Wednesday Reading -Xbox 360 pre-orders! - briefly
(hx) 03:43 PM CEST - Aug,24 2005
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EBGames has started taking pre-orders for the XBox 360. The Xbox 360 Core Bundle is priced at $599.93, and it includes everything in the standard package, plus an extra wired controller, a 64MB memory unit, and four games: Perfect Dark Zero: Limited Edition, Dead or Alive 4, Project Gotham Racing 3, and Kameo: Elements of Power. The Xbox 360 Ultimate Bundle weighs in at just under $700 and includes an extra wireless controller with a Play & Charge Kit, a rechargeable battery back for wireless controllers, and the four games mentioned above. I'm not impressed. Especially since it can be safely speculated that those 4 games are not necessarily the 4 games someone would want above all others. Besides, I have no doubt - none - that you'll be able to walk into a store on launch day, plunk down $300 or $400, and walk out with nothing but an Xbox 360 box if that's all you want. Save your money - don't preorder yet :P
Here's some stuff:
- EBGames Online Xbox 360 Preorder -
Ebgames is offering two Xbox 360 bundles for pre-order. On top of the
system and accessories you will also get the following games: Perfect Dark
Zero: Limited Edition, Dead or Alive 4, Kameo: Elements of Power and Project
Gotham Racing 3. The core version is sold for $599, the ultimate version for
$699. You are paying $300 extra for the games and misc accessories, meaning
you don't really save anything. In related news,
UK chain store, GAME, has clarified that while it is still taking pre-orders
of Microsoft's forthcoming next generation machine, Xbox 360, there is
currently no word on how many units the group or country will be getting.
- No PS2 Price Cut For Now - The head of Sony Computer Entertainment
in the UK, Ray Maguire, told the BBC News website
there would no price cut before Christmas. Sony is hoping to buoy up
sales by offering different types of PS2 games.
- Skype Goes Massively Multiplayer - Free Internet telephony
firm Skype will allow its instant messaging to be built into Web sites and
software applications such as music playing programs
and multiplayer online games, it said on Wednesday
- Google to launch instant messaging service - In a bid to extend
its communication services,
Google is expected to launch a new instant messaging (IM) and voice service
called Google Talk. Google Talk, which allows users to chat and talk, is
still in beta testing and is only available to subscribers of Google's Gmail
e-mail service. The software, which needs to be downloaded, is similar to
Yahoo! messenger, Microsoft's MSN and Skype. Unlike Google gmail, where Google
delivers advertisements based on the text of e-mails, Google said it has no
plans to deliver targeted ads via its IM.
- Zotob worm hole also affects Windows XP -
Computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 in a specific
configuration are vulnerable to worm attacks similar to the ones that hit
Windows 2000 systems.
- Sony and Toshiba Give Up On Unified DVD Format - Reuters is
reporting Sony and Toshiba have
apparently given up efforts to develop a unified format for
next-generation DVDs.
- Hacker taps into US military database -
A suspected hacker tapped into a US military database containing social
security numbers and other personal information for 33,000 Air Force officers
and some enlisted staff.
- Anna Popplewell on Narnia - ComingSoon.net got
a chance to talk exclusively to Anna Popplewell about playing Susan in the
highly-anticipated film.
Reviews:
Advent
Rising /
BloodRayne 2 (6/10) /
Chrome: Specforce (7/10) /
Dungeon Lords (2.4/10) /
Dungeon Siege 2 (4/5) /
Dungeon
Siege II /
Earth 2160 (8.0/10) /
Hoyle
Casino 2006 (7.5/10) /
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (75%) /
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked (77%) /
Squad
Assault: Second Wave (7.2/10)
Previews:
Dark Age of Camelot: Darkness Rising /
Dark
Messiah of Might & Magic /
F.E.A.R (Cosmosgaming) /
F.E.A.R
(IGN) /
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green /
RF Online /
Sniper Elite
Media:
Black and White 2 Screens +
Trailer /
Dungeon Siege 2 Walkthrough /
GUN movie /
Hard Truck
Apocalypse shots /
L.A.
Rush character movies /
NHL 06 shots /
Rise of
Nations: Rise of Legends shots /
Serious Sam II
shots / Myst
V: End of Ages movie
Mods/Tools: Half-Life
IRC Tool v1.40 /
Half-Life 2 High-Resolution Characters Skinpack / UT2k4 mods:
DM-Painkiller,
DM-1on1-Undergrowth,
DM-1on1-Corvus,
CTF-Opposite,
VCTF-Antropolis,
CTF-Altract,
DM-Sirea (Beta),
CTF-Canal (Beta 3),
DM-Anukhet (Beta 5),
Saiko (Beta 3)
Other gaming news:
Buy goodies: EBGames.com is showing
a
special pre-order bonus for Earth 2160, the upcoming next game in the
sci-fi RTS series from Reality Pump Studios. The pre-order deal includes a
special DVD which includes the full versions of the three previously released
Earth 2150 games (Earth 2150, The Moon Project, and Lost Souls (thanks
Gamecloud). Other
goodies:
Xbox Bundle with Halo: Combat Evolved and FREE Xbox 360 Shirt and Hat
and
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
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