...and a very corporate-video delivery. Almost like a BBC documentary.
Very nicely done.
What the crackers did was use the HD-DVD add-on (which is just a USB Bare Drive) on a *PC* with custom software tools to crack the PC playback software to get the keys that way.
No 360s were harmed in any way in the developing the crack. ;-)
...but will never show up in Japan.
The way OXM described it, Ubisoft was only licensed the IP for western games.
I believe Konami controls the IP in Japan.
Besides, the game is supposed to be an action RPG ala Jade Empire. Hardly the kind of game the japanese will go out of their way to sample.
This isn't about making the 360 attractive to japanese gamers; this is about the japanese IP owner tapping into the 360 (western) market for added revenue.
The comments about the NPC graphics, the combat system, and the general roughness of the game suggest the thing is more than two months away from being finished.
Add me to the (increasingly) skeptical list about this game.
I see good ideas but no evidence these folks can pull off a polished product.
The current "S" type controllers are too small.
Not everybody has kid-sized hands...
I had to scrounge around to score a backup Duke for my old XBOX. Good thing those suckers are well-nigh unbreakable (something else you can't say about the new ones).
Hey, MS; bring back the Duke for 360!!
There is one fatal flaw in this debate and that is the idea that it matters what *they* (or us) think.
The alignment of console and PC gaming is unavoidable because the costs associated with advanced games is too high to neglect any platform with a significant installed base and because of the rise of middleware providing the mechanisms for quality cross-platform ports.
PC/console crossovers are technically possible and economically viable and that guarantees the...
Will be the day they cut the price.
Until then they will totally deny it.
Ditto with MS and the 360.
And, as things stand, MS is not dropping prices for at least three months so Sony doesn't have to think about it until then.
So, believe them: No price cut in sight.
If you want a PS3 now, buy it now.
If you're waiting for a price cut, you have a long wait ahead of you.
Honest.
Just go back and look at what Sony promised for PS3 *initially*.
Back in 2002.
Back in 2003.
Back in 2005.
(Dual HDMI 1080p displays ring a Bell?)
When MS started designing the 360 they expected *multiple* Cells in a PS3. They expected real-time ray-traced *game* graphics done solely with Cell processors inside the box, not as a *demo* across a network.
Instead they got a box with one Cell and one 2005 mid-range DirectX9...
Cause Master Chief isn't the only Spartan out there.
Its common knowledge there are female Spartans still alive in the Halo-verse. That was probably Linda-058.
Kinda cute overall.
Makes the point that maypbe MS should buy Nintendo, after all. ;-)
Guy's way off base.
Microsoft's investment in 360 isn't solely (or even primarily) about making money off the console itself. Sure, they intend to make a ton of money by the end of this generation (2012), but XBOX exists for two well documented reasons:
1- back in 1999, Sony started bragging how they were going to take over the living room with the PS2 which was going to be a freakishly powerful multimedia PC. Well, MS has been investing in and making money of multimedia...
The current issue of OXM has a preview; it looks and plays exactly like the cartoon, but in HD.
It was announced last year but nobody paid attention.
Apparently Ubisoft-Montreal is getting close enough that they are showing it around.
Whether they are close enough for an october launch is another story.
OXM had it pegged for 08.
The cartoon is monstruously popular, apparently.
What is interesting is that the gaming rights to the property were license...
...means there is room for a combo re-issue of Halo 1 & 2 with improved graphics and achievements added on.
They are already re-doing the Halo 1 & 2 cinematics for the Halo 3 deluxe edition pack-in disk so that part of the development cost is paid for with Halo 3 money, and Halo 2 itself is a Vista-only game, which means it is highly compatible (at the source code level) with the 360, making it a quickie port. Of course, both Halo 1 & 2 are backwards compatible so t...
The update is to the local media player, not the MCE extender client.
So as long as your PC, Mac, Linux box, or NAS supports UPnP media streaming and your files are in an acceptable format (big if), they'll play.
...for retailers to drop it before Sony does.
Namely the extended warranties. An earlier post around here made the point that Gamestop and co are warehousing their stock of 20GB models to make good on the warranties they sold on 20GB PS3s. Cause otherwise, they'd have to make good with 60GB models.
The only reason for retailers to do this is if they *expect* Sony to cut off the supply of 20GB PS3s. Sony has not made any such announcement, officially, but the retailers mi...
Guards respawn; there is an infinite supply...
Plus they have a strong union and they'll hunt you in every city and out on the roads. :-)
...on *this* bug...
I ran into a very similar bug on the original Oblivion at something like 450 hours or so that froze environment animations (fires, torches, flowing water, swinging gates, etc.) Game was playable but it got tricky.
Too much accumulated loot; that'll teach me to be a packrat...
User support was...well, useless...
Didn't impact other characters/games, though; just can't go back to that one.
Hopefully the patch will fix that older bug...
...and from LINUX too...
Even some dedicated NAS devices.
The 360 fully supports generic UPnP media streaming.
(That's all that Windows Media Connect was. The feature is now embedded in Window Media Player 11 on the PC side. But its not the only way to stream PC content to the 360 without Vista Home Premium or XP MCE.)
Just google-up "UPnP server" and the OS of your choice and you're in business. Works right now for the file-types currentl...
The keyboard attaches to the bottom, is all.
Anyway, that's just the default Commander.
You can change the character's look, genre, and (maybe) name. (On Kotor you could pick from a broad range of names.)
The one they show in the promos is just the default for te soldier class character. The one you'll play will likely look different.
Unless you really really like Oded Fehr. Or whoever. ;-)
It has already been reported that MS is paying Ubsoft to:
1- keep this 360 exclusive
2- design a game optimized for the 360 architecture
The latter point is key.
It is by now clearly understood by any informed observer that the 360 and PS3 have roughly comparable power but differing architectures. Which means that each console has strengths in areas the other is weaker in. It has long been proclaimed by PS3 supporters that a game optimized to take ...