Xbox 360 has been voted best games console by consumers at ReviewCentre.Com, the leading consumer review website.
Gaynor Holt, Chief Operations Officer at ReviewCentre.com, said: "Congratulations to Microsoft for the Xbox 360. This award is richly deserved because it is based on the overwhelming positive response of the Xbox 360's users. Gamers are bowled over by the gaming experience and value for money that the Xbox 360 offers in today's highly competitive gaming market."
Visitors to Review Centre.Com rated the Microsoft Xbox 360 as the top games console for 2006.
The Xbox 360 was overwhelmingly recommended by gamers at the Review Centre website fighting off competition from over 35 other games consoles listed for review. It gained especially impressive marks from fans for its graphics displays, sound quality, overall enjoyment and value for money.
Consumers variously describing the 360 throughout the year as "a masterpiece" and "a childhood dream come true."
"Nothing, but nothing currently comes close to the 360 in terms of graphics or sound," said one gamer.
The Xbox 360's award is based on averages of ratings and user comments submitted by customers to Review Centre in 2006, and also for the overall ratings and comments featured at the Review Centre website.
The Xbox 360's graphics gained a stunning 8.3 out of 10 rating at the Review Centre site.
A total of 67 per cent of reviews at Review Centre recommended the Xbox360.
Cowabunga! It’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on Xbox LIVE Arcade
Everyone’s favorite totally tubular turtles bring their radical ninja skills to Xbox LIVE Arcade. The 1989 arcade classic, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” will be available for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, March 14 at 0900 GMT (2 a.m. PDT).
True to the original arcade classic, gamers will be able to choose from one of four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello or Raphael and master their unique ninja weapons and abilities.
Gamers will have the unique opportunity to play through the original seven levels alone, or with up to three others co-operatively via Xbox LIVE.
Game Features
- Enhanced for Xbox LIVE Arcade – includes voice support, cooperative multiplayer mode over Xbox LIVE and leaderboards
- Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points
Update:
The TMNT download is not available for everyone. We had such high hopes for that one as Ubisoft specifically mentioned a "worldwide release." If you happen to live in the following places, well, sorry and better luck next time: Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.
The new TMNT arcade game was improved with the inclusion of new features like voice-chat support and co-op mode. Players can re-live all of the original seven levels as Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. The size of the download is approximately 44.1 MB.
The 360-Hq Xbox 360 Games Database has now been updated to reflect the latest known release dates for all Australian PAL released titles..
Please note that we plan to cover all regions but at the moment only the USA, Australia and JAP region release dates are currently shown due to staff restrictions..
With the PlayStation 3 launching next week, it's no surprise that Microsoft has announced a new bundle deal. From this Thrusday, gamers will be able to pick up an Xbox 360 premium console as well as a copy of the best-selling Gears of War for AU$699.95.
Nick Segger, Xbox Group Marketing Manager, says, “The Gears of War bundle represents exceptional value for money. The Xbox 360 console comes with a complimentary one-month Xbox Live Gold account so you can experience the action-packed intensity of Gears of War straight out of the box. New Xbox 360 gamers will be able to discover why it has become one of the fastest-selling games of all time.”
The perfect solution for Xbox 360 mod has finally arrived!
After one easy installation of the XENO Top Gear, you will never need to open your Xbox 360 again to flash it. Not only XENO Top Gear can flash your Xbox 360, it also has the additional function of transferring all your data from the Xbox 360 HD to your PC.
XENO Top Gear works with all Xbox 360 drives that can be firmware-upgraded, does not require external power supply and comes with 360 opening tool for installation.
Xeno TOP GEAR Features:
- Can transfer all data from the Xbox360 HD to your PC.
- After the easy one time only installation, flash your Xbox360 without the need to open it ever again.
- Works with all Xbox360 drives that can be firmware-upgraded.
- High Quality digital Sata exchange switching.
- No soldering required at all = no chance to brick your drive from bad soldering.
- Installation is done in just a few minutes.
- Built in eject button, 360/PC switch, HDD/PC switch.
- High quality Sata Ports.
- Superior quality design.of casemodding accessories.
- LED version will be available for crystal, smoke colors of Xeno Top Gear.
comes with 360 opening tool for opening the console.
- No need for external power supply, Xeno Top Gear is fully powered by the console.
If a Linux-PPC developers' mailing list is anything to go by, we might soon be looking at Linux running on our beloved Xbox360. This big news comes after other huge developments in the last fortnight or so...
First, we had the hypervisor vulnerability, which led to the first Proof of Concept Hello World homebrew code, after which we had news of a MAME emulator in the works (which should hopefully work on retail hacked 360s), and now we have news that people have been busy writing patches to get the Xbox360 to run Linux. Here's the announcement in the mailing list:
This series of patches add support for the Xbox 360 gaming console.
Note that these patches were written by different people, who want to remain anonymous. These drivers were written without hardware documentation being available.
There are probably more than some rough edges. Please comment and/or provide patches.
To actually run this, you need a special loader which exploits the recently announced vulnerability. This loader was developed seperately and should be available soon.
Now if you're wondering if this might be fake, don't worry... Felix Domke has been in the news in the past not only in the GameCube homebrew scene, but a quick Google Search for his name shows many credible pages about him.
As for details about the patch, it is built against the Linux 2.6.20 Linux PPC kernel which has been running flawlessly on PS3 Linux distros as well. As noted previously, your Xbox360's kernel version will have to be one of the affected ones, namely, 4532 or 4548. For people having the newest kernel (4552), there doesn't seem to be a solution in sight since downgrading is currently not possible by even an external flasher.
Metro Simulator 2 is coming soon for Xbox and PlayStation consoles Ultimate Games (@ULTGames) confirmed that Metro Simulator 2, the realistic and relaxing simulator with faithfully reproduced subway realities and train control mechanics from KishMish Games, will laun..
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First, we had the hypervisor vulnerability, which led to the first Proof of Concept Hello World homebrew code, after which we had news of a MAME emulator in the works (which should hopefully work on retail hacked 360s), and now we have news that people have been busy writing patches to get the Xbox360 to run Linux. Here's the announcement in the mailing list:
