Watch out now, there is some serious gaming going on at a Starbucks in Anchorage, Alaska, as seen in this photo. According to Reddit commenter puppyfarts (couldn’t resist publishing the name), the guy brought his Xbox 360 and a small TV set to his local ‘bucks and started playing what looked like Oblivion. What’s stranger is that this isn’t the first case of Starbucks gaming to hit the tubes.
The multiplayer beta for Medal of Honor’s reboot was supposed to hit Xbox Live on June 21st – the same day it debuted on the PlayStation 3 and PC. Yet here we are, on July 1st, and not only is it still unavailable on just the Xbox 360, but a firm release date is as hard to find as bin Laden. Needless to say, there are plenty of gamers none too pleased about this — the beta not being up yet, I mean. Most gamers are more concerned with map packs and arguing over game review scores than the war in Afghanistan.
Keep reading for some of the most angry/funny comments.
If you’ve got an Xbox 360 and want a taste of E3, put the Crackdown 2 demo in your queue. The open-world game, in which you fight crime as a superhuman Agent, was on the show floor last week, and went online to the masses today.
Pretty much any game with over-the-shoulder, duck-and-cover combat invites a comparison with Gears of War, but here’s Sega’s elevator pitch for Vanquish: It’s much, much faster.
I didn’t spend a lot of time playing Vanquish at Sega’s booth, but I got a sense of what the company is talking about. Cover-based shooting became a popular trope in Gears’ wake, desirable for the way it makes you feel entrenched in the battlefield. Inevitably we see variations on the theme, and Vanquish’s was good enough to make me yearn for more playing time.
Maybe you aren’t already aware, but Alan Wake has multiple collectibles: 106 manuscript pages (many only located when playing in the unlockable Nightmare difficulty), 100 coffee thermoses, several TV and radio shows, can pyramids, and over 20 signs providing Bright Falls history lessons. And that’s in addition to the ultimate collectible — Alan’s missing wife, Alice. We’ve compiled the best Alan Wake walkthroughs this week to ensure your survival against the Taken, plus guides to nab all the crazy collectibles strewn across the poltergeist-wracked town.
It doesn’t have the same twisted ring as “hooker punching,” but if there’s anything the (insert scarequotes here) mainstream media will latch onto with Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption, it’s got to be hogtying and murdering nuns. Are we provoking the whole thing by writing about it? Absolutely!
I’m a firm believer that falling in love requires you to embrace your partner’s eccentricities and flaws, but then again, I’ve never been able to customize my better half, as the game My Wife ~ A Bride For You Only ~ does. The game will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360 in Japan, and allows players to define all the characteristics of their virtual wives, including name, looks, personality and voice. Downloadable voice packs from Kana Hanazawa and Emiri Kato mean that virtual wives can even sound like famous Japanese voice actresses.
When NBC gave Conan O’Brien the roundabout heave-ho from late night TV, I was hoping he’d use the opportunity — and his monstrous severance package — to try something different. As we know now, Conan will jump to TBS in November, but he reportedly considered a deal with Microsoft for a show on the Xbox 360. Deadline Hollywood, which is all over the Conan saga, doesn’t have many details, but says “there were discussions with Microsoft about an XBox deal for Conan’s show that would have broken new ground.”
Microsoft has thrown the switch on USB flash drive storage for the Xbox 360. That means you’ll no longer need to use a proprietary Xbox 360 memory card or hard drive to save, download or install games. USB storage capability is delivered via a system update, which you can snag through Xbox Live.
