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Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Announced

At E3, Microsoft announced new TV providers for the US, Machinima for hardcore gamers and additional voice commands for your kinect to help you navigate.

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Afirmitive5079d ago

What a letdown of conference. Did I expect too much? Too much kinect! And I feel like I'm forcing myself to be excited about Halo and Gears :(

Rating: C-

Blacktric5079d ago

Went down just like I expected it would. I learned not to get my hopes up since E3 2011 turned out to be a big pile of crap for all three companies.

chasegarcia5079d ago

disagree for the C-, It was more like a d-.

darthv725079d ago (Edited 5079d ago )

on the amount of kinect stuff. Unless you are counting the kinect integration in the more control based games shown?

The only real kinect-esq games shown were fable, nike training and the dance central 3. All the other games were traditional controller ones with some type of kinect feature.

Overall it was better than last year. It would have been better to close with halo 4 instead of blops2.

Just my opinion but it would have been akin to when bill gates did the reveal for halo 2 as sort of a "oh yeah, we have one more item to show you" kind of thing and then it was a memorable trailer for halo 2 (still one of my favorites).

Captain Qwark 95079d ago (Edited 5079d ago )

i love ms but id have to agree.

+Halo 4
+Splinter Cell
+Forza Horizon
+espn updates

-Kinect...good to see some integration but still a more or less useless product
-nike....lmao that will never be used. yes people will buy it, however nobody will ever use it
-Fable...looked worse than expected
-Gears....didnt really show off anything, whatever
-DLC....get over the timed dlc, nobody cares. show off some new freaking ips for f*cks sake!!!!
-no real dashboard updates
-no new features that are actually going to be useful or used ( integration with the tablet looked more or less useless )
-xbox music....wtf thats zune just with the metro interface ( still a great product though fyi )

overall.....FAIL

1. where is RARE? perfect dark, killer instinct, real banjo sequel
2. what about rememdy? alan wake had potential, give them one more shot
3. new franchises????
4. internet browser???

whatever, blow me ms. keep going after that casual base, then watch you be in Nintendo place next trying to win us "core gamers" back once you realize that casuals move on to the "next fad" every 15 min

darthv725079d ago

The one thing that I took away from it regarding the xbox music was that if given the choice between the two brands of xbox or zune you would want to go with the one that is more well known.

So while it may be just a re-branding of the service it doesnt take away from the service itself. Similar to how sony is wanting to capitalize on the brand recognition of "playstation" and thus naming various things around it.

Apple does it as well. The popularity of a name can lead to the use (or over-use) of it on many things that had been named something different prior. It is marketing pure and simple.

fossilfern5079d ago

What you said is 100% true! Nothing new it was just stuff we knew, kinect stuff, and nothing from the likes of Rare. Really disappointed.

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FlashXIII5079d ago (Edited 5079d ago )

Lol I love how Microsoft deemed watching Usher and a bunch of dancers as more time worthy than a dashboard update. Ending it with a multiplatform game was the icing on the cake.

v0rt3x5079d ago

That was the weakest E3 for Microsoft yet.

metsgaming5079d ago

i give it an F oh ok F+, the last two years before this were terrible but at least they were funny bad this one was boring bad. oh soooo boring. I just cant see how a conference could be worse at least the other worst conferences had gif material and were funny this was sad.

NoobJobz5079d ago (Edited 5079d ago )

You must not have seen last years

Edit: @vortex. Did you even read what I wrote? In no way did I say MS had a good show. I said last years was much worse.

v0rt3x5079d ago

What - just because this year's E3 included Halo 4 out of 6?

And CoD 9?

And Gears of War 4?

Are you guys delusional?

CoD 9? 9!!!! Does THAT make it the best Microsoft E3 ever?

You have got to be shitting me.

v0rt3x5079d ago

@Tompeeper - I wasn't refering directly to you - but those who disagree with the fact that MS had a bad show this year. Sorry that your message became the catalyst of my rampage. Wasn't intentional.

OneAboveAll5079d ago

Worst keynote for MS in a long time. Only thing that looked awesome was Halo 4, i'll admit that. Everything else was shoved down my throat. I don't own a $400 "tablet" neither do ever ever want to. Pointless bull crap as usual.

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15 Years Ago, Mortal Kombat (2011) Saved Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.

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italiangamer11d ago

"Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise"

Press X to (seriously) doubt.

DarXyde9d ago

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

Soy10d ago

And then MK1 killed it again.

DivineHand1259d ago (Edited 9d ago )

15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

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Pixels in the Blood: The Journey of Rob Hewson

The name "Hewson" carries a special weight for anyone who grew up during the golden age of British computing. As the son of Andrew Hewson—the man behind legendary publisher Hewson Consultants—Rob Hewson didn't just grow up playing video games; he learned to spell his name from their title screens. However, Rob didn't just rest on his family's 8-bit laurels. From leading major LEGO franchises at TT Games to tackling the high-stakes world of technical porting at Huey Games, Rob has carved out a unique path in an ever-evolving industry. In this candid interview Rob to discussed the burden and beauty of a family legacy, the technical "scar tissue" left by the ambitious Hydrophobia, and why porting a masterpiece like Inscryption to consoles is far more than a simple copy-paste job.

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Early Tomb Raider: Legend gameplay footage shows unseen areas and different visuals

To celebrate Tomb Raider: Legend's 20th anniversary, the official channels have shared an early in-development gameplay demo.

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