Category Archives: Xbox 360 News
Twitch hits the Xbox 360
If you spend your life on You Tube, you would notice that a good chuck of it is made up of gameplay videos. People play games and others watch them. It’s become a bit of a fad. We’ve been in conversations about said You Tuber playing said game and how amusing we found it. Twitch is a service that provides entertainment through streaming videos of people playing games. It’s hard to put it more simply than that.
Dragon Age III: Inquisition
New GTAV Screens: Motorbike Action, Heists, High-Speed Chases and More…
Brand new set of 12 action-packed shots in high-res featuring Michael, Franklin and Trevor in various states of play – parachuting over Blaine County, piloting over the coastline in a Cuban 800, as well as attending to business affairs solo and as a masked unit tackling heists. Enjoy.
Batgirl comes to Injustice lineup
Well, the leaks and rumors are true. Batgirl is confirmed to be a DLC character for the title Injustice: Gods Among Us. The second of four planned DLC characters, Batgirl debuts after Lobo hits the stage tomorrow, May 7th.
E3 and Conferences
E3 is the world’s premier trade show for computer and video games and related products. Tens of thousands of professionals will experience the future of interactive entertainment. The most influential people leading the most innovative companies in the industry attend E3 to see groundbreaking new technologies and never-before-seen products for computers, video game consoles, handheld systems, mobile and social, and the Internet.
UK gets free Xbox Live gold this weekend
UK XBL members will have a weekend of full gold membership. Starting at 12:00 am Friday May 3, the promo will run until 11:59 pm on Sunday, May 5th. Online multiplayer features will be available at this time, including double XP on Gears of War: Judgment, Far Cry 3, and Assassin’s Creed III.
Members will also have access to apps such as Netflix, which normally require gold level membership to operate.
GTA V Trailers Coming Soon
Rockstar announced today they will release new trailers on April 30th, presenting the three protagonists Michael, Trevor and Franklin.
Call of Duty: Ghosts confirmed by Tesco with box art
Tesco just confirmed the existence of Call of Duty: Ghost, previously just a rumoured reality. Tesco had listed it for the Xbox 360 and PS3 but has recently taken it down.
Xbox 360 adds Pizza Hut app to consoles
Recently, we at Gaming Capacity had a satire piece about the new Xbox 720 being able to order pizza online while playing and have them deliver it to your door. While this seemed like a fairly obvious joke, apparently Microsoft and Pizza Hut were already planning this exact idea. We wish we were the ones behind the idea, because then we obviously would be rolling in cash, but this isn’t the case.
Batman: Arkham Origins announced
Warner Bros. has announced the newest edition to the Arkham series with Batman: Arkham Origins. While the game has not been fully revealed, a few things are known. This title takes Batman back near the start of his superhero career. Before the Dark Knight was the ultimate crime fighter and master detective, he had to begin at the bottom and work his way up. Bringing in villains before they hit the big time will help even the odds against this early Batman. One of these villains is Deathstroke, as seen in the Game Informer magazine cover. Of course Batman still wins. He always wins. He’s Batman.
GC’s bit added on: Controllers with cupholders!
Microsoft has been keeping a very close eye on the gaming journalism world when it comes to the Xbox 720. Of course, there aren’t any statements to squash or confirm any of the rumors flying around, but it’s good to know they are watching. It doesn’t seem that all Microsoft employees are going to keep quiet about them though.
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
According to sources close to Kotaku, Disney has laid off the staff of LucasArts and cancelled all current projects, including the amazing Star Wars 1313 shown at E3 last year and Star Wars: First Assault.
GTA V Official Cover Art
After a long week-end where fans have seen the cover art being painted on a wall in Manhattan, Rockstar Games finally decided to reveal it on their website.
New Metal Gear Solid 5 trailer
Hideo Kojima has sprung on us the Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes trailers on us in the recent past. Kojima Productions have just freshly released a brand new MGS5 trailer that links both Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain
Xbox Live Spring Sale event
It’s that time of year again! Spring, the rebirth of the world. Where the flowers bloom, the animals come out of hiding and Xbox Live gets a huge discount sale.
Borderlands 2 adds Ultimate Vault Hunter mode
With fans desperately waiting for a level cap increase for months, many had given up hope they would ever be able to make their characters more badass. 2K Games recently announced at PAX East that the level increase had not been forgotten.
Pax East hast started, what’s new?
Pax East opened its doors this morning at 10 am Boston time. What did Publishers and developers announce right from the start? Learn more by reading this.
Gears of War: Judgment micro-transactions
Following one of the gaming worlds new, expected patterns, Gears of War: Judgment launches today with micro-transactions included. Here you can find the full list of transaction options, ranging from “X” amount of double XP matches to armor and weapon skins that can be purchased with Microsoft Points.
Hideo Kojima presents: The Fox Engine
Kojima Productions has been working on the new Fox Engine for some time now. Mastermind Hideo Kojima will give a presentation speech at GDC2013 in San Francisco called “Photorealism through the eyes of a Fox – The core of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes“.
Dishonored DLC ‘The Knife of Dunwall’ arrives April 16th
Those that have played Dishonored vividly can recall the actions of Daud – the legendary assassin that puts the game’s plot into motion. Beginning April 16th, you’ll return to this fateful moment and play the role of Daud in the story-driven add-on, The Knife of Dunwall.
Microsoft confirms Xbox 720 testing are “FAKE”
The internet is full of scams. If you’ve been on the web for any length of time you have probably run into a few hundred. Email scams about a Nigerian Prince, Facebook scams about donating to orphans, giveaway scams that end up requiring you to sign up for $1,000 worth of services for a $300 prize. All of these are dead giveaways. Gamers were hit hard with some scams about play testers needed for the Xbox 720. Major Nelson made sure to let people know this was fake:
Official Gears of War: Judgment Launch Trailer
Judgment launches in just 8 days and many fans are excited to say the least. We got an official trailer, and not just that, but since the trailer hit over 100,000 views, players also will receive a special weapon skin. But back to the trailer cause this thing is badass, check it out.
Borderlands 2 gets a new Vault Hunter
With a teaser video by Gearbox Software at the SXSW Interactive, it looks like Borderlands 2 will get a new Vault Hunter. An experiment test subject gone awry, this badass looks angry. The character appears melee-focused, which the Borderlands 2 roster currently lacks. Zer0 makes up for the missing character with his sword attacks, but he does not have the same force that Brick had in the first game.
15 new Assassin’s Creed 4: Blag Flag screenshots
GC recently reported that Ubisoft will be releasing Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag in October of this year. Now you can feast your eyes on some brand spanking new screenshot.
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag release date and announcement trailer
Can’t wait for the next Assassin’s Creed on next gen consoles? Well, you could be playing it sooner than you think.
Ubisoft play it smart with Assassin’s Creed 4
Releasing games at the start of a new console generation is a big risk. Although the first wave will not struggle to get noticed due to the lack of titles, the user base is too small to even bother with releasing a game on it in the first place.
Gears of War: Judgment Tripwire Crossbow
Potentially a new fan favorite, this weapon combines the torque bow with the proximity nades you could deploy in the previous titles. An infrared beam acts as the “tripwire”, triggering the detonation of the explosive bolt.
Gears Judgment Domination Gameplay
Gamespot recently fought alongside Kelly “Mrs. Violence” Kelley playing Gears of War: Judgment’s Domination mode. It’s just under 50 minutes long, so make sure you can clear an hour to watch.
Fallout 4 “Confirmed to be in development” says source; reveals new information
With Bethesda tweeting that they are looking for (tweet #1) experienced UI designers for their “unannounced” game, as well as (tweet #2) future generation console programmers, rumors were bound to start flying about what they are developing in that secret base of theirs. One of the main guesses has been a new Fallout game. With Bethesda sitting their Fallout series on the bench for the past several years, now would be a great time to bring one up to the plate. Everyone has “known” for the past year that Fallout 4 was already being worked on, but almost no one has come forward with any news. Speaking with an anonymous source, Fallout 4 is confirmed to be in current development.
Gears of War: Judgment Xbox Live Stream with Major Nelson
Last night we got a sneak peek at some additional Judgment footage when @MajorNelson hosted a live stream on the Xbox 360 dashboard. There was some Domination gameplay, a run through of the Declassified missions, and an updated version of the Dynamic Defense Scenarios you will run into during the campaign.
