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Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor has said it before, and is saying it again: “There will be a Halo movie.” The rich and vast universe of Halo has long been discussed about whether or not it should be depicted as a full motion feature. Ask any gamer, and the answer is quite obvious, but for the rest, it’s not. While O’Connor explained that “everyone wanted to do a Halo movie, the ...read more
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Second week sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops show that purchases for the title have fell a massive 85% in the UK -- but despite those figures, Call of Duty: Black Ops still remains number 1 on the All Formats Chart for two straight weeks. The Xbox 360 is obviously the most popular platform to pick up the game, with weekly sales for its version accounting to 54%. The PS3 version, on the other ...read more
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Website BusyDizzys has found a few problems with the photographs of microsofts "successful" launch of its kinect in japan, not only have they published details of one of the people hired to stand in line but also photos of the kinect launch at other stores showing no people at all, so it would seem that ms had carefully staged managed its launch with the emphisis on "staged" Microsoft’s ...read more
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A new video shows that Team Xecuter have managed to defeat the latest Xbox 360 copy protection. The video below, shows someone testing the upcoming LT+ firmware on a Benq drive with Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. Many of other the latest games reportedly also work with the new firmware. check read more for the video
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Competitive games can be quite stressful when things don't go your way, Black Ops is certainly no exception, as this player shows us -- I guess Perks just aren't his thing, huh? For a great laugh, check out the read more for the youtube video
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Looks like the reverse engineering efforts of Marcan 42 is leading to some cool Kinect developments. By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a "holographic" representation of the persons or objects that were captured. video in read more
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If you sign into Call of Duty 4 on Xbox Live, you would of been informed that a new update is required for the game. What could it possibly be? Being that the update is 2MB, it's probably nothing major, but with that said, it had to of been something. On Infinity Ward's official forum, users have begun to question its purpose. No response has been given yet. For those of you unaware, Call of ...read more
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The studio that started the Call of Duty phenomenon fell to pieces earlier this year with the firing of its co-founders and the following mass exodus of pissed off Infinity Ward employees. With enough money, you can recover from that. And when you're Activision Blizzard, you can put Infinity Ward back together again. You can get over it. And Activision's owner claims it has, according to the ...read more
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An email has been sent out by Microsoft promoting an upcoming Double XP Weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops, as well as Xbox Live's Free Weekend. The email states that both events will take place during the same dates, that being from November 26th (Black Friday) and ending on November 28th. Being that the free Gold Weekend will be running during the same time period as the Double XP Weekend, ...read more
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Around this time each year, we find ourselves buying peculiar things -- fruit cakes and pine trees and ... Madagascar Kartz -- but we never expected we'd have a chance to buy a new Xbox 360 ... from 2005! Not just any old '05 360, mind you, but a 2005 Launch Team console -- available to bid on (in Australian dollars!) on eBay. As noted in the auction listing, the launch consoles were only ...read more
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