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re: GRAW. It shipped on the 7th. Some places had it yesterday and others will get it when they get it.

Thinking of trading in Amped 3 and NBA Live and grabbing this. IGN gave it a 9.something.

The Outfit left me underwhelmed though....however, I didn't know what was goin on...and water kills you.

Best E3 2005 Memory: During a presentation of The Outift

"And the uh...black guy...is the explosives expert."

It looked like crap back then, sad that nothing changed about it.

Blazing Angels demo is up.....WWII dogfighting....and it's not just a quick level and then your done demo.....they take you thru training as well as a couple of battles.....bombing a target is not the easiest thing to do.

The controls are a little harder than Crimson skies but damn i'm hooked......can't wait for friday so i can pick this up.

Ubisoft released this game on Xbox 1. It's called "Heroes of the Pacific." Same controls. Same annoying voice over tutorial guy.

Didn't like Heroes not really enjoying this one yet either. Great sense of speed though.

Battlefield demo is supposed to be up in the next couple of days.

Plus 2 new Arcade Games were released. Feeding Frenzy and Astropop.

Feeding Frenzy isn't bad, but I hear the full game is short/easy. Where is SF2!

We were supposed to get it in March....8 days left.

They have a Virtual arcade set up for it as well. You stand in line and watch people play until it is your turn to take on the winner. Kinda like putting the old quarter down on the machine for next play. Can't wait.

Actually just read a little IGN preview from GDC, a release date wasn't mentioned.

Aw shucks.

Oh well....*waits for the Battlefield 2 demo*

there are rumors that SF2 will be out next week.....not gonna hold much into that since most of the XBLA games have been delayed.....plus we're still waiting for the BF and GRAW demos....although a demo for GRAW is kind of pointless now that almost everyone that owns a 360 has the game.

I watched the Dead Rising trailer like 50 times already. I want a demo of this now.

Has anyone downloaded the music video that's on there?

Battlefield 2 demo is up..apparantly (stupid work). It's a Live demo...I think.

Move, move, move!!!

Internet speculation is still saying this week, right before the free Live Gold weekend.

A multiplayer demo of GRAW is on the Marketplace, just in time for the free weekend.

Apparantly we're getting the new Tomb Raider demo sometime today (may already be out now...I'm at work) and we're also getting (or have gotten) an exclusive Marketplace trailer, six theme sets (five featuring Lara Croft and one of Karima Adebibe) and five exclusive picture packs.

And the village rejoiced...

The Tomb Raider demo is up....but the download is slooooooooooooooooow.

I played the demo.....If you like Tomb Raider then your gonna love this.....if you don't there is nothing that will change your mind.

And still no sign of Street fighter 2 or Texas hold em....people are really starting to get frustrated with Microsoft not giving any real acurate info about when either one of these games will come out.

Maybe they don't have a date. Maybe.

maybe.....however a bunch of people at the xbox forums were talking about how they got the xbox newsletter in the mail saying that SF2 and Texas hold em was to be out on weds....which means when those were printed up they expected the games to be out by now....yet noone at microsoft can give anyone a straight answer on when these games will arrive

I can understand that things get delayed but lately Microsoft has done a horrible job when it comes to giving out timely and acurate information....other games such as hoopworld and madtracks that were announced by their developers as being released in march have not only not come out.....but now seem to have been swept under the rug.

I hope they come out soon cause the arcade has been pretty boring as of late.

Gamespot is reporting that Pac-man and Galaga will be coming to XBLA.....of course no one knows exactly when they'll come out....but they're coming.

Wasn't even aware of the newsletter.

Personally, I think everythings coming along nicely but I do wish they would stop saying they will release in March or any other month and not follow up at all.

As per Major Nelson they won't release anything from Friday-Sunday just in case something goes wrong noone's there to fix it. So never expect anything on the weekend and when they do release something...they don't tell anyone they've release unless you look in the Marketplace or know where to look online.

Maybe a nice pop-up as soon as I log onto Live telling me something new has been added since the last time I logged on would be a nice little addition.

But, I expect major changes to the Marketplace, and more games, over the next few months as we get more info on the Revolution and PS3.

As for the Texas Hold `em, it'd be kind of nice if we could actually wager money or MS Points otherwise it's just dumb. People will just make stupid bets and ruin the real fun of poker...me losing money.

I've actually heard the lack of a pop-up is on purpose, to help stagger the downloads a little.

Wow, the Tomb Raider demo was pretty good. The gameplay mechanics feels strangely alot like Prince of Persia but the game still seems like good times compared to the last few Tomb Raider entries.

yeah that is the one thing that ruined WCP and WSOP for the oldbox....nothing drives me more nuts than some clownshoe that goes all in every single hand.

PGR 3 Updates and downloads available now.
Taken from MajorNelson.com:

AND

Looks like a good update and and I've just downlaoded the cars.

Let the bitchfest begin about paying for this. Sure it's not as bad as the horse armour...

Xbox live will be down tues may 2nd from 5am EST to 6pm EST

And then get ready for an E3 Explosion:

Xbox Circle


As per the "Lost Planet" trailer on the marketplace right now we're getting a playable demo of the game on May 9th. And I believe Live Gold is free the week of E3 as well.

I'm really not interested in any of those games. Although now that I have Live I may have to give Splinter Cell another shot.

New CoD2 maps though, that's cool.

You abviously didn't see Uno on that list.

"Crackdown" has potential as it comes from the brain of the man that created GTA. And who couldn't be excited for DOA Volleyball? Other than humans.

The best news so far is new CoD2 maps, woot!

Other interests:

Crackdown
Gears of War
Double Agent
Viva Pinata
DOAX2
Lost Planet

And I may actually download Uno, seriously.

My Live tag is Milkway1010, and I'm actually a nice guy (despite my eradict behavior on here) and a good sportman on Xbox Live. If you want to send me a friend request just add a little message to it, letting me know your from CHUD and who you are, thanks.

Still no SF2.

Yeah, how hard can it be to put SF2, Galaga, and Paperboy on Live? I want those bad.

Last I heard about SFII was May and the reason for the delay was horrible online lag during the "Virtual Arcade" matches.

I'm sure the end of May will come and we'll hear June being thrown around. It'd be nice to have it for E3 though. Until then I shall become the Uno champion of the world.

I was hoping for a Dead Rising demo.

I might just have something to say about that......something along the lines of DRAW FOUR.

I find it somewhat amusing that UNO has now replaced SF2 and texas hold em as the most anticipated game on XBLA.....everyone on my friends list has given up on waiting for SF2

As for that many demos dropping next week.....it would be nice but I won't be shocked if we get less than half of that.

I'm curious what the Uno achievements will be.

Info on the CoD2 Map Packs

May 2, 2006 - As part of Microsoft's "E3 Bringing It Home" campaign and to extend the life of its already number one selling first-person shooter on Xbox 360, Activision today announced plans to offer nine new multiplayer maps on Xbox Live.

Four maps will be ready on May 10, the first day of the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E3 runs from May 10 - May 12), and five more are prepped for July 2006. Two of the first four maps are free: The Bonus Map Pack features Vossenack and Wallendar, Germany. The Skirmish Map Pack includes a Kalach, Russia map and a Beaumont-Hague, France map and costs 400 Microsoft points.

The five maps slated for July are part of Activision's Invasion Pack, worth 900 Microsoft points. This pack features:

* Antoville, France (Crossroads)
* St. Louet, France (Newvillers)
* Amaye sur Seulles, France (Normandy)
* Alam Halfa, Egypt (Decoytown)
* Rostov, Russia (Harbor)

Microsoft's "E3 Bringing It Home" campaign offers Xbox 360 owners free Xbox Live Gold memberships for the week of E3. During the annual convention, participating gamers will be given a "virtual ticket" to the E3 show floor, given access to exclusive Microsoft news, video, and downloadable content.



From xboxcircle.com Courtesy of IGN

Great new update being released next week - particularly this

"under the marketplace menu, you'll also find a new menu link called Active Downloads. Guess what that means? You'll be able to queue up to six different, be they movies, game demos, or themes. The download feature is niftier than that. You can have six downloads queued up and play a full retail or Xbox Live Arcade game simultaneously without interruptions or slowdown, according to Microsoft. You also can prioritize the order in which you download the items mid-stream, if you want to. Finally, if you want to play a multiplayer game, the downloads will automatically stop and pick up when you finish playing online. Nifty."

and to a lesser extent this

"Microsoft fixed the start-up functionality. Now, if you have left a disc in the system and boot it up, there's an option to go straight to the main dashboard, as opposed to automatically (and frustratingly) launching the inserted game. You won't have to stop the game, and then switch to the dashboard"

full article

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/710/710202p1.html

Did the update come out today? They usually seem to do that stuff on Wednesday.

So far, no. It could always come up later on today, though

It's a fun demo, once you figure out what the controls are.

I wasn't a fan, but I've never cared much for the Hitman games. Way to much trial & error for my taste.

SFII, wherefore art thou?

I've got points saved waiting for this. Novelty, maybe, but I'm still excited to see how it'll play.

IGN has some new info/screens - I guess a test version was made available on Tuesday.

Q2 2006 was the only official date given...apparantly.

So by the end of June one would assume.

What are you up to in points Mali?

big fan of hitman in general. the trial and error is the fun for me. its very satisfying to execute a difficult hit then exfiltrating unseen. figuring out how to kill the target is half the fun...
played the demo at a kiosk in EB. i dunno, it looks like a simple port. unless i see something really mind blowing, i'll wait for it to become cheaper.

The Hitman demo is worth a runthough or two, but it seems to be straight middle-of-the-road material. The controls work fine when you're going through your stealth routine, but it just doesn't feel very confident once you've been discovered or find yourself in a shootout.

A pathetic 8090 points.

C'mon now. Don't be so hard on yourself. Out of my 35 friends, you have the most points. (Like that matters, I know.)

It doesn't matter when you look at this list:

http://top360tag.com/Reports/Rankings.aspx?id=1&pg=0

Prey Demo comes out June 21st. Single player level and a couple multiplayer levels.