The guy I was talking about the other day says that there’s no chance of full games being available for download on consoles any time soon.
Well, full game or not, right now on Xbox live arcade is Magic the Gathering, based on the collectible card game of the same name. Diehard Gamer, who admits to being a MTG addict in the ’90s gives it a generally favorable review and says, “It is the best $10 I have spent in a while.” [Source]
If a virtual card game seems a bit tame, there’s only a few more days until you can download Battlefield 1943. Priced at 1200 MSP or $15, the title will be available on July 8, a day before the PS3 release. Video below. [Source]
There’s just a chance that you might be hungering for a platform game… No? Well, in case you care Polytron Corp has announced that its platform game Fez will be available on Xbox live arcade next year… So don’t hold your breath, ok? [Source]
There’s this market analyst called Michael Pachter who works for Wedbush Morgan Securities. Apparently this position gives him the insight to be able to predict the future for the game console market 6 years ahead.
Leaving aside that this guy’s expertise is probably more relevant to stock than gaming, it’s worth remembering that the recent disaster called the Credit Crunch significantly failed to be predicted by any of these so-called experts. So when he says that by 2015, the Xbox 360 will have fallen to third place behind the PS3 and the Wii, we can maybe take what he says with a big pinch of salt. [Source]
His analysis is based on the fact that the PS3 comes with BluRay, while the Xbox is currently stuck with an inferior technology. Since Sony owns the rights to license BluRay, and MS is its arch-rival on the console front, this might seem like a nobrainer. But there’s a gamechanger in the wings, and it has nothing to do with movies…
Project Natal’s developer kit for Microsoft’s camera driven full body motion controller is already out with game manufacturers (according to a piece in the UK’s Daily Mirror). It’s not due for release until the end of next year, but a new motion controlling “wand” for the PS3 is due out early next year – even though very few developer kits have been made available, which seems pretty strange.
Halo Reach is also due out at the end of next year, and Harold Ryan of Bungie says it “could” be enabled for Natal. Given that MS has made most of its money so far from the Halo franchise, it wouldn’t be surprising if this was the plan, or at least part of it. [Source]
And finally… If you’re a Worms fan, you’ll be pleased to know that the xbox live title Worms 2 is now available, and according to Team Xbox it’s worth playing. They give it 8.8, which is pretty good.
Xbox Live silver members get 3 days free trial (with no prizes ) on the 1 vs 100 beta. It runs from today, Friday 26th through Sunday 29th June. [Source]
If your copy of Fight Night: Round 4 is freezing on the opening screen, try deleting any demo files you saved on your hard disk previously. If that doesn’t work, head over to the . [Source]
Garou: Mark of the Wolves, available on Xbox Live for “absolute steal at 800 Microsoft points or $10″ gets a good review at 8 bit Joystick.
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The new Jasper boards are being shipped with more ram and disk space. No news on how to tell them apart, full story here.
Left4Dead 2 has caved in to pressure to replace the chewed off fingers on their original box art after lots of protests from the pc brigade. As you can see, Amazon’s image of the box doesn’t even show this, but has blacked out the pic altogether. If you want to see what it looks like now, Joystiq’s got a picture.
Project Natal is Microsoft’s name for the new full body motion controller that’s pegged for a launch later this year. Despite Nintendo’s “we thought about it, but we think we have a better solution” attitude, reported in an interview with Shigeru Miyanoto on Wired, Microsoft is all set to do a major launch for the system.
In an interview with Kotaku Shane Kim, Microsoft’s head of long-term Xbox 360 strategy, said “”Conceptually, the launch of Natal will be… similar to how you would think of the launch of a new console. It’s got to have a great launch line-up” with “enough content experiences”.
1Up are saying that the launch won’t just be like a new console launch, but will actually include a new console, with a new name. If so, then Kim is keeping stum – it doesn’t match what he’s been saying, but time will tell.
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