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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Goes Live On December 6
The headline pretty much says it all: Microsoft has confirmed that the latest update to the Xbox 360 dashboard, announced at E3 earlier this year, will go live on December 6, TeamXbox reports. The dash is currently being tested in a beta, which some of you may be a part of.
The updated dash features a user interface designed to resemble the "Metro" layout used in Windows Phone 7 and the upcoming Windows 8. You can also expect to see Kinect functionality more deeply integrated into the core interface and new features like voice-activated Bing Search.
Source: TeamXbox
Thursday, September 8, 2011
MW3 Developers Say Game is Going to be Easier to Update than Previous Call of Duty Titles
From SFX-360:
Infinity Ward (the developer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) announced that there would be an easier way to update the multiplayer sections of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 unlike previous releases.
Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling said, “ How we’ve built this current game as opposed to in the past is we’ve made it a lot easier on the backend to update the other aspects of the game beyond just the map packs. So now, as we’re advancing content and releasing new maps on multiplayer, we can also further tweak them to also be playable in spec Ops. We also looked at how to update the game further in other ways like new modes, weapon – whatever we want to do. So we’ve done a lot of work in the backend that allows us to update more easily and quickly. It would be in such a way that’s helpful for DLC but also helpful for post-launch support: listening to feedback. Maybe there’s stuff we want to rebalance. Maybe there’s stuff we want to patch. We have a lot more control in tweaking the game now, outside of a patch, than we ever did before.”
read more at SFX-360!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
EA (Battlefield 3) To Follow Activision’s Call Of Duty: Elite
From SFX-360:
EA will eventually launch its own premium subscription based Battlelog service in a move to emulate Activision‘s Call of Duty: Elite, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has predicted.
Elite launches on November 8 alongside Modern Warfare 3, while Battlelog is a free service for this October’s Battlefield 3. On a free level, each service offers comparable statistic tracking, friend management and social networking.
However, Pachter believes the success of Elite will convince EA to follow suit.
“We expect the $50/year premium Elite membership plan to be very popular with Call of Duty’s hard core gamers,” wrote Pachter. “At $50/year, Elite membership is a no-brainer for those who plan to purchase all of Modern Warfare 3′s DLC, as the annual spend will presumably decrease by at least $10 (last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops had four map packs that cost $15 each, for a total spend of $60).
“There were 18 million map packs sold in the first six months this year, comprising three different packs: we believe that 1 million consumers bought all three, 3 million bought two packs, and 9 million bought one apiece. Thus, we expect that at least 1 million will sign up for the premium Elite membership by year end. The Call of Duty network effect may be amplified by premium Elite, such that if a gamer’s friend purchases premium Elite and gets access to premium maps, the gamer may feel compelled to purchase premium Elite in order to compete as early and as often as possible. We expect the network of premium Elite subscribers to grow to critical mass within a few years, with 3 million likely subscribers by year-end 2012 and 5 million by year-end 2013.”
He added: “Although Battlelog and non-premium Elite memberships are free and offer many similar features, we think that many hard core Call of Duty gamers will opt for premium Elite, particularly if the total DLC spend for Battlefield 3 is expected to exceed $50. Ultimately, we expect Electronic Arts to emulate Activision and charge for Battlelog by including map packs with the service for a $50 fee.”
Special Thanks and hat tip to SFX-360 for breaking this story!
What do you think about this move by EA? Do you think they are a little late to the game?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will have LAN support, improved theatre mode, no zombies | PC Gamer
Infinity Ward creative strategist, Robert Bowling has been answering questions on Twitter in the aftermath of the Call of Duty XP event that happened over the course of the weekend. Dedicated Servers for Modern Warfare 3 have already been confirmed, but Bowling also mentions that LAN play will be possible, which certainly wasn’t a given, considering how Modern Warfare 3 will tie in heavily with Activision’s online Call of Duty Elite service.
“Yes, #MW3 has LAN,” Bowling tweets, “along with detailed class restriction control + default class creation option.”
The class restriction control will give LAN gamers the ability to “restrict any weapon, equipment, perk, deathstreak, secondary, attachment, ANYTHING from being used when setting up game,” Bowling adds.
In response to Twitter questions asking about PC specific support, Bowling says that he’s been “working on that goal for a long time. Dedicated Servers, Public Server Files, & giving control back to the player. #MW3 PC”
In response to Twitter questions asking about PC specific support, Bowling says that he’s been “working on that goal for a long time. Dedicated Servers, Public Server Files, & giving control back to the player. #MW3 PC”
He also drops a few more facts. Modern Warfare 3 will get its own updated version of the theatre mode that made its debut in Call of Duty: Black Ops. That’ll let players cut their own movies and upload them to Call of Duty Elite. At Call of Duty XP, Infinity Ward revealed that Call of Duty Elite subscribers would get more online storage space for their films.
Finally, as expected, there won’t be any zombies in Modern Warfare 3. The popular zombies mode has been a feature of Treyarch’s entries in the Call of Duty series. “although we do have a very different style of co-op in our new infinite wave based Spec Ops Survival mode,” tweets Bowling. You can see footage of the Spec Ops mode in action in the recent Spec Ops trailer.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
April O'Neil: Naked Kinect Fun Labs Video: Merging Porn & Gaming
As I'm sure you're aware, G4 is on the cutting edge of culture when it comes to combining naked ladies with gaming technology. When Xbox Kinect launched, we asked adult actress Kirsten Price to try it out. At E3 2011, Microsoft announced Kinect Fun Labs, a growing collection of tech demos for the motion control device, but neglected to explain how it will work with a naked lady, so we enlisted the great April O'Neil to give it a run through, and see how the new technology deals with boobies and/or dongs.
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