Did you miss E3? Wanna know what it is that we announced?
- Microsoft-Activision Call of Duty Agreement: All Call of Duty Add-ons – including those for COD: Black Ops – will be released EXCLUSIVELY on Xbox 360 first from now through 2012
- Metal Gear: Rising from Hideo Kojima, Xbox 360 Exclusive Title: Showcased; “ultra-violent, very attractive for the hard core gamer”
- Gears of War 3, Xbox 360 Exclusive Title: New 4-player co-op online, female Gears, gun swapping in-game, new mysterious “Beast” mode announced by CliffyB!
- Fable 3, Xbox 360 Exclusive Title: Shipping October 26th announced by Peter Molyneux
- Codename: Kingdoms from Crytek, Xbox 360 Exclusive Title: From the makers of the award-winning Crysis 1 & 2; bloody gladiators!
- Halo: Reach, Xbox 360 Exclusive title: Feat. space combat with vehicles! The last Halo title from Bungie after 34M Halo games have been sold.
- Kinect – formerly codename “Project Natal”:
- Control: Watch movies without a remote; play games without a controller
- Authenticate: Sign in by simply waving at the camera [facial recognition]
- NEW Kinect Hub shows Kinect specific games, friends, Netflix, Zune, Facebook, last.fm
- Speak: Voice recognition starts games: “If you can see it, just say it”.
- See: Video Kinect: Video chat with friends from Xbox Live & Windows Live Messenge
- ESPN-Xbox 360 agreement: On-demand access to 3400 games next year; integrated realtime polls/trivia; on-screen stats; free to Xbox Live Gold members
- Kinectamals, Kinect launch title: Play with an interactive digital pet
- Kinect Sports, Kinect launch title: 7 different sports – Soccer, bowling, javelin, long jump, ping pong, boxing, volleyball; playable over Xbox Live against others
- Joy Ride, Kinect launch title: Kart racer
- Kinect Adventures, Kinect launch title: River rafting/Mine cart riding w/ split screen for 2 players; takes photos during game ala Disneyland
- Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Kinect launch title: Developed by Ubisoft, includes kickboxing, yoga
- Dance Central, Kinect launch title: Developed by Harmonix (makers of Rock Band) & MTV Games; feat. 600 moves, 90 routines; Lady Gaga, No Doubt, Beastie Boys
- Available November 4th
- “Unnamed Star Wars Title” – feat. Light Saber battles using Kinect
- “Unnamed racer” – developed by Turn 10, the folks that brought you Forza Motorsport 3
- NEW Xbox 360 model: “Xbox 360 250GB” (Actual marketing name)
- Black, smaller
- 250GB HD (removable), Built-in WiFi-N, 5 USB ports, HDMI/Optical out, Ethernet port
- “Whisper quiet” w/ 1 large fan
- integrated CPU/GPU 45nm chipset
- Custom “Kinect” port on back (Dedicated to Kinect; has extra wattage to support power needs of Kinect; older Xboxes will need Y cable to bond power from 2 USB ports)
- New much much smaller power supply
- $300 – available today!
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