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fuk u ms

not even going to bother downloading the game room app

I did.

It suucks.

Epic Battlefield 1943 session last night with a couple of pals (taking turns on the same machine). First time I've played in ages but one of the guys is a pro and I picked up some tips, got some decent scores for the first time. Kinda warmed me to the idea of getting BC but I still doubt I'd spend enough time to make it worthwhile.

did anyone (in the US) pick up deadly premonition?

nope. did pick up Just Cause 2 however!

USB storage update tomorrow, I meant to pick up a 16Gb stick to try it out with but forgot.

geometry wars 2 is on sale this week for 400 points for other people like me that are late to the game

deadly premonition actually looks... OK... I think? I'd definitely pick it up if it was a £20 release over here like in america. unfortunately there's no word of a PAL version just yet

yeah that game room is laughable, dl it recently and could not believe that it wanted to charge me for such ancient crappy games that i can play legally and free elsewhere

Toy Soldiers is fun. Tanks are all v steampunk..

loving the alan wake butthurtery

what butthurtery?

neogaf thread / EG digital foundry article on the fact it renders at 574p and not 720p despite the fact remedy said it was 720p and it has taken 5 years to develop

pixel counters be crying

waaaaaaaaaaaht
http://i41.tinypic.com/scwcut.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw
http://imgur.com/0oRPE.jpg

oh shit

sorry bnw

xxp - wait... so Jet Set Radio is getting ported as a downloadable title?

passed 10K gamerscore/achievements/whatever last night which is kinda sad but mostly lol i guess.

least they could have done is given my avatar like repetitive stress injury gauntlets or something, maybe a gauntness and paleness upgrade with a few flies circling overhead.

10K isn't that bad. I'm almost there (currently at 9k) and I don't think I've played my Xbox super obsessively.

I think I have 16k

=\

replaced and returned in 11 days. + 1 month free xbox live. cost $20 (shipping). props to the ups dude who pulled the hd for me before I sent.

mine is en route to Texas atm. I hope I get it back before Red Dead.

mine was picked up yesterday. friend said over the weekend that his ones have taken abt 4 days to be returned - would be nice, we finally got a decent TV but the xbox is the only HD device i own...

I've decided to finally get a goddamn Xbox after finally starting the first Assassin's Creed on PS3 and discovering that the framerate makes it feel like wading through pudding. Between the AC games, Crackdown, Dead Rising and Bayonetta (and online multiplayer Worms and Catan with work chums) I figure it's worth it, and I should be able to have enough cash set aside in a couple of months. I am still worried about the hardware, though- no one I know with an Xbox has gone longer than 6 months without having to RMA it, they sound like jet engines compared to PS3 (or even a PC) and somehow my boss's Xbox managed to dig an enormous circular gouge into his Rock Band dvd, all the way around. The RROD/RMA thing doesn't bother me too much, but is the disc scratching thing common?

I've never had a disc scratched. I think the big worry is red rings of death, and even that is supposedly far more rare these days.

Tt - wait a week for the Microsoft presser at E3 - increasingly convincing rumors floating around are hinting at a 360 revision being released shortly (we'll see). If true maybe some of these problems will finally be things of the past. Also maybe a price drop. Not sure the 360 framerate of Assassin's Creed was that good either though.

Don't keep the 360 upright if there is dogs, kids or drunks running around your house. I got a ring around the Gears of War DVD and can't play it anymore. I play my 360 on its side now.

Also worth noting that I have one of the first 360s ever made (the second batch that came out) and it still works. I've never red-ringed it. It occasionally freezes the screen on a game if I play too long

I often hear that certain 360 games run more smoothly than PS3 versions

i noticed more pop up in the 360 version of gta4. fwiw, maybe that's why some of them run smoother.

the pop up texturing detail on RDR is woahful too, on 360. not seen it on ps3.

http://www.lensoftruth.com/

i for one am glad for my extra shrubs

Just read ther Head2Head for Red Dead on cozen's link and you're right, extra shrubs and generally better performance (for most things) on the 360 version. Overall I've been glad I got the 360 over PS3. Surprising how many people bought the PS3 a long time ago mostly because of the Final Fantasy game that didn't come out until recently

And that was on the 360 anyway!

To be fair it was borked on 360.

Meh, the mechanics weren't that great anyway.

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum came out today for just 800 points on XLBA and the shocking early reports are that the online code is actually decent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhEJ8EUCFPg

Applejack is a doki doki panic style platform/puzzler. it costs 80gil and looks like this:

http://download.xbox.com/content/xna/assets/58550530_World/screen3_Web.jpg

it seems decent thus far imo.

by doki doki panic style i mean you stand on enemies' heads and pick them up and throw them.

space invaders infinity gene is coming to xbla

fucking sick!

Earthworm Jim HD!

dreamcast games coming to xbla/PSN too
http://blogs.sega.com/europe/2010/06/10/dcdigitalreturn/

chuchu rocket or fuhgeddabahtit

jsrf please

is there a more overrated console in the history of consoledom than the dc?

good news since my dreamcast died :( and so far dreamcast emulators seem pretty shitty (or at least have given me mixed results). Hopefully we'll see Mars Matrix, Bangai-O and Jet Grind Radio.

Isn't JSRF already playable on 360s?

(hell I picked up a copy for a dollar years ago, despite never owning an Xbox)

I meant JGR/JSR

p.sure JSRF is backwards compatible yeah

played so much crazy taxi back in the day. not sure i want to again though.

haha - same feeling!