Archive for June, 2008

Jun

30

Backpeddling 101: MM9 currently "for WiiWare only"

By Terrence Stasse

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade. Yeah, yeah, we know we posted just the other day that the Live Arcade would be actually seeing a release of Mega Man 9. Arstechnica seemed to have gotten their hands on a Capcom E3 roster and it had

Jun

30

Xbox 360 Fancast 075 — Pornoisseur

By Richard Mitchell

[RSS MP3] Add the Xbox 360 Fanboy Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically. [AAC] Download the enhanced AAC directly. [MP3] Download the MP3 directly. Hosts: Richard Mitchell (SenseiRAM),

Jun

30

Rock Band 2 expected to hit the UK this September

By Xav de Matos

“We are expecting to see Rock Band 2 ship in September for the Xbox 360, with other platforms to follow,” said the unnamed EA rep. If it were to happen a simultaneous release for Rock Band 2 would be a stark contrast to the original

Jun

30

DC Comics swoops in and saves the XBLM

By Dustin Burg

The entire Super Friends crew is coming to an Xbox Live Marketplace near you … that is if you live in the States. Microsoft and DC Comics have partnered to launch a new DC Comics network onto the XBLM, allowing gamers to purchase

Jun

30

Diablo III lead says no console version planned

By Xav de Matos

Filed under: News. Hello and welcome back to civilization from under your rock. We say this because if you haven’t heard Blizzard is hard at work developing Diablo III you must have been stuck somewhere. In order to halt console version

Jun

30

Are you ready for some Madden 09 achievements?

By Dustin Burg

Our buddies over at 360Sync have already gotten into their Fall football mindset, exclusively releasing a list of Madden NFL 09’s achievements. The complete list can be viewed after the jump, but we came across a few achievement

Jun

30

J Allard gets an extreme new corporate title: CXO

By Dustin Burg

The Xbox brand’s shaved head daddy has just been graced with a corporate title change, one that’s eXtra, eXtreme, eXciting! Mr. J Allard is now being referred to as Microsoft’s CXO or Chief Experience Officer in charge of “technical

Jun

30

Shipping this week: Guitar Hero: Latest Iteration edition

By Richard Mitchell

Filed under: News, Shipping this week. While there are technically two games coming out this week, there’s really only one. You see, one of them is the Gears of War re-release (which we thought came out last week).

Jun

30

Kill dinos in Turok with rock band Distrubed

By Dustin Burg

From 6-8:00PM eastern (3-5:00PM pacific) Disturbed will be participating in Xbox.com’s Game With Fame, playing a few games of Turok multiplayer under the Gamertag Disturbed GWF. Sounds fun and all, it’s just … well, why play Turok?

Jun

30

Soulcalibur bloodies up the XBLA this Wednesday

By Dustin Burg

Sometimes rumors turn out to be true, and in the case of Soulcalibur making its way to the Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday … well, that’s true. Just today, Microsoft announced that on the morning of Wednesday, July 2nd,