June 2005 - Posts
Bizarre posted a PGR3 screen shot last week. It looked so real, that no one believed them. They have since come clean: It's a real in game screen shot.
Read the story and see more screen shots here
Anandtech has another comparison article up. Have fun with this read.
You can read the article hereEdit: Look like the article was pulled. Anyone know why?
Thanks to the 30 or so people that emailed that to me ;)Edit: It looks like there are some good comments in
this thread
After many emails requesting an extension, I have succumbed to your wishes. I am extending the
E3 faceplate contest another week.
The new deadline is Friday July 8th 12:00pm PT. I'll conduct the judging the following week, and announce a winner around July 15th.
Gamefest is an Xbox event here in Seattle. We invite our developer partners to come to Seattle for a couple of days and conduct classes on various parts of Xbox 360. I can't give details on what they saw...but most of the attendees that I ran into at the party tonight commented on how they really like what they saw, and where we are going. The good news is that I think I can line some of them up for future blogcasts :)
I guess the commish did not like
this story and the baseball team had to cancel the promotion.
You can
read what happend here.
If you have an iPod...this is good news. iTunes supports podcasting now. In addition, there is a "Podcasts" section of the iTunes music store.
I entered my podcast, and when you upload your podcast, you can assign it to a category...guess what? there is no category for games! (top image) There is not even a games sub-category under technology (bottom image) but there is one for "text/speech" (huh?) Hey Apple...can you add a games category?
Furthermore, there is no way for me to edit any of the meta-data or add artwork even though I see those fields.
I submitted my podcast, now let's see if the Apple gods approve me to be included in their listing.
What? No "Games"?
I was hanging out with the PR team Monday, and I got some good numbers out of them to share with everyone. Good growth here!
Year-to-date software sales on the Xbox platform continue to outpace the competition. Xbox software sales are up 26 percent year-to-year compared to PlayStation 2's 8 percent growth. Xbox had 5 of the top 10 titles in May, including: #2 ?oStar Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith? (LucasArts), #3 ?oForza Motorsport? (MGS), #8 ?oMidnight Club 3: Dub Edition? (Take Two), #9 ?oLego Star Wars? (Eidos) and #10 ?oArea 51? (Midway). Xbox peripheral sales continue to outpace both the market and the competition. Year-to-date unit sales of all peripheral products on Xbox were up 34 percent, while PS2 was up 12 percent. The Xbox platform continues to maintain its strength in 2005 with a 30 percent market share in May.
The Halo 2 "Killtacular" map pack which was previously a premium download is now free for Xbox Live members as of today.
The map pack contains both Sanctuary and Turf (my personal favorite.)
You can read more about the map pack here
Gamespot posted this nice letter about fanboys. Truer words were never spoken.
You can read it hereThanks to reader Xboxer for the link
DailyGame.net has posted some details about Ghost Recon 3, which has been renamed "Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. "
Details here
I ran into Todd (Holmdahl) in the lobby this morning, and he mentioned to me that he has been enjoying the conversation you guys have been having around the Team Xbox interview he did. I just though that you should know that he is reading your comments ;)
Note: I closed the comments here, so we can contain the discussion on my
original post on his interview.
The guys over at Geeks Speak radio have an interview with Xbox Live PR manager Michael Wolf up. Swing by their site, and give it a listen when you can.
You can listen to Part 1 of the interview
here.
New games this week
How to prepare for the new Halo 2 maps
More phone calls
"Guess the Game" contest winner from last week, and a new one for this week
And much more....
MNR in MP3 format 26:33 (9.12 Mb)
New games this week
How to prepare for the new Halo 2 maps
More phone calls
"Guess the Game" contest winner from last week, and a new one for this week
And much more....
MNR in WMA format 26:33 (9.24 Mb)(Comments are closed on this post. If you want to post about this blogcast, please visit
the posting that contains the MP3 version of this show)
It's a marketing site, but some of the videos are pretty funny none the less.
Link
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