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New Xbox Engineering Blog

Shepperton — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:09:11 +0000

I didn’t know there was an old one, but Major Nelson just posted there is now a fancy new Xbox Engineering Blog:

Welcome to the new home for the Xbox Engineering Blog. This is a place where the Xbox development team will communicate directly with you. We’ll share information straight from the people that develop, test, manage, release, and maintain the Xbox 360 and its services. I am a part of this team as a software development engineer in test, working on community features such as friends and parties, and I am happy to introduce you to this new space. As with the previous blog, my co-workers and I will continue to share tips and tricks about the Xbox, and give you a closer look at the people and science behind Xbox 360. We’ll start off by giving you a behind the scenes look at some of the technology that went into recent releases of the Xbox 360 system software. You can expect to hear from us about a couple times a month.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/engineeringblog/default.htm

Worth keeping an eye on.

Game Completed – Dead Space – Xbox 360

Shepperton — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:39:49 +0000

Bammo, and another one down.

Blockbuster and HMV have this for around 15 quid at the moment, bargain.

Game Completed – Resident Evil 5 – Xbox 360

Shepperton — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:29:22 +0000

The first is still definitely my fave.

SFIV Official European Tournament Registration now open

Shepperton — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:17:03 +0000

http://www.capcom-europe.com/sfivofficialtournament/

Capcom have got together with Xbox to find 5 national champions (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK) and the Ultimate European Street Fighter Supreme Master.

All you need to do is register to enter the tournament by completing your details on the form below and we’ll do the rest by tracking your performance through your Gamertag.

You’ll not only be fighting for glory but also the chance for some amazing and unique prizes and the title of Ultimate European Street Fighter Supreme Master.

Wonder how far you could get with some E. honda hundred hand slap spammage…

Vernon Kay is SO addicted to games

Shepperton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:57:38 +0000

YEA woo!

tumbleweed

Alpine Legend Xbox 360 game trailer

Shepperton — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:00:34 +0000

Move over Rock Band and Guitar Hero, make way for Alpine Legend

Game Completed – Brothers in Arms – Hell's Highway – Xbox 360

Shepperton — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:48:37 +0000

Not a bad game. I enjoyed the previous Xbox titles, and whilst this one lacks graphically, and at times feels a little barren and sterile; its worth a punt. The cut scenes though, I swear some of them are longer than the actual missions. Playing through it, it does however really make me want to see a next gen Full Spectrum Warrior.

Achievements wise, its pretty straight forward, I manage to grab 890 gs in one playthrough. With a bit of time travel shindiggery its possible to bag the Obsessive (Played the game on 100 different days) and Committed (While connected to Xbox LIVE, played the game once a week for three months) without actually doing either.

The Remember September ’44 (While connected to Xbox LIVE, play the game on September 17th) achievement cant be fooled however as it requires a connection to Xbox Live, so (providing I can grab it of my mate again) Il be booting this up on September 17th. Thinking about it, ill set up a automatic post and tweet for the September 17th so I remember to do so.

ta ta for now.

Game Completed – Interpol – Xbox 360

Shepperton — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:20:13 +0000

I managed to grab a FREE copy of Interpol via redeem code from Aceybongos Twitter last week. AceyBongos is the Community Manager for Xbox EMEA and has been posting some redeem codes recently (just missed out on a Halo Wars early demo invite demo the other day) and I happened to be on Twitter at the time (thanks to Twitterfox) and manged to grab a Interpol code. So cheers AceyBongos! )

Anyway after a couple of sessions I manged to finish it , and bag 150/200 achievement points on the way. The remaining 50 may be a bit more tricky…

Download the Interpol demo to your Xbox 360

Additional Marketplace content information added to the XboxLiveDLC twitter

Shepperton — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:07:09 +0000

I noticed via Major Nelson’s Twitter yesterday that there is a now a Marketplace blog (in beta) that posts every piece of new content that appears on Xbox Live Marketplace. This includes all Xbox Live regions and ALL content (Arcade games, Films, Trailers, Themes, Gamerpics, Demos, Movies etc)

Ive updated the RSS that feeds XboxLiveDLC twitter to include this content, and using Yahoo Pipes Ive filtered out only the Gamerpics, Themes, Developer Diary’s and Trailers. Other DLC such as games, demos, map packs and add-ons will be provided by the original feed.

The Marketplace blog updates every 15 minutes, and XboxLiveDLC grabs and tweets info from via Twitterfeed every 30 minutes.

So get XboxLiveDLC added, and be in the know, on the go! (well, via your preferred Twitter client)

Resident Evil 5 demo

Shepperton — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:27:27 +0000

Just noticed this on the Xbox Live Downloadable content twitter. Demo weighs in at 473 MB, and the description states its Co-op too

The demo version of RESIDENT EVIL 5. Play by yourself or play with a partner in co-op mode, either online or offline with a split screen.

Add this demo to your Xbox 360 download queue (download link provided by http://majornelson.com)