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Archive for June, 2006

Demo: Prey

( Demos and Xbox News )

Prey demo is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Prey tells the story of Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation going nowhere. Along with his people, he is abducted to a menacing mothership orbiting Earth, where he sets out to save himself, his girlfriend, and eventually his planet.

Demo: Chromehounds

( Demos and Xbox News )

Chromehounds demo is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Chromehounds brings squad-based multiplayer mech combat exclusively to Xbox 360 for the first time ever. The war of the future has begun with three superpower nations fighting for world domination.
Commanding giant metal war machines called “Hounds,” you must manageyour tower of heavy artillery through giant [...]

Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged

 
Ever wantd those fantastic game that you can download on the Xbox Live Marketplace but aren’t connected up to the internet…? Well with the accouncement of Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged, you can now get all those funky XBLA games on a single disc. The disc will include:

Geometry Wars
Texas Hold’em
Wik
Bejeweled 2
Outpost Kaloki X
Hardwood Backgammon

The collection will [...]

New PGR3 Style Pack

 
Eurogamer.met are reporting that there is some new Project Gotham Racing 3 content on its way. If true this could at last give us what we have all been wanting - Mini racing…
Bizarre Creations is planning to release another 12-car downloadable content pack for Project Gotham Racing 3 in the near future.
Following the Speed Pack, [...]

PGR3 RUF Expert Challenge

 
There is a new Project Gotham Racing 3 online tournament now available. Everyone has until 3rd July 2006 to get their qualification set before the knockout section.
The qualification round will take place on the Tokyo Nishiguchi Short track using the RUF RGT - Automatic gears as usual.

Xbox Live and Xbox.com scheduled maintenance (27/06/06)

Between 10:00 and 14:00 (UK time) Xbox Live will be offline for maintenance. This includes both Xbox Live and the My Xbox section of the Xbox.com website (friends list etc).
Apparently this is for routine server maintenance, nothing else.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Chapter 2

 
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Chapter 2 is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. At 1200 points, it is not exactly cheap, but there is a whole load to it which should keep most GRAW fans happy for a long time. Apparently this is the biggest content download on Marketplace to date.
New Chapter [...]

Top Xbox Live Games [12-Jun-2006]

This weeks top Xbox Live games.
Xbox 360 Top Live Games

Call of Duty 2
Ghost Recon 3
Oblivion
BFMC
Final Fantasy XI
EA SPORTS™ Fight Night Round 3
Perfect Dark Zero
PGR3
Dead or Alive 4
Hitman: Blood Money

Original Xbox Top Live Games

Halo 2
Battlefield 2: MC
Counter-Strike
Splinter Cell Chaos
Rainbow Six 3 BA
Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Madden NFL 2006
Forza Motorsport
Ghost Recon 2: SS

If you combine [...]

GAME looks to scrap its ‘no quibbles’ returns policy

According to the MCVUK website, GAME are reportedly in the process of scrapping their 10 day no questions asked game returns policy.
GAME’s controversial ten day returns policy, known as its ‘free rental service’ amongst many gamers, appears on the verge of being phased out.
The retailer has confirmed to MCV that a number of stores are [...]

Oblivion: Mehrunes’ Razor

The next update for the best game in the world Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion has finally been released. Mehrunes’ Razor features largest dungeon in all Cyrodiil for you to explore.
The lost Ayleid City Varsa Baalim has been unearthed by a rogue Telvanni arch-mage, in pursuit of a fearsome Daedric Artifact, Mehrunes Razor, which he believes [...]