Vader’s apprentice on Soulcalibur IV

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

So here’s the thing: the wise and good people at Namco Bandai decided to put a few Star Wars characters in their Soulcaliber fighting game series. BUT they put Darth Vader in the PS3 version and Yoda in the XBox 360 version, and so never the twain shall meet.
Enter the guy above, Starkiller, Vader’s Sith [...]

Gamer’s logo on a player’s jersey

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

USA Major Soccer League team Seattle Sounders FC has revealed its official team jersey, bearing the name “XBox 360 Live”, displayed prominently across its breast.
Though both sides are playing hush-hush, it’s been reported that the deal was worth about $20M, and will include playing surface sponsorship (”The XBox Pitch at Qwest Field”) and, naturally, official [...]

GTA4: better on XBox?

Monday, May 12th, 2008

The website Seattle P.I. lists twelve reasons why Grand Theft Auto 4 is better on the Microsoft XBox than on the Sony Playstation 3:
1. Better Native Resolution : Xbox 360’s 720p beats the pants off the PS3’s “640p”.
2. The ANA chip : built-in, hardware-based scaling of images on the XBox vs. software-based scaling on the [...]

Blu-ray Xbox on the way?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Reports from Taiwan suggest that an ASUS subsidiary there is in the process of developing a version of Microsoft’s XBox 360 gaming console that supports Blu-ray discs. There’s been news before of Lite-On making a stand-alone Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, but this is the first news to go in the direction of built-in [...]