We’ve had the Xbox 360s out recently, a 4GB version out in August and now a new Halo Reach Limited Edition version of the console in September – a new Xbox every month it seems!
The limited edition is damn sight much better looking than the mess released alongside Halo 3 and comes with Halo Reach, 2 limited edition controllers, DLC armour codes, an episode of the Halo Legends anime and a themed headset. Excitingly, the console also features sound effects from the Halo universe – monks chanting away when you open the disc drive?
The console features the standard features found in the Xbox 360s – 250gb Hard Disc and built in WiFi – and will be available for £249.99 from GAME and GameStation.
Summer is not just about sport, BBQ’s and drinking outside, it is also about Xbox Live Arcade games. Microsoft have announced the lineup for this year’s ‘Summer Of Arcade’ promotion with five big downloadable releases competing for your MS points. All the games cost 1200 MS Points (around £10.20 RRP), but if you buy 3 you get 400 back and if you buy all five you get 1200 giving you 4 games for the price of 5. The games and dates are:
Limbo – July 21st
Hydro Thunder – July 28th
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair – August 4th
Monday Night Combat – August 11th
Lara Croft & The Guardian Of Light – August 18th (preview here!)
Microsoft concluded their E3 press conference with the unveiling of a redesigned Xbox 360 which will be available this week in the USA and from mid July in the UK. The system packs a 250gb hard drive, built in WiFi and will cost £199. Microsoft had a good start to the conference with some amazing footage of Call Of Duty Black Ops, Metal Gear Solid Rising and Halo Reach but it soon descended into a string of Kinect demos with hilarious overacting. Nothing too surprising on show apart from the news of an exclusive game from Crytek which looks inspired by God Of War, and still no price for Kinect. Internet reaction to the show has not been kind, while some journalists that were they gave iyt a thumbs up – anything to do with getting one of the redesigned free Xboxes as they left the building? Judge for yourself, the full video is below:
This week saw BlinkBox launch an optimised version of their website on the PS3 adding yet another video portal to the console. In the past few years media functions have became a major feature of a console. Here we take a quick look at what these machines can do.
Well this is a very pleasant surprise. I did not have high hopes for NIER at all. It is always a worry when a Japanese developer tries to make a game to appeal to us in the West. Initial signs were not good for NIER, with lots of bloody violence, macho characters and swearing featured in trailers. Heck, there is even a hermaphrodite in there. So I was shocked to find that I got sucked into the game, enjoying the story and having a ball in the company of the non-playable characters. Read on to find out more about the game that is sure to be a cult classic.
We’ve had the Xbox 360s out recently, a 4GB version out in August and now a new Halo Reach Limited Edition version of the console in September – a new Xbox every month it seems!
