By now most of you have watched Microsoft’s E3 keynote speech. I can see most of you scratching your heads, thoughts swirling about, asking yourselves, “Where are the big bombs Microsoft?” “No price cut?”, “No Metal Gear?”, “No new exclusives to set my drool glands into over dive?” I too pondered these thoughts last night as I angrily lay my head to bed after what I thought was an hour and a half of my life I will never get back. Sulking until I actually had time to think and reflect about what I had seen, I was only then able to be at peace and thought maybe I could shed some insight as to what had happened.

First, lets rethink the stance of the new E3, it is now back to what it was always supposed to be about, the buyers. Microsoft did an excellent job last night addressing the fact that they have a good foothold in the Next–Gen war and that NOW, meaning this year, this holiday, this crazy credit card inducing time that puts most Americans in debt. The Xbox 360 WILL have the best lineup of first and third party games, hands down. They are showing the retail market that, it is, the Xbox that is going to need your display space this coming holiday season. And that is exactly what they did, by showing off so many quality titles that the average to hardcore gamers are already groaning thinking about the black hole that is going to be wrapped upon their wallets.

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People are talking and jumping up and down, thats right rumor has it that there is a 4th XBOX 360 (code name Falcon) price of the elite to drop to $350 smack a rues. Watch out and make sure you are wearing your hard hat cause prices are dropping from the sky left and right. Just yesterday the PS3 price drop hit my dog in the head. Check back for more on E3.

With the recent release of two big racing games, here is an in depth look on which game is a green light to buy. In this two part article, we’ll examine these racers in three categories: single player, multiplayer and extra features. So strap on your seatbelt and let’s take a ride through the 360’s latest top racers.

Forza Motorsport 2 is a simulation racing game offering extremely accurate physics with extensive upgrading and tuning. In this simulation racing game, you are allowed to visually upgrade your car with body kits, an extensive unique vinyl system and performance upgrades. In FM2, developed by Turn 10 Studios, performance upgrades are stepped up from the first game allowing you to change surpassing details of the ride, including the drive train. You can modify your car by changing every little detail, like down force, camber angle, tire pressure and of course fine tuning the engine like a real street mechanic.

Since Forza is a sim racer its damage modeling is extensive, but more in the performance area then visual. Most people, including myself, are disappointed in the visual damage which has set levels of damage offering much less then advertised. On the other hand you can completely ruin your car, performance wise, breaking or damaging each part. The Physics seem to be worse than the original over-stressing the effect of driving off road and sometimes seeming to extreme or almost random. The lack of a cockpit cam is rather disappointing but perhaps understandable considering the 200 or so cars in the game.

DiRT is more of a arcade racer and has some of the best graphics I’ve ever seen on the 360 and more forgiving performance damage but better visual damage where every crack and bump affects you. This game is a much different than the previous Colin McRae game that is much more arcade like and lacks some of the things most rally games have including weather effects which is surprising, and while it has hill climbs there are no descents which would easily have been added in by reversing the climbs. DiRT offers more camera angles giving you two cockpit cameras with one allowing you to looks all around the inside which sadly is the only cam you can do that with. I had though a completely controllable camera where you can rotate 360 degrees around the car was a standard feature but apparently Codemasters doesn’t think so. I don’t know the exact number of cars in the game but its around 50 with various types of cars. There are normal rally cars, CORR Buggies, Rally raid T1 and T4 cars which are huge trucks and SUV’s. (more…)

Check this out, new levels, new enemies, and probably several other new things too. Now this is for the Games for Windows platform but who knows, maybe they will release some kickass expansion pack for the Xbox 360. I’m sure more news will follow next week during E3.

This is part 5 of the 5 part series of reviews on the Xbox 360 accessories. Todays review is on the Microsoft Xbox 360 wireless gaming receiver. Thanks to those that leave comments and/or suggestions, good or bad, I take notice of all of them.

Steve519 (Host and editor at XBL Radio) and Racingfreak (contributer to xblradio.com and podcaster at The Bit Cast) sit down with Jay Fitzloff (PR Manager for Two Worlds) and discuss the upcoming game, Two Worlds. We ask him everything that you would want to know as well as everything you wanted to know.

So sit back and enjoy the interview, its about 35 mins long but hopefully you will find out all you wanted to know about the game.

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This is part 4 of the 5 part series of reviews on the Xbox 360 accessories. Todays review is on the Microsoft Xbox 360 quick charge kit. Thanks to those that leave comments and/or suggestions, good or bad, I take notice of all of them.

This is part 3 of the 5 part series of reviews on the Xbox 360 accessories. Todays review is on the Microsoft Xbox 360 HD DVD player.

Thanks to those that leave comments and/or suggestions, good or bad, I take notice of all of them.

This is part 2 of the 5 part series of reviews on the Xbox 360 accessories. Todays review is on the Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Headset.

Thanks to those that leave comments and/or suggestions, good or bad, I take notice of all of them

Today I have part 1of a 5 part series where I am going to be going into the Xbox 360 accessories. Today is going to be about the Xbox 360 Vision Camera. So stay tuned to fine out if it is any good