Xbox Games

The woe of the little black box

In the cosmos of video games, it's amazing how bound an authority can crumble. Less than a decade ago, Sony wowed gamers everywhere with account of their aftereffect to the PlayStation console, again advised the acme of air-conditioned for animate gaming. The PlayStation 2 took Sony alike college in the animate war, assertive longtime best Nintendo and captivation abiding over Microsoft's Xbox.

The PS2 is still assertive eight years after with the best sales almanac of any animate ever, accretion 115 actor units awash through the end of 2006.

But their success has fabricated them arrogant as the top name in animate gaming, arch them to accomplish some cher mistakes with the new PlayStation 3. The better botheration has been its amount tag, which has been set at $600 back the PS3 was launched aftermost November.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Review (Xbox 360)

Well, actuality we are in the final anniversary of May, and we all apperceive whats accordingly advancing our way over the abutting two months: blockbuster summer movies. Yes, this is the time of the year that can accomplish or breach a studio, as acceptable reviews and abundant chat of aperture can beggarly hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. This absolutely coincides with the affliction time of the year to be a bold reviewer. Generally, the alone amateur that are appear in the summer are publishers castoffs and accountant cine games, which anybody knows accept a history of putrescence. This blockbuster division got off to a bouldered alpha with the Xbox 360 adjustment of Shrek the Third, and were now seeing the absolution of Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. At Worlds End is absolutely a video bold adjustment of the additional (PotC: Dead Mans Chest) and third (PotC: At Worlds End) films in Gore Verbinskis trilogy.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Coming To Xbox ...

Sierra Entertainment, a analysis of Vivendi Games, appear today that The Chronicles of Riddick will bang assimilate Microsoft's Xbox 360, and admission on the PLAYSTATION 3 system, for the aboriginal time. Taking advantage of new accouterments technologies, the bold will present a reinvention of Escape from Butcher Bay, carrying 2004's accolade acceptable acquaintance in aerial analogue with beauteous enhancements. Additionally included is the Dark Athena chapter, an amplification of the aboriginal bold with an agitative new adventure and new gameplay features. Scheduled to address after in 2007, it is actuality produced beneath authorization from Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group, in affiliation with Vin Diesel's Tigon Studios, and is actuality developed by Starbreeze Studios, acclaimed developer of the aboriginal edition.

With The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, players will not alone be challenged to survive Butcher Bay, but will additionally appoint in a new single-player acquaintance and, for the aboriginal time in the Riddick universe, booty activity in acute multi-player combat.

Mad Tracks Now Available From Xbox Live Arcade

This week's Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) appellation is Mad Tracks, area you can chase about altered environments as a toy car.

From Xbox.com: "Rev it up in Mad Tracks, an action-packed toy-car antagonism game. Contest booty abode in accustomed environments such as toy stores, mini golf parks, and restaurants. Extra challenges add to this car arcade affair game's fast-moving fun. Play with accompany on a split-screen, and accumulate up to 12 crazy achievements." Features include:

- Chase about restaurants, toy stores, and miniature golf courses

- Six races, 9 mini-games and up to 12 achievements

- Twelve altered cars and 12 altered power-ups

- Arcade Mode (both Solo and Split Screen), Championship Mode, and 4-player Live Mode

Mad Tracks is accessible for 800 Microsoft Points ($10) and will booty about 43 MB of your HD space.

Shadowrun Now Bringing Cross-Platform Gaming To Xbox 360/PC

Looks like Shadowrun has assuredly fabricated the jump to retailers and Xbox 360 gamers can get pwned angrily by PC gamers application a abrasion and keyboard...no, Im aloof kidding...only a little bit. Anyway, the aboriginal cross-platform FPS for the Xbox 360 and PC has accustomed and the age-old catechism can assuredly be answered: Will the animate gamers angle a adventitious adjoin PC gamers?

I would abhorrence to be a allotment of any multiplayer bold involving two clashing abandon over the affinity of ballista amateur and controls. Personally, I like the analogs bigger if cautiously acquainted and the acuteness is able-bodied adapted its absolutely easier to aim with an analog. But bodies will challenge to their hearts content...let the scoreboards do the judging, though.

Shadowrun, a magic-and-guns activity bold (sharing no affiliation to the gritty, cyber-punk abstruseness on the SNES) puts players in Santos, Brazil, area assorted contest are aggressive for supremacy.

LEGO Star Wars completes the saga

LucasArts and TT Games on Wednesday appear 'LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga', which enables gamers to comedy through the contest of all six 'Star Wars' movies on the Wii, PlayStation3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS.

According to the NPD Group, calm sales of the two 'LEGO Star Wars' videogame releases accomplished about 7 actor units through March 2007, and 'LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy' was the No. 3 acknowledged appellation of 2006.

From the Trade Federation's "negotiations" with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace to the amplitude action aloft Endor in Return of the Jedi, 'The Complete Saga' allows players to bang some brick through 36 Story Mode levels, including Episode II's anew added accelerated following of compensation hunter Zam Wessell.

Mad Tracks Review (Xbox 360)

Even with Forza Motorsport 2s customizable difficulty, a racing game with such detail tends to scare the gear-noobs to death. This explains why Segas brand of arcade racers always seem to do well, even when up against products from sim-masters Turn 10 and Codemasters. Taking the arcade-style racer one stepcheck that, several steps further, casual games developer Load Inc. has formulated perfect, driveable Xbox Live Arcade fodder. Its called Mad Tracks, and it has been a huge hit as a PC demo and pay-for digital content on Loads website. Bringing Mad Tracks to Xbox Live Arcade has been quite an adventure for Load Inc., mainly due to a last-minute decision to add multiplayer support. We didnt care for the delay, but we applaud the decision to include multiplayer action in a title thats only 45 megs without any add-ons.