Ubisoft has released a downlodable demo of Tom Clancy’s EndWar via the Xbox Live Marketplace, giving 360 owners a chance to try out the voice control for the strategy game. The trial weighs in at 1.64GB. The full title hits shelves November 4th. [...more]
Xbox.com’s Support page has updated the status of Xbox Live: “Status: Up and running. Users may experience intermittent issues posting TrueSkill statistics on Halo3. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” For now, the issues that have kept users from enjoying online play since Monday’s scheduled maintenance appear to have cleared up. [...more]
Update 2: Major Nelson has updated his blog with a short post informing everyone we are a go: “Ok, you can stop finding things to keep you busy…LIVE is back. I am happy to report that the Xbox Live Maintenance is now complete which means that Xbox LIVE is back online, and you can now resume [...] [...more]
Update: Major Nelson has updated his latest post with the following: ” Edit: The LIVE maintenance is taking longer than expected. I’ll have an update at 0200 PT.” We’ll continue to follow the situation until there’s more info or it’s resolved. Original Story: We at SnagWire are always looking for a good story, no matter what the time may be, [...] [...more]
The Mercenaries 2 demo, which EA stated was available last Friday, arrived today in the Xbox Live Marketplace. For 360 owners the demo is only available to Gold subscribers, while the PS3 version of the demo should arrive Thursday. Regardless, if you’ve been on the fence with this title like I have, you’ll probably find the [...] [...more]
The updated version of Duke Nukem 3D had its release date announced courtesy of GameTrailers TV last Friday. The done-up dozen year old title will land on Xbox Live Arcade on September 24th; a Wednesday, which keeps up with XBLA’s typical release schedule. The game comes packed with eight-player online co-op/deathmatch and also comes with the [...] [...more]
For those of you who are waiting for Gamefly to get a few more copies of Soul Calibur IV because, like me, you’re cheap and would much rather rent that thing to make sure you’ll play it for more than a week or two; sort of good news: the Xbox Live Marketplace now has a [...] [...more]
A video showing off the new Xbox Experience, an upgrade of Xbox 360’s current dashboard, has leaked onto the interweb for our voyeuristic purposes. The video specifically shows the update installing a game to the hard drive, something that was promised with the new version. Unfortunately, you of course still have to have the disc [...] [...more]
Earlier today Microsoft released a new system update for the Xbox 360, which users will be instructed to download when they try to connect to Live. The update holds no new features, but contains code that will “prepare for the future growth of the service.” “There are no other changes or enhancements in this update…in other [...] [...more]
Demos of EA’s FaceBreaker and Madden NFL 09 are now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace, and yes international friends, this means you too. The demo of Madden NFL 09 is slightly over a 1 gig download, and does not feature a real game. Instead, you take the “Madden Test”, a mini-game using the game’s holographic [...] [...more]
