Critically Acclaimed Bizarre Creations to Develop New Third Person Shooter
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (May 5, 2006) - SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced The Club(GameInfo) (Working Title) for next-gen consoles in 2007. The Club is the next project from award-winning UK-based development powerhouse, Bizarre Creations, the studio behind the definitive next-gen racing game, Project Gotham Racing 3. Bizarre Creations partners once again with SEGA having already enjoyed past success with Metropolis Street Racer.
The Club is a loosely organized and highly illegal underground entity. For most people, The Club exists only as an urban legend - a game where criminals are paid huge amounts to carry out gunfights and where online spectators view, gamble and cheer them on in a deadly game of skill. Yet the rumours are true. People are getting rich. People are dying. The first task is to survive, but according to their rules - quickly, relentlessly and with style.
The rumors, apparently, are true. According to retailers in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Miami and Houston, there will be mass shortage of Xbox 360 units on the targeted launch date of November 22. IGN contacted dozens of stores around the country, including Gamestop, EB Games, Electronics Boutique, Target and Walmart. One short-tempered clerk at a Gamestop in New York estimated that Xbox 360 units will not be available for walk-in customers until April. That's right, April.
If you play "Project Gotham Racing 3" on an Xbox 360 after the console hits stores later this month, Microsoft invites you to use tunes straight off your iPod as an alternative to the game's sound track.
Officially, the company says the new console can stream music from just about any MP3 player. But during a preview of the next-generation console in San Francisco last month, Microsoft execs talked up the interoperability between iPods and the Xbox 360.
"When you plug your iPod in," Xbox digital-entertainment executive producer Jeff Henshaw told CNET News.com, "the Xbox 360 automatically detects that it's there. You can browse by artist or album or genre or by custom playlist."
The guys over at TrustedReviews.com went to the IDF (Intel Developer Forum) in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. As you all know already the Xbox 360 is powered by IBM PowerPCs, so they were pretty surprized when they saw an Xbox 360 at IDF.
A pre-production Xbox 360 hooked-up to a Samsung DLP rear projection TV has shown as part of the Microsoft Media Center demonstration. The Xbox 360 was streaming 720p HD video content from the MCE PC, but Microsoft assured 1080i would be possible too.
The Xbox 360 was connected via component video to the HDTV, but what's more surprizing is that a Microsoft representative told TrustedReviews the Xbox 360 can ouput over HDMI, but that the cable isn't available yet.
' Some of our UK visitors informed us the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification - they age-rate all media content in England), have recently rated the the media content of the Xbox 360 hard drive '
As the turn-around time is usually long, all digital media pass through them at an early stage. And due to government disclosure laws in England, they have to release full details of the ratings:
Concise Contains no sex, violence or bad language
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