Hey, it's pretty cool to be playing Tomb Raider: Legend demo on my Xbox 360 at home. My son Stephen gives it a big thumbs up (though now's he's bugging me to buy the game, since he finished off the demo).
Boris Schneider-Johne, from our Germany office, tells me they're working with Eidos to help celebrate. They sat down with a glue gun and 43,000 small crystals, and made a special edition Xbox 360 they'll give away. It's worth € 9.000 (about $11,000 USD)!
Okay I made the part up about the glue gun, but the 36,000 crystals part is true.
Hamburger flipper Burger King is considering a promotion that offers 3 exclusive BK-branded games. Each would feature their own characters (in this case, the actual Burger King) in “popular” genres (fighting, action and racing). The action game is apparently similar to Halo, while the fighter combines Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Just tack on a “with hamburgers,” and you get the drift.
Marketing research company Greenfield Online sent around a survey regarding the plan apparently and leaked some mock-up and concept images for the proposed campaign. Still in the conceptual stage apparently, the titles would go for US $4 and be compatible with both the original Xbox and the 360. This all makes sense as BK has already jumped into in-game advertising feet first.
But, four bucks for a 360 game? With the Angus Cheesy Bacon Steak Burger going for US $3.69 and Oblivion asking US $59.99, one of them is overpriced.
We don't have much details about this new product yet, except that it'll be an innovative new product for the Xbox 360 and that it should be released on June 6th 2006 (06/06/06).
We hope we'll get more details about this product in the coming weeks. In meantime you can already check their site on www.devil360.com.
360-hq.com now has the latest version of the MY PROFILE area which i have been working on for quiet a while. So please all users go and add some games to your games list and maybe even track a few of our members blogs.
Keep in touch.. Track your friends and fo.. Get interactive on HQ
Heres some of the latest features to the MY PROFILE area:
- Shows off your XBOX LIVE GAMERCARD
- Shows off any blogs you make in the my blogs area
- Shows off any ratings you give to your 360 games
- You can manage your own 360 game collection
- You can manage your own 360 game wishlist
- Show other members what games your using by adding them to the NOW PLAYING area. :)
- Soon you will be able to http://360.xbox-hq.com/modules.php?name=Profile&op=mytournaments class=hqgreen11>create tournaments and track tournaments you are interested in with our members..
some other great features are:
- When you add a game to your collection you can see exactly how many other members have the game on our site.. This means more fun for online gaming and to meet up..
- When you track a blogger you can see exactly how many other members are tracking them.
- At the moment it roughly very roughly calcultates your total games collection cost, this will hopefully be handy for the wishlists.
Enjoy the new features as everything is nearly 100%.. That means all the new features have to be ported to the good old xbox-hq website so our normal users can enjoy the action too.
Tell all your 360 friends about our great new features and get them involved in our Xbox live leaderboards
lastly:
Hopefully if its popular enough i will enable a option for our members to have their own XML Blog .RSS feeds so they can add them to whereever they like..
Since I'm such a fanboy of the Xbox 360 I decided to write this app. 360 Friends is an Xbox Live friend list notifier. It will tell you who is online/offline, let you view gamercards and notify you when a friend's status changes.
This is the main window. It shows you your friend list and the current status of each friend.
Left: Showing the number of friends online at startup. Right: Shows the status of one of your friends has changed.
So here's the deal. You've just earned yourself a fat 6000 points and you're thinking "What do I do now?" The answer, my friends, is clear... get more points! But instead of having to leave your couch to head over to the retail store, rental place, or mailbox; you want to get as many points as you can without even getting up!
That's what Xbox Live Arcade is for!
Well, sort of. The funny thing about the games on Xbox Live Arcade is that their achievement points are actually about having to achieve something. It's pretty difficult in most cases to scam the points in these games, and after all your hard work, the most you're going to get is 200 points out of them. But if there were loopholes, I was intent on finding them.
Of course there are a few Xbox Live Arcade games with points that are so difficult to get that only the most devoted (and desperate) point-collectors will be able to achieve them. With this handy guide, you'll be able to maneuver through the Xbox Live Arcade menus, downloading only the games that offer you the most points possible. Because you don't want to play any game that doesn't have easy points, do you?
Crystal Quest:
Crystal Quest is the Xbox Live Arcade game that has the easiest points to get, and as an added bonus, the game is one of the cheapest on Xbox Live Arcade. The trick to getting the points out of Crystal Quest is to play the game several different ways on several different difficulty levels depending on what type of achievement you're going for. There is one achievement point that's pretty tough to get, and a few that require some patience, but if you apply yourself, you'll get them all.
Crystal Rookie - 5 Points:
You just need to score 10,000 points to get this easy 5.
You should do it in your first game, if you're awake.
Crystal Master - 10 Points:
Getting 1,000,000 points in one game is actually pretty easy on any difficulty, but a little harder at standard difficulty or less, which is what this achievement asks you to do. Put the difficulty at standard (level 5, which is right in the middle of the difficulty bar) and get as many bonus crystals as you can.
Smart-ass - 15 points:
Saving up 30 smarts is pretty easy, considering that you can play through most of the early levels without using them, and there's at least one smart bomb on each level. If you play through on normal difficulty then you should be able to collect these no problem.
Speed Freak - 20 Points:
The key to getting wave 1 finished in 5 seconds or less is the placement of the crystals on the first level. Keep restarting the game until they're all clumped close together and close to the exit and you'll be fine.
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