Xbox 360 News

Xbox Indie Titles Officially “Games” Again

After being shuffled around by Microsoft, Xbox Live Indie Games have been returned to the Games & Demos section of the Xbox Marketplace, reports gameindustry.biz.

The re-re-categorizing follows last week’s update to the Xbox dashboard, which placed the indie games in the “Specialty Shops” section alongside clothes for Xbox Avatars. Furthermore, the indie games no longer showed up in Marketplace search results.

Though Microsoft said that the move was meant to make Xbox Live Indie Games easier to find, many indie developers saw their work as being marginalized by Microsoft. A gameindustry.biz article from last week quotes Xbox indie developer Michael C. Neel as saying, “We [are] now beside the walking dead Game Room…The list of Specialty Shops is almost a ‘VH1 Where are they now?’ episode.”

It’s Official, Kinect Has Launched

So, the Kinect is now out, and while we don’t have one, you do. However we all shared one thing. We all thought our TVs would be safe with the Kinect, and our TVs could sleep easy knowing we didn’t have controllers that could fly at them. Well, they be wrong!

What Would You Do For Black Ops?

Black Ops is out this Tuesday, and it seems a pair of gamers just couldn’t wait.Black Ops is out this Tuesday, and it seems a pair of gamers just couldn’t wait. This Saturday two men robbed a Game Stop at gun point giving Bel Air GameStop workers a scare Saturday. The two waited until the store was about to close when acted. Two unlucky customers happened to walk in right after this, but thankfully they were not harmed. The workers and customers were both put into a storage are while they ran off with 100 copies of Black Ops.

New Transformers, Spider-Man, X-Men Games for 2011

Activision is prepared to roll out new Transformer, Spider-Man and X-Men games for 2011, according to a story on CVG. The publishing giant held an investors conference call Nov. 4 where Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg promised new releases in “proven franchises,” such as the above properties.

Hirshberg said that these games would be in addition to a new installment of the Call of Duty franchise in 2011. One X-Men game has already been announced for next year – X-Men Destiny, which will be developed by Too Human developer Silicon Knights. The announcement of new Spider-Man and Transformers games are not too surprising given the positive reception of this summer’s Transformers: War For Cybertron and September’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.

Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle Missing AC Adapter

Those of you with multiple Xbox 360 consoles may want to take heed. If you buy the new Kinect Xbox 360 bundle, you will not receive a Kinect power adapter. The reason of course is that the new 360’s do not require the power cord as they have a dedicated port so the Kinect can draw its power directly from the console. If you want to use the Kinect on another 360 in your house, say one that is not a Slim, you may be out of luck. The only way to get the cord is to buy the standalone Kinect.

Xbox 360 Holiday Bundle Announced

Yesterday Microsoft announced a special Holiday bundle that is sure to get your yule log growing. Over the next few weeks, retailers will be selling a special version of the new slimmer Xbox 360 250 GB console paired with not one—but two games to get you started.

The Xbox 360 Holiday Bundle comes with a physical copy of Forza 3 as well as a token for the full game download of Alan Wake. Both games are exciting Xbox 360 exclusives and are great starters to new Xbox owner’s collections. Alan Wake going digital introduces gamers to the ease of downloading games of the Xbox Live Marketplace while Forza 3 gives people something to play right out of the box.

Don’t Play Kinect Games Before Nov. 4th

Due to retailer errors, several Microsoft fans across the country have received Kinect games early. These games are, of course, unable to be played before the official November 4^th release of Kinect, but that did not stop some gamers who obtained early copies of Kinect launch titles to put them into their consoles.

New Vegas Gets First Patch

Bethesda has made the Mojave Wasteland a bit tamer this week with the release of the first patch for Fallout: New Vegas. New Vegas, though well-received by critics, has endured numerous complaints of bugs since shipping last week. These have ranged from floating enemies to gameplay freezes to the corruption of saved data.

Dead Rising 2 Hits 2 Million Copies Sold

It seems that Capcom’s zombie killin’, chainsaw usin’… zombie killin’ game Dead Rising 2 has surpassed two million copies within its first month of release. I’m a bit surprised by this, in all honesty. I’m assuming the “pre-lc” that was released (Case Zero) did wonders for the sales numbers but not even I expected that many sold, that quickly; especially when Dead Rising 1 sold only around one million copies.

“Capcom is pleased to confirm that since its release at the end of September Dead Rising 2 has achieved  global shipment numbers of over two million units,  bringing the total number of  units of the Dead  Rising franchise shipped worldwide to date to over four  million. The achievement of Dead Rising 2 is a result of the successful collaboration between Capcom and Vancouver based developer Blue Castle Games.”

Red Dead Meets Undead, DLC Now Available

Rockstar is getting in the Halloween spirit a little early. The much anticipated Red Dead Redmeption DLC, Undead Nightmare, is now available on Xbox Live and PSN marketplaces.

Rockstar is getting in the Halloween spirit a little early. The much anticipated Red Dead Redmeption DLC, Undead Nightmare, is now available on Xbox Live and PSN marketplaces.

That’s right, John Marston rides again and this time it’s up to him to discover the cure for the walking dead. As well as a lengthy single player zombie themed adventure, Undead Nightmare also comes with a new multiplayer mode, new types of challenges and missions; as well as new weapons designed for combating the dead.