Details on MS's plans to turn your 360 into a TiVo.
GameVideos has posted a new interview with Microsoft execs Chris Satchell and Albert Penello, outlining the company's plans to bring IPTV to Xbox 360.
Part one covers downloadable movies, picture-in-picture, 360's TV channel guide (semi-transparent and nice), using 360 as a PVR or TiVo, and the likelihood of Microsoft offering a larger hard drive. "There's a reason why it's a detachable hard drive," says Penello, although he won't actually confirm that a bigger drive is in the works.
And in part two, they talk with Satchell and Penello about Xbox Live as it compares to Nintendo and Sony's online plans -- how awesome are Miis (so awesome) and if (and when) Microsoft will make Xbox Live Gold free.
The second part of GTA BOOM's interview with Obbe Vermeij where they turn from origin stories to craft. Specifically, how early GTA games created the illusion of life, and why that illusion still matters more than brute-force simulation.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD have been delisted from digital stores without warning.
Stupid headline. Should state that they are being updated or discontinued. This makes the crazy people that only read headlines think it some kind of conspiracy to take away peoples already purchased games.
If you want to all of a sudden own them now and haven't played them yet because a remastered is coming out, shame on you. I can't believe people are complaining about this 15 years later when it was bound to happen anyway. "A new remaster is out, quick, I'd better buy the original from the shop."
Gamers: "Physical? who needs physical? everyone knows that digital online games are the future. stop living in the past. we don't need no stinking disc drive"
Same gamers: "How dare the delist a digital game that I own!!!!"
And? What is your point?
Same gamers: "How dare the retailers to delist (quit selling) a physical game that I own!!!!"
I think you just read the headline and don't know how dilisting works with Sony. It's common knowledge that:
"Players who already bought the games will still have them in their library and can download and play them as usual."
So again, what is your point?
In an exclusive interview with GTA BOOM, former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij reveals how Rockstar North really operated and debunks one of GTA’s biggest myths.
Could families one day have Jetson style super Home entertainment boxes with interfaces through out homes connected to THE main BOX. PC's running/interacting with Home entertainment BOXES. One to rule them all. J/K.
Nice, I want it
This is a huge thing also.
People don't seem to get it, but this will make the 360 sales explode. IPTV companies will have the 360 as the new set top box free with a package or for a small fee.
This will move the 360 into homes that otherwise wouldn't even had bought a gaming device and still MS will earn money for the use... And probably they'll start using games like this by learning to discover the machine.
This can change the consolewar from an equal share of the market which analists projected to a certain win for the 360
Does anyone else have problems with the 1up.com web site?
if you go back and collect all the articles that has been posted from 1up...you would then have a collection of articles i could never get to work...what is going on ...anyone?
they already announced that there would be larger hard drives before the system even came out. it's just a matter of when and how much.
i don't wanna wait longer :-) i think maybe more news when windows vista launched end of the month. i hope they have a couple nice superbowl commercials like the Halo one.