earned my first Red Ring of Death Achievement? Well almost a year later it happened again. Yes, I was able to earn it again. I brought a friend over to show him how cool Bioshock looked and sure enough, those glorious red lights started flashing before his and my eyes. So instead of him seeing how great Bioshock looked we saw how awesome the red lights looked. “Wow!, this was amazing,” he said. And you know what makes this worse? PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo is going on this week and I have all sorts of people that are staying at my place. This put me in a pretty big bind, I could either send my 360 off for repair and wait hopefully no more then 3 weeks and have no 360 this week when everyone is at my place OR I could go out today and pick up a new 360 (that way I have one this week), and then send my broke one to MS for repair only to wait to sale it once it comes back. Guess which one I picked? I’ll give you a hint, I got a free HDMI cable for it!!!(But no damn transfer cable). So I want to thank Microsoft for putting me and everyone else through this garbage, please on your next console that you make, put more testing into it so we are not having to send these damn things off to repair every 6-12 months. For you to put your customers through this nonsense is total garbage.
Ok Maddenites, the time has finally come for you. The midnight sale of “the most highly anticipated football game of the year”, Madden NFL 08, is tonight. This midnight sale will take place at many local Gamestop’s and EB Games stores throughout the world. Check gamestop.com, and ebgames.com for more information.
Now if you are a fan of this franchise like I am, you should not be ashamed to admit that we have not been getting our money’s worth out of the next gen versions of the game since the debut of Madden NFL 06 for the Xbox 360. The 06′ version was completely barren, with only season and play now modes to choose from. EA’s attempt at making the 07′ version better with adding the superstar mode, franchise mode, and the lead blocking control was a good improvement. It did still fall way short of expectations, however, leaving the madden fans wanting more out of this year’s installment.
I just saw this on xbox360rally.com and I thought you guys would really like to see this. Its a list of EVERYTHING for free on the Xbox Marketplace. Thats right, EVERYTHING. So go ahead and either click the xbox360rally.com link or click the read more to see the list.
You heard it here first everyone (well almost first), according to an article posted on gamingrevolution.com, joystiq.com, and gamepro.com, many Best Buy’s are out of stock on the 360 core. They also do not plan on restocking their shelves with them anytime soon. So I thought I would go to a couple of local stores by me to see if this was true or not. Not only is there not anymore systems on their shelves, an employee there told me “We do not plan on receiving anymore systems, since they were not selling all that well“.
Where’s the proof you ask? Well it’s right here in front of you.
According to the area’s circled in the image above, the 360 core has been deleted from Best Buy’s inventory on July 29th. What this means is that this product will be removed from their shelves, and the online stores. Thus, leaving us to 2 types of systems for the time being.
Ask any gamer, “what are the two biggest titles to release this holiday season?” They would have said, Halo 3 and GTA4, and you could go to Vegas with that answer. So, now that the dust has settled from the earth shattering delay of RockStar’s title, it’s got me thinking’…
Yes, you read it correctly. Today, Take Two Interactive announced that Grand Theft Auto IV will be delayed until the second quarter of 2008 for both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. Such a highly anticipated title for this year and the cornerstone of Microsoft’s “perfect storm” has now been pushed back several months due to “additional development time required to complete the title.” However, this announcement should not be viewed as unfortunate; but we now know that Rockstar Games cares enough to launch a quality AAA title. It is also understandable that Grand Theft Auto in particular would take a long time to develop due to high expectations and a likely hood of a plethora of tech issues. Being able to manage so much AI and physics at one time on a console must be difficult and it would require a long time. At least this is the first big title that is known to release for sure in 2008.
