Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in “Sin City” threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Strip and casinos.
Experience Las Vegas like never before – through revolutionary next generation technology as you work against the clock to protect one of the world’s most recognizable cities from utter devastation.
Later tonight Microsoft Japan will court the press to make several announcements about the future of Xbox 360 in the land of the rising sun.
The machine hasn't done so well since its December launch, perhaps forcing the company to show its hand a little earlier than it had hoped in order to inspire consumer confidence for the future.
The conference will kick off at 12:00 A.M. EST (9:00 P.M. PST, 11:00 P.M. CST), and, of course, 1UP will have several editors in attendance to bring live updates -- and eventually video -- from the event as Microsoft reveals their secrets. Rumor has it there should be a little something for everyone there tonight.
Is it enough to help Xbox 360 make a Japanese turnaround? Make sure to stay tuned later tonight for the latest.
>> The Xbox Live Diamond Cards are finally arriving to those who ordered one ... but it looks like Microsoft will have to fire someone ... unless it's a new marketing gimmick, you never know with MS ;)
From joystiq.com:
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* Xbox 360: $400
* Lots of peripherals and some games: $300
* Xbox live service: $50 per year
* Whipping out your Xbox Live Diamond Card on a hot date ("I got it babe. I get a discount on full meal deals on Tuesdays!") only to have the McDonald's employee behind the counter point out a typo? Priceless.
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Those who don't see it: while we're used to see "Valid Thru" being used on credit cards and alike (instead of "Valid Through"), well ... diamonds cards are "Valid Trhu"
Lionhead’s hit franchise “Fable” surpasses 2 million unit sales milestone.
REDMOND, Wash. — April 6, 2006 — Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) today announced it has purchased U.K.-based Lionhead Studios, one of the world’s leading and most innovative video game developers and creators of “Fable®,” the hit Xbox® and Windows® franchise.
Lionhead Studios will immediately begin creating content exclusively for the Xbox 360™ and Microsoft® Windows platforms. The companies previously worked together on the popular role-playing games “Fable” for Xbox and “Fable: The Lost Chapters” for Xbox and Windows, which have collectively surpassed the 2 million global unit sales milestone, making “Fable” the best-selling role-playing franchise on the Xbox platform. “Fable” and “Fable: The Lost Chapters” enable players to make decisions that affect their character’s skills, appearances and morality and the world around them.
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Xbox is based on a Pentium III processor, while Xbox 360 is based on a custom triple-core PowerPC processor co-developed with IBM. This is but one of many differences between the platforms, but one people are familiar with. Digging deeper, you would find that nearly everything has changed. Graphics, audio, networking, etc. have all been replaced with different subsystems.
Xbox games all run on the assumption they are being run on the exact set of original hardware. Changing anything usually means breaking some kind of behavior games depend upon. Therefore, Xbox 360's backwards compatibility had to emulate the exact configuration of an original Xbox.
One way to do this is embed the parts of an original Xbox into an Xbox 360. This was the path Sony chose to use in PlayStation 2's compatibility. However, Microsoft doesn't own the intellectual property in Xbox: it's owned by various other companies including Intel. Microsoft wouldn't have the freedom to take the parts needed for compatibility, shrink them down, and put them inside Xbox 360. And no one would want a bigger power supply any way :)
Another option is software emulation. Many of you already know this is the path Microsoft has chosen. Our software emulator works much like emulators for other platforms like SNES and Genesis. However, one key difference to keep in mind is that the Xbox emulator is emulating the immediate previous generation of games. Most emulators come out many years after a console has launched and run on PCs that represent quantum leaps in performance.
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