It's Official: Halo 3 has four player, online co-op

Speaking at a Microsoft press conference in Amsterdam earlier today, Bungie has confirmed, once and for all, that Halo 3 will feature two to four player online co-operative play over Xbox Live. It will be the Master Chief,the Arbiter and two new Elites.....

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Xbox 360 Core discontinued at Best Buy

For those hoping that the expected $50 Xbox 360 price cut would bring the Core model down to the Wii-diculously great price of $250, Joystiq has some bad news. According to a source at Best Buy who sent Joystiq these images, the Xbox 360 Core model is dead and remaining stocks are all that's left of the system. Well I guess that figures, but wouldn't Microsoft want more money. I would think keeping the Core in circulation would make more 360 sells.

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Viva Pinata DS Announced

Who wants Viva Pinata on the DS? Microsoft do. Announced at Comic Con yesterday, Viva Pinata DS will see the original game concept (ie not the party game) ported over to the DS, with the main changes a new top-down perspective and what I'd guess is an improved control scheme.

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Wii Graphics Myths Debunked!

"The ATI Hollywood can actually produce "insane fillrates" to use Factor 5's words. Hollywood is capable of a pixel fill-rate of almost 972 mega pixels. Having such a high fill-rate capability means that the Wii can perform advanced shaders, advanced texture filtering and advanced multi-layer texture effects better than the Gamecube could."

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Toys R Us & Walmart & Ads Confirm $50 Xbox 360 Price Cut

Toys R Us & Walmart's August 12 Sunday Ads confirm a $50 price cut on the Xbox 360. Images available within.These ads confirm the Hollywood Reporter's scoop that a $50 price cut would begin in early August. Currently, it is uncertain if the $50 price cut is only valid for the $400 Premium system.

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DX10 Fails To Attract Gamers

Summary: DX10 hardware too expensive. Vista sucks. DX10 games not much better than DX9. Developers have no incentive to make DX10 games. There you have it. Maybe devs will finally wise up and start making OpenGL cross-platform games again.

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Microsoft is ‘Bringing It Home’ once again with Comic-Con 2007

Can’t make it to this year’s Comic-Con? Let’s hope you have an Xbox 360, because Xbox Live and Warner Bros. have partnered to bring Comic-Con 07 to the Marketplace. That means trailers, coverage of the panels, and even a 300 theme will be available very soon. Here’s hoping we get at least one demo out of this thing.

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Call of Duty 4 Achievements - World Exclusive Preview

X360A.org is proud to present a world exclusive of the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare achievements. The achievement information comes straight from Activision / Infinity Ward. The game will have 37 achievements for a total of 1000 points. Special thanks to FourZeroTwo and the others involved!

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Scorehero staff go to LA, and come back with new Guitar Hero 3 info

Neversoft decided to send a bunch of the staff from scorehero.com (and a few other selected guests) to Los Angeles to try out Guitar Hero 3. They've come back with tons of stories, and new info! Four new songs, even!

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Rockstar rep says 'complete GTA4 experience' only on 360

It's no secret that the long-ago announced downloadable episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of the game. According to Rockstar Games spokesman Hosi Simon, however, there won't be any consolation prizes for those who choose to buy the PlayStation 3 edition instead...

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18-yo Struck by Lighting Playing Mortal Kombat, Raiden Not Involved

A 18-yo had to be rushed to hospital after being struck by lighting while holding a gamepad in his mouth and another one in his hands. Weird? Well, it gets weirder: he was playing Mortal Kombat for SNES with his cousin. How and why the heck do you play Mortal Kombat with your mouth and two gamepads? Read on...

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Medison Celebrity, $150 of Linux laptop for the people

This might not be that bad for some people. Especially if you can upgrade the 256 MB of RAM and I mean hell it has a CD/DVD ROM drive. There is nothing wrong with Linux and if you really wanted to buy Windows XP it should. It is worth mentioning again $150!!!!

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Double Demo Tuesday

Posted at http://www.majornelson.com site is two demos. One of them is Nascar '08 and I am not the biggest racing fan,but I will give it a try. The other is All-Pro Football 2K8 and I will try it just to see how it plays. I would never get into it because I am a big NFL and Madden even though Madden the past two years have not been that great. Though from what has been said about Madden with owner mode for example makes me think it will be a better game this year.

Rock Band now available for pre-order!

While prices and release dates for Rock Band have been floating for a while now, it looks like things may have finally settled down, with the entire kit now available for pre-order at a couple of retailers.If you're ready to go all out, you can snag a bundle for either the 360 or PS3 that includes the game, guitar, microphone, and drum set for $199. Which at $199 for all that is not as bad as some might have thought it would be.

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount

Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units in its latest fiscal quarter, compared to 1.8 million in the same quarter in 2006.O no it begins............

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Guy fixes 360's red ring of dealth!!!!

Guy fixes 360's red ring of dealth without having to open up the 360...

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Halo 3 may ship without online co-op play.

Apparently the online co-op play may not be 4 player as rumored and may not exist at all. Although there is still hope that it will be patched in later.

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Crackdown 2: Tell the developer what you'd like to see in their next game!

Here's your opportunity to let Real Time Worlds, the developer behind the Xbox 360 smash hit Crackdown, what you would like to see in the sequel. Who knows, it might just make it in!

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New Grand Theft Auto IV Scans and Info- GTA IV

German videogames magazine, Games Aktuell, has snagged some exclusive GTA IV screens and info. Since picking up a copy of Pimsluer's German language course and a flight to Deutschland would cost you an arm and a leg, it's really swell that someone over at German GTA fan site, gtaengine.de, was able to scan these.

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The Top 10 Greatest Simpsons Endings of All Time

Some of the funniest, most touching, and most memorable endings in the history of the show that I’ve spent more hours of my life watching than I have sleeping.Thought I would post this in honor of the long overdue movie that opens July 27th.

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Cellphone Ring Converter

This thing is as dumb as the invention that Steve Martin's character made in The Jerk. The arm that sat on the bridge of the nose to keep your glasses from slipping. That invention in the movie made everyone who used it cross eyed. It was great!!!

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Harvard University's robotic fly takes flight

This is pretty neat! A robotic fly. The robot has a three-centimeter wing-span and is only 60 grams in weight. I am sure this can be used in some sort of spy situation. It will be domestic the RIAA will buy the fly and spy on P2P users, just kidding!

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DirecTV Looks to Cash in on Video Games

Four race cars barrel down a virtual track, jostling for position. Announcers shout their commentary over growling engines until a winner speeds past a checkered flag. The frenetic race televised on DirecTV wasn't a NASCAR event. It was staged as part of a new video game league that aims to turn gaming into a full-fledged sport

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The return of Farscape!

Fans will return to the Farscape universe in an original Web series, set to be released on SCIFI.com. The 10-part series is executive produced by Brian Henson and Robert Halmi Jr. and produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with RHI Entertainment. "The series will revive and expand the beloved Farscape universe," according to the network. Holy crap I hope this can lead the series back to TV with the main stars that floated to the StarGate SG-1 series.

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EB Games Australia Issues Total 360 Recall

EB Games Australia have issued a recall on their Xbox 360s. Not just their own personal display or demo units. Every single Xbox 360 they had in-stock.I am sure that the rest of the world is not going to follow suit. Would be way more expensive than the billion dollar hit that MS is taking for the 3 yr warranty.

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LucasArts Leaks New SIXAXIS?

On the LucasArts website promoting their new Star Wars game, publicity shots show images of an unseen controller with the Sony branding.We all love rumors right?

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Crysis Developer Video Walkthrough

The latest Crysis video walkthrough shows that CryTek have not just been working on the flashy graphics but also on a lot of finer details. Animals will feature heavily as a graphical feature (and possible gameplay feature), complete with extremely realistic behavior. Different types of fish in the water look and behave as they would. This is one of the main reasons why I will have to upgrade components in my PC.

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Futuristic Denon Blu-ray player / receiver concept

This at least looks like a sweet Blu-Ray player/receiver. The blue display with the deep black background looks rad. It appears to have some sort of itunes capabilities. Sure it costs an shitload of cash.

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Phoenix Lander gears up to dig in on Mars

I love anything with Space Exploration in general. The fact that we will have a nice big lander go to Mars is so cool!Here is to hoping and praying it can land right on that great day in May 2008 and it launches in August or Plans on it anyway.Hope they get it inspected so they do not get pulled over by the SPACE POLICE!

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Anyone see the Xbox 360 robot in Transformers?

This is so Freakin awesome! I saw this article wanna find the video must be on youtube the title says it all, right?

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